yesterday, he spoke with ali velshi from moscow. today, vladimir kara-murza was arrested,za seized by the russi authorities, it was first reported by russian dissident, later k by the boris nemtstov foundation which mr. kara-murza leads, taken by russian authority, his where-abouts tonight are unknown. when he spoke with ali just yesterday, i don't want to say he knew it was comingye but he knew he was in russia at this time still speaking his mind. and he was eyes open facing it head-on. >> are you worried about speaking out against the russian government and against this war and invasion from russia? >> the overall price, the overall cost, we also know that there are millions of people in russia who categorically oppose putin, everything he is doing, both in terms of domestic aggression and in terms of external aggression and many peopleex in our country who wan our country to be a normal moral democratic european state and i think it would be very demoralizing for us, who are the public faces of pro-democracy and the opposition w

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yesterday, he spoke with ali velshi from moscow. today vladimir kara-murza was arrested by the authorities. it was first reported by dissident champion by the boris them sun foundation which he leads. mr. kara-murza was taken earlier today by russian authorities. his whereabouts tonight are unknown. when he spoke with ali just yesterday, i don't want to say that he knew it was coming, but he knew it was and russia at this time still speaking his mind. and he was eyes open, facing it head on. >> are you worried about speaking out against the russian government, and against this foreign invasion from russia? >> we all know the price, we all know the cost. we also know that there are millions of people in russia. many of them that are opposing the regime, both in terms of domestic oppression on terms of war. there are many people in russia who run our country and they wanted to be a normal, democratic, european state,. i think will be very demoralizing for us who are public faces of the pro democracy movement if we'll just leave the co

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[ding] e*trade now from morgan stanley. >>> we're back with ali velshi at the table.country through those things, but zelenskyy's bond with the country, you were there as it was being formed. tell me about that. >> it was -- they were going through the same experience the rest of the world was with zelenskyy. they didn't really know who he was. he wasn't taken seriously in all quarters, and even for people who voted for him or who didn't, they thought he might be interesting. he wasn't corrupt, and corruption was a serious issue in ukraine. but they didn't really necessarily think he was up to it. and they definitely didn't think he was up to a battle with vladimir putin. he has surprised a lot of people, including his detractors, and people don't lie about it in ukraine. i ran into a lot of people whoks, i didn't vote for him, but boy, does he impress me. he's got people lined up in many cases to put their lives on the line for their country. he's created a national pride that obviously people had, but he has articulated it to the world. he is the face of ukraine, a

journalist erin matteye asked ali velshi for verification. e asks quote, how do you propose the west and nato act? what are you calling for? and velshi is at least honest enough to say it quote direct military involvement. oh , what would that look like?t how many people msnbc would i would see zero. how are you in america would die potentially many thousands . but it's not just ali velshi who's talking this way. it's all over cable news, all over cable news and certainly all over msnbcthth. here's retired army major called john spencer calling for american troops to start shooting russians right away. i know what i'm saying.ed i served for twenty five years. i served to protect the innocent. we arere the leaders ofhe the fe world. so yes, in my wife still serves i don't speak for her but i'm ready to commit atmi this moment unlike i was before this dayfo to put people in direct contact with russiaca to stopll russia called ital peacekeeping. call it what you willl. we have to do more than provide weapons. and by we , i mean the unitedoi state

joining me from lviv is ali velshi and maxine, a mariupol city council member. ali, we seem to be reporting on what appear to be war crimes every day at this point. what is the point at this stage of russia's denials because nobody is listening? >> reporter: actually, some people are. that's the problem. in fact, i had a conversation with a number of young people in lviv whose parents live in russia or crimea. russia not only denied responsibility but came up with two different theories why ukrainians why it was responsible. it was meant to give the west what it wants with weaponry and the other one is it's a ukrainian launched missile that didn't hit the target between the russians and ukrainians in eastern ukraine. both of those arguments are non-sense but so are the arguments about how the russians, the ukrainians killed civilians in bucha. it's having impact on russian citizens and conspiracy theory circles in the united states and remember, there are still some very, very powerful and populous countries in the world still on russia eastside of this. india an

