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Kevin McCarthy’s removal from his role as Speaker of the House Tuesday led to a bump in cable news viewership, with Fox News winning primetime with 2.68 million viewers.

McCarthy was ousted from his post with a vote of 216-210 in the chamber, a rebellion led by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz. McCarthy is the first person in U.S. history to be removed from the House speakership.

Although the news broke of McCarthy’s removal during the 4 p.m. hour, viewership on cable news saw higher numbers for primetime. McCarthy additionally held a long press conference during the 8 p.m. hour on Tuesday, excerpts of which aired on all three cable news channels.

Fox News was the No. 1 most-watched cable news channel in primetime Tuesday. MSNBC came in second place with 2.14 million viewers,...

MSNBC is expanding Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s role with the network, giving “Inside With Jen Psaki” a Monday primetime slot.

Starting on Sept. 25, Psaki will be anchoring her show on Mondays at 8 p.m. Et, while Chris Hayes will continue to anchor “All In With Chris Hayes” Tuesday through Friday in the same timeslot.

While Hayes is officially losing a day of his show, the Monday edition of “All In With Chris Hayes” has been hosted by a rotating group of MSNBC anchors for the last year.

In October 2022, Psaki officially joined MSNBC after an extensive career in Democratic politics, where she served as the White House Press Secretary under President Joe Biden.

Psaki’s flagship MSNBC program, “Inside With Jen Psaki”, debuted in March. The show features one-on-one interviews with relevant political figures and analysts, while Psaki breaks down complex public policy discussions.

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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. hour on Mondays, a slot that the regular host of that hour, Chris Hayes, typically has off. While Psaki’s “Inside with Jen Psaki will air on Mondays at 8 p.m., Hayes’ “All In With Chris Hayes” will continue to appear Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.

The new Psaki schedule starts Monday, September 25.

The maneuver will create a singular Monday block at MSNBC in which Psaki will lead into Rachel Maddow’s weekly program Mondays at 9 p.m. The move is also likely inject Psaki into primetime proceedings at moments of national import, when MSNBC President Rashida Jones often convenes a panel of popular commentators, including Maddow, Alex Wagner, Lawrence O’Donnell,...

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MSNBC outpaced Fox News in primetime demo ratings for the second week in a row.

From Monday, June 12 through Friday, June 16, MSNBC averaged 202,400 viewers in the key cable demographic adults ages 25-54 during primetime, beating Fox News’ primetime demo viewership of 193,000 by 4.75%, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day figures.

As the networks ramped up their coverage of former President Donald Trump’s indictment and arraignment, Fox News scored the highest demo viewership among cable news networks during primetime on Monday and Tuesday, while MSNBC saw primetime demo wins during the latter half of the week, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

While MSNBC’s victory in the primetime demo certainly marks a shakeup in ratings from years prior, Fox News maintained its lead in all other categories across primetime and total day viewership.

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On Friday’s episode of “All In With Chris Hayes,” the MSNBC host took aim at the ongoing debt ceiling fight, and in particular how Republicans are attempting to use their threat to drive the United States into default to federal gut efforts to deal with climate change.

But while Hayes did have harsh words for the GOP, he also called attention to the way the media is covering the debt ceiling crisis, urging journalists “not to collude” with Republicans in climate change denialism.

Hayes began the segment talking about the latest horrifying example of how climate change is making the world more dangerous: The unseasonal and unusually extreme wildfires in the Canadian wilderness currently sending massive amounts of smoke into the United States. He also touched on some recent bad news — that scientists project we’ll have raised global temperatures to a potential climate change tipping point by 2027.

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During Tuesday’s episode of MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes,” the host spent some time discussing the civil trial verdict against Donald Trump earlier in the day. And as he kicked that off, Hayes paid tribute to what he said was the “incredible act of real persistence of E. Jean Carroll.”

