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MSNBC has unveiled its first major changes since Rebecca Kutler took over as president, with the network’s new lineup featuring two new weeknight primetime shows and expansions for weekday and weekend programming. The network’s new nighttime lineup begins the week of May 5 and will see the debut of The Weeknight, a new show featuring hosts Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez. The show will air from 7 to 9 pm on Mondays and 7 to 8 pm on Tuesdays through Fridays. You can watch a promo for The Weeknight below. Then, on May 6, The Briefing with Jen Psaki will make its debut, with episodes airing Tuesdays through Fridays at 9 pm. This is the show that will air once Rachel Maddow returns to Monday nights only; Maddow returned to five nights a week for the first 100 days of President Donald Trump‘s second term in the White House. The Briefing with...

MSNBC’s new nighttime lineup will debut the week of May 5, with the 7 p.m. Et show The Weeknight starting that evening and Jen Psaki’s 9 p.m. Et show The Briefing launching the following night.

The schedule also marks the end of Rachel Maddow’s return to a five-night-a-week schedule, as she has been doing for the first 100 days of the Trump administration. She’s announced a series of personal appearances in May for her book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism.

The Weeknight will feature Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez, the trio who have hosted the network’s Saturday and Sunday morning show The Weekend. At 7 p.m., it replaces ReidOut, which was canceled earlier this year and whose host, Joy Reid, left the network. The Weeknight will run for two hours on Monday and for an hour the rest of the week.

With Maddow returning to a one-night-a-week schedule,...

Joy Reid, one of the longtime anchors of MSNBC, is being canceled as the liberal network is going through a reshuffle for its programming structure. Her 7 Pm show called the ReidOut will be replaced by a panel show consisting of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele who co-host the weekend show. The new president of MSNBC Rebecca Kutler is said to have made the reshuffle while Reid’s final episode is going to take place later this week.

Joy Reid | Credit: MSNBC

Reid has been a strong critique of Donald Trump and other Republic voters. She also criticized the right-wing Latino Republican voters saying that they own everything concerning their position under Trump’s administration, indicating the immigration laws.

Reid’s background regarding being a child of immigrant parents and her position in the world of broadcast media as a Black woman has gained her both fandom and hostility.

Joy Reid’s firing from MSNBC leaked to the press before her staff was notified, forcing network chief Rebecca Kutler to call an impromptu meeting filled with “pointed questions” and “raw emotions,” media journalist Oliver Darcy reported Sunday.

According to Darcy’s Status newsletter, staffers “expressed frustration and disbelief, outraged that they had learned of their show’s fate from reports in the press rather than from leadership. Others demanded answers about the reasoning behind the cancellation of ‘The ReidOut’ and what it meant for their futures at the network.”

They got their answer: “The meeting, which lasted nearly 30 minutes, featured pointed questions, raw emotions, and a discussion of the changes ahead” — including the revelation that the entire staff would be laid off, Darcy writes. Kutler said she hoped the staff would produce the 7 p.m. rotation until the changes take effect in April.

Status also reported that Kutler held...

News that Joy Reid will air her final episode of “The ReidOut” sparked reactions of disappointment and support across social media platforms Sunday afternoon.

“Everytime MSNBC has a ‘shakeup’ the Black woman solo led show is Always the first to go,” wrote Ambassador Digital Magazine editor-in-chief Musa Jackson on Threads. “Tamron Hall, Tiffany Cross, Zerlina Maxwell and now Joy Reid. Boycott MSNBC.”

Hall, who departed the network in 2017, also commented on Reid’s ousting. “Where there is Joy there is friendship and love,” she wrote on Threads. “@joyannreid is the core of a sisterhood where we see each other and rise together. Next Chapter. Love you Joy Reid @thereidout.”

I owe the television part of my career to Joy Reid, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her.

And *that's* why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but...

MSNBC is set to drop Joy Reid’s “The ReidOut,” which will air its final show on the network this week, TheWrap has learned. The cancellation is part of Rebecca Kutler’s vision for the network moving forward. Anchor Alex Wagner will also be replaced during the 9 p.m. spot Tuesday-Friday, but will remain with the network as a correspondent.