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ali velshi, thank you so much. i want to turn now and bring in the advisory to bucha's mayor, this lady evacuated with her six-year-old son to germany on march 4th. where she is not coordinating humanitarian efforts. thank you for joining us this evening, this morning where you are. i can't imagine with this has been like. do you still have friends and family who are there in wichita? >> yes, there are still a lot of people in bucha. their mayor asked everybody who was able to leave then the city without water, without electricity, without any mobile connection to come back. to help bring life in the city. because we chose very modern, very fashionable suburb near kyiv. very close to kyiv. there's a lot of young families, with lots of kids. but now, yesterday, my colleagues found an explosion scene inside one of the schools. they are doing the mining job, and they are collecting bodies now to e make the city clean after the russian crimes. russians, they were killing men and women. we saw some killed kids. it looks

joining me is ali velshi. ali, such a moving speech by president zelenskyy today. then the russian ambassador spoke. and what he said was crackers, right? but the one thing that he did say that probably rang true is they -- he claimed that they have taken 600,000 ukrainians into russia including 119,000 children. if i'm not wrong, that sounds like genocide or a kidnapping. tell me what you're seeing and hearing in lviv. >> reporter: well, this is -- these things that until now were sort of academic ideas because we didn't think we'd have to deal with them again become important, right? war crimes, hard to prove, harder to prosecute. actually, not that hard to prove given the evidence that we've got, just hard to prosecute. remember, neither the united states nor russia, nor ukraine are signatories to the international criminal court. ukraine has allowed them some jurisdiction after what happened in 2014 in crimea so it falls to the united nations but russia as a seat on the security counsel at the united nations and brought accusations that maybe the ukrainians the

i'm ali velshi in lviv, ukraine. the curfew has lifted and people are up and about around the city. in every european city i've visited in the last five weeks i've been in a train station, the hubs of activity, a safety net of resources, food, water, medical aid, sim cards, electricity for your phones. in a way, the strain station in war represents freedom or the first steps toward freedom, a war in which we watched the horror that russia brought upon towns they occupied in ukraine, towns with names that live in infamy. but now we're seeing new horrors in real time. i should warn you some of the following footage is graphic. it's difficult to watch. but i ask you not to turn around if you can, because this is how you bear witness to the truth of a brutal, unprovoked war. according to a senior u.s. defense official, a russian missile struck the train station yesterday not far from the fierce front line fighting while thousands of civilians were trying to evacuate, waiting to get onto special unscheduled trains running west, mainly to where i am in lviv or points further west, like in

i'm maria kumar filling in for ali velshi. russia's invasion of ukraine has been raging for 52 days and no sign of it letting up. explosions rocked a district on the outskirts of kyiv and one person was killed in an attack and several others injured. the mayor added that casualties were so far unknown. russia's offense ministry is vowing to increase missile strikes on kyiv after the sinking of the moskva vessel. u.s. officials claim it was hit by two missiles while russia claims a fire broke out on the ship. this comes amid the horrifying discover of 900 bodies following russia's withdrawal from an area. most of the civilians were executed and bodies abandoned in the streets. overall the united nations has recorded 4,633 civilian casualties in the country so far and that number is climbing. russia's bombardment of the key port of mariupol has left the city in ruins. the city has been able to with stand the kremlin's attack this far, weapons and supply shortages could weaken the resistance efforts. the governor said the city ha

