On May 22 MSNBC’s Chris Hayes expressed amazement that he has heard no response from the NRA to a smart gun “truce” offered them on May 5. Hayes exact words: It has now been 17 days since we first aired
On Thursday’s “All In” on MSNBC, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson participated in “polite” discussion about race in a panel that included Demos president Heather McGhee and Telemundo anchor José Díaz-Balart. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
Thursday on On MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown,” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) became the latest Democrat to criticize President Barack Obama for his handling of the deteriorating Veterans Affairs Hospital scandal. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes on Wednesday twice refused to say whether she would have voted for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Asked two times whether she’d have voted for the 2010 overhaul,
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd panned President Barack Obama’s statement on the growing Veteran Affair scandal. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) argued Republican positions are too extreme to win elections on the merits so they must rely on distractions like Benghazi investigations and voting
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Politico editor in chief John Harris said Democrats are becoming frustrated with President Barack Obama’s lack of engagement and a coherent message they can run on in the 2014 midterm election. Harris added Obama’s minimum
On MSNBC Monday night, Rachel Maddow highlighted the phony resignation of Undersecretary of Health Robert Petzel in response to the Veterans Affairs scandal. Petzel was already scheduled to retire in 2014, and President Obama had already nominated a replacement. Maddow
Monday on MSNBC’s “Now with Alex Wagner,” former Democratic National Committee chairman and former Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) said Vice President Joe Biden will step in immediately with “front-runner status” if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decides not to
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry stated that the recent firing of New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson could have been both based on her merit, and sexist at the same time during her coverage of Abramson’s commencement speech at Wake Forest
Next fall the Supreme Court will consider whether the law permitted the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to remove from duty a former federal air marshal who told MSNBC that TSA was stopping its protection of certain flights. The case is
In an interaction that aired on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, Georgia Democratic senatorial hopeful Michelle Nunn took a dodge on a question if she would have supported ObamaCare at the time of passage of the law from NBC News
Saturday on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki,” Salon’s Joan Walsh took a shot at former Gov. Sarah Palin by saying, “I think we sometimes cover dumb stuff like Sarah Palin. I think that this story, if he becomes a carnival
MSNBC finally found a scandal other than BridgeGate to talk about… Al Sharpton and his panel of two … not terribly impressive young women (I’m trying to be charitable, here) were 100% sure that voter fraud was involved in the Children’s
‘Godzilla’ Opens to Stunning $9.3 Million Thursday Night I said yesterday that the $65 million prediction for “Godzilla” seemed awfully low. It appears I was right. “Godzilla” snatched $9.3 million Thursday night beating even “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” which went
On Friday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, BBC World News America anchor Katty Kay predicted The New York Times would face a backlash externally and internally from women over allegations a gender pay discrepancy existed between former New York Times editor
Friday on MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.,” New York Times reporter Nick Confessore told host Chris Jansing a potential problem for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid is the lack of any substantial accomplishment during her tenure as Secretary of State. Confessore
State Senate candidate and free-birth-control activist Sandra Fluke lost a key endorsement this week, as the Santa Monica Democratic Club endorsed local school board president and Harvard graduate Ben Allen instead as its candidate for the 26th district in the
With the missing Malaysian airliner story petering out, left-wing CNN has returned to its usual posture of beating up Republicans and obsessing over identity politics (race, sexuality). As was the case before CNN could exploit the tragedy of the missing
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski reacted to the claims that outgoing New York Times editor in chief Jill Abramson ended her employee at the Times because of a pay discrepancy between her and her male
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews discussed the Clinton’s pushback against Karl Rove’s remarks about Hillary Clinton’s health. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host Andrea Mitchell asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) whether the “men in charge of our government” would have “responded more rapidly if it hadn’t been schoolgirls”… Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) defended the Department of Veterans Affairs despite a handful of recent deaths pinned to so-called “secret waitlists” at its hospitals. Tester, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee,
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, MSNBC host and NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd weighed in on Karl Rove’s alleged statements about potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s health, in particular speculation she may have suffered “brain damage.”
LINCOLN, Nebraska–Contrary to some reports, the tension between Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell does not seem to be over. McConnell and Sasse feuded in the fall, with McConnell upset about Sasse’s involvement with the
