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In recent years, Stevie Nicks said she has worked to remedy one major regret from earlier in her life. The Fleetwood Mac singer said that for much of her life, she did not think of herself as a political person. Now, she is much more engaged and hopes to encourage women to vote. She said she has come to regret the fact that she didn’t vote until recent elections.

Stevie Nicks said she feels a lot of regret about not voting

In 2024, Nicks released “The Lighthouse,” a song she wrote following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She hopes the song’s message will encourage women to vote, something she did not do until recently.

“I’m going to reach out to women and say, ‘You have to vote,’” she told Rolling Stone. “You have to. I never voted until I was 70 years old because I wasn’t at all political.

Andrea Mitchell, one of the longest-running presences on MSNBC, will give up the reins to her daily noontime show at the NBCUniversal-backed cable-news outlet following the presidential inauguration in 2025, she informed viewers Tuesday at the end of her program.

The veteran journalist is expected to retain her roles as NBC News’ chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent, and will take up a broader assignment within NBCU’s news operations, reporting for both NBC News and MSNBC. Mitchell, who is expected to turn 78 on Wednesday, has anchored a weekday program on MSNBC since 2008, and has been with NBC News for 45 years, covering every presidential campaign for the outlet since 1980.

On the Tuesday broadcast of her show, “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” the reporter said that “after sixteen years of being in the anchor chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most: more connecting,...

On Monday, The View’s panel, comprised of Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro, welcomes Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. With the presidential election looming, Brzezinski will share her expert analysis of the political scene. Later in the week, The View has a packed lineup: Tuesday […]

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On Monday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart took on Donald Trump’s trending moments from the campaign trail in recent days: the former president’s staged shift at a McDonald’s and his lewd comments about former pro golfer Arnold Palmer, both in Pennsylvania. However, Stewart didn’t have the same reaction to these incidents that a number of news outlets did.

Instead, the host, calling this the “fever dream” portion of the 2024 election, criticized the media for not focusing on Trump’s dangerous rhetoric like him calling elected officials the “enemy within.”

“Kamala Harris is out there sweating the details over her new opportunity economy. Trump’s just out there farting around,” Stewart said. “That’s his whole campaign right now. ‘Ave Maria’ dance party, ‘I’m going to deport everybody,’ football tailgate, blame the Jews if I lose, McDonald’s drive-thru. He’s out there having the time of his life,...

Jimmy Kimmel has always got a joke or two in the stash for Donald Trump. It's difficult to imagine a Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue without there being criticisms leveled at the former President. But Kimmel decided to get more serious about the topic of Trump during a recent interview.

The talk show host went on MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss the presidential election, and the mental preparation that comes with hosting an episode the day after the results come in. Kimmel, who generally relies on his comedic sensibility, admitted that he was nervous about the outcome of the election.

Jimmy Kimmel admitted his concerns on Morning Joe

He told Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough that he was "not ready" for the possibility of Donald Trump winning a second presidential term. He told the host that Trump coming out on top was an outcome that him and his wife have...

Real Time With Bill Maher continues Friday, October 18 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/7:00-8:00 p.m. Pt). Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show continues with its opening monologue, one-on-one interviews with notable guests, roundtable discussions with panelists, and its signature “New Rules.” The series airs on HBO and is available to stream on Max. This week features a one-on-one interview with David Hogg, co-founder and board member of the student-led organization March for Our Lives and co-founder of Leaders We Deserve. This week’s panel discussion includes Joe Scarborough, political commentator, former Florida Congressman, and co-host of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC; and Mark Cuban, co-founder of ... Read more...

Larry Wilmore says there’s a distinction between the America he loves and the ‘Merica that’s at the root of a lot of problems in the country.

While on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” talking about his current comedy tour “Comedy, Magic, and ‘Merica,” Wilmore explained to host Mika Brzezinski the difference between the two.

“I try to make a distinction between America and ‘Merica,” he said. “I love America, I’m a proud patriot, I think most Americans are good people. Our problems are with ‘Merica. In ‘Merica, that’s where you get the divisiveness, that’s where you get Twitter, that’s where you get the squeaky wheel that says all these things. ‘Merica has all the problems that America is like, ‘Oh come on, we can do better than this.'”