ali velshi, thank you so much for joining us tonight. with that, i want to bring in this evenings experts. eric schmidt, covering international security. he won a pulitzer prize for his coverage. we also the former chief of staff at the cia in the pentagon. and julia, she is the senior policy adviser for europe at the treasury department where she focused specifically on sanctions now she's the deputy director for the atlantic council. eric, talk to us about the status for the focus on the east. what is the ukrainian government tying civilians to do there? >> as i said in his report is now, we see a group of russian forces north of kyiv, as many as 40, 000, have basically fallen back into russia and belarus to re-arm and regroup there. it is unclear when they will move out again, but the pentagon believes they will move to the east. because of that and because of a threat of a major offensive by russia there, ukrainian officials are time people in the east that it is time to get out, it is time to flee the destruction and mayhem that the

i'm maria kumar filling in for ali velshi.the outskirts of kyiv and one person was killed in an attack and several others injured. the mayor added that casualties o

♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ on the second day of russia's invasion of ukraine nearly six weeks ago, my colleague ali velshikrainian minister of culture from his car early in the morning in the suburbs of kyiv. russian troops are closing in. there had already been attacks on our purchase outside the city. the ukrainian minister still showed this amazing moment of defiance. >> you do not feel that they will succeed in taking out your administration and government? >> no way. >> will you do if they occupy kyiv, whatever your contingency plans? will you go west to lviv? will you form a government in exile at the russians force you to? >> they will never take kyiv. >> that is as decisive statement as we can expect. >> it is not 40 days later. so far, he has not been proven incorrect. the russians have not taken the capital city. today, a senior u.s. defense official says u.s. says russian forces have completely withdrawn from cities of kyiv and chernihiv but warned they could still pivot back. courtney kube of nbc news joins us now from the pentagon. let's start -- i remember seeing that and thinking that is th

msnbc host ali velshi takes a deep dive into the region turbulent history of lviv, which is maintainingy of lviv has been a safe haven in ukraine during russia's invasion for government embassies, people fleeing, the fighting in the eastern part of the country, even coming here from kyiv. many of us reporters who are covering the war. even, now the city has maintained most of its vibrant cosmopolitan culture. i has been here for almost a week now, and i have learned a lot about its rich, if turbulent history. it is quiet right now in lviv, because ukraine is under martial law. and there is a curfew all night. but when the sun rises, this vibrant, stunningly beautiful city remembers that it has been through this before. lviv has gone through many names over the centuries, and it is believed to have been for settled in the century by pro lab tribes. it was officially founded in 12:50 by prince daniel of galicia. the prince named the city after his son, lev, which in the centuries have morphed into lviv. but in 1261, the 11 year old city was invaded by the mongols, who are said to have ord

ali velshi spoke nate moogt, the ceo of world central kitchen. he had just been at the train station and was nearby when the missile hit. >> there were no other military people there. there were no -- this is not a strategic location to strike. this was a strike solely on innocent civilians, women, children, grandparents. >> the united states and europe have tried to get putin to back down with hard hitting sanctions. they've targeted the country's oligarchs. they've seized their yachts and the united nations even kicked russia off its human rights council this week. but despite all of this, the war crimes, they continue. so is it time for the united states and its allies to try a different stronger path? we're going to dig into that question coming up. this morning, we're going to start with the latest on the ground in ukraine. raff sanchez is life in lviv. that horrific train attack must be weighing on the hearts of ukrainians this morning. >> reporter: absolutely. of the thousands and thousands of people packed in the train station, many were

i'm ali velshi. as new evidence comes to, light it is becoming increasingly clear that the failed former president did not act alone in his attempt to overthrow democracy. and cling to power, after losing to the 2020 election. brand new evidence filed in federal court this weekend by the house select january six committee suggests a slew of republican members of congress helped the ex president to devise a strategy to overturn the election results, back in december of 2020. deposition excerpts filed by the committee suggest that some of the twice impeached ex presidents most loyal stooges in congress were frequently present in meetings, where strategies about how to prevent joe biden from taking office were discussed. some of these names might sound familiar. according to key testimony from cassidy hutchison, an ex aide to the chief of staff, mark meadows. gop lawmakers who attended meetings in person or on the phone included the pennsylvania congressman scott perry, the texas congressman louis glimm

