Velshi

On the campaign trail Trump promised his supporters he would be their retribution, and now he is following through; the president of a key Jewish-American lobbying group is now speaking out about Israel’s conduct in Gaza; and on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Ali has an important conversation about how America’s use of atom bombs changed the course of history, and why the world is now much closer to nuclear warfare than we’ve been in decades

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Texas State Representatives Gene Wu and Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos address the Texas Attorney General’s pledge to punish Democrats who fled the state in protest of Trump’s redistricting push; Ben Rhodes weighs in on Trump’s announcement that he will host Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week; the Trump Administration is building its own police state in America as it ramps up recruitment for ICE employees.

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Could a new resistance change the course of Trump’s battle with Harvard University and higher education? Plus: signs that Democrats are moving toward jumping into a political arms race with Republicans over Trump’s gerrymandering plan; and an official with a prominent Israeli rights group explains why they are now calling Israel’s conduct in Gaza a genocide.

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What’s behind a complicated but crucial piece of Trump’s strategy for reshaping the judiciary; Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why Trump firing the BLS head is ‘like driving a car with no odometer'; and how Trump’s targeting of immigrants, science, health, and universities is causing a brain-drain that history tells us could have generational impacts on American progress.

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Donald Trump is turning his antipathy toward American cities into action - but his war on cities is bad for all of America; plus new moves by Democrats point to a political arms race over the president’s gerrymandering plan; and an official with a prominent Israeli rights group explains why they are now calling Israel’s conduct in Gaza a genocide.

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The former Commissioner of Bureau Statistics weighs in on the absurdity that is Trump’s decision to fire her successor following a weak jobs report; why a high-ranking U.S. official’s trip to Gaza may be a substitute for action and not a call to it; and Abdi Nazemian’s young-adult novel “Like A Love Story” is the subject of this week’s “Velshi Banned Book Club.”

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Donald Trump has a long history with conspiracies and those who consume them, but those same people are now turning on him. But Trump is trying to reel them back in with a new conspiracy theory; former Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) weighs in on the Trump administration’s push to revoke a landmark rule that has been critical in fighting climate change; Trump's Texas gerrymandering scheme is a dangerous escalation of an anti-democratic tactic that both major parties have used historically. But above all, it’s an expression of fear.

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How Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner hours after a weak jobs report is a dangerous escalation in America’s slide into authoritarianism; why a high-ranking U.S. official’s trip to Gaza may be a substitute for action, and not a call to it; and the family of a Jeffrey Epstein victim speaks out against Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum-security federal prison in Texas.

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President Trump gives belligerent, rambling remarks in Scotland ahead of trade talks with the European Union; Mehdi Hasan talks about his viral debate with 20 far-right conservatives.

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How the scandal over the Epstein files leaves a major opening for a movement against Trump’s authoritarian creep, and what past political protest movements tell us about what can work now; plus. how Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are impacting American consumers.

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