MSNBC will replace “The ReidOut” with a new show hosted by “The Weekend” anchors Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez in the 7 p.m. Et slot.

Kutler is expected to announce changes to the network across daytime, primetime and weekend programming. It is also expected that Jen Psaki will take over one of the primetime hour slots.

MSNBC representatives declined to comment on the incoming changes.

Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend (MSNBC)

An individual with knowledge said that the network’s changes don’t deter...

It’s anchors aweigh at MSNBC. Joy Reid and Alex Wagner are losing their weeknight primetime slots on the cable news channel, according to multiple reports. Reid is expected to host the last episode of The ReidOut sometime this week, ending her show’s run of four and a half years, Variety reports. In her stead in that 7/6c slot, The Weekend anchors Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele will host a program that will run for two hours on Monday and one hour on the other weeknights, with Menendez becoming the first Latina woman to host a primetime MSNBC news program, per Deadline. Variety also reports Wagner likely won’t return to her job hosting Alex Wagner Tonight Tuesdays through Fridays at 9/8c. Sources tell the outlet Wagner will be named a correspondent and that other MSNBC personalties will inherit her former time slot once Rachel Maddow goes...

MSNBC is shaking things up: Joy Reid and Alex Wagner will no longer lead their respective time slots, TVLine has confirmed.

As part of a large programming change at the network, Reid will be removed from her 7 pm slot where she currently hosts The ReidOut — which has been in the MSNBC lineup for five years. Her final episode of the show is being planned for sometime this week. The network will fill Reid’s slot with Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele; the trio currently hosts The Weekend, which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings.

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There’s a major shakeup happening over at MSNBC, and we have all the updates.

News anchor Joy Reid, who has hosted The ReidOut since 2020 on the news network, is apparently involved in one of the first major changes. Her 7pm weeknight show has reportedly been canceled and the timeslot will be overtaken by a show hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez.

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Joy is expected to stop hosting sometime this week.

Alex Wagner has hosted the 9pm timeslot on weeknights at the network, but that appears to be no longer as well. Alex is “expected to be named a contributor,” per Variety, but apparently unlikely to return as a host. Jen Psaki is being looked at as one possible replacement.

The news comes as Rebecca Kutler, who was formerly an executive with CNN, was named MSNBC’s new president.

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MSNBC is set to shake up its programming lineup across all dayparts in a dramatic reworking of the left-leaning cable news channel’s slate, multiple sources familiar with the changes confirm to The Hollywood Reporter.

Shows in primetime, dayside and the weekends will be impacted, with some notable cancelations, elevations, and new additions expected, one of the sources says. The moves will be an opening salvo from Rebecca Kutler, who was named MSNBC’s president earlier this month.

Among the expected changes are the cancelation of Joy Reid’s 7 p.m. show, which is likely to be replaced by a panel show featuring the co-hosts of MSNBC’s The Weekend morning program: Symone Sanders, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez.

And in primetime, Jen Psaki is expected to secure additional hours during the week. The former White House press secretary currently hosts Inside with Jen Psaki on Mondays at 8 p.m.

Joy Reid’s show will be dropped from MSNBC’s lineup as part of a series of changes expected to be announced this week.

The network is making plans to launch a show featuring The Weekend anchors Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez into the 7 p.m. Et slot, according to a source familiar with the matter. The show would run for two hours on Mondays and for one hour from Tuesday to Friday.

Reid has anchored The ReidOut since 2020, having been put in that time period following the departure of Chris Matthews. Her last show is expected to be this week.

Also expected are other changes, including plans for who will fill the rest of the 9 p.m. Et slot once Rachel Maddow returns to a once-a-week schedule this spring. She was brought back to a five-night-a-week schedule after Donald Trump’s inauguration, as the network looked...

MSNBC’s evening line-up may soon look quite different from what die-hard viewers have come to expect.