good morning, i'm ali velshi. live in this beautiful ukrainian city of lviv. it is sunday, april the 10th. and a 47 of russia's invasion of ukraine. this is also my final day here in ukraine, on this trip which has been five, weeks three countries and countless tears. shed bearing witness to the stories of ukrainian people fleeing violence while trying to stay alive amid an unprovoked an inhumane invasion. that invasion rages on today. having retreated from the north, russia continues to focus attacks in the east in the south. launching new attacks in kharkiv and odessa. the latter of which remains under a weekend curfew, following the russian ballistic attack on the kramatorsk train station in eastern ukraine. russia is also continuing the brutal offensive in the dystopian urban battlefield that has become variable. the medieval wreckage left behind by the russian forces in the suburbs of kyiv continues to be reveal. in bakary, about an hour west of the capital, the mayor says 132 bodies have been buried in mass graves. and estimates that 40% of the town is d

joining me now is msnbc anchor and correspondent ali velshi in lviv.re seeing images that are almost unreal. it's armageddon-like images and for putin to dare to say we're not seeing what we're seeing, it's outrageous. what are you seeing and what are you hearing in lviv? >> reporter: and i have to say, it's not just vladimir putin, it's being reflected in conspiracy theory u.s. based media. the idea we not only have proof, we don't really know what happened. we don't know who killed these people and satellite imagery that shows these bodies were there before the russians left. so this idea the russians left and then somehow ukrainians came in and killed these people, it's remarkable. that's been proved and now the conspiracy theorists, including russia say the people that take the satellite images are u.s. defense contractors so it's -- the problem is people are bearing witness. you'll speak to a member of parliament and seen people in there who have taken videos, not just the ones you're seeing on tv independently they sent videos of dead bodies on t

what is happening in ukraine, in your view, ali velshi?uld like it to end. but nobody can trust what's happening. the tv that they get here, the propaganda that they get here is russian propaganda. they know it's not true, because they're hearing what the russians are saying is happening in this country, and it's just not what's actually happening on the ground, so as much as people want peaceful solutions, they look to istanbul last week for those negotiations, they're hoping for some sort of peaceful solution. they're not getting it right now. and they are emboldened by the fact that their small military and their much smaller than russian country has held off an invasion that all intelligence suggested would be done sometime within a week. it's now almost 40 days. so, there's a great deal of pride, but there's a great deal of sorrow and sadness, and these pictures this weekend have brought a pall of sadness over this country that i haven't seen prior to this. >> ali, i cheered your tweet defending the need to cover it, and your coverage

ali velshi has the rachel maddow show. >> i'm joining you from the ukranian city of lviv tonight.ut 300 miles from here in the city of bucha it snowed yesterday, this was a ukrainian man and woman standing with a soldier inwo bucha yesterday, discovering a site of a mass grave asdi the flurries fell around them. they embraced each other while they wept. here is something about these image, these look on their face how the site of that mass grave knocked the wind out of them so hard, that they had to sit on the ground. it encapsulates the global

the rachel maddow show starts with ali velshi. good evening, ali. >> chris, thank you, good evening to you. we will see you tomorrow and thanks to at-home for joining us. as you know, rachel is on hiatus but i have some news tonight that she will be back next week. rachel will be once again be the host starting monday night. but tonight i am joining you from lviv, ukraine. we have a lot of developments to get to, not just here in ukraine but in the united states as well. a historic moment today, as the united states senate confirmed ketanji brown-jackson to the supreme court in a bipartisan vote. we will have more on that vote and what it means to black women and all americans at the first black woman has been confirmed to the supreme court. also, we will look at a whole mess of potential legal troubles facing donald trump, including the new attorney general moving to have the former president be held in contempt for failing to comply with our investigation. so, a lot of moving parts to keep up with tonight. but we begin win in bru