Wilmore and Brzezinski later pivoted to talk about why people still feel like they should support...

Mark Marshall, Chairman of Global Advertising & Partnerships at NBCUniversal, found himself in a rare position heading into the 50th anniversary season of Saturday Night Live.

Speaking on a panel Tuesday at Advertising Week New York, Marshall said there was so much interest from buyers that he was able to choose his preferred partners.

“This is not an easy one,” he said of the general advertiser experience in the milestone season. “You don’t have the same creative control, you know you’re going to lean on the show in a different way. I had many people, including one whom I saw earlier today, who said they wanted to be a part of it and I said that they couldn’t.” With a laugh, he continued, “We typically, in the sales group, don’t say that. But I was like, ‘Your brand doesn’t have a sense of humor. You’re...

MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin stopped by “Morning Joe” on Tuesday to explain the groundbreaking decision a Georgia judge made by striking down the state’s six-week abortion ban and declaring it unconstitutional by the state’s own laws.

“There is a recognition here that women are not, as [the judge] says, collectively-owned community property,” Rubin told the “Morning Joe” panel of Judge Robert McBurney’s move. “They cannot be forced to carry a fetus before viability any more than you or I could be forced to give a up a kidney. That’s a fairly radical conception of the the right to abortion. It made a lot of women I know think, ‘Oh my God. This is the end of judicial gaslighting. There is someone here who sees us.'”

McBurney — a Republican-appointed judge — issued his ruling on Monday, stating that Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, or Life...

The first and only currently scheduled debate between Republican candidate Donald Trump and now Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will take place on Sept. 10, one of the dates originally blocked off for Trump to debate President Joe Biden when he was still running for a second term.

MSNBC, NBC and many other networks have plans for coverage of the debate, which will take place on ABC. There will not be an audience. Ways to stream, times and other details of how to watch the first presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris can be found below.

Will the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump be streaming?

Yes, the debate will be streaming on Hulu and Disney+ in addition to ABC News Live.

What network is hosting the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump? Who is moderating?

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Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz will host the new third hour of CBS Mornings, set to launch later this month on some CBS-owned stations and on the network’s streaming channel, CBS News 24/7.

The debut of CBS Mornings Plus will be on Sept. 30, with the 9 a.m. Et broadcast featured on stations in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and Miami.

This is the first expansion of the CBS morning show to a third hour. NBC’s Today expanded to three hours in 2000, and later added a fourth. ABC’s Good Morning America added the noontime GMA3 in 2018. On cable, MSNBC’s Morning Joe expanded into the 9 a.m. Et hour in 2022.

Dokoupil will continue as co-host of the first two hours of CBS Mornings, along with Gayle King and Nate Burleson, and Vlad Duthiers as featured host. Diaz has anchored the Saturday edition of CBS Weekend News.

The third...

Pat McAfee, one of ESPN’s toughest talkers, is, as things turn out, surprisingly tender-hearted.

The one-time Indianapolis Colts team member, who has also taken to the ring to fight in the WWE, surprised many a grizzled sports-media journalist Wednesday in Bristol, Conn., by alternatively lashing out at his critics (some of them in the room) and asking the audience to cut his freewheeling program, “The Pat McAfee Show” a little slack.

“I understand that you may have a lot of reasons to potentially hate me,” McAfee said while holding forth Wednesday at the headquarters of the Disney-backed sports-media giant. “I think they’re misguided. I would appreciate if you would give me and my guys a chance. I think we’re helping out sports media as a whole in the future. I think we’re going to get some things wrong and we apologize for that.” Sitting alongside ESPN...

Seth Meyers addressed Tim Walz being named as Kamala Harris’ running mate on Monday night, following his show’s hiatus.

Late Night with Seth Meyers returned on Monday after a three-week break; The Late Show with Stephen Colbert had been off for two weeks.

During his “A Closer Look” segment on Monday, Meyers reviewed a whirlwind list of news events he missed, including Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and now-Democratic presidential nominee Harris naming Walz as her running mate.

Meyers also addressed the recent surge in attention toward Democratic criticism of the GOP, with Democrats calling Trump, Vance and other Republicans “weird.” The trend took off after a Morning Joe appearance from Walz prior to Harris choosing him and has quickly spread throughout the party. Understandably, many credit Walz with starting the phenomenon.

