President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown is expanding across the country, from mass arrests outside Chicago to a new deployment of Border Patrol agents in Charlotte, North Carolina, and New York City could be next. "The point is to terrorize people," says Fordham University Professor Christina Greer, adding, "we should all care what happens to our neighbors." New York Comptroller Brad Lander adds "I'm not sure ICE knows what they're gonna get into if they come for New York." 

The Supreme Court has given ICE free reign to stop and detain people based on nothing more than appearance, accent, job, or location, and this dragnet is now sweeping up U.S. citizens. University of Toronto professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley warns that "we are now a country where you have to bring your papers around." Furthermore, Stanley says that "if you instill fear in Black and brown citizens that they will have this interaction with ICE, they're much less likely to show up" to vote or participate in civic life. 

A new documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario profiles her career from the frontlines. “I think every single assignment has a different set of risks,” she tells Ali Velshi. “ Because, obviously, as photographers, there's no way to do my job from a hotel. I have to literally be in front of my subject.”

Starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the creature, del Toro’s new adaptation of Shelley’s gothic classic is on Netflix now.

“Perfect Blue,” the 1997 animated film from director Satoshi Kon, tells the tale of a tormented actress and pop star through a lens that presaged today's obsessive online fan culture.

A new ADP report indicating significant drops in private employment is "definitely a negative signal" for the economy, economist Justin Wolfers tells Ali Velshi. But amid the government shutdown, we don't have an up-to-date jobs report or even someone leading the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after Trump withdrew his controversial nominee, E.J. Antoni. "The only thing he'd ever done with statistics was misrepresent them," Wolfers said. 

From the cancellation of Stephen Colbert, to the preemption of Jimmy Kimmel and the postponing of Jessica Chastain’s new series, President Trump’s administration is using politics to squeeze Hollywood. Acclaimed filmmaker Rob Reiner calls the current climate “beyond McCarthy era-esque” and warns Ali Velshi, “This is just the beginning.” He says his colleagues need to speak up: “Our job now, as communicators, is to start communicating to the rest of the country.”

The son of a former Franciscan brother and nun, Christianity is deeply important to John Fugelsang, and inspired him to write the new book “Separation of Church and Hate.” “They don’t really follow this holy book they wave around like a prop,” Fugelsang tells Ali Velshi. Fugelsang argues that the rhetoric of Christianity “has been hijacked” by right-wingers and Christian nationalists whose ideology actually runs counter to the teachings of Jesus.

As measles cases in the U.S. reach their highest level in a quarter century and RFK Jr. leads an anti-vaccine push from the federal government, it's crucial to understand the importance of vaccines. Historian and University of Oklahoma professor Kyle Harper tells Ali Velshi that "vaccines are arguably the innovation, the discovery that has done more than any other to contribute to human health, to longevity, and to overall human wellbeing," and that "for most of the human past, infectious diseases were difficult or impossible to control."

The Intercept reported Google handed over Gmail data of a student protestor to ICE investigators. Longtime Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee says tech companies’ willingness to hand over personal data to the government is chilling: “Big Tech is now operating as though it is bigger than the government.” Plus, a warning from immigration attorney Allen Orr on violations of digital privacy: "We're creating a class of individuals who will not have access" to the internet "because of fear of repercussions."

Professor Michael Mann and Dr. Peter Hotez are leading experts on climate change and vaccines, respectively, and in recent years, have both been targeted by those who seek to discredit their expertise. That experience led the two to come together to write the new book "Science Under Siege." The campaign against them and other scientists "was organized, it was deliberate, it was politically motivated, and it was financially motivated," Hotez tells Ali Velshi. "The overriding crisis is the rise of misinformation and disinformation," Mann adds.

At the National Conservatism Conference, GOP Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri shared a shockingly white nationalist vision of American identity and history. Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project, tells Ali Velshi that, in contrast to years of racist “dog whistles” from politicians on the right, Schmitt’s openness is almost “refreshing.” His far-right viewpoint, Hannah-Jones says, isn’t “just about who is being allowed to immigrate into our country now, but what is the very essence of who is an American and therefore who should have the protections of the constitution and full rights as citizens.”

Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and military veteran running in the Democratic Senate primary in Maine, says he isn’t a typical politician and is proud of it. He told Ali Velshi, “I just think that we need to send regular working people up to Washington to represent regular working people.” He hopes his working-class background and economic populist campaign will unseat five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins, whom Platner calls, “Someone who is playing a game and trying to protect their political power without really trying to represent the constituency.”

Dr. Jennifer Layden was the Director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for five years until this week, when she became one of four senior CDC officials to resign amid budget cuts and increased political pressure from President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Public health should be bipartisan,” Layden tells Ali Velshi, explaining that budget cuts made it “challenging to do my work.” Many don’t realize how dangerous this undermining of our public health agencies could be since Layden notes that “the work of public health often goes unnoticed until there is a major outbreak.” 

Trump claims to have “solved” anywhere between 6 and 10 wars around the world (depending on which day you ask him) – a claim that doesn’t hold water. Ana Marie Cox tells Ali Velshi that Trump’s boastful claims about his diplomacy compensate for the fact that he’s a terrible negotiator. In both domestic and foreign policy, Trump “doesn't see these things in terms of negotiations with a compromise, but as deals with a winner and a loser,” says Cox. 

Trump’s friendly stance towards Putin, on full display in the recent meeting of the two leaders, doesn’t reflect popular opinion in the U.S., says Putin foe Bill Browder. He recalls that, when he and Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza lobbied for the Magnitsky Act in 2012, Marco Rubio was a close ally of theirs, but now, Rubio and elected Republicans are “completely scared of crossing Donald Trump.” "Putin's biggest victory was the meeting itself," adds Kara-Murza, arguing that Trump is undermining international pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.