. >> that is all in on this wednesday night, the rachel maddow show with ali velshi starts now, good evening ali. good evening, chris. we will see you tomorrow evening. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. i am joining you once again tonight from the city of lviv in western ukraine. today, about 300 miles east of here in the suburbs of ukraine's capital, a welcome sight for residents. ukrainian army tanks rolling into the town of bucha. this is the town where ukrainian forces have for the last several days been finding the bodies of civilians who appeared to have been summarily executed during the several week occupation by russian troops. bucha is now back in ukrainian hands. the town is largely destroyed. some of the few remaining residents are emerging from basements, even attempting a bit of normalcy. children playing on swings in a miraculous undamaged playground. but elsewhere in bucha, police and volunteers are gathering bodies, bringing them to the cemetery. the cemetery manager says they collected around 300 body so far, but many remain in makeshift graves, gardens and

the "the rachel maddow show" with ali velshi begins right now. >>> i'm joining you again tonight from the city of lviv, in ukraine. and here in lviv sits one of the oldest cemeteries in europe. it dates to 1887. in addition to holding the graves of some ukraine's most celebrated artists and politicians it also holds the graves of ukrainian soldiers for many, many centuries since the city's founding. there were uprightings against the russian empire veterans of world war i and world war ii were dwrooukians and russians fought together to deliver ukraine from nazi occupation. now the cemetery is a resting place for an evergrowing number of soldiers who have died in the current for ukraine. dozens of others buried there in recent week. and even as the military dead are put to rest in a central square here in lviv, earlier tonight, hundreds of candles were lit to honor civilians killed in the russian invasion of this country. civilians whose bodies are now being recovered in towns where russian forces were withdrawn. civilians that have not had the dignity of a funeral. many not even a bu

the rachel maddow show starts right now with ali velshi filling in. good evening ali. i want to just say that you have been doing such an incredible job these last five weeks, and i am so personally grateful, and proud of you as a colleague to have you out there on the ground reporting. it has been phenomenal for all of us. thank you, thank you, thank you. >>phenomenal for all chris, i am really appreciative of that. as you, know you and i are most likely to run into each other in the halls. i am looking forward to seeing you in person. you have a great weekend, we will see you next week. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. i am coming to you one last time tonight from lviv, ukraine. rachel, as you know, we'll be back on monday. but it has been a particularly grim day in ukraine, and the end of a very grim week. the one bit of good news this week is that russian forces have now entirely withdrawn from ukraine's north, and from the area around the capital, kyiv. they have retreated in defeat in the face of remarkable resistance from ukrainian forces.

he described the kremlin as a regime of murderers and on sunday spoke to my friend and colleague ali velshi about the importance of vocal descent in russia. >> i could just tell you on a personal level, not a single day goes by without somebody approaching on the street shaking my hand here in moscow. saying thank you for what you're doing and these are the people who are more afraid to do that. there are many, many people in russia who opposed in aggression as much as people in the free world do and that's an important message to remember. >> his arrest should come as no surprise because this is how putin stifles descent. he locks up people who call out his false narratives. alexi navalny and rival political leader was slapped with an additional nine years in prison after being found guilty on new trumped up charges. meanwhile, three americans remain in russian prisons on questionable charges, trever reed, brittney griner and paul whalen. joining me now is vladimir kazma's wife. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me her for giving me this opportunity to speak out o

and bring in my dear friend, ali velshi. joining us live from lviv. ali, russian troops had taken control of chernobyl, but according to ukraine, they have left. what can you tell us? >> yes, it's a wild story. they went in five weeks ago, they got in very early and took over chernobyl. they caused all this stuff to stay there, but a number of people have told reuters that they saw those russian columns coming through territory that is known to be radioactive and polluted. 36 years after that incident. by that, they referred to reuters, these are workers saying, they asked the soldiers do you know where you they saw those russian columns coming through territory that is known to be radioactive and polluted. 36 years after that incident. and they were quite perplexed by that, they referred to reuters, these are workers saying, they asked the soldiers do you know where you are and what's going on here? and they didn't have any sense of what they were doing. but then suddenly these russian soldiers started to get sick. so they pulled out, it's not clear w

