A look back at the very first White House correspondent and where the press finds itself today.
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Host of The 11th Hour and Chief Data Reporter at MSNOW
Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian-American students injured in 2023 by a loan gunman in Vermont, is grateful that his shooter has been convicted of attempted murder for his crime. Yet, Hisham and his mother, Elizabeth Price, express frustration that the case wasn't prosecuted as a hate crime
During his first administration, Donald Trump revoked Jim Acosta's press credential, because the President didn't like his line of questioning. On Friday, the President renewed his attack on Acosta.
Pres. Trump's policies are driving up diesel and fertilizer prices, which in turn are driving up costs for farmers and food prices for consumers. Former Montana Senator Jon Tester tells Ali Velshi that farmers "are looking at not being able to pay their bills because the energy costs are so high."
Florida's 27th congressional district is a race on our radar, because Republican incumbent Maria Salazar publicly BROKE with Trump on his immigration policy. She's feeling the heat in a district that's heavily Latino. Democratic challenger Eliott Rodriguez now sees a chance to flip the House seat
With AI in the headlines, MS NOW's Josh Einiger visited West Virginia farmers facing the ground-level consequences of the AI boom. Einiger tells Ali Velshi, "There is huge antipathy" toward AI, because "people fear for their privacy concerns, they fear big tech overreach."
The GOP is worried that polls show voters upset by high costs tied to Trump's Iran war. MS NOW political analyst Peter Beinart notes that "Trump never made the case for this war" and "there's no prospect it's going to end" soon.
Canada and the European Union are flirting with a new kind of trade partnership that would allow them to sideline Donald Trump and his trade war. It’s another example of how Mark Carney has been “forthright in standing up to Trump’s nonsense” – and winning support from the public because of it.
In the new book “End Times Fascism,” co-author Naomi Klein argues that a far-right coalition of tech billionaires, Christian extremists, and ethno-nationalists are hastening and profiting from global catastrophe. “They’re not just building their own arks, they're also causing the floods.”
Darline Graham is a "historically WEAK candidate" according to her opponent Annie Andrews, the Democratic trying to flip South Carolina's Senate seat blue. "The Senate seat does not belong to the Graham family. It doesn't belong to one political party and it doesn't belong to a president."
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@velshi.com and @johnfugelsang.bsky.social react to J.D. Vance's explanation of Trump's $5,000 "dividend" for voters
“This administration is just going after us.” Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs tells Ali Velshi that Trump’s changes to election infrastructure is making state election officials’ work harder. “These advisors that are tied to cybersecurity and elections, they are gone.”
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“It looks like they’re spending most of their time trying to figure out how to punish the sailor.” MS NOW’s Priya Sridhar tells Ali Velshi about her latest report about a 19-year-old sailor who jumped overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this month and is now facing disciplinary action.
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RFK Jr. is “nothing more than a grifter and a conspiracy theorist.” South Carolina’s Democratic nominee for Senate Annie Andrews slams the HHS Secretary for eroding trust in the public health system. “This is one of the reasons Democrats winning across the country in November is so urgent.”
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) tells MS NOW’s Ali Velshi that Trump’s trade war is “embarrassing” and costly. She's hopeful that Democrats will win the House majority in the midterms, but if so: “we have our work cut out for us, because he's done so much damage and been such an incompetent government."
On a sudden, quick trip to NYC because I’m due to be on MS NOW’s 11th Hour with Ali Velshi tonight (Friday). Live! Eek! (I think I take over the airwaves around 11:30. You’ll all be sorry!)
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Weaponizing federal grants for political punishment? This week, Ali Velshi is joined by former Washington Governor Jay Inslee to discuss the Trump administration's tactics. https://bit.ly/4pWuRhA
Listen: Trump Cancels Grants to States Kamala Harris Won
Ali Velshi and Jay Inslee discuss how the Trump Administration is weaponizing federal clean energy grants for political punishment
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This week, MS NOW host and Citizen board member @velshi.com welcomes University of Toronto professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley. https://bit.ly/4h0mD5K
Listen: Ali Velshi Says An Unaccountable President Isn't a President
Ali Velshi is joined by professor Jason Stanley to outline how Trump is stripping government accountability to advance his fascist agenda
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Initially created for counterterrorism, police fusion centers have gained “extremely wide jurisdiction," says @brennancenter.org's @faizapatel.bsky.social. With “access to broader pools of information" & "very few rules governing how that information is used.” #ConnectWithJacob
NEW: The federal government has your data — and there's not much you can do about it
Police fusion centers are intelligence hubs created after 9/11 to share information among local police, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies. Brennan Center’s Faiz ...
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America’s police fusion centers collect our personal data, and that data flows to the federal government. The collaboration is structural. It runs on autopilot. And the infrastructure is open to abuse. So why are democratic states allowing it? We asked them #ConnectWithJacob
‘Connect’ SPECIAL REPORT: The surveillance ecosystem built into our government
Police fusion centers are intelligence hubs created after 9/11 to share information among local police, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies. This ‘Connect’ Special...
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"There is a country in the Middle East, whose name begins with an 'I' that has not just nuclear power, but nuclear weapons... Israel. It doesn't allow inspectors in." Nice to be back on @msnownews.bsky.social, with @velshi.com, discussing Israel's actual nukes vs Iran's imaginary ones.
Saudi Arabia will "have domestic problems from people who say, 'How can you make a deal (with Israel)?'" says @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. "'You've said that your red line is Palestinian statehood, but you actually want nuclear power and trade with Israel more than you want that.'"