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Joe Biden gave a surprise interview to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday, just hours before Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination and likely will try to characterize his Democratic rival as soft on the issue of law and order. In the interview, Biden attacked Trump for viewing the violence in…

Joe Biden is expected to announce his choice of running mate any day now, which means that political journalists are scrambling to find any piece of insider information or, better yet, the scoop on his choice. But amid the frenzy of speculation as to who he will pick, and a dose of politicking among donors and…

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost calls the week in 2015 when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump hosted the show “surreal,” and in retrospect not such a great idea. Interviewed by Andrea Mitchell on her MSNBC show today, Jost said he wrote about the episode in his new memoir A Very Punchable…

As usual, PBS tops the nominations for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards by a mile, with an ever wider margin over the field than last year. But the big news is how close HBO came to overtaking perennial No. 2 noms-hoarder CBS. Read the full list of nominees in 49 categories here. The premium cabler racked up 32 noms…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Monday that NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell will receive the lifetime achievement award at the 40th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in September. Mitchell is currently NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports…

NBC News has taken the early lead in Best Line Of Midterm Elections Night Coverage. During NBC News' super-souped-up coverage, New York Times political pundit Jeremy Peters told news veteran Andrea Mitchell that Republicans went into the day worried about the enthusiasm of Democratic voters evidenced by the…

UPDATED: MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski’s has added her name to the more than 60 women who signed a letter supporting NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw after sexual harassment allegations against him were published by Washington Post and Variety: Add me to the list. https://t.co/KpoPznW67m — Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April…

CNN chief Jeff Zucker didn’t mention Donald Trump’s name or utter the phrase “fake news,” but he devoted a sizable part of his Giants of Broadcasting acceptance speech today emphasizing the cable news network’s plan to hold firm amid a constant barrage from the White House. “People from the Administration have…

A day after Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly called NBC’s Andrea Mitchell “unruly” for loudly questioning Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, MSNBC is using the Mitchell footage as one of its “This Is Who We Are” on-air promos. On Tuesday, Mitchell was ushered out of a Tillerson photo op with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo…

In his first town hall meeting since becoming Chairman of NBC News Group, Andy Lack laid out plans to greatly increase collaboration between the ratings-starved cable news network and NBC News as part of a strategy to focus on breaking news on the cable network and de-emphasize left-leaning opinion…

David Gregory didn’t get to say, “So long,” to Meet the Press viewers today — his bosses at NBC News gave him the heave-ho Thursday, effective immediately, after two decades at the division, because his Sunday Beltway show was not doing as well in the ratings as competitors at ABC and CBS. Minutes after Gregory…