ali velshi has the rachel maddow show. >> i'm joining you from the ukranian city of lviv tonight. about 300 miles from here in the city of bucha it snowed yesterday, this was a ukrainian man and woman standing with a soldier inwo bucha yesterday, discovering a site of a mass grave asdi the flurries fell around them. they embraced each other while they wept. here is something about these image, these look on their face how the site of that mass grave knocked the wind out of them so hard, that they had to sit on the ground. it encapsulates the global reaction to the images we started to receive out of ukrainest this weekend. the city of bucha is a suburb of ukraine'sof capital about, 37,0 people live there,ab and it was one of the first cities in ukraine to fall after russia launched its full scale unprovoked invasion of ukraine. it had been under control when troops suddenly pulled out of bucha and the entire kyiv region after sustaining heavy losses and at first that was heralded as good news by the ukrainians who were watching russia entering retreat mode. until ukraine and the r

that the russian opposition figure has been arrested in russia after doing an interview here with ali velshi and another with cnn about the russian wore. as we reported, vladimir kara-murza. russia says they're holding him for 15 days. i'm not sure anybody is expecting to see him after 15 days. but that is what the russians are going to do. today is the second day reported that russian forces have used a chemical of some kind on an attack on ukrainian forces and civilians in the city of mariupol. those reports remain unconfirmed. even the reports with what the responsibility if those reports are confirmed. or if russia otherwise does make some start of move to start making chemical or biological agents. as traditional or military efforts again have failed. samantha power started her career as a journalist and war correspondent. she won a pulitzer prize which she called the problem from hell. she then became a senior advisor to candidate obama and then president obama. president obama named her america's ambassador to the united nations. samantha power serves pled president biden to the usaid

with ali velshi right now. good evening ali, before i hand over the show to you my friend, i have to say, what you did in hungary, poland, ukraine, over the past few weeks was a master class of journalism. i want to thank you on behalf of a lot of us. thank you and thanks for all the opportunity you gave me to report from there into your show. i'm looking for to see you on sunday. you have yourself as much of a good weekend as you can get. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. i want to tell you the story of one american, like many americans, retired at the age of 65. he announced at the end of september 2015, by the end of the following month, he was gone. to say he took the retirement like a fish takes the water would be an understatement of historic proportions. >> this morning, i am formed my colleagues that i would resign from the speakership and resigned from congress by the end of october. >> after years at the center of republican politics, house speaker john boehner step down in 2015. since

and bring in my dear friend, ali velshi. joining us live from lviv. ali, russian troops had taken control of chernobyl, but according to ukraine, they have left. what can you tell us? >> yes, it's a wild story. they went in five weeks ago, they got in very early and took over chernobyl. they caused all this stuff to stay there, but a number of people have told reuters that they saw those russian columns coming through territory that is known to be radioactive and polluted. 36 years after that incident. and they were quite perplexed by that, they referred to reuters, these are workers saying, they asked the soldiers do you know where you are and what's going on here? and they didn't have any sense of what they were doing. but then suddenly these russian soldiers started to get sick. so they pulled out, it's not clear whether the pull out is because the russian soldiers were getting sick, because of radiation poisoning, or it's because of this so-called repositioning or focusing on eastern ukraine. i'm not sure what's happened. but they've handed it back