During the show Monday, Meyers said his favorite of Donald Trump’s responses to...

Kasie Hunt has long been known for her work on the political beat, but in days to come she hopes people will think of her for news about culture or sports, maybe the weather. When the news cycle delivers something weird or surprising, the CNN early-morning anchor says she is even “willing to make faces on the air.”

Cable’s A.M. news shows have thrived in recent years by focusing relentlessly on politics, Now CNN and Hunt want to scramble viewers’ perceptions by widening the network’s aperture. “We want to be there for them even when politics is not the lead,” says Hunt during a recent interview.

People who tuned in to Monday’s “CNN This Morning,” the program Hunt anchors between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. — now with her name in the title — may have noticed a few new elements on screen, particularly starting at 6. New blue-and-yellow...

For the first time since President Joe Biden dropped his bid for reelection, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spoken candidly about her role in the party upheaval, and her relationship with Biden.

In an interview with The New Yorker published Thursday, Pelosi spoke at length about her fateful decision to publicly put a question mark on Biden’s future as a candidate during a July 10 interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Earlier this week, Pelosi published her new memoir, The Art of Power, which in the wake of Biden...

Updated with Harris comment: Tim Walz, the twice-elected governor of Minnesota, has been chosen by Vice President Kamala Harris as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election.

“Tim is a battle-tested leader who has an incredible track record of getting things done for Minnesota families,” Harris said in a statement to supporters Tuesday. “I know that he will bring some principled leadership to our campaign, and to the office of the vice president.”

I am proud to announce that I've asked @Tim_Walz to be my running mate.

As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he's delivered for working families like his.

It's great to have him on the team.

Now let’s get to work. Join us:https://t.co/W4AE2WlMTj

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 6, 2024

“It’s the honor of a lifetime to join Kamala Harris in this campaign,” Walz wrote on X. “I’m all in.

MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts have come out in defense of Vice President Kamala Harris for refusing to debate former president Donald Trump on Fox News, saying such a debate would be “rigged” in Trump’s favor. The controversy comes after Trump refused to debate with Harris on ABC News on September 10th, despite previously agreeing to the debate when President Joe Biden was still running for re-election. Trump claimed he never agreed to debate with Harris on ABC, only Biden. According to ABC News, the stipulations of the debate never previously mentioned any candidate by name, only stating that the participants will be nominees for president. Harris has said she will be at the September 10th debate whether Trump shows up or not. Trump has now tried to turn the narrative in his favor by challenging the presumptive Democratic nominee to a debate on Fox News. Harris has not agreed to this debate,...

A potential revival of the classic NBC comedy The Facts of Life was effectively sabotaged by a “greedy” co-star who quietly tried to set up her own spinoff, says Mindy Cohn.

During a recent hit on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live (watch video above), Cohn shared that in the wake of ABC’s December 2021 Live in Front of a Studio Audience special that re-enacted episodes of Facts as well as Diff’rent Strokes, executive producer and sitcom titan Norman Lear reached out to say, “I knew you guys were still popular, but holy hell. The response from the Live [special]!”

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On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear ripped into Sen. J.D. Vance, who former President Trump has selected to be his running mate. Vance, who framed himself as a child of Appalachian Kentucky in his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, does not speak for that community, Beshear argued.

“I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like,” Beshear told the MSNBC hosts. “Because let me just tell you that J.D. Vance ain’t from here.”

If it sounded like a stump speech, that might not be a coincidence. In the days since President Biden announced his plans to end his reelection bid and put his support behind Harris, Morning Joe has become the platform of choice for those in the mix to be Harris’ VP nominee.

Beshear was asked by Willie Geist whether it was a job that would interest...

In a new episode of “Morning Joe” on Monday, host Joe Scarborough shared his thoughts on Joe Biden officially dropping out of the presidential race, saying that he thinks Donald Trump and Republicans are now “freaking out.”

“I’ve heard from inside the Trump campaign for some time right now that the one thing Donald Trump feared was not having Joe Biden to run against,” Scarborough said. “If you talk about boxing, he was used to going against Biden, right? So, what have they done? They’ve switched it up — it’s going to be a southpaw now.”

