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When White House aides appear on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," they're often booked between 7 and 7:40 a.m. ET. That's so they'll reach one crucial and loyal viewer: President Biden. Why it matters: Biden's years-long love of MSNBC's staple morning show affects how the White House runs — and who Biden listens to. ,p> Zoom in: The president often calls co-host Joe Scarborough — a former Republican congressman who's now a harsh critic of Donald Trump — to get Scarborough's take on issues and sometimes vent about media coverage, according to people familiar with the relationship. ,p> During the day,...

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross lost her network gig in 2022 — but during a recent podcast, she claimed that “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough played a role in her abrupt exit. During an episode of her newly-launched podcast — “Native Land Pod”, co-hosted by Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum — Cross referred to Scarborough as MSNBC’s “favorite white boy” and claimed that she was pushed out for not wanting to spend all her time covering former President Donald Trump. […] Cross went on to say that although she believed Scarborough had worked behind her back to submarine her at...

What's up with these Morning Joe regulars who had cultivated something of a benign image suddenly turning nasty? Yesterday, we noted BBCer Katty Kay with a mocking laugh as she suggested to Charlie Sykes that they do a DeSantis post-mortem, "before we consign him to oblivion and forget his name." Today, it was Eugene Robinson's turn to turn mean. Though Robinson is an ardent liberal, he has something of an avuncular air about him. But both in his current Washington Post column, snidely entitled "The Nation's Gain is Florida's Loss," and on today's Morning Joe, Robinson took nasty swipes at...

Former President Trump continues to confuse former President Obama with President Biden while on the campaign trail and in interviews.

If there was one thing that transformed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from mere critics of Donald Trump into savage antagonists, it was Trump's tweet back in 2017 saying that Mika and Joe had begged to be invited to his New Year's Eve party, but he said no, claiming that "Mika was bleeding badly from a facelift." The pair's vendetta against Trump has raged on ever since. Joe and Mika got a measure of bloody revenge today, speculating about Trump apparently bleeding on his right hand [see screencap] after he emerged from a court session in the E. Jean Carroll...

Move over, Algore. There's a new King of Sighs in town, and his name is David Ignatius, columnist of The Washington Post. Gore famously put a dent in his presidential ambitions when he sighed his way through his first debate with George W. Bush in 2000. Those were sighs of disgust, as compared to the sighs of despair Ignatius unleashed on today's Morning Joe. For days, the show had blacked out the scandal surrounding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's lengthy failure to inform the White House of his hospitalization and his cancer diagnosis. But Morning Joe could no longer avoid the...

Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews said Wednesday on “Morning Joe” that people have to get out and vote to beat “rural people out there voting their craziness about the cult.” Anchor Mika Brzezinski said, “Iowa is days away, New Hampshire is coming up, and Donald Trump, given this conversation, even, is the clear front-runner. ” Matthews said, “You know, I think President Biden gave a good speech on Friday. I think he began the conversation about the Constitution and democracy. but i think he has to turn the corner and go to the next step. the reason we love our...

New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay was furious on today's Morning Joe over Harvard's president Claudine Gay (no relation) being forced to resign. Mara Gay proclaimed "This is an attack on diversity. This is an attack on multiculturalism. I don’t have to say that they’re racist, because you can hear and see the racism in the attacks."In fact, it is the Claudine Gays of the academic world who are the biggest enemies of true diversity -- diversity of ideas. CG's the one, for example, who hounded two Harvard faculty members for failing to toe the DEI line. The...

VIDEOIt is impossible to watch this first Morning Joe Show of the 2024 New Year and not conclude that they suffer extreme TDS. They just can't stop obsessing about TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! It is soooo bad that they seem to have forgotten about the New Year earthquake in Japan. But, in their minds, no news counts unless it is TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! Oh, and when Joe and Mika are in bed together at night you can bet that both of them are thinking only of TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

Governor Ron DeSantis, who continues to slide in the national polls, took a swipe at Trump and MAGA movement during his interview on MSNBC. DeSantis insisted Trump could have pardoned all of the J6ers before he left office. How was President Trump supposed to know that the DOJ and FBI was going to arrest over 1,200 Trump supporters including hundreds who walked inside the open doors on the US Capitol on January 6. Ron DeSantis: It’s interesting on the, on the January 6 protest. I mean, he, he called that rally knowing that that was going to be in DC...