. >> that was a segment of ali velshi's conversation from last week with four young ukrainians, whosewhere and russian controlled territories of ukraine like crimea. one central theme in that interview with, due to stifling disinformation and propaganda, many russians don't believe what is plainly true about the war in ukraine. after, all the kremlin has been working overtime to absolve russia of any wrongdoing and spreading false pretenses for the invasion. you might recall putin's call for the denazification of ukraine, a country governed by a jewish president. the sad news is that it's working. a recent poll shows that 83% of russians approve of what putin is doing in ukraine, or at least his version of it. it's a jump from 69 percentage anywhere. but this disinformation campaign is spreading far beyond russia and ukraine, to the united states, nato allies. it's also creating a global divide, corrupting china, parts of africa and even latin america. as reported in the new york times, quote, the world, china casts off as a principled onlooker of the war in ukraine, not pick a side,

the rachel maddow show starts with ali velshi. g us. as you know, rachel is on hiatus but i have some news tonight that she will be back next week. rachel will be once again be the host starting monday night. but tonight i am joining you from lviv, ukraine. we have a lot of developments to get to, not just here in ukraine but in

the "the rachel maddow show" with ali velshi begins right now. >>> i'm joining you again tonight fromhe city of lviv, in ukraine. and here in lviv sits one of the oldest cemeteries in europe. it dates to 1887. in addition to holding the graves of some ukraine's most celebrated artists and politicians it also holds the graves of ukrainian soldiers for many, many centuries since the city's founding. there were uprightings against the russian empire

the rachel maddow show starts with ali velshi right now. friend, i have to say, what you did in hungary, poland, ukraine, over the past few weeks was a master class of journalism. i want to thank you on behalf of a lot of us. thank you and thanks for all the opportunity you gave me to report from there into your show. i'm looking for to see you on sunday. you have yourself as much of a good weekend as you can get. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. i want to tell you the story of one american, like many americans, retired at the age of 65. he announced at the end of september 2015, by the end of the following month, he was gone. to say he took the retirement like a fish takes the water would be an understatement of historic proportions. >> this morning, i am formed my colleagues that i would resign from the speakership and resigned from congress

. >> our own ali velshi spoke to him yesterday. how significant is this potential arrest? >> well, it is hugely significant. vladimir kara-murza is one of the major voices criticizing putin from within russia. almost everyone else is scared to do that. he is trying to show that they should all do that. and being arrested is a very scary thing. we know bad things happen to people, enemies of the putin regime who were arrested. i have big fears for what may come next. the power of putin's wrath is on the world stage. you know first i noticed like to be targeted by him in the wartime. given where he is now, how concerned are you? >> it's terribly concerning, i was like having dinner with vladimir kara-murza two weeks ago when he was in london. i begged him not to go to russia. and he said, i have to go because if i'm asking the people of russia to stand up to putin, how tightly afraid to go? and i said, it's a war. we're at war with them. there's nothing anyone can do. if you are arrested, and they decide to go after you. but he chose to go. and it says a lot about him as a b

the rachel maddow show starts right now with ali velshi filling in. good evening ali.you as a colleague to have you out there on the ground reporting. it has been phenomenal for all of us. thank you, thank you, thank you. >>phenomenal for all chris, i am really appreciative of that. as you, know you and i are most likely to run into each other in the halls. i am looking forward to seeing you in person. you have a great weekend, we will see you next week. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. i am coming to you one last time tonight from lviv, ukraine. rachel, as you know, we'll be back on monday. but it has been a particularly grim day in ukraine, and the end of a very grim week. the one bit of good news this

i'm ali velshi.other parts of the country seeking refuge. i want to begin with what's happening in russia. in the pre-dawn hours on friday morning two ukrainian helicopters carried out an attack in russia that destroyed an oil depot in the russian town of belgorod which is roughly 25 miles inside russian territory. ukraine initially said it could neither confirm or deny that claim and nbc news has confirmed that ukrainian forces were responsible for this attack. it's the first time that ukraine has carried out an offensive attack on russia on russian territory in the 38 days of this war. russia is