Biden announced his decision on Sunday night, writing: “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” He then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Producers, anchors, correspondents and executives had spent days gaming out their plan should President Joe Biden end his 2024 campaign.

“We were planning for the news to leak out, followed by an address to the nation,” one producer says.

Instead, the president caught the media brunching.

“Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC,” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer posted on Instagram at around 9:45 a.m. Pt, holding a cocktail in one hand and a menu in the other.

An hour later, of course, Biden revealed his decision to end his campaign, a leak-free announcement made in the form of a Pdf letter. Blitzer traded in the cocktail for a suit and tie and was on the air at noon Pt. CNN was televising a replay of Fareed Zakaria’s program when the news broke.

A week after the shocking assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life,...

President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw himself from the 2024 presidential race.

Biden’s decision comes 24 days after his concerning showing at the first presidential debate against Republican nominee Donald Trump — and with less than four months to go until Election Day, on Nov. 5.

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Biden announced his decision in a statement posted on X, writing, “It has been the greatest...

President Joe Biden has decided to halt his re-election campaign and no longer seek a second term in office.

Biden announced the news via his official social media on Sunday, and noted he will speak to the nation later this week.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote.

“For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected,” he continued (full statement below). “I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let me express my heartfelt...

Exclusive: Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged among Hollywood donors as the top successor to head the Democratic ticket as calls for Joe Biden to step aside intensify, with a caveat.

“Kamala Harris has put in the work, she’s the obvious choice for sure,” a longtime contributor to the party and various presidential contenders says of the VP.

“Can you imagine a former prosecutor up against a crook like Trump, she’d rip him apart,” another Hollywood supporter said, noting Harris’ past stints as San Francisco D.A. and California’s Attorney General.

“She had a rocky first couple of years, but Harris is a real team player and out there getting a great reaction on reproductive rights,” says a producer who was a big donor to Harris’ short-lived 2020 White House bid and both the 2020 and 2024 Democratic tickets.

As a part of that team-player reality and having a shared campaign committee with Potus,...

Update: Joe Biden’s Covid symptoms “have improved meaningfully,” according to his doctor, while his reelection campaign said that he will return to the campaign trail next week.

The president took his fourth dose of Paxlovid this morning, and “his loose, non-productive cough and hoarseness continue to be his primary symptoms, but they have improved meaningfully from yesterday,” said the president’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, in a statement. “His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature remain absolutely normal. His oxygen saturation continue to be excellent on room air. His lungs remain clear.”

Meanwhile, in a statement released by the campaign, Biden said, “I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms,...

MSNBC’s flagship morning show, Morning Joe, hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, was unexpectedly pulled from the air on Monday in favor of news coverage of the alleged assassination attempt on the former president.

Scarborough, visibly frustrated, expressed his displeasure with the network’s decision by stating on-air that he and his co-host were “surprised” and “disappointed” by the move and threatened to leave the program if it were to happen again.

He said live on air Tuesday morning, “Next time we are told there will be a news feed replacing us, we will be in our chairs… And the news feed will be us, or they can get somebody else to host the show.”

NBC network executives decided to replace Morning Joe with continuous news coverage. They reportedly thought that left-leaning guests might make inappropriate comments in discussions related to the Trump incident.

However, Scarborough noted that...

Skip Bayless is parting ways with Fox Sports: The veteran sports commentator will exit Undisputed at the end of the summer, The New York Post reports.

Bayless previously hosted ESPN’s First Take, opposite fellow bloviator Stephen A. Smith. After 12 years at the network, he left for a deal with Fox Sports, where he launched Undisputed with Shannon Sharpe in 2016.

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Viewers wonder if the cast of Morning Joe was fired after the Monday morning episode was pulled following an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

Morning Joe is a morning news talk show that airs weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Et on MSNBC. 

It features former United States Representative Joe Scarborough, co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, and a rotating panel of recurring and special guests discussing the day's news.

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After acknowledging the attempted assassination on former president Donald Trump, Late Night host Seth Meyers condemned members of the GOP Monday — including Trump’s running mate, Ohio senator J.D. Vance — for how they continued to stoke fears in response to an horrific attack on U.S. democracy.