The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele to its 7 p.m. weekday slot Tuesday through Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. The group on Mondays will lead two hours, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The move will have direct implications for Joy Reid, the anchor who currently fills 7 p.m. She is expected to host her last show on MSNBC this week.

What’s more, Alex Wagner, who has hosted weeknights at 9 p.m. save for a Monday night led by Rachel Maddow, is expected to be named a contributor, according to three people with knowledge of current talks. Wagner, who has been working as a correspondent across the U.S. during the first 100 days of the new...

MSNBC is embarking on its first major steps toward building up a newsgathering operation, with plans to add a Washington bureau and domestic and international correspondents.

With MSNBC being spun off from Comcast later this year, a lingering question has been how it will deal with the fact that NBC News will no longer be a sister network. MSNBC has depended on the broadcast network’s correspondents and anchors, particularly during the daytime hours. Andrea Mitchell recently signed off from her early afternoon show, which had run since 2008, but is continuing on the NBC News side as chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent.

MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler also is hiring for a head of talent, a head of newsgathering, a Washington bureau chief and a head of content strategy, according to a source familiar with the matter. Also being discussed are adding names from outlets like The Washington Post,...

MSNBC’s new chief isn’t wasting any time in figuring out where she wants to take the progressive-leaning network as it prepares to be spun off from NBCUniversal and its corporate parent, Comcast.

Rebecca Kutler, who was named president of MSNBC earlier in February, is considering expanding the on-screen presence of Jen Psaki, who currently anchors hours on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings, as well as the trio of personalities who lead “The Weekend,” the roundtable show that airs Saturday and Sunday mornings and is led by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

MSNBC declined to make Kutler available for comment. Puck previously reported discussions around the aforementioned personnel moves.

The changes, none of which have been formally announced, show Kutler moving quickly to steer MSNBC in a tricky moment. With Comcast splitting off the bulk of its cable assets into a separate,...

Neil Cavuto held forth at 4 p.m. on Fox News Channel from a New York studio for more than a quarter century, a veteran newscaster who was never afraid to call balls and strikes. His successor, Will Cain, will lead the hour from a decidedly different venue for cable-news — Dallas, Texas — and probably take a few swings.

“The Will Cain Show” debuts Tuesday at 4 p.m. eastern with what is likely to be a decidedly different look. Fox News has said the program will carry “a signature podcast style,” and Cain acknowledges people looking for the usual cable-news trappings may see something different. “It’s not a sermon, it’s a conversation,” he says of the format, adding: “There’s not the pretense of perfection. Nothing that I have to say is the word of God. I’m on the ride with everyone else in pursuit of the truth.”

If...

A week after clashing with regular Morning Joe panelist Michael Steele, Joe Scarborough again got into a heated debate with a guest on Wednesday’s (January 15) episode, leading to co-host Mika Brzezinski interrupting him and throwing to a commercial break. This most recent back-and-forth involved Financial Times columnist and Morning Joe regular Ed Luce, whom Scarborough described as “a very good friend.” The pair debated President Joe Biden‘s final days in office and his cognitive capabilities, with Scarborough arguing that Biden still seemed up for the role when he interviewed him from the White House. “Did he occasionally jumble a few words or a few names? Yes,” Scarborough said, per RawStory.com. “But he corrected those as well. So after two, two and a half, three hours of it with him in the White House, going all over the White House, I did not see that.” Luce responded that...

Rashida Jones is stepping down as president of MSNBC, a role she’s held for the last four years. She will remain at the organization for a period described as a few months to support it during this transitional period.

Jones will be replaced by Rebecca Kutler, who has been named as the organization’s interim president effective immediately. The SVP of Content Strategy was recruited to MSNBC by Jones in 2022.

The decision to step down came from Jones. Chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group Mark Lazarus admitted he was “surprised” by Jones’ decision during a meeting with staffers, an insider familar with the matter told TheWrap.

“I was a little saddened for the company but very happy for her to be able to come to grips with a hard decision,” Lazarus said during the Tuesday morning meeting. He also noted that Kutler has “my backing to make whatever decisions she...

