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UPDATE, with Cuomo response New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that he expects the city to be back “full strength” from the yearlong Covid shutdown in July – not including Broadway. “Broadway takes time because they have to mount full productions,” de Blasio said today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I'd say you…

Morning Joe exec producer Daniel Norwick this morning posted the powerful opening to the MSNBC show, featuring startling images of Wednesday’s riot set against the Johnny Cash song “Hurt.” During this morning’s show, host Joe Scarborough made an impassioned speech about the level of policing during the riot.  “If…

President Donald Trump loves to watch the ratings. This morning, he tweaked the lion’s tail against MSNBC’s low-rated Morning Joe, targeting the show’s ratings and in particular cohost Mika Brzezinski, calling her a “ditzy airhead.” “Very poor morning TV ratings for MSDNC's Morning Joe, headed by a complete Psycho…

Donald Trump again tweeted a baseless conspiracy theory about Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough, again suggesting that he was involved in a murder. But what’s revealing is the ho-hum reaction to the President’s wild claims. Instead of trending, the tweet, like dozens of others the past few days, barely even…

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden denied Tara Reade’s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a Senate office building in 1993. In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe anchor Mika Brzezinski, Biden said of the allegations, “It never, never happened.” Reade claims that Biden pinned her up against a wall and…

Former Vice President Joe Biden will appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday to address Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation. The network made the announcement on Thursday of the exclusive interview. He will be speaking to co-hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist. The Biden campaign has denied…

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…

The death of Rep. Elijiah Cummings (D-Md.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, led coverage on the morning shows today, including a personal reflection by Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski: Cummings was the celebrant at Scarborough and Brzezinski’s wedding last year. Cummings, 68, died…

Greta Van Susteren and Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski engaged in an unusual public argument on Tuesday over when it’s appropriate for a cable news personality to call out a competitor. Their Twitter debate was triggered by comments about Fox News made by Brzezinski’s Morning Joe co-host and husband Joe…

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio chose MSNBC’s Morning Joe to announce that he was dropping out of the 2020 presidential race – and very quickly was mocked by President Donald Trump for his ill-fated White House bid. “Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, @…

Mika Brzezinski opened a segment of her MSNBC program today by calling out its hatewatcher-in-chief, then speaking directly to him. “President Trump apparently is watching Morning Joe again,” she said. “And Donald, you really oughta find something else to do in the morning. It’s just not healthy.” Hosting the show…

MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says he broke “every rule” he made for himself on Twitter today by posting a six-tweet “venting” in which he beseeched “woke Democrats” to “refrain from blowing themselves up politically and re-electing Trump.” What set him off? Betsy Ross and Nike, apparently. His first post…