Corbin Bolies

3 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

MSNBC star Jen Psaki took over Rachel Maddow’s coveted 9 p.m. slot from Tuesday through Friday last month—and lost just about half of her nightly viewers, May’s ratings reports reveal. The former White House press secretary launched The Briefing with Jen Psaki in the slot on May 6, the flagship addition to the network’s revamped primetime lineup that included replacing Joy Reid’s 7 p.m. The ReidOut with The Weeknight, featuring anchors Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez.

4 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Alex Marquardt left the network on Monday—months after the network settled a defamation suit stemming from his reporting. CNN settled with defense contractor Zachary Young in January after a Florida jury ruled the network had defamed him in a November 2021 report that alleged he gouged prices for those who sought to flee Afghanistan as the United States withdrew from the country.

5 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

Former President Bill Clinton says President Donald Trump is paying a price for his bullying. “We’ve never seen anything like this before in my lifetime,” Clinton said of the Trump administration in an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning. “Somebody that says, ‘Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It’s my way or the highway.’ And most Americans don’t agree with that,” Clinton said. “But I like to think that he’s paid a price for this, you know, name-calling and throwing his weight around.

5 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

A CBS interview with Elon Musk went off the rails after he was asked about President Donald Trump’s crusade against Harvard. “I’m wondering what your thought is on the ban on foreign students, the proposal,” Pogue said on CBS’s Sunday Morning. “I mean, you were one of those kids, right?”“Yeah. I mean, I think we wanna stick to, you know, the subject of the day, which is, like, spaceships, as opposed to, you know, presidential policy,” Musk replied. “Oh, okay,” Pogue replied.

5 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

A top House Democrat attacked President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security for “sowing chaos” after DHS agents detained a staffer at his New York office. New York Rep. Jerry Nadler slammed the administration’s tactics after Gothamist released a video that showed one agent handcuffing a crying staffer while another agent tried to enter Nadler’s office, which shares a building with an immigration courthouse.