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8 hours agoWATCH: MS NOW's Ali Velshi Gets Emotional Handing Off Show
Ali Velshi emotionally announces his departure from his weekend show to host weeknights, praising his successor Jacob Soboroff.
MSNBC's first national map night without past fixture Steve Kornacki looked, for a moment, like it might spook MSNBC's most hardcore partisans, but by the time the returns were rolling, a different verdict emerged and his replacement, journalist Ali Velshi, became the nothing short of a beloved hero. The channel, soon to rebrand as MS NOW on November 15 parent as Comcast spins off into a new unit called Versant, has been aggressively insisting the split won't change the core of what it does,