Host, “Velshi”, Sat/Sun 10a-12pET, "The Last Word" Fri 10pET. MSNBC Chief Correspondent. Author, "Small Acts of Courage." I actually AM a Kenyan-born Muslim.
Let’s just remember the 57 members of the Buffalo Emergency Response Team HAVEN’T retired from the police dept. They simply left that team. They are still getting salaries. Paid for by taxpayers. Maybe they should be fired.
So,
@realDonaldTrump
, you call my getting hit by authorities in Minneapolis on 5/30/20 (by a rubber bullet, btw, not a tear gas cannister) a “beautiful thing” called “law and order”. What law did I break while covering an entirely peaceful (yes, entirely peaceful) march?
"They say it hurts. That is only going 52 miles per hour. A bullet goes about 2000 miles per hour." -- Trump on Ali Velshi getting shot with a rubber bullet in Minneapolis
It’s now confirmed that when Trump went on Hannity on Thursday night and said “I just went for a test, and we’ll see what happens, I mean, who knows,” he already has the positive result and knew he had coronavirus.
BREAKING: In a series of related rulings a judge from the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia has rejected all FIVE of the Trump/GOP lawsuits claiming irregularities with mail ballots in Philadelphia.
Early voting in the 2020 has surpassed 21,000,000 people.
At this point in the 2016 election, 1,400,000 has cast their ballots.
This is what democracy looks like.
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: at 3:41amET, Joe Biden & Kamala Harris were confirmed by Congress to have won enough Electoral College votes to be chosen as President & Vice President of the United States. Biden will be inaugurated at noon on January 20, 2021
Imagine being President and knowing that discussions are actively underway about whether it’s going to fall to the Marines or the Secret Service agents who surround you to remove you from office if you refuse to leave after losing the election.
Big love to the people of Georgia standing in lines RIGHT now, for hours, to fulfill that most democratic of obligations: voting. It’s hard. It’s tiring. But all of America is watching you right now. Thank you for your commitment to democracy. May we all be follow your example
BREAKING: TX judge halts Gov. Abbott’s attempt to limit absentee ballot boxes to 1 per county,
saying the limitation would “needlessly & unreasonably substantially burden potential voters’ constitutionally protected rights to vote, as a consequence of increased travel & delays.”
Call me crazy but, as a citizen, I’d like to hear from the Attorney General, the Secretaries of Defense & Homeland Security, & from the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that THEY will ensure a peaceful transfer of power if Donald Trump loses, since he won’t make the commitment
To those who argue there is too much coverage of the war, to the exclusion of important U.S. stories, by morning you will see irrefutable evidence of mass civilian massacres & graves, and what is looking like genocide, the prevention of which should be Americas greatest priority
After 5 weeks in Hungary/Poland/Ukraine, this is my final night sitting in for my friend Rachel
@Maddow
, who returns Monday! Being here, working with her amazing staff, & serving you, her loyal viewers, has been a unique privilege. Thank you for your patience with me.
BREAKING: in an emergency session this afternoon, Minneapolis City Council will ban chokeholds by police and require officers to intervene anytime they see unauthorized use of force by another officer.
Americans should watch developments in Israel, in which a sitting prime minister, facing criminal charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery, was returned to office, and is now attempting to pass laws that would, among other things, limit the ways in which he can be declared…
An 18-yr veteran of the Houston Police has been relieved of duties & has resigned after participating in the storming of the Capitol. Chief Art Acevedo says, “There is a high probability this individual will be charged with federal charges and rightfully so.”
Trump said today “No true supporters of mine could ever endorse political violence.”
On 9/18/20 he said: “This guy Welchi, he got hit in the knee with a canister of tear gas, and he went down. He was down. 'My knee. My knee.’...it was the most beautiful thing.”
“I hear people say that Republicans are afraid of Donald – no they’re not. They ARE him,” says
@MaryLTrump
. They are sticking with the guy who gives them permission “to be their worst selves.”
#velshi
The turning point for the west and NATO will come when the sun rises over Kyiv on Sunday, & the war crimes against civilian non-combatants becomes visible to all. There is no more time for prevarication. If “never again” means anything, then this is the time to act.