Director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, John Della Volpe, joins Morning Joe to discuss new polling that shows fewer younger Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 plan to vote in the 2024 election...

As our Tim Graham noted, on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, far-left Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) dodged and weaved and refused to unequivocally condemn Hamas' use of rape of Israeli women as a tool of war. The height of Jayapal's despicable evasion came when she said: "I think that it happens in war situations. Terrorist organizations like Hamas obviously are using these as tools. However, I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians."Yeah, "it happens." So much for feminist solidarity from this supposed feminist. So much for even basic human decency. Today's...

VIDEOImagine this. The purveyor of what many consider the first major well known Hate Crime HOAX, Al Sharpton, has the gall to call Robert F. Kennedy, Jr a conspiracy theorist. Al's conspiracy theory about Tawana Brawley supposedly involving the Mafia, the KKK, the Irish Republican Army, and the top officials of New York was much WILDER than anything that RFK, Jr. could dream up. The fact that NOBODY on Morning Joe pointed this out says something about how low MSNBC has become since they continue to pay the salary of a known conspiracy HOAXSTER and monumental GRIFTER.

It was just a brief statement, but said so much about Joe Scarborough's separation from reality. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough said: "Unfortunately on college campuses, some of the twisted views about Hamas--that ain't coming from law professors or history professors."What? Twisted pro-Hamas views are not coming from professors? Let's start with my alma mater of Cornell, where Russell Rickford, a history professor, said at a Pro-Palestinian rally that he found the Hamas attack "exhilarating" and "energizing."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

There was much gnashing of teeth on today's Morning Joe over the New York Times poll showing Biden losing to Trump in five out of six battleground states. But of all the blather and whistling past the graveyard on display, the most bizarre and laughable comment came from Morning Joe regular Jon Meacham. Meacham describes the tough tasks that poor Biden is dealing with: "Remember, President Biden woke up this morning worried about a wider war in the Middle East, in a, you know, in the most unstable region in the world, involving the global economy, possible nuclear war, the...

In an appearance Tuesday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said the news that Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, had been granted immunity for grand jury testimony is a “deadly” development for Trump. “You don’t give Mark Meadows immunity unless the evidence he has is unimpeachable,” Christie said. “I want all Republican voters to understand this. What’s going to be happening in March? He’s going to be sitting in a courtroom in Washington, D.C., with Mark Meadows 20 feet away from him saying he committed crimes in front of me on...

“Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that. "People think it’s okay to bomb a hospital where children, you know, what’s so hard sometimes is watching those videos and and the people telling the kids, ‘Don’t cry.’ And like, let them cry!” -- Statements by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) Imagine if some fringe Republican official had said that, with the second line coming yesterday, even after Hamas's claim of Israeli responsibility for the explosion had been comprehensively debunked. Think Morning Joe would have highlighted those remarks, and ripped the Republican who made them?...

On Tuesday, the Republican presidential hopeful is set to appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe — a show that has placed a highly critical eye on his candidacy along with much of the GOP field. According to an adviser, the Florida governor is expected to follow that up in the coming weeks with an appearance on CNN, another platform that has drawn the ire of conservatives.. All told, the slate of interviews suggest a new phase of the campaign for DeSantis, one in which he will venture more outside his ideological safe zone. The adviser said the governor is likely to...

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On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that in order to convince people to support Ukraine funding “Democrats have to come to grips that we have to close that border down.” And urged President Joe Biden to declare a national emergency the way former President Trump did “and shut it down tight.” Manchin also stated that “asylum basically should be put on hiatus for six months or so until we can get an immigration policy that works for our country and also gives people the chance to come here the right way to take care...