Rashida Jones is stepping down as president of MSNBC as the network prepares to be spun off from Comcast along with other cable channels.

At a staff meeting Tuesday morning, Jones said that she decided it was the “right time for me” to move on from the network and the company, where she has worked for the past 11 years.

“I’m really excited about what we’ve done. I’m excited about what’s next. I’m excited about what you guys are going to do next,” Jones told staffers, per a source. “I’m excited to watch it from afar, but I’m really excited that this is the right time for me, so, I wanted to share that with you guys directly.”

She said that Mark Lazarus, who is leading the spun off cable assets, asked her to stay on during a transition period.

Rebecca Kutler, Senior VP Content Strategy,...

Don Lemon has chimed in on the Morning Joe debate regarding whether people should “be civil” towards President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration. The former CNN anchor blasted MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for their recent discussion about “civility” towards Trump and Maga supporters. On Friday’s (January 10) Morning Joe, Scarborough and former RNC chair Michael Steele got into a heated debate after the former praised Barack Obama for being friendly with Trump at Jimmy Carter‘s funeral. On the latest episode of The Don Lemon Show podcast, the former CNN This Morning co-host referenced a comment made by The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser during the Morning Joe discussion. Glasser warned against too much “civility,” comparing it to Vladimir Putin’s rise in Russia. “Do you guys understand what she said? Do you guys get what she said?” Lemon said, per Mediaite. “They’re trying to make people civil,...

Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are getting fresh backlash over their controversial meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in November, this time directly from one of their own regular guests. On Friday’s (January 10) episode of the MSNBC news program, former chairman of the Republic National Committee, Michael Steele, challenged the hosts on their argument that people should “be civil” to Trump as he prepares to return to the White House later this month. Steele, who serves as a co-host on MSNBC’s The Weekend, tried to make his point only to be talked over by Scarborough, who clearly took issue with what his co-worker had to say. “Joe, you had your moment; let me just finish my point,” Steele said. “I’m telling you something you seem to forget, so let me make my point. You may not like it, but I’m going to make it.

The 82nd Golden Globes will honor Hollywood’s best and brightest tonight. But as usual, film and television fans are upset about some genuinely shocking snubs.

This year’s list of honorees serves to remind us of what an impressive year it’s been in the worlds of movies and TV.

But the downside of so much great content is that many worthy performances — which might have been nominated in any other recent year — have been overlooked by the Globes organization.

Lady Gaga performs onstage during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Here’s our list of 2024’s most surprising snubs:

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MSNBC will draw on its talent roster of hosts and contributors for a daylong event in September, MSNBC Live: Democracy 2024, seeking to capitalize on its viewer fanbase desire to see network personalities live and in person.

The daylong Sept. 7 event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music will include discussions among the hosts and a dinner and a reception, along with a screening of an MSNBC film. Ticket prices will start at $119, the network said, with audience capacity of 2,000. The plans are to keep the September event in person only — no live streaming.

Luke Russert, the creative director of MSNBC Live and moderator of the day’s events, said that “one of the things we were interested in off the bat was what could we do with this incredibly engaged audience at MSNBC.”

The event will not only provide the in-person experience but longer conversations than are possible during telecasts, Russert said.

In the pre-coverage of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the speech is being billed as the most important of his presidency, what with his dismal approval numbers and what is shaping up to be very difficult campaign for reelection.

Moreover, so much attention has been paid to the president’s age — at 81, he is the first octogenarian on a major party ticket — that any kind of slip up will be seized upon by his rivals.

Then again, Biden’s most memorable moment last year was an exchange with House Republicans over Social Security, showing that the president had command of the stage. That’s why it’ll be interesting to see if GOP members restrain themselves so as to not give the president the opportunity this year.

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On Jan. 13, MSNBC will roll out its new take on a weekend morning show: The Weekend.

Co-hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele, the program was announced late last year as part of an overhaul of the cable channel’s weekend lineup. Originating from Washington D.C. and running from 8-10 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, MSNBC is betting that The Weekend can deliver for its regular viewers what Morning Joe does on weekday mornings: A more casual, conversational look at the news, with some original reporting and interviews thrown in for good measure.

