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Joy Reid is in talks to fill the 7 PM ET slot once held by Chris Matthews and his longtime MSNBC show Hardball, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Reid currently hosts AM Joy, a weekend program on the network, and has been a substitute host for other nighttime hosts including Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes. She…

Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski weighed in today on their no-longer-MSNBC-colleague Chris Matthew’s abrupt resignation last night, with Brzezinski expressing her thoughts on shifts in cultural attitudes and wondering if “there might be a better way.” In a stunning on-air moment last night, Matthews…

Chris Matthews announced that he is retiring effective immediately, and that Monday’s Hardball would be the last on MSNBC. “This isn’t for a lack of interest in politics,” he said on the air tonight. “As you can tell I have loved every minute of my 20 years as host of Hardball.” Matthews did not appear on MSNBC’s…

Bill Maher, whose HBO late-night show Real Time with Bill Maher returns to air Friday, was Chris Matthews’ guest on MSNBC’s Hardball tonight. “In the time you've been away and watching this massacre of democracy, this president has been asked whether he's a Russian agent,” Matthews said, bringing him up to date. “It's…

Rob Reiner damned President Donald Trump with faint praise on Chris Matthews’ late-night edition of Hardball, crediting POTUS for reading his speech to the joint session of Congress. “The problem he has, as far as I can see, is that he's a pathological liar,” Reiner pivoted. “There’s nothing he says that you can…

“It’s Teleprompter Trump,” Bill Maher said of President Trump’s speech to the joint session of Congress, on a special late-night edition of Hardball. “There's two Trumps. Every president, to a degree, talks out of two sides of their mouth. But this guy is on a level beyond what anybody's seen,” Maher told host Chris Ma…

Stephen Colbert will have some late-night competition tonight after Donald Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress. Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, Michael Moore and Rob Reiner are joining Chris Matthews as he jumps into late-night fray with a special edition of MSNBC’s Hardball to air at midnight ET. Matthews…

Barbra Streisand put dental hygiene on hold to praise Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech blasting President-elect Donald Trump, telling MSNBC’s Chris Matthews from her dentist’s chair, “I don’t know how we’re going to take four years of this.” Streisand’s surprise Hardball telephone chat turned even more surprising…