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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…

President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning tossing more anti-CNN, MSNBC, and New York Times treats to his base, as his approval rating sank 5 points to tie his all-time low in wake of redacted Mueller report release. Trump kicked things off trashing “Fake New York TImes” economic columnist Paul Krugman who, POTUS…

Morning shows took over for late-night programs Wednesday morning, defending Devin Nunes’ Cow. California’s Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intel Committee, is suing Twitter because a fake cow was mean to him on the internet. On Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show Tuesday night Nunes wondered how he…

Former Ohio Governor John Kasich will make his debut as CNN’s newest political commentator, Tuesday night on Cuomo Prime Time. CNN has been on a former-lawmaker spending spree, having previous week signed former Republican Rep. Mia Love and Dem Rep. Luis Gutierrez, as commentators. Kasich is one of President Donald…

Mika Brzezinski apologized on-air two days after using a homophobic slur while talking about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “There’s a lot going on, but  I want to get to something first,” she segued clunkily after a recap of the morning headlines. “I was off yesterday for a family matter…but I…

Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski envision possibly four more years of Trump in 2020 — just not Donald Trump. “Ivanka Trump Is going to run for president,” Brzezinski declared during an on-stage conversation with editor David Remnick on opening night of the New Yorker Festival. Remnick did a…

UPDATED with additional Davis TV news appearances: Lanny Davis, lawyer representing Donald Trump’s former longtime fixer/personal attorney/bullet-taker, spent this morning traversing the TV news landscape teasing that his client has information that would be "of interest" to special counsel Robert Mueller. Davis also…

President Donald Trump had a tough TV morning. Assuming he was getting his daily morning small-screen briefing, he may have seen the gang at Fox & Friends scolding him Wednesday for getting outplayed by Omarosa Manigault Newman after "taking the bait." Brian Kilmeade likened it to when Trump last fell for that…

President Donald Trump continued his game of morning show favorites today, buckling down against CNN two days after his supporters at a rally attempted to shout down the network’s Jim Acosta. “Wow, @foxandfriends is blowing away the competition in the morning ratings,” Trump tweeted. “Morning Joe is a dead show with…

Morning TV news outlets were not kind to President Donald Trump’s lapdog-ish performance at previous day’s Helsinki press conference with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin. AP’s Jonathan Lemire and Reuters’ Jeff Mason, the reporters who had asked Trump if he believed his own intel officers or Putin about Russian election…

Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was total victory for President Donald Trump, MSNBC’s Morning Joe declared. 'This was a win for Trump,” Mika Brzezinski insisted today on the MSNBC morning show. “If you didn't want this to be a win for Trump, you gave him one in a big way,"…