MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi said Saturday that when the sun rose over Kyiv, western nations — particularly North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations — would be forced to respond as the atrocities committed by Russian occupation forces in Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces reportedly <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ukraine-reportedly-wrests-back-control-of-kyiv-region/">regained control</a> of the area surrounding the capital city of Kyiv on Saturday, and photos immediately began to surface documenting the carnage left behind by the retreating Russian forces — carnage that reportedly showed proof that Russian forces had been targeting and attacking unarmed civilians.
As The Daily Wire reported:
<blockquote>Ukrainian forces have regained control of the area around the capital city of Kyiv, according to an official in the nation’s government.
In a Saturday Facebook post, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-red-cross-tries-mariupol-evacuation-n1293902/ncrd1293920#liveBlogCards">said</a> that “Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel and the whole Kyiv region were liberated from the invader!” NBC News added that the announcement followed the British defense ministry revealing that Russian forces “are reported to have withdrawn from Hostomel airport to the city’s northwest, which has been subject to fighting since the first day of the conflict.”</blockquote>
But Velshi argued that even as the Ukrainians were beginning to have some measure of success in repelling their invaders, what the retreating Russian forces were leaving behind was absolute proof that NATO should consider taking action against Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes and atrocities against civilians.
&#8220;The turning point for the west and NATO will come when the sun rises over Kyiv on Sunday, and the war crimes against civilian non-combatants becomes visible to all. There is no more time for prevarication,&#8221; Velshi <a href="https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1510418453504708613">tweeted</a>. &#8220;If &#8216;never again&#8217; means anything, then this is the time to act.&#8221;
&#8220;To those who argue there is too much coverage of the war, to the exclusion of important U.S. stories, by morning you will see irrefutable evidence of mass civilian massacres and graves, and what is looking like genocide, the prevention of which should be America&#8217;s greatest priority,&#8221; Velshi <a href="https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1510431944009555973">continued</a>.
And the photos the began to come out appeared to confirm Velshi&#8217;s statements — reports and photos referenced the bodies of Ukrainian citizens, bound and shot execution-style and left behind in the streets.
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AP images of Russia&#39;s war on Ukraine: Civilians cheer along with a Ukrainian soldier as military and aid vehicles arrive in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine. A soldier&#39;s funeral in Lviv, Ukraine. Aftermath of battle outside Kyiv. <a href="https://t.co/T6H4IUqIFk">https://t.co/T6H4IUqIFk</a>
&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1510436707266711552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Lines have been crossed and war crimes have been committed by Putin that make direct military intervention something NATO now must seriously consider,&#8221; Velshi <a href="https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1510574186531545096">concluded</a>, adding, &#8220;Zelenskyy has consistently pleaded with the West to do more to aid Ukraine&#8217;s defense. Atrocities committed against civilians in Bucha will make inaction less tenable.&#8221;

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Media outlets that defended this summer’s violent riots in major cities across America are now treating the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday the way they should have treated all the riots.
To be clear: All of the riots this year were horrible and wrong. The one on Wednesday had the added distinction of taking place in and around the U.S. Capitol building.
The media, however, is reporting the violence on Wednesday completely differently than how they reported the violent riots that burned businesses and vehicles, attacked cops, and left cities in ruins.
One prime example comes from MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, who in late May stood in front of a burning building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and declared the riots were “mostly a protest.” The Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-mn-protests-mostly-peaceful-msnbc-reporter-says-while-standing-in-front-of-burning-buildings">reported</a> at the time:
<blockquote>“I wanna be clear on how I characterize this,” said Velshi, reporting live from Minneapolis. “This is mostly a protest, it is not, it is not, generally speaking, unruly.”
“But fires have been started and this crowd is relishing that,” he told MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.
“There is a deep sense of grievance and complaint here, and that is the thing,” added Velshi. “That when you discount people who are doing things to public property that they shouldn’t be doing, it does have to be understood that this city has got, for the last several years, an issue with police, and it’s got a real sense of the deep sense of grievance of inequality.”</blockquote>
Velshi admitted, despite his downplaying of the violence, that he could see “four fires” from where he was reporting at the time. As Prestigiacomo reported, one of those fires engulfed a liquor store, another burned the Minnesota Police Department’s 3rd Precinct headquarters. On the night Velshi made his “peaceful” claims, the Saint Paul Police Department reported that more than 170 businesses had been damaged or looted and that “dozens of fires” had been set throughout the city.
Flash forward to Thursday morning, when Velshi tweeted something completely different about the riots taking place in downtown Washington, D.C.:
<blockquote>“TRUMP INCITES MOB” is the headline of this morning’s New York Times.
Any journalist who sugar coats their language or normalizes what has happened today isn’t doing their job.
Our job is to bear witness &amp; tell the truth: Trump is attempting a coup, and inciting violence</blockquote>
Media outlets and Democrats spent the year promoting the violent riots in America’s cities, which were far from where they worked or lived. In September, a video went viral showing prominent Democrats such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) promoting the violence. Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/viral-video-shows-leading-democrats-promoting-uprisings-unrest-harassment">reported</a> at the time:
<blockquote>In June of 2018, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/14/pelosi_i_dont_even_know_why_there_arent_uprisings_all_over_the_country_over_migrant_child_separation.html">Pelosi</a> lamented, “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. And maybe there will be, when people realize that this is a policy that they defend.”
Another clip in the video compilation features “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) calling for “unrest in the streets.”
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Former VP and Democratic presidential nominee Biden is also featured in the video bragging that he’d like to physically assault a younger President Donald Trump.
“If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” Biden said of Trump back in 2018.</blockquote>