“Often after a tragedy like this, there are calls to forego politics,” Meyers began. “But to me, politics — the nonviolent exchange of ideas, and the peaceful resolution of disputes — feels more important than ever. An inclusive politics of compassion, empathy and community… is what we must recommit to now.” Which is why the...

Joe Scarborough, the namesake host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, addressed the network’s decision to pull Monday’s show from the air and instead run an NBC News/NBC News Now newsfeed that covered the aftermath of the assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump.

“We were told, in no uncertain terms on Sunday evening, that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC channels yesterday,” Scarborough said, adding that it meant that “we were going to stay in breaking news mode throughout all day yesterday. That did not happen. We don’t know why that didn’t happen. Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen.”

MSNBC returned to its regular program lineup by the afternoon, with Nicolle Wallace hosting her show at 4 p.m. Et.

CNN’s Oliver Darcy, citing a person familiar with the matter,...

The hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe were quick to vent their frustrations about Monday morning’s preemption upon their return to air Tuesday.

Following Saturday’s attempted assassination on former president Donald Trump, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal News Group told CNN that, “given the gravity and complexity of this unfolding story, NBC News, NBC News Now and MSNBC have remained in rolling breaking news coverage since Saturday evening,” and thus would preempt Monday’s edition of Morning Joe.

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Joe Scarborough took to his regular A.M. spot on MSNBC Tuesday to rail against something irregular that happened the day before: a decision by network bosses to take his show, “Morning Joe,” off the schedule one day prior in the aftermath of an attack on former President Donald Trump.

“We were told in no uncertain terms on Sunday night that there was going to be one news feed against all channels,” Scarborough said on air Tuesday. “I guess after there was such strong blowback about what happened yesterday morning that they changed their plans.” He added that he and his team “were very surprised, we were very disappointed.”

His co-anchors, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, also weighed in during the program. Geist noted that he had been utilized on Sunday during a special “Today” broadcast with Savannah Guthrie that focused on the aftermath of a Saturday-evening assassination attempt on...

MSNBC pulled Morning Joe from the air on Monday, July 15, following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13, noting that the network would be rolling breaking news coverage all day instead. Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist returned to the network on Tuesday morning (July 16) and aired their grievances with NBC News for pulling their show. They pointed out how the network did not stay in breaking news coverage all day Monday, which left them “very surprised” and “very disappointed.” “We were told in no uncertain terms on Sunday evening, that there was gonna be one news feed across all NBC News channels yesterday… that we were gonna stay, as a network, in breaking news mode,” Scarborough explained on Tuesday’s edition of Morning Joe. “That did not happen. We don’t know why that didn’t happen. Our team was not given...

MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says that he was “surprised” and “disappointed” after NBC leadership pulled his show Monday in favor of rolling breaking news coverage about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

‘We’ve talked about it off the air, we’ll talk about it on the air, because we talk about everything on the air,” he said.

Scarborough, joined by co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, opened the show by expressing some clear frustrations with what happened.

“We were told in no uncertain terms on Sunday evening that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC news channels yesterday… that was going to be one news feed across all NBC news channels, that we were going to stay as a network in breaking news mode throughout all day yesterday, that did not happen,” Scarborough said. “We don’t know why that was that didn’t happen,...

Scott MacFarlane, the CBS News correspondent, wasn’t quite sure what was going on Saturday night. He was covering former President Donald Trump’s rally in western Pennsylvania when he heard noises that reminded him of firecrackers. They were gunshots.

Suddenly, MacFarlane realized he was in potential danger — and a nearby rival was trying to keep him safe.

“Rachel Scott pulled me down,” says MacFarlane, referring to the ABC News veteran. She “grabbed me by the arm, told me to get beneath the bleachers.” On Sunday morning, MacFarlane tells Variety, “I gave her a big hug.”

As TV news outlets try to pivot from one of the rarest of events — an assassination attempt on a former U.S. president — to coverage of the Republican National Convention, such goodwill may be in short supply. MacFarlane, who has remained in Pennsylvania to cover some of the investigation into what has been described...