The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Menendez, Steele and Symone-Townsend last week to discuss what they have planned.

To start, I’d love hear each of your thoughts on what your goals are with the show and the perspective that you hope to bring to the weekend morning time period and and also...

MSNBC is giving its weekend lineup a major overhaul, which will include the end of Sunday-night program The Mehdi Hasan Show, TVLine has confirmed.

Hasan’s series, which initially launched on Peacock in 2020 and later joined the MSNBC lineup in February 2021, found Hasan providing analysis and interviews that reflected on the day’s events. Ayman Mohyeldin, who is already a fixture of MSNBC’s weekend schedule, will take over for Hasan, expanding to four hours of programming on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Updated, with response to Hasan show cancellation: MSNBC is launching The Weekend, a morning news show on Saturdays and Sundays, as part of a series of changes to the weekend lineup that include ending Mehdi Hasan’s one hour weekend show.

The show will be hosted by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele and will air from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on both days.

Other changes include Ayman Mohyeldin taking over Mehdi Hasan’s one hour program on Sundays, with Mohyeldin expanding to four hours on both days. Hasan will remain at the network as political analyst and fill in host, the network said. His Peacock streaming series also will end, as will Sanders’ show Symone.

Alex Witt will expand hours of Alex Witt Reports from 1 p.m. Et to 4 p.m. Et, with Yasmin Yossoughian continuing as a national reporter.

Jonathan Capehart’s show, meanwhile, will move to 6 p.

MSNBC is overhauling its weekend lineup ahead of the 2024 election season.

The biggest change is a new morning panel show, called The Weekend, which will be hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele. The program will run from 8-10 a.m. and originate from Washington D.C., with Kyle Griffin as executive producer.

Sanders-Townsend and Menendez currently host weekend afternoon hours on MSNBC, but will shift to focus on the morning show.

“As we emerge from a multitude of historic events these past months, we have an opportunity to build on our accomplishments and keep the momentum going into 2024 and beyond,” MSNBC president Rashida Jones wrote to staff at the channel Thursday morning, outlining the plans.

The new schedule will also bring a wave of adjustments to the lineups on both Saturday and Sunday.

Two current MSNBC weekend hosts will be losing their hours: Mehdi Hasan, who will give up his 8 p.

MSNBC is shaking up its weekend schedule as CNN’s Saturday and Sunday offerings continue to provide strong competition.

The NBCUniversal cable-news outlet plans to a launch a new panel show, “The Weekend,” co-moderated by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele that will air Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and will cancel a nighttime show anchored by the outspoke Mehdi Hasan. Those move will not only consolidate anchors who had been active on the weekend schedule in their own time slots, but leave room for broad change.

MSNBC’s weekend schedule has long been edged out by CNN among viewers between 25 and 54 — the audience most coveted by advertisers in news programming. CNN launched a new Saturday-morning lineup in November featuring Victor Blackwell,. Chris Wallace and Christiane Amanpour, and paced ahead of MSNBC in both that demographic and total viewers, according to recent data from Nielsen.

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And we know you're excited about the four-part Cutler Saga, kicking things off with the first in the series, Dawn.

We can already tell you it's pure campy fun, and the cast is no joke.

We had the opportunity to sit in on a presser with the cast of Dawn, with a special appearance by V.C. Andrews' ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman.

It was all copacetic as everyone discussed how they got into character, gushed over star Brec Bassinger's performance and work ethic, and expressed all the fun they had filming this piece.

Fortunately, TV Fanatic got the opportunity to jump on Zoom with star, Bassinger, to discuss what it was like to play the film's titular role as we follow her through her journey from adolescence through adulthood.

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“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough is concerned that Kevin McCarthy’s release of Jan. 6 security footage to Tucker Carlson will lead to another riot, as the panel discussed Tuesday the Fox News host’s rewriting and downplaying of the insurrection on the Capitol.

