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Melber noted that Cruz seems more “tethered to reality” than in his public life. The MSNBC also fact checked that these legal proceedings are what is par for the course of a court of law investigating election fraud.“It sounds like in a diplomatic way in that November call, Senator Cruz already knew that there had been no public information suggesting that there were facts to support overturn the election, that he was even skeptical them coming up short in court,” Melber said.

EXCLUSIVE: MSNBC Films has unveiled its spring and summer slate including a Dave Eggers documentary about book-banning.

Lisa Kennedy With its academic interviewees and mini-histories, J.M. Harper’s directorial debut “As We Speak,” about the weaponizing of rap lyrics in the courts, has the trappings of rigor. But not unlike its subject, the documentary’s power, beauty and complexity lie in Harper’s use of rhetoric and lyricism.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Jen Psaki is stretching beyond her weekend shift at MSNBC. The former Biden White House Press Secretary turned Sunday commentator is expanding her purview at the NBCUniversal-backed cable outlet. She will begin anchoring MSNBC’s 8 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor After spending months keeping CNN from expanding into streaming, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery appears to have changed its mind. Warner Bros. Discovery is exploring ways to get more CNN programing on to its Max streaming service, according to a person familiar with the matter, looking at the news outlet’s broader portfolio to see what content might work. Executives will have to navigate agreements with CNN’s traditional distributors that often require cable and satellite companies get first access to CNN’s live broadcasts. Yet CNN’s rivals have grappled with similar obstacles and found ways to repurpose the news and opinion shows they run. The Fox Nation streaming outlet runs Fox News Channel’s opinion programs a day later. Fox News in 2020 unveiled a new international service that puts its programs in countries such as Mexico and Spain. MSBNC in March of last year unveiled a plan to offer episodes of “Morning Joe,” “Deadline: White House,” “The Beat with Ari Melber,” “The ReidOut,” “All In with Chris Hayes” and MSNBC’s opinion programs on the Peacock streaming hub on-demand the day after they air on cable.

arraignment in the classified documents case against him one week ago — MSNBC’s Ari Melber was so enthused by the revelations therein that he began rapping Lauryn Hill’s hip-hop classic “Lost Ones” on Tuesday’s episode of “The Beat.”“Think about what Lauryn Hill once said in her wisdom,” the host said before getting lyrical: “‘Hypocrites always wanna play innocent, always wanna take it to the full-out extent / Never wanna face it when it’s time for punishment / Can’t slick talk on the day of judgement because consequence is no coincidence.’ That’s a deep statement about justice or consequence or accountability or what some people call karma.”The moment came about 10 minutes into Melber’s report on Trump’s Fox News interview with Bret Baier that had the former president saying that he returned “some” of the mishandled classified documents to the Department of Justice upon being subpoenaed (contrary to previous statements saying he returned “all”) and that he didn’t return them in a timely manner because he was “very busy.”Melber took the interview as the latest evidence that special counsel Jack Smith has an altogether “measurably stronger hand than other prosecutors” Trump has faced in the past. “So I’ve shown you some of these breakthrough pieces of information.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The new New York studio that Nexstar Media Group built for Elizabeth Vargas’ nascent NewsNation program is so big, the anchor believes she could do five cartwheels across if called upon to do so. Starting Monday night, the company begins the process of figuring out if such rigorous calisthenics will be necessary. TV-news aficionados likely know Vargas from her 15-year stint as a co-anchor on ABC News’ “20/20,” but on Monday night, she will jump right into the fray in the information wars, with a program at 6 p.m. eastern – a time slot that has become more competitive in recent months. At MSNBC, for example, Ari Melber’s “The Beat” has become one of that network’s most-watched programs. Late-afternoon has become more of a cable-news battlefield as viewers who have learned to work from home after the coronavirus pandemic tune in earlier to get a recap of the day’s events.

A Monday night segment of “The Beat” on MSNBC had host Ari Melber skewering former president Donald Trump, embattled Fox News media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the continued push-and-pull of their political and financial relations. After walking through Murdoch’s ongoing feud with the former president, which is currently seen in Fox News’ “soft ban” of the politician, which has garnered his heated responses on Truth Social decrying the network as “MAGA hating globalist rhinos” and demanding “they get out of the news business,” Melber invited “Talking Points Memo” founder and editor Josh Marshall on air to parse things out further.

Objective journalism was on trial Friday night on Bill Maher’s Real Time, with the New York Times as a focus for the discussion on whether opinion has buried news coverage.

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Lieb, former showrunner of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, is joining Charlamagne Tha God’s late-night series.