Carroll sued the disgraced, twice-impeached former president for sexual battery and defamation. On Tuesday afternoon, after only 3 hours of deliberation, the jury turned in a unanimous verdict. While they didn’t find Trump guilty of rape, the jury did find him guilty of sexually assaulting Carroll, and of defaming her after she came forward to report the assault.

Trump has been ordered to pay Carroll $5 million.

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“I think it’s worth taking a step back to acknowledge this incredible act of real persistence of E.

As Black History Month comes to a close, MSNBC has continued its streak as the No. 1 most-watched cable network among Black Americans in February, a title the network has maintained for 25 consecutive months and that “The Saturday Show” and “The Sunday Show” host Jonathan Capehart attributed to the network’s diverse on-air voices and inclusive reporting.

“Black viewers can see themselves reflected back at them not just in the anchor chair when it comes to, me, Joy Reid, Reverend Al [Sharpton], Symone [Sanders-Townsend] or any of the other African American anchors, but also other anchors of color at the network,” Capehart told TheWrap. “The network covers the stories that are important to the American people at large, but stories that are of particular interest to the African American community.”

While Capehart asserted “there’s no issue that’s in the news, or that is an import to the American people that doesn...

Late Night With Seth Meyers is following in The Daily Show and The Late Show‘s footsteps: The program will broadcast live the night of the midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 6, NBC announced on Wednesday.

The special telecast, airing at 12:35 am Et/Pt, will feature guest Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes. Late Night‘s Amber Ruffin will also present a live version of the segment “Amber Says What.”

Meanwhile, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will be pre-empted in the Eastern and Central time zones for news coverage.

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No Rachel Maddow, no problem for MSNBC. The Rachel Maddow Show extended its winning streak over all of cable to four nights on Friday, despite Ali Velshi filling in as its host.

Buoyed by last week’s tsunami of news related to President Donald Trump and the Russia investigation, Trms was the most-watched program on cable again as the work week ended. Airing at the 9 Pm Et/6 Pm Pt. it drew 2.62 million viewers, beating out Fox News’ Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight. That was down from near-record number of 3.89 million on Tuesday — when the Paul Manafort verdict came in and Michael Cohen surrendered to the FBI before implicating Trump in a federal crime — and also a dip from the Maddow-hosted Wednesday and Thursday airings.

The Bob Mueller-fueled rising tide lifted all of MSNBC’s boats last week, making it the No. 1 cable news channel in all dayparts Friday. It...

MSNBC announced it will sever ties with contributor Sam Seder, citing a resurfaced tweet making light of Roman Polanski’s rape conviction. Seder’s contract was due to expire in February, and the network has no appearances scheduled between now and then, according to initial reports by The Wrap. In a since-deleted tweet from 2009, Seder wrote: “Don’t care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/a great sense of mise en scene.”

“Internally there was disgust over the tweet,” a source at MSNBC told The Wrap.

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The tweet was originally brought to the network’s attention by alt-right media personality Mike Cernovich. Seder addressed the controversy on a recent episode of his podcast, “The Majority Report,” titled “I’m Under Attack By the Nazi Alt-Right,...

Janet Mock has no qualms about calling out double standards.

As men and women in Hollywood continue to go public with experiences of sexual harassment and abuse, the Lgbtq activist and author shared her perspective on the role that race plays in how said stories are reported, and praised Jane Fonda for speaking to the hypocrisy.

“I think about the discrepancies between the amount of attention that the [Harvey] Weinstein story got vs. say, the R. Kelly story,” Mock told Et during the Pen Center USA 27th Annual Literature Awards Festival in Beverly Hills, California, on Friday, where she received the Freedom to Write Award. “I think, even within our media, we tend to only report on the ‘perfect’ kind of victim.”

In Kelly's case, multiple women have come forward (before and after allegations against Weinstein began to dominate the news cycle) to accuse the R&B singer of sexual and physical abuse. While Weinstein seemingly...