“There you go again promoting violence and praising those committing violence against cops,” Scarborough said. “This is once again the abandonment of the blue. Once again the abandonment of police officers.”

He continued: “You can’t say ‘the Republican Party.’ This is a segment of the Republican Party, in the House especially, that are trying to grant absolution by lying about those people, those rioters that beat the hell out of police officers.”

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Scarborough also called McCarthy’s release of the footage a “serious breach.

The “Morning Joe” crew could barely keep it together Friday as they discussed Donald Trump’s “big announcement” that he is selling 99 digital trading cards bearing poorly photoshopped images of his likeness.

“How do we show this and keep a straight face?” Mika Brzezinski wondered as her co-anchor Joe Scarborough said, “There are few words.”

Friday’s segment opened with a montage of famous speeches in presidential history from Fdr, JFK and George Bush before cutting to Trump hawking his NFTs on Truth Social.

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Scarborough shared his reaction to the “sleazy” announcement while their co-anchors looked on, audibly laughing and wiping tears from their eyes.

“I saw this yesterday and you know, I thought it was put together by a late-night comic or something,” he said. “But...

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Reactions to the slap that stunned the Oscars — when Will Smith bounded on stage to smack comedian Chris Rock over a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, are, to put it mildly, all over the place, with most seeming to come down decidedly for, as one comedian puts it, Team Rock.

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“Stand-up comics are very adept at handling hecklers,” tweeted Mark Hamill. “Violent physical assault… not so much.” He included the hashtag “UgliestOscarMomentEver”.

“Ummm… Whaaaat!??,” writes Dan Bucatinsky. “He justified his assault using tears and the...

Larry Wilmore is bringing his eponymous late-night Peacock show to an end tonight – sticking with his promise to finish it after 11 episodes.

The Bernie Mac Show creator and Insecure and grown-ish co-creator will air the final episode of Wilmore on the NBCU streaming service this evening, Friday December 4.

Guests include Little Fires Everywhere star Kerry Washington, who is set to appear in Netflix’s The Prom, Gina Yashere, co-creator, co-exec producer, writer and star of CBS’ Bob ❤ Abishola and WNBA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Sue Bird. Tonight’s topic is ‘America’.

Wilmore, who previously hosted Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, launched the show to have important conversations about the issues defining 2020. He has tackled topics including protests, voter suppression, police, class, media and disinformation.

Over the course of the 11 episodes, Wilmore has had a broad selection of guests on the show. They include actors such as Bradley Whitford,...

MSNBC’s election night coverage featured a bevy of the cable newser’s all-stars, including Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams, Joy Reid and Nicolle Wallace. But, as was clear to anyone watching Tuesday night, the breakout of the evening was political correspondent Steve Kornacki, master of the interactive touchscreen map that has become a staple of TV news political coverage.

Every network has someone in this role. On CNN, for instance, John King has long served as master of the interactive electoral map. But none brings to the job the Charlie Kelly “Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack” vibe that Kornacki does, with his shirt sleeves and striped necktie.

Just hours into Tuesday night’s coverage, Kornacki began trending in the United States on Twitter.

i bet steve kornacki can do some freaky stuff with an abacus

— Desus Nice (@desusnice) November 4, 2020

steve kornacki off to a strong start, but the coaches...

In the waning hours of the 2020 presidential election, the Lincoln Project has enlisted Harrison Ford to narrate a new ad that plays up President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The spot features a scene from a Trump rally on Sunday in which supporters began chanting “Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci!” and the president responded, “Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait til a little bit after the election.”

Ford then says, “Tomorrow, you can fire only one of them. The choice is yours.”

The Lincoln Project and Harrison Ford are teaming up to let Americans know you can only keep one of them: Trump, or Fauci. pic.twitter.com/WmimV0inTC

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 3, 2020

The spot marked a rare foray into electoral politics for the Indiana Jones star. Ford has been more active in various causes, including issues like climate change, than...

It is over a month until The Comey Rule limited series premieres on Showtime, but the still raging drama between Donald Trump and fired FBI Director James Comey was live tonight on cable news on Night 1 of the Republican National Convention.