Symone hosted by political strategist Symone D. Sanders and The Katie Phang Show hosted by MSNBC and NBC News legal analyst Katie Phang.

Taylor Swift and her fanbase.In a conversation with Ari Melber for MSNBC’s The Beat, Braun discussed acquiring Swift’s masters and how he doesn’t appreciate artists “weaponizing” their fanbase.“The person who owned Taylor’s masters throughout her career was not myself, and when I was buying a record label, I actually said to that group, ‘If at any point she wants to come back and be a part of this conversation, please let me know because I wouldn’t do this deal,’” Braun said in the interview.He continued: “I was shown an email – which has now been made public – where she stated that she wanted to move on that negotiation and wasn’t interested in doing that deal anymore.”Braun later added that he felt “Taylor has every right to re-record”, saying: “She has every right to pursue her masters, and I wish her nothing but well, and I have zero interest in saying anything bad about her.”The music executive, who works with Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, also said that although he’s “never said anything bad about [Swift] in the past, and I won’t start to now” that the only thing he disagrees with is “weaponizing a fanbase.”Watch the interview below.Braun did not specifically say that the pop star had incited her fans to attack him, but said that fans getting riled up can lead to unsafe conditions for families.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMSNBC intends to make some of its best-known opinion programs available to premium tier customers of the NBCU Peacock streaming service, allowing the shows to be seen by consumers who might not subscribe to the cable network.Starting in early spring, an MSNBC “hub” of episodes of “Morning Joe,” “Deadline: White House,” “The Beat with Ari Melber,” “The ReidOut,” “All In with Chris Hayes” and MSNBC’s opinion programs will stream on-demand the day after they air on cable. Specials with top hosts including Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Chris Hayes, Trymaine Lee and others will premiere later this year, streaming exclusively on Peacock.“We are reimagining the MSNBC experience by adding the core of our perspective programming to Peacock and reaching audiences wherever they are and however they choose to consume content,” said Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC, in a prepared statement.

50 Cent brought up his concerns with President Joe Biden's tax plan during an appearance Thursday on "The Beat with Ari Melber." Biden has repeatedly pledged to raise taxes on any American earning more than $400,000 per year.The president said last week that he believes he will be able to get enough Democratic votes to pass his proposal through the Senate. "His tax plan, I didn't realize I would be paying 62% of my income back to the IRS," 50 Cent told Melber.

Leaning into the unfounded voter fraud narrative that Elder and others in the Golden State were declaring long before the polls actually closed, Fox News moved Martha MacCallum out to the West Coast for her daytime show The Story. On MSNBC, The Beat host Ari Melber made an overwrought comparison between the Republican-fueled effort to dethrone Newsom to Chile’s decisive 1988 national plebiscite on keeping General Pinochet in power or not.

MSNBC’s newsroom employees have unionized with the WGA East.

David Byrne has addressed the ongoing calls for a potential Talking Heads reunion.The ‘American Utopia’ musician appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat today (December 8) during which host Ari Melber asked why many fans can’t accept that the iconic band won’t make a comeback.“There’s a period where music really is essential to you kind of defining who you are and what your place is in the world, and you can never let go of that moment,” Byrne replied.

 Eva Longoria  made some comments that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way following the presidential election, but her friend and fellow actress,  Kerry Washington , is here to defend her statement. On Sunday, during an appearance on MSNBC, Ari Melber asked the 45-year-old about the impact that Latina women had on the 2020 presidential election.

Robert De Niro joined MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Monday to share his reaction to Joe Biden’s presidential win and current POTUS Donald Trump refusing to concede due to his vague and evidence-free accusations of voter fraud.

Robert De Niro spoke out about the 2020 presidential election to both praise Joe Biden and lament the droves of people who voted for Donald Trump.  The 77-year-old actor has been a vocal critic of the president ever since he took office.

Filmmaker Judd Apatow gave a recent interview in which he criticized the film industry for essentially censoring content that’s critical of places like China where human rights abuses are happening.

MSNBC’s Ari Melber for a special called “Mavericks with Ari Melber,” the director of “The King of Staten Island” said that films, shows or documentaries get shut down at the pitch phase that are critical of foreign powers and that Hollywood’s major corporate entities often remain silent.“They’re just not going to criticize them, and they’re not going to let their shows criticize them, or they’re not going to air documentaries that go deep into truthful areas because they just make so much

LL Cool J is happy to see people on the street fighting for change.

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As Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) moves forward by blurring the lines between art installation and album with Negus, he recently took the time to look back on his past work. In an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, he discussed a few verses from his debut studio album Black on Both Sides.