MSNBC pulled Morning Joe from the air on Monday, July 15 following the shooting at former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on July 13. Viewers of the Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist-hosted news program are angered by the network’s decision, announced prior to Monday morning, the day that the Republican National Convention is set to begin. MSNBC decided not to air the political roundtable program on July 15 in order to continue live coverage of breaking news events following the shooting on Saturday, July 13, according to CNN. Morning Joe will resume its live programming on Tuesday, July 16. A source told CNN that the decision was a preemptive measure just in case one of the many guests who engage in political discussion with the hosts said anything inappropriate regarding the shooting. “Given the gravity and complexity of this unfolding story, NBC News, NBC News Now and MSNBC have remained...

Former President Donald Trump is covered by members of U.S. Secret Service after a shooting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Trump Campaign Office/Handout)

Two television networks have amended their coverage plans for the Republican National Convention following Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

On Monday, CNN reported rival cable network MSNBC decided to substitute its daily political affairs program “Morning Joe” with continuing coverage of the assassination attempt from NBC News. The network cited a “person familiar with the matter” who apparently said the decision to pull Morning Joe on Monday was meant to prevent an “inappropriate comment” from being aired on the show in the immediate aftermath of the situation. The program’s hosts and guests are often critical of Trump, and the show’s daily segments often focus on the former president.

On Saturday, MSNBC offered rolling news coverage of the assassination attempt,...

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MSNBC recognized the start of the Republican National Convention by giving its flagship morning program the day off.

“Morning Joe” and its early-a.M. companion program, “Way Too Early,” were scrapped on Monday as the NBCUniversal-backed cable-news outlet focused instead on breaking-news coverage tied to this weekend’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Most of NBCUniversal’s news outlets — NBC News, MSNBC and the live-streaming service NBC News Now — have offered a single “special report” feed, all of it showing the same coverage of the violent event and its aftermath.

CNN previously reported that executives at NBCU News Group, led by chairman Cesar Conde, were sensitive to the potential effects of a guest on “Morning Joe” saying something that could offend general sensibilities. But MSNBC has been in what producers call “rolling” coverage of the Trump shooting and the investigation into it. On Monday morning, the cable...

Conspicuously absent from the cable news lineup Monday morning was Morning Joe, with MSNBC pre-empting the show in favor of NBC News and NBC News Now special reports in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

The show, hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, is scheduled to return on Tuesday.

CNN’s Oliver Darcy, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that the MSNBC decision was made out of concern a guest “might make an inappropriate comment” that would create a larger backlash against the show and network. But an MSNBC spokesperson denied that characterization, noting that the network has been in breaking news coverage ever since the Trump rally shooting.

Before the shooting at a rally on Saturday, Scarborough and Brzezinski have been highly critical of the former president.

Scarborough posted on X/Twitter on Sunday, “Our family is praying this morning for President Trump,...

Joe Biden’s interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt is still on, but will now be taking place at the White House on Monday, according to a network source.

The interview was to take place in Texas, but Biden’s trip there was canceled in wake of an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the president’s rival in the 2024 presidential race.

NBC News announced the interview last week, with plans to air it in primetime on Monday night, which is also the first day of the Republican National Convention. The network still plans that schedule, with excerpts on NBC Nightly News earlier in the evening.

The interview was to be the latest one-on-one for Biden amid calls for him to drop out of the presidential race. He has done recent sit-downs with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and a call in to Morning Joe. Biden is delivering additional remarks...

As President Biden seeks to reaffirm his place atop the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, he is expanding his media blitz, setting a primetime interview with NBC’s Lester Holt in Texas on Monday.

NBC says that it will run the interview “in its entirety” as a primetime special Monday night at 9 p.m. It will also stream on the NBC News Now streaming service at that time, with some clips premiering on Monday’s NBC Nightly News, which Holt anchors.

NBC will also release an unedited transcript after the interview.

The NBC interview comes after Biden spoke to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos last week in another primetime interview, and just a couple of days after he called in to MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He is also set to participate in a press conference Thursday.

Biden’s media push comes as a number of major political figures and Democratic party supporters are...

Joe Biden will sit down with NBC News’ Lester Holt for an interview on Monday, the president’s latest one-on-one with a network anchor amid calls for him to drop out of the race.

NBC News has planned for a primetime special, to air at 9 p.m. Et, just as ABC News did last week when the president was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. Highlights will air the same day on NBC Nightly News and NBCNews.com. The interview also will stream on NBC News Now.

Biden’s interview will come on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Holt will interview the president in Austin, TX.