During an appearance on MSNBC, Jane Fonda said it’s “too bad” that it took the “famous and white” Harvey Weinstein accusers to finally call attention to sexual harassment in the workplace. “It feels like something has shifted,” the actress said on “All In With Chris Hayes” on Wednesday. “It’s too bad that it’s probably because so many of the women that were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein are famous and white and everybody knows them.” “This has been going on a long time to black women and other women of color and it doesn’t get out quite the same,...

Jane Fonda came out guns blazing on “All In With Chris Hayes,” opening with a powerful statement about the racial optics of the unfolding scandal. “It’s too bad that it’s probably because so many of the women that were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein are famous and white and everybody knows them. This has been going on a long time to black women and other women of color and doesn’t get out quite the same.” Fonda was optimistic about the watershed moment as a harbinger for change, adding “It feels different. It feels like something has shifted.”

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Fonda appeared on Hayes’ show alongside Gloria Steinem; the two feminist icons were representing the Women’s Media Center. “We have reached a tipping point,” said Steinem. “The important thing to remember is that it’s about power.

Jane Fonda got right to the point during a conversation about Harvey Weinstein's recently exposed predatory behavior on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes Wednesday.

"It feels like something has shifted," she told the talk show host. "It's too bad that it's probably because so many of the women that were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein are famous and white and everybody knows them. This has been going on a long time to black women and other women of color and it doesn't get out quite the same."

Weinstein's long...

Jane Fonda and activist Gloria Steinem appeared on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” Wednesday night to talk about the sexual harassment and assault accusations against producer Harvey Weinstein. The pair did not hold any punches when it came to discussing the issue, with Fonda claiming that the reason the scandal is getting so much […]...

Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda visited All In With Chris Hayes and opened up about his recent tweets fired at Donald Trump for the presidents deplorable response to the disaster in Puerto Rico.

Bww has learned that Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will visit All In With Chris Hayes. The show airs 8 pmET on MSNBC. Earlier today, Miranda released his new benefit song, 'Almost Like Praying,' featuring an all-star group of Latino artists.

Appearing on All In with Chris Hayes, the former Vice President said that the White House palace intrigue is getting in the way of far more serious issues.

California congresswoman Maxine Waters said Fox New anchor Bill O’Reilly should be arrested over the allegations against him for sexual assault and slammed President Donald Trump for defending the host as “a good person.”

During an interview on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, the Democrat criticized O’Reilly’s network as a “sexual harassment enterprise.”

“Bill O’Reilly needs to go to jail,” she said.

As for Trump, Waters condemned his previous sexist statements.

“It’s coming out of the mouth of someone who has said some terrible things about women,” Waters said. “Don’t forget he...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters said Bill O’Reilly “needs to go to jail” in an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday. Waters, who represents 43rd congressional district, slammed O’Reilly for settling with multiple women who have accused him of sexual harassment. During the appearance on “All In With Chris Hayes,” she also referred to O’Reilly’s employer, Fox News, as a “sexual harassment enterprise” multiple times. “It shouldn’t be in America that you can sexually harass women and then buy your way out of it because you’re rich,” she said. “If they continue to do this in the way that they have done,...

MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” welcomed Susan Sarandon back Wednesday night for the first time since she made headlines for suggesting she might not support Hillary Clinton and the tense conversation resulted in the actress asking, “You consider yourself a journalist, right?” “Yeah, I spend 15 hours a day covering what’s going on,” Hayes responded after Sarandon questioned his news judgement and why he hasn’t spent more time covering the Dakota Access Pipeline. Meanwhile, the MSNBC host wanted to discuss comments Sarandon made prior to Election Day. “People feel Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately,” the outspoken Bernie Sanders supporter said.

