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Charles Coleman, sitting in for Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, Georgetown’s Michele Goodwin, Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Molly Jong-Fast, the ACLU’s Alanah Odoms, the Nation’s Ray Suarez, and MacMillan Publishers CEO Jon Yaged.

Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT), economist Mohamed El-Erian, Brookings’ Andre Perry, TN State Rep. Justin J. Pearson, Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast, New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, Caitlin Dickerson from The Atlantic, and attorney Petra Molnar.

Ali Velshi is joined by Independent Journalist Jim Acosta, Director of Economic Policy Studies & Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Michael Strain, National Security Attorney Bradley Moss, Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Journalist John Harwood, Chief Economist at KPMG Diane Swonk, Staff Writer at The Atlantic Anne Applebaum, President of PEN America Board of Trustees Jennifer F. Boylan.

Melissa Murray is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Columnist & Editor for MSNBC Daily Hayes Brown, Rep. Emily Randall (D-WA), UCLA School of Law’s Richard L. Hasen, NYU School of Law’s Rachel Barkow, Co-Founders of The Contrarian Norman Eisen and Jennifer Rubin, Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine Katherine Spillar, Politico’s Josh Gerstein, and Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School Leah Litman.

The new protest movement taking place in town halls across the country feels much different than the resistance activated during Trump's first term, but what’s happening now could be more effective in the end; how the growing class divide is shaping the fight against Trump and his billionaire cronies; and former FTC Commissioner Lina Khan explains how Trump is reshaping America’s economic power structure.

President Trump and his allies’ increasingly contentious rhetoric towards America’s judiciary is ramping up fears of an historic clash that could have dire consequences for democracy, while Trump’s assault against the freedom and independence of America’s colleges and universities is taking us down a dangerous path that will cost us all

Why Donald Trump is underwater on the economy, what’s at stake as he slashes health research, and why more people aren’t speaking out against creeping authoritarianism

How Donald Trump’s trade war is souring America’s relationship with Canada, the ultimate aim of his administration’s attacks on higher education, and the next target in the Right’s backward march against personal rights

Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) discuss the funding fight in Congress, the battle to hold the line against Trump’s power grab, and the continuing fight for civil rights in America

Congressman Al Green (D-TX) talks about challenging President Trump with “righteous incivility” while the courts are increasingly viewed as the last, best, clearest line of defense against presidential overreach.

Europe prepares for a world without the U.S. as a reliable ally, Canada readies for Trump’s tariffs, and Republicans work toward slashing health and nutrition programs to pay for tax cuts

Trump takes Russia’s side, the White House seizes control over the press pool, and post-Roe America brings echoes of the real-life stories that inspired The Handmaid’s Tale

How America’s foreign policy realignment under Donald Trump threatens to unravel decades of global alliances and what history tells us about what might come next

What’s behind an extraordinary series of late-night firings at the Pentagon, the truth about Republican cost-cutting, and what the new American administration’s reversal on Ukraine means for the war-torn country