“If you put it in a script, I’m sure it would get rejected for not being realistic enough, that the chairman of the president’s campaign is working with a Russian intelligence officer,” Comey told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow of the damning report released last week by the GOP controlled Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The report examined contacts between Russian sources and the Trump campaign.

“You are going to want to explain to your grandchildren someday how you stood with respect to that oath,” Comey added to the MSNBC hosts about law enforcement participating in possible voter suppression.

Brad Paisley matches the all-are-welcome tone of his new song “No I in Beer” with an equally inclusive video, which assembles a small army of quarantined famous faces from the music, sports, and political worlds. The good-natured Paisley’s fans submit their own self-shot cameos too, from all over the U.S. and from countries like Germany, Sweden, and Australia.

The country music figures include the most obvious suspects: Tim McGraw, Darius Rucker, Jimmie Allen, Kelsea Ballerini, Lindsay Ell, Canadian country singer and Paisley opener Brett Kissel, and Paisley’s...

Fox News is apologizing for an infographic that aired on Special Report with Bret Baier on Friday that showed historic stock market reactions to racial unrest sparked by the assault or killing of African American men.

The graphic showed market gains after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King case, and the deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd.

“The infographic used on Fox News Channel’s Special Report to illustrate market reactions to historic periods of civil unrest should have never aired on television without full context. We apologize for the insensitivity of the image and take this issue seriously.”

Baier also tweeted the network’s apology.

On Friday, Baier had turned to Fox Business correspondent Susan Li for a segment on the economy and stock market. She first gave a report on jobs and individual stocks, before turning to the topic of the graphic.

While 10 days of protests following the police-caused death of George Floyd have largely replaced Covid-19 as the news story of the moment, Bill Maher sees a direct link between the two.

Shutting down much of the country during the coronavirus pandemic, the Real Time host argued during a panel segment on the show, motivated more protesters to take to the streets. That added influx has complicated the local community response and increased the burden on police.

“When you coop people up with no hope and no jobs, why not go out in the streets?” Maher said. “I wonder what America will look like. What do police departments look like if they have to fight this all the time?” Picking up a theme Maher has hit relentlessly during shows broadcast from the leafy expanse of his backyard on La’s West Side, he groused, “This reckless experiment of closing down an...

Attorney General William Barr said that Donald Trump’s tweets about Justice Department criminal cases “make it impossible for me to do my job,” a rare criticism of the president coming from a sitting cabinet secretary.

“I think it’s time to stop tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases,” Barr told Pierre Thomas, ABC News’ chief justice correspondent.

ABC News and Thomas, landed the first sitdown interview with Barr since the furor over the Justice Department decision to reverse itself on a sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, the former Trump associate who was convicted on seven counts of witness tampering and lying to investigators last year.

The network and its streaming channel, ABC News Live, aired a special report on the interview at 4 p.m. Et. More of the interview will air on Thursday on World News Tonight With David Muir and then on ABC News Live.

On Monday,...

Donald Trump Jr.’s new book, Triggered, is a Number One New York Times bestseller, thanks in no small part to the Republican National Committee, which spent $94,800 buying copies of the book in its first week of publication, according to the New York Times.

A dagger printed next to the book’s listing in the Times’ top spot was the first clue that Trump Jr.’s sales numbers may have been inflated. According to the Times, the dagger is used when bulk sales have boosted a book’s numbers.

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Senator Lindsey Graham is “a piece of shit,” said former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, speaking on a podcast with former fellow Obama deputies. Rice’s comments surfaced the same day Graham, a South Carolina Republican, defended president Trump’s claim that the House’s impeachment inquiry was “a lynching.” In extended comments, Graham insisted: “This is a lynching, in every sense.”

Rice was speaking on Pod Save America, one of the nation’s most popular political podcasts. Host Tommy Vietor, a former spokesperson for the National Security Council, teed...

Bill Maher and Michael Moore got in a heated exchange Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and eventually made a pricey on-air bet — the stakes: a trip to Hawaii — over a factual dispute. And, as it turns out, Maher will be footing the bill for Moore’s upcoming luau.

