Velshi S2026E21 - Episode 21

Jumping into this war with Iran was not only incredibly expensive, but Ian Bremmer explains where the lack of strategy regarding oil in the region has backfired; with the Illinois Senate primary is days away, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joins Ali to talk about the war with Iran and how the Trump Administration has leapfrogged Congress; MS NOW's Ayman Mohyeldin sits down for an exclusive interview with the Foreign Minister of Iran.

The Trump-era billionaire boom exposes the real divide in America: not right versus left, but the billionaires versus everyone else; more than a dozen pregnant teen migrants have been sent to a facility in South Texas where they can't receive adequate prenatal care. A former Trump Administration official says "This is 100% and exclusively about abortion" and not about immigration; and Ben Rhodes digs into the sheer unpopularity of the Iran war and Pete Hegseth's increasingly unhinged wartime rhetoric.

As the war with Iran enters the second week, we're getting a clearer picture about the human cost of this war; MS NOW's Ines De La Cuetara reports on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Lebanon as a result of this war; as Illinois voters gear up to head to the polls on Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton stops by to discuss her Senate bid; author George M. Johnson returns to the "Velshi Banned Book Club" to debut the cover of his new, forthcoming memoir.