Category Archives: MSNBC

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough brushes off backlash to his meeting with Trump

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Morning Joe host accuses critics of being disconnected from ‘the real world’ amid outcry over Mar-a-Lago visit

The Morning Joe star Joe Scarborough brushed off criticism of last week’s meeting with Donald Trump in Florida amid reports that the get-together was motivated by the liberal news network show host’s fear of retribution from the US president-elect.

Scarborough, along with his co-host, Mika Brzezinski, revealed during Monday’s broadcast that they personally met with Donald Trump last week to “restart communications” following their unrelenting opposition to his campaign for the White House.

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‘Full fascist’ Trump condemned after ‘treason’ rant against NBC and MSNBC

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Former president vows to investigate TV networks for ‘country-threatening treason’ should he win US election next year

Donald Trump said Comcast, the owner of NBC and MSNBC, “should be investigated for its ‘Country Threatening Treason’” and promised to do so should he be re-elected president next year.

In response, one progressive group said the former US president and current overwhelming frontrunner in the Republican 2024 presidential nomination race had “gone full fascist”.

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As 2024 elections near, US media grapples with how to cover Trump

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CNN’s Wednesday town hall with the ex-president could be a warning bell for cable news to not repeat mistakes from 2016

It claims to be the most trusted name in news. But on Wednesday it will devote an hour of prime time to a serial liar who sought to overthrow American democracy.

CNN’s live town hall with Donald Trump, the former US president, has been condemned by critics as a marriage of convenience: an ailing network looking to boost ratings and a disgraced 76-year-old candidate seeking rehabilitation.

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Biden press secretary Jen Psaki to become TV host at MSNBC, reports say

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Psaki will reportedly stay on until end of April before joining liberal cable news network

Jen Psaki is reportedly preparing to quit as Joe Biden’s White House press secretary, to become a TV host with MSNBC.

Axios first reported the move on Friday, citing anonymous sources “close to the matter”. Other outlets said they had confirmed the news, and reported that Psaki was expected to stay through the end of April.

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‘He understands Washington’: Joe Scarborough finds echoes of Truman in Biden

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The Morning Joe host, author of a new book on Harry S Truman, sees parallels in the two presidents’ efforts to rebuild

Joe Scarborough had been discussing Joe Biden’s cabinet, Donald Trump’s delusions and America’s battered claim to be the indispensable nation when the conversation took an unexpected turn.

“I knew yesterday morning it was Mika’s and my anniversary and she said nothing and about five o’clock in the afternoon I walked in and I said, ‘Is today a special day for you?’” Scarborough shared with his TV guests last Wednesday. “She goes, ‘Yeah, I guess, whatever.’”

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Widower asks Twitter to delete Trump’s ‘horrifying’ lies about wife’s death

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Twitter says it won’t delete tweets in which the president spreads lie that Joe Scarborough was involved in Lori Klausutis’s death

The husband of a woman whose 2001 death Donald Trump has repeatedly used for a political smear has demanded that Twitter take down tweets in which the president spreads the “horrifying” lie that the woman was murdered.

Related: 'You have to respond forcefully': Can Joe Biden fight Trump's brutal tactics?

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Rachel Maddow on her critics: ‘Your hatred makes me stronger. Come on! Give me more!’

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The MSNBC host’s show has become a safety blanket for many US progressives. She discusses her demonisation by the right, tackling the president’s lies – and coming out at 17

Rachel Maddow, the US TV host, has a message for her critics: “Bring it. Your hatred makes me stronger. Come on. Give me more. Give me more. I love it!”

That is just as well, given the way she has polarised viewers in the past few years. Maddow, 46, has presented her primetime show on MSNBC, a 24-hour cable news channel, on weeknights since 2008. If most cable news and social media is fast food, she tries to rustle up a three-course meal: sensible, sober, sometimes painfully detailed and replete with oblique references to half-forgotten politicians of yesteryear. Since Donald Trump’s rise in 2016, however, The Rachel Maddow Show has become a nightly safety blanket for many progressives who identify with the “resistance”.

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Fox News draws a big audience for final Kavanaugh vote

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The Senate's vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade. Fox's daytime audience was bigger than any for the network since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while its Saturday prime-time lineup eclipsed anything since the Iraq War in 2003, the Nielsen company said.

Health | Weiss: GOP Health Care Reform Moves to Senate

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House Speaker Paul Ryan's words are now coming back to haunt him and GOP leadership that rammed American Health Care Act , without procedural safeguards, through the House chamber days ago. "I don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read that we don't know what they cost," said Ryan in a 2009 interview on MSNBC when Congress was debating President Obama's 1990-page Affordable Care Act , or Obamacare.

Trump’s call with Philippines’ Duterte ‘all about North Korea’: White House

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In addition to blasting the WHCD, the 45th president also took aim at the general USA media saying, " CNN and MSNBC are fake news". The president insisted there is no place he'd rather be celebrating his first 100 days than in Pennsylvania - a state that proved so crucial for him on Election Day.

Hail to the Chief: Ebony to Release President Obama Commemorative Issue

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To mark the political ascent and enduring legacy of President Barack H. Obama, Ebony has published a special commemorative edition, "Hail to the Chief: Saluting Eight Years of Excellence." This stylish, thought-provoking issue is a unique collection of exclusive photographs, archival Ebony articles and hard-hitting analyses from leading African-American writers including award-winning poet, author and civil rights activist, Nikki Giovanni; MSNBC award-winning journalist Joy-Ann Reid; culturally astute critic Eric Deggans; pop culture pundit Tour; and New York Times best-selling author Baratunde Thurston.

How Democrats, media are pushing ‘white nationalism’ on Trump team

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Alan Dershowitz, who is a famed professor of law and advocate of human rights, defended Stephen Bannon today against accusations that the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News is an anti-Semite. In an interview today with Steve Kornacki of MSNBC, Dershowitz said that there is "no evidence to support that" Bannon is anti-Semitic.