The conversation started friendly enough with Maher (known for taking people to task for their weight) complimenting the slimmed-down Oscar-winning filmmaker for looking “svelte.” The first topic they tackled was the viability of capitalism vs socialism as far as the best direction for the Democratic Party in the primaries ahead and beyond.

“I don’t really agree that we should junk capitalism,” Maher said as an opener.

“The old capitalism is gone and the new capitalism is a cruel and evil system, Bill,” Moore said. “It can’t be fixed. It’s too late. We’ve gone too far.

President Donald Trump added the Rev. Al Sharpton to his Baltimore tirades after the MSNBC personality said Trump is singing a “different tune” as president than he did as a New York businessman.

The president called Baltimore, which is in Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings’ district, “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and said that “no human being would want to live there.” He went on to call Cummings, who is African-American, a “racist.”

Sharpton, who appeared on MSNBC on Sunday and again on Morning Joe on Monday to hit back at Trump, tweeted a photo of himself standing with Trump, James Brown and Jesse Jackson. He said Trump in the 2006 photo was telling Sharpton “why he respects my work. Different tune now.”

Trump then hit back at Sharpton, a fellow New York figure whose renown began in the 1980s, and reprised his Baltimore jeremiad.

“Baltimore, under the leadership of Elijah Cummings,...

The former head of the Rnc doesn't believe a word of Saudi Arabia's explanation of how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died, and he doesn't buy Trump's denial of financial ties there. We got Michael Steele Saturday at the L.A. Convention Center during Politicon 2018 and asked what he made of Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor insisting that Khashoggi had gotten into a fist fight inside the country's consulate in Turkey ... which led to his death. It's clear...

The set of “Morning Joe” offered a warm review of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.

In the opening minutes of Tuesday’s show, the regulars on set took turns praising the Bush-era judge who has been a fixture in D.C. for more than a decade.

“The truth of the matter is that where there are places progressives will disagree on guns, abortion and presidential power. This is not a wild Judge Jeanine Pirro pick as some were fearing,” said Willie Geist. “This is an eminently qualified guy — and again you can disagree with his positions on certain issues — but this is a guy who is qualified for this job.”

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“Senate Democrats were going to put up a fight whoever this was.

“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough defended former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on Monday after a senior Gop official said Steele had only been elected to lead the Rnc in 2009 because he was “a black guy.” But Scarborough had a decidedly different view in 2009 when Steele was leading the Republican party. “You know what the Republicans are learning right now: that sometimes being black isn’t enough. They thought we’re going to get a black guy to run our party,” he said with a squirming Mika Brzezinski at his side on an episode of “Morning Joe” nine years ago. “This...

Republican MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele confronted the head of the American Conservative Union over controversial comments made at Cpac yesterday suggesting Steele had previously been chosen the Republican National Committee chairman because “he was a black guy.” “I've taken crap you have no idea about,” Steele said to Acu chairman Matt Schlapp on Steele’s SiriusXM radio show today. (Watch the segment below). Schlapp, himself a familiar MSNBC pundit, attempted…...

Cpac Communications Director Ian Walters raised eyebrows at this year’s conference after telling an audience Friday evening that former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele only got the job because he was “black.” “We elected Mike Steele to be the Rnc chair because he’s a black guy; that was the wrong thing to do,” Walters said at the event’s exclusive Ronald Reagan dinner. Many dinner attendees greeted the comments with gasps. The remarks were first reported by Jon Levine at TheWrap on Twitter. Also Read: Facebook Pulls Vr Shooting Game From Cpac Demo After Criticism Cpac communication director Ian Walters at Reagan dinner “We...

Former Rnc Chairman Michael Steele actually likes one of President Trump's ideas, but that doesn't mean they're on the same page ... at all. We got the popular Republican pundit at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center near D.C. Thursday and asked him about Trump's pitch to pay teachers a bonus to carry guns in schools ... he likes exactly half of that plan. Steele tells us there should be absolutely no guns in the classroom,...