Now that Donald Trump has surpassed the first 100 days of his second term, left-leaning MSNBC is rolling out the final phase of its major staff shakeup in hopes of winning back an audience dejected by the bloodletting at the ballot and cable boxes. Network star Rachel Maddow is stepping back from hosting a weeknight show to just one evening broadcast a week, and a host of fresh and familiar faces are getting rotated into a new lineup that looks to rely on expertise to guide deeper conversations about the Trump administration and beyond.
I spoke with the hosts of MSNBC’s new Saturday and Sunday evening show, Antonia Hylton, Elise Jordan, Ayman Mohyeldin and Catherine Rampell, about their three-hour-long program’s planned mix of culture war, foreign policy, economic and political coverage.