The calls for Biden to step aside continued today, as megadonor George Clooney published an op-ed in the New York Times calling for him to exit the race. Clooney co-hosted a fundraiser for Biden in Los Angeles last month, and wrote that...

Updated, with additional details and react from other co-host: George Clooney, fresh off co-hosting a star-filled fundraiser for Joe Biden last month, is calling on Democrats to pick a new nominee and for the president to be a “hero” in stepping aside.

Clooney cited concerns over Biden’s age, and said that the president’s appearance at the fundraiser, in which he did a sit down with Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel, was similar to how he was at the debate with Donald Trump.

Clooney wrote in The New York Times, “I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced.

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi danced around questions of whether she continues to support President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee during a Wednesday interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Pelosi was asked if Biden continues to have her support as the head of the Democratic ticket, but she didn’t really say.

“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” the former House Speaker responded. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision. Because time is running short.”

“He’s beloved. He is respected,...

CNN is finally gearing up to compete more aggressively in the digital future, where rivals have already staked out ground.

The Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet will launch a new subscription product on CNN.com before the end of the year, according to a new memo from CNN Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson, and debut two new free ad-supported digital offerings, one based on CNN’s original series and productions, and another based on its Spanish-language service. The moves come amid an overhaul of CNN’s newsroom that will result in the elimination of 100 positions.

“We plan to take the journalistic firepower, user-experience and commercial potential of CNN Digital to the next level with strategic commitment, significant fresh investment, an injection of specialist expertise and plenty of creativity and experimentation,’” said Thompson, who didn’t offer granular details about the new subscription concept. “We will develop new digital products with...

Democrats weren’t able to cohere around plan regarding the future of President Joe Biden’s campaign after a closed-door meeting of their House caucus on Tuesday, the first such gathering since the president’s disastrous performance on the debate stage against former President Donald Trump.

Representatives leaving the meeting were hesitant to give details about what was said in the no-cell phones, members-only discussion, but the message was still clear: Dems are divided, and there’s no consensus on the path forward.

Democrats are not on the same page,...

Whoever is living in the White House after January 20, 2025 will likely be calling up their favorite ideologically-allied cable-news hosts on the Oval Office landline. Monday’s cable news lineup made clear that both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, both off their prime as campaigners, are eager to use the Phone-a-Friend advantage.

Monday’s cable news agenda began with Biden dialing up MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and ended with Trump ringing Fox News’ Sean Hannity. Neither candidate appeared, while speaking to their respective home-turf cable networks, on camera; both were fed softballs. Back when Nixon debated Kennedy and was found unphotogenic by comparison, Kennedy exploited the difference and emphasized his relative youth; in the wake of the June 27 CNN debate that established Trump as a solid frontrunner, both candidates seem to be trying to escape the camera.

On Fox, Trump struggled to come up with anything in particular to say about Biden’s debate performance.

Add one of America’s most political filmmakers to the list of those calling for Joe Biden to step aside as the Democratic candidate for president.

Oscar-winner Michael Moore published a piece on his website asking the president not to “let your enablers hound you into doing what your body is begging you not to do.”

Then on his podcast, Moore called letting Biden go out on the debate stage last week “the cruelest form of elder abuse I’ve ever been forced to watch…Who would send an 81-year-old out onto any stage to debate a living monster at nine o’clock at night for a brawl that would not end until 10:42 p.m.?”

He then begged the president, “Let the doctors examine you. Then do the right thing.”

Moore’s suggestion for a replacement? Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Be the one who not only stopped Trump, but...

Pointing to large crowds at weekend rallies in battleground states across the U.S., President Joe Biden laughed off the notion that he is seriously ill and pushed back against naysayers across the political and entertainment industries calling for him to step down from the Democratic presidential ticket, assuring all that he’s “not going anywhere” on a defiant phone call to MSNBC on Monday.

The offensive from the Biden campaign comes after his disastrous performance at the first presidential debate on June 27 and uninterrupted and unedited interview on Friday with ABC News, which did little to assuage fears of not only the incumbent losing the presidency to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump but also that a red wave would hand Republicans the Senate and House.

“The bottom line here is that we’re not going anywhere,” an energized Biden said on the phone call into Morning Joe, where he...