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On Thursday, during an interview with progressive Tom Steyer, MSNBC&#8217;s Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle spoke as if voters who want to keep more of their own money, want to protect the Second Amendment, and care about protecting preborn lives are &#8220;selfish.&#8221;
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RUHLE: So, [while] we could find or do find the president&#8217;s constant lying or lawlessness or reprehensible behavior morally unacceptable, a lot of people vote pretty selfishly, and they say, &#8220;What&#8217;s gonna give me more money in my pocket?&#8221;
VELSHI: Or what&#8217;s gonna make abortion illegal, or what&#8217;s gonna make sure that my Second Amendment rights stay the same, and clearly, that adds up to enough people that the president still has something akin to 40% of the electorate in polls. It&#8217;s kind of fascinating to us, as I&#8217;m sure it is to you &#8211; but how do we talk about that?
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While it isn&#8217;t at all surprising that Velshi and Ruhle hold the personal beliefs reflected in their remarks, what is somewhat shocking is that they so nakedly exposed them on national television.
Let&#8217;s really break this down.
The ideological underpinning of Ruhle&#8217;s statement that it&#8217;s &#8220;selfish&#8221; for a person to vote for a political candidate whose policies might benefit them economically is that an individual&#8217;s money, the currency they were given in exchange for their labor, does not fully belong to them. In other words, it&#8217;s selfish to want to keep more of the money one earns and personally choose the charities or individuals to whom one would like to donate rather than have the government confiscate a portion of one&#8217;s income to distribute as they see fit.
Velshi&#8217;s statement is perhaps more troubling. He appears to believe it&#8217;s selfish to vote for politicians who believe that abortion is the deliberate taking of a human life, and who would try to enact legislation to limit and prevent such a procedure. He also seems to believe that it&#8217;s selfish to desire that one&#8217;s right to self-defense, one&#8217;s constitutionally guaranteed right to own firearms as a check against a potentially tyrannical government, is protected.
These are the statements of people whose political bubbles are so opaque that they cannot even see differing perspectives &#8212; and because they cannot see, they cannot understand, and because they cannot understand, they cannot critically examine or engage with individuals whose opinions diverge from their own.

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MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi devoted an entire segment on his Monday show to criticizing Florida&#8217;s gun laws in the wake of the Jacksonville shooting on Sunday — even though it was previously reported that the shooter was from Baltimore, Maryland.
&#8220;As we wait to learn more about the gunman who opened fire at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, and where he got his gun, it’s worth taking another look at gun laws in Florida,&#8221; Velshi said in a video segment flagged by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2018/08/28/msnbc-slams-florida-gun-laws-shooter-bought-guns-maryland">NewsBusters</a>.
Velshi&#8217;s segment came after it was widely reported on Sunday that federal law enforcement officials raided a home in Baltimore, Maryland, where the shooter reportedly lived.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">ATF now confirming federal agents at this home in Federal Hill in connection to the deadly mass shooting in Jacksonville, FL. <a href="https://twitter.com/FOXBaltimore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FOXBaltimore</a>
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Shortly after Velshi&#8217;s segment, the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office confirmed that the shooter purchased his firearms in Maryland, which negated the point of Velshi&#8217;s segment.
Democratic politicians, left-wing activists, and members of the media often push gun control narratives in the wake of major shootings before the facts, which often debunk the false narratives being pushed, emerge.
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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews said on Wednesday that Democrats need to battle tenaciously in the &#8220;fight of the century&#8221; over President Donald Trump&#8217;s forthcoming Supreme Court justice nominee, later likening the situation to the Spanish Civil War.
Matthews fretted that anyone who is not conservative will think that the courts are partisan against them if Trump gets to pick another Supreme Court justice, <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/chris-matthews-scotus-confirmation-fight-kennedys-successor-going-like-spanish-civil-war-stuff/">The Washington Free Beacon</a> noted.
&#8220;So I would say, I think this is going to be the fight of the century,&#8221; Matthews told MSNBC host Ali Velshi. &#8220;I think the Democrats have to say &#8216;No way, none pasario, no one passes this line.'&#8221;
Matthews then eluded to a potential armed conflict breaking out.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be almost like Spanish Civil War stuff,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;You watch the next few months.&#8221;
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