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Eugene Daniels, White House correspondent for Politico and Playbook co-author, has been promoted to senior contributor to Morning Joe. Daniels joined MSNBC as a contributor last year. He appeared on Morning Joe on Monday during its inaugural fourth hour, as the show expanded to the 9 a.m. ET time frame. The show…

UPDATED, 7:17 AM PT: MSNBC confirmed that Stephanie Ruhle will succeed Brian Williams in the 11 p.m. slot, while Morning Joe will expand to four hours by taking over Ruhle’s 9 a.m. hour. “This expansion will give us an opportunity to extend the reach of the program, which has become so well known for its signature…

Julian Castro has joined NBC News and MSNBC as a political analyst. Castro is the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development who ran for president in the 2020 cycle. Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski announced his new role in an appearance on the show on Monday, as Castro joined to talk about voting rights…

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…