While I appreciate all the free publicity I’m getting from
@FoxNews
& right wing media today, I find it hard to fathom that journalists have trouble discerning between this summer’s protests about police brutality & a riotous mob that was supporting a coup attempt at the Capitol
Washington Post reports the Secret Service is sending reinforcements to Wilmington this morning to increase protection of Joe Biden amidst the possibility he may declared the winner of the election and deliver a major speech as early as Friday.
To my NBC & MSNBC colleagues who were laid off today: I’m deeply saddened. Do not allow this to sideline you from the crucial work of our time. Continue to bear witness and hold power to account. This, too, will pass, and we will work together again.
BREAKING: Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance will decline to prosecute people charged with unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct cases tied to protesting. This means the non-violent arrests for breaking curfew will not be prosecuted. cc:
@Tom_Winter
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court of the United States has REJECTED the Texas lawsuit that sought to delay the electoral college vote in four battleground states won by Joe Biden -- Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Friends, as the sun gets set to rise on the Holy Land & I cross into Israel, my head is in the story, but my heart is with the beleaguered and long-suffering people of Israel, Palestine and Gaza, who yearn for & deserve lives of peace. If you pray, pray for for all of them
Hello, friends. I know it’s asking TOO much at this point, but I’ve been channeling my best
@maddow
for you this week while she gets some much deserved time off. Please join me again 9pET tonight. I know - I’d ALSO prefer to watch Rachel instead :-)
On Saturday I delivered a commentary about the monumental nature of Joe Biden replacing an insurrectionist dangerous President. Everything I stated was fact. All Lauren
@Wolfe321
said was that she had chills from the same transition of power. She lost her job at
@nytimes
. Why?
I was one of those people - separated from my Jewish wife because I am Muslim, and prevented from visiting the Tomb of the Patriarchs, arbitrarily. Anyone who thinks there isn’t apartheid in the West Bank need only go to Hebron. That’s EXACTLY how apartheid worked.
I led the trip with
@JamaalBowmanNY
. It’s a fact: there are checkpoints in Hebron where security separates who can walk where by religion. Other checkpoints keep roads “sterile” of Palestinians. I’ve been there dozens of times. Join me.
@RitchieTorres
@AmyPaulin
@EFischberger
Pelosi announces fines for members of the House who don’t adhere to new safety protocols like using the metal detectors going into the Chamber: A $5,000 fine for the 1st offense, & $10,000 for a 2nd offense, deducted from member’s salaries.
On the matter of the objection to the AZ vote count, the following six United States Senators and Senators-elect supported the Trump led coup attempt:
Ted Cruz (TX)
Josh Hawley (MO)
John Kennedy (LA)
Cindy Hyde-smith (MS)
Roger Marshall (KS)
Tommy Tuberville (AL)
Remember them
BREAKING: AZ Sen. Martha McSally has conceded to Democrat Mark Kelly in AZ Senate race, writing that she has “trust God will lead me to my next mission to make a difference.”
BREAKING: Kamala Harris is elected the first woman, the first African American, and the first person of Asian descent to be elected Vice President of the United States.
1/15
Voting is personal for me. I grew up in Canada, a country to which my family and I immigrated. I’ve joked that unlike Barack Obama, I actually AM a Kenyan-born Muslim. But that’s not the whole story—and the whole story shows why voting matters so much to me.
#velshi
Wait...what happened? I went to the other room to check for my Canadian passport and missed the white supremacist question. Trump condemned them, right?
Words I will use on TV tonight:
Coup
Insurrection
Treason
Sedition
Lies
Terrorists
I am hearing from fellow journalists who are being told not to use these words. Resists attempts to censor your language. Democracy depends on bearing witness & holding power to account.
There have been more than 30 tweets from
@realDonaldTrump
since the death of
@repjohnlewis
late last night. Nowhere among them is a condolence for the death of the 17 term Congressman from Georgia, and icon of the civil rights movement
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: thanks for your mention of me - & particularly my hairstyle. I appreciate you getting my first name right. You were CLOSE with my last name: it’s “Velshi”, not “Velcher” (but I think you know that), & I got a new job
@MSNBC
in ‘16, when you got yours
1/13
We are witnessing an active cover-up on Capitol Hill. The leaders of the Republican party are no longer just playing dumb when it comes to the January 6th insurrection - they are openly trying to mask a deadly attack on our democracy.