Just four days before election votes are tallied, President Barack Obama got candid about what a Donald Trump presidency may mean for the country in a taped interview with Rev. Al Sharpton that aired during Friday's episode of MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes. "A lot of people still can't believe that Donald Trump will be elected president; there may be a complacency setting in," Obama said about eligible voters who have yet to weigh in in this year's election. He then pleaded, "If you supported me in '08, if you supported me in '12, if you think that

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WikiLealks is the gift that keeps on giving to the Gop. Within WikiLeaks’ latest batch of emails it hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is one that hits a potentially racial note. In it, a Clinton staffer shared a tweet posted by host of MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” shortly after the San Bernadino, Calif., mass shooting that killed 14 people and seriously injured 22 others. Also Read: San Bernardino Mass Shooting: 14 Dead, 2 Suspects Killed The tweet read: “NBC News now reporting a Us citizen named Sayeed Farouk believed to be one of the people involved in the shooting.

A leaked email between an editorial producer on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” and a Hillary Clinton campaign spokeswoman shows a representative for the cable news network openly praising the Democratic presidential nominee. According to Daily Caller, which obtained the email, MSNBC producer Sheara Braun reached out to the Clinton campaign’s Adrienne Elrod about booking an appearance with a Clinton aide by referring to the former secretary of state as an “amazing, intelligent” woman. “The point of the segment is basically to inform young people about all of the crap and nonsense that Sec. Clinton and President Clinton (but mostly Sec.

After nearly a month of refusing to actually concede the Democratic presidential nomination to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential runner-up Bernie Sanders has finally eased himself fully into the tub. During an interview with Chris Hayes on Wednesday night's All In with Chris Hayes, Sanders' obstinate streak ended suddenly and without fanfare, as he called Hillary Clinton the "presumptive nominee" for the first time.

Fervent Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon has said she doesn't think she would be able to vote for Hillary Clinton if she ends up winning the race to be Democratic party's presidential candidate. Speaking to host Chris Hayes on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes, Sarandon said Sanders would likely tell his supporters to back Clinton if he were to lose the Dem race "because he doesn't have any ego in this thing," before adding somewhat sharply: "But I think a lot of people are, 'Sorry, I just can't bring myself to [vote for Hillary].' " Hayes pressed

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Quentin Tarantino can't help himself. In early December, after spending the second half of 2015 supplying the thinkpiece industry with one piping-hot take after another, the filmmaker confessed to The Guardian that sitting down for a bunch of long-form interview features may not have been such a great idea. "If I keep giving them fish," he said, "and they're giving me back chum in 450 different outlets, I don't know why I'm doing it." Then less than two weeks later, Tarantino appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where he accused Disney of...

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes host may have gotten a last minute reprieve with this morning’s news his ratings-anemic primetime program, All In With Chris Hayes had received that cable news network’s only nominations for the 36th edition of the News & Docu Emmy Awards. This morning’s noms announcement comes on the eve of what one source has called an all-hands-on-deck town hall meeting with staffers called by new-ish Chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, Andy Lack, at which it has been…...

As MSNBC continues to tinker with its evening lineup, there is good news for Chris Hayes. The host's 5-month-old nightly broadcast, which didn't exactly leap out of the gate, hit ratings highs last week. Nielsen returns have All In With Chris Hayes posting its best averages yet among total viewers and adults 25-54 -- excluding the breaking news boost from the Boston Marathon bombings (April 15). For the week of Aug. 26, and compared to the week prior, Hayes was up 71 percent to 224,000 viewers in the cable news network's targeted demographic and up 47 percent

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From the group that brought you last summer's hit "Hot Cheetos & Takis" comes another song on a subject hip-hop has heretofore seldom considered: school uniform swag.

The song, "Khaki Pants," which dropped earlier this month, is an ode to school uniform bottom wear, and it comes complete with its own accompanying dance.

"Walking through the school in my khaki pants, when they see how I be fresh, they do the khaki dance," raps one member the rap group Y.N. Rich Kids.

"Yeah, we got 'Hot Cheetos & Taki' fans, but after this, you gon' wanna do the khaki dance," raps another member.

The video, which has more than 89,000 views on YouTube as of this writing, already has at least one high-profile fan. Chris Hayes, host of the MSNBC show "All In With Chris Hayes," tweeted a link to the song yesterday:

"Swag ain't what you wear, swag is the mentality.