opposition figure volodymyr kara-murza had been arrested in russia after doing an interview with ali velshilmost nbc, and another with cnn about the russian war in ukraine. as of last night, as we reported, vladimir cormorants's whereabouts were unknown. today, the authorities say they are holding him for a 15 days for disobeying police commands. many people expecting to see him and 15 days, but that is what the russian authorities are saying they're going to do. today, is the second day since unconfirmed reports surfaced in ukraine that russian forces had used a chemical of some come and then attack on ukrainian forces and civilians in the city of mariupol. those reports remain unconfirmed today, but even those unconfirmed reports are prompting new questions for the united states and other allies of ukraine as to what will be of those reports are confirmed. or if russia otherwise does make some sort of moved to start using chemical or biological agents as their traditional military efforts. again, they have failed. samantha power started her career as a journalist and a war correspondent.

i'm ali velshi.t with the house select january 6th committee out with damning new allegations against the failed former president's inner circle. in an overnight court filing the panel alleges that donald trump's former and final chief of staff, mark meadows, was told that plans to try to overturn the 2020 election using so-called alternate electors were not legally sound and that the events of january 6th could turn violent, but meadows pushed forward with the rally anyway. during a march deposition, cassidy hutchinson, a white house aide in meadows' office told investigators that she knew meadows received information warning that there could be violence on january 6th, but she wasn't sure what he did with that information. the committee is putting forward this evidence in an attempt to persuade a federal judge to throw out meadows' suit against the panel and to force him to comply with its subpoenas, but as the committee battles with one of the failed ex-president's loyalists, it may soon turn its

. >> ambassador, we will leave you with even less words, my colleague ali velshi earlier today talk to young people living in ukraine. their parents love in russia. and their parents are supporting putin's invasion. i want to share with you would one young woman said about her own mom. >> she lives in russia, and she watches russian tv. she says bought she does not believe that it is russian troops that are here. that they are bombing our cities, and our people. she does not know what the truth is. >> do you know how the russian propaganda machine works? what do you make of that? >> first, i watched that in realtime. let's just give props to all that he has been doing. he has been doing fantastic reporting. and we need that kind of reporting. and that is exactly the kind of reporting that most russians don't see. i have students, just like that young woman, one of them from russia just yesterday was talking about the disagreement she now has with her father where they literally cannot talk because they see two different kinds of news. that is where i think in addition to more weapons f

that is "all in" for this week, the rachel maddow show show starts with ali velshi. good evening. >> good evening, chris, happy birthday to "all in" and happy birthday to rachel. you have a good night and we will talk to on monday, migrant. >> you bet. >> and thanks to you at home for joining us. i'm joining me once again from the crimean city of lviv but i want to start tonight in the russian city of belgorod, belgorod is 25 miles north of kharkiv, on the other side of the country from where i am standing tonight. it is only about an hours drive away from ukraine's second largest city, that is, kharkiv. look at what happened in the russian city of belgorod today. take a look at these missiles coming out of the sky and those helicopters flying really low and then at what appears to be an explosion. this was a fuel depot inside belgorod, inside russia, and russia immediately claim today that ukraine was responsible for this attack and said it was a significant escalation and could complicate peace talks. ukraine refused to confirm or deny that it was responsible for t

i'm ali velshi.ekend i'm in lviv, the largest city in western ukraine that's operated as a hub for millions of people in other parts of the country seeking refuge. i want to begin with what's happening in russia. in the pre-dawn hours on friday morning two ukrainian helicopters carried out an attack in russia that destroyed an oil depot in the russian town of belgorod which is roughly 25 miles inside russian territory. ukraine initially said it could neither confirm or deny that claim and nbc news has confirmed that ukrainian forces were responsible for this attack. it's the first time that ukraine has carried out an offensive attack on russia on russian territory in the 38 days of this war. russia is saying it was an act of significant escalation that could complicate peace talks within the two countries which is kind of wild given that russia invaded this country unprovoked, but the brazen attack piloted by ukrainian helicopters in russian airspace is one of a series of significant victories in con