#velshi
BREAKING: NBC News confirms that Donald Trump has been charged under 18 US Code 793, “Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information”, otherwise known as the “Espionage Act”. This is one of 7 charges.
It’s so weird but when
@SRuhle
& I were thinking about names for our show, one of the leading contenders was: “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”
Ultimately, “Velshi & Ruhle” won out.
Brad we’d love to see any video or (undoctored) images you have depicting attendees being blocked by protestors or media. We had two reporters with cameras and pool camera shots up the whole time & didn’t see any of that.
Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with
@realDonaldTrump
supporters at the rally.
They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering.
Thanks to the 1,000s who made it anyway!
BREAKING: The Trump Organization is expected to be hit with criminal charges as soon as next week by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office in a case that Trump attorneys say is tied to tax evasion related conduct, multiple people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
BREAKING: President Trump and Senate Republicans win Alaska, overwhelmingly and by a massive 20 point spread!
Put AK in the books for
@realDonaldTrump
! Congratulations Senator
@DanSullivan_AK
!
Thank you Alaska! 🇺🇸
CORRECTION: Wealth management firm Raymond James has fired Robert Larkin after he & his wife, LaFace cosmetics CEO Lisa Alexander confronted, then called police, on a Filipino-American man, James Juanillo, for writing
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
in chalk on his OWN property in San Fran
Chris Christie: “The conduct of the President's legal team has been a national embarrassment.” He called out Trump attorney Sidney Powell by name, noting that she and the rest of the legal team allege fraud on TV, but not in the courts.
Actually this is the great American imbalance, in which we are able to instantly protect investors yet fail to protect workers. Repeat after me: “The stock market is NOT the economy.”
In the interest of preserving him for America, I will remove
@SteveKornacki
from TV at noon today (and place him in protective custody in a room with comfy blankets, soft pillows and warm milk
#TrackingKornacki
Nothing warmed my heart to see Rachel
@maddow
back on TV tonight, and nothing broke my heart more to hear her tell the story of Susan’s illness. If you didn’t see it, find it and watch it.
#thisiswhosheis
. And I’m proud to call her a friend and colleague.
BIG BREAKING: Alex Jones & Infowars’ parent company must pay 14 family members of 8 Sandy Hook Elementary School victims, plus an FBI agent who responded to the scene of the 2012 massacre, which killed 20 first graders and 6 educators, a collective total of $965 MILLION.
It actually happened live on TV,
@realDonaldTrump
, and was nothing like you describe. But when you’re way down in the polls 10 days before a Presidential election, and lying about me to a crowd who likely has no idea who I am, you’re clearly in trouble.
Trump fans chant "CNN sucks," prompting Trump to rail against MSNBC staffer Ali Velshi. He then gloats over Velshi getting hit by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis.
1/13
Here in the U.S. we are NOT accustomed to having press freedom questioned, let alone seeing journalists come into direct physical confrontation with law enforcement. A free press is enshrined in our constitution & one of the founding principles of our nation.
1/16
Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself. That’s an indisputable fact. But so do Palestinians. And that's a fact that is often ignored. Palestinians are, at best, third class citizens in the nation of their birth.
#velshi
Try to have a happy Christmas. If you can’t be with family, imagine next year together. And spare a thought & a prayer for those without someone they love, a job, a home, and for those worried about losing what they cherish before this national tragedy is over. We will prevail.
More
@NicolleDWallace
is what the world needs right now. Congrats to my friend who’s going to be hosting an extra hour daily on
@MSNBC
. Her insight and analysis is only exceeded by her humility and kindness
As he leaves office, Pompeo has been tagged by a number of officials and analysts with the dubious distinction of the “worst secretary of state in American history.”
Prigozhin’s rebellion against Shoigu & Gerasimov may not be over. A deal was “brokered” by Belarus’ president, a Putin puppet. Putin’s resources vs. Ukraine are now badly depleted, & he needs troops to shore up the home front. I’m en route to Ukraine to continue our coverage.
BREAKING: A bill to increase direct payment checks for COVID relief from $600 to $2000 per adult has passed in the House of Representatives with a greater that 2/3 majority, 275-134. The bill now goes to the Senate, where Democrats plan to ask for unanimous consent tomorrow.
Retired PA firefighter Robert Sanford was arrested & charged after allegedly throwing a fire extinguisher which hit 1 Capitol Police officer in the head, ricocheted & hit a 2nd officer, who was not wearing a helmet, in the head, & ricocheted & struck another officer in the head
BREAKING: The 3rd Circuit Court of appeals has affirmed last weekend’s ruling dismissing the Trump lawsuit in Pennsylvania that was argued by Rudy Giuliani.
I have to give it to Mike Pence. If my boss stood around while a crowd they encouraged plotted to hang me (and set up actual gallows), I’d TOTALLY invoke the 25th on my boss. Pence is just a bigger man than I am, I suppose.
#theothercheek
BREAKING: NYPD suspends 2 officers seen in widely disseminated protest videos: On 5/29, an officer is seen pushing a woman to the ground & on 5/30, an officer is seen pulling down an individual’s face mask and spraying pepper spray at him.
BREAKING: Less than an hour before electors meet to cast their votes, the WI Supreme Court ruled against the Trump campaign’s challenge to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state. The ruling was 4-3, with conservative justice joining the liberals to form the majority opinion.
We know people may not have time to read a 44-page indictment. So we turned it into a podcast, just for you.
If you do one thing today: listen to this.
The Full Federal Indictment of Donald Trump, Read by Ali Velshi
Biden took a *10-hour* train ride from Poland to Kyiv as US fighter jets circled the Poland/Ukraine border, making him the 1st sitting president to enter a war zone with no active US military presence.
@SabrinaSiddiqui
of the
@WSJ
was with him. She joins me 8pET
@allinwithchris
My attempt to give
@SteveKornacki
a break lasted for 10 minutes. I think he went to the bathroom, returned and told me I’m free to go to sleep. That dude is a machine
#Trackingkornaki
BREAKING: Trump has been summoned to appear at 4 p.m. on August 3, 2023, before Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, D.C.
The acting House Sergeant-At-Arms (the last one resigned after last week) says guns will not be permitted on the house floor and that masks are mandatory.
Doctors say they are 72 hours into Trump’s diagnosis. That would be Weds 11am. Trump announced he had Covid Fri 1am. On Fri evening he said he was being tested. Did he attend a rally in MN on Wed & then a fundraiser in NJ on Thur AFTER his doctor thought he had coronavirus?
BIG BREAKING: The jury in e. Jean Carrol v. Donald Trump has found the former President LIABLE for:
-Sexual Abuse
-Forcible Touching
-Injury of e. Jean Carrol
-Willful and Wanton Negligence
-Defamation
-False Statements
-Malicious Intent
-Injury for Defamation
-Acting…
@RitchieTorres
They are not,
@RitchieTorres
. I was stopped at one and not allowed to proceed because I am Muslim. My wife, who is Jewish was allowed to pass.
A unarmed black man was asleep in a car, threatening nobody. He resisted arrest & ran for his life. Atlanta Police pursued him as he ran away so he turned the taser he had taken from them on them. They shot him. He’s dead. The call was for a man asleep in a car.
#rayshardbrooks
Amazing to watch a small army of Minneapolis residents - armed with shovels, brooms, dustpans and garbage bags - cleaning up debris from the protests. Civil society has failed this city this week, but its residents - protestors & clean-up crews - havent.
#MinneapolisStrong
Friends, tonight Is my last stretch with the amazing
@maddow
team before Rachel returns on Monday, and
@alexwagner
Tonight debuts on
@MSNBC
on Tuesday. Please join me tonight - we have a lot of news to get to 9pET
It saddens me that so many millions of Americans aren’t watching this hearing tonight. It’s crucial to democracy, regardless of where you stand on the ideological spectrum. Please tell someone you know who isn’t watching - who doesn’t want to watch - to tune in.
BREAKING: “I learned in a press release from the Attorney General tonight that I was ‘stepping down’ as United States Attorney. I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position.” - Geoffrey Bergman, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of NY
For the very last time in this mostly bleak - but somewhat hopeful - year, I have the honor tonight of sitting in for my friend Rachel
@maddow
. I beg your indulgence one last time to join me at
@MSNBC
no 9pET, to start closing the door on this year, and making sure it stays shut.