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2 days ago
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- Yahoo
'Corruption out in the open': Oversight Congressman on Trump admin grift
House Democrats are finally investigating Trump's grift. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, joins The Weeknight to discuss their efforts.
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3 days ago
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Fox News Continued To See Audience Growth In May While MSNBC And CNN Posted Double-Digit Declines Vs. 2024
Fox News continued to show robust ratings growth for the month of May, again dominating its cable news rivals MSNBC and CNN, which have seen year-over-year declines. The past month saw the debut of MSNBC's new nighttime lineup, with The Weeknight taking the 7 p.m. ET slot, Rachel Maddow returning to one night a week at 9 p.m. ET and Jen Psaki filling that time period Tuesday to Thursday. More from Deadline David Leavy To Depart As COO Of CNN, Will Return To Parent Warner Bros. Discovery Hoda Kotb, In Return 'Today' Visit, Denies Rumors She Will Succeed Kelly Clarkson With Daytime Talk Show Donald Trump Says He Plans To Pardon Reality Stars Todd And Julie Chrisley But the new shows are not reversing the trendlines vs. 2024. While MSNBC has recovered some audience since a post-election fall off, the network, like CNN, has seen double-digit drops from a year ago. The caveat is that last year was a presidential election year, when networks typically see an increase in viewership. In primetime, Fox News averaged 2.46 million viewers, up 23%, while MSNBC posted 877,000, down 24%, and CNN averaged 426,000, down 18%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 262,000, up 32%, compared to CNN with 76,000, down 21%, and MSNBC with 73,000, down 34%. In total day, Fox News averaged 1.56 million viewers, up 21%, compared to MSNBC with 545,000, down 33%, and CNN with 353,000, down 24%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 180,000, up 22%, while CNN posted 59,000, down 27%, and MSNBC averaged 49,000, down 41%. The Rachel Maddow Show was MSNBC's top rated show, averaging 1.89 million viewers, while The Briefing with Jen Psaki averaged 950,000, according to Nielsen figures of the four weeks through May 23. The latter is down from the previous occupant of the Tuesday-Friday time slot, Alex Wagner Tonight, which averaged 1.3 million viewers of its run from 2022 to 2025. Psaki's show did improve on its lead in, All In with Chris Hayes, which averaged 912,000. The Weeknight, featuring hosts Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez, averaged 772,000 total viewers. In its final month in February, Joy Reid's ReidOut averaged 955,000. Fox News' The Five was the most viewed cable news show of the month, drawing an average of 3.77 million viewers, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime with 3.23 million, Gutfeld! with 2.92 million, Special Report with 2.81 million and Hannity with 2.73 million. In the 25-54 demo, The Five averaged 368,000, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime with 363,000, Gutfeld! with 328,000, Hannity with 299,000 and The Ingraham Angle with 297,000. The figures are from Nielsen via Fox News. Best of Deadline 'The Morning Show' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
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Fox News Continued To See Audience Growth In May While MSNBC And CNN Posted Double-Digit Declines Vs. 2024
Fox News continued to show robust ratings growth for the month of May, again dominating its cable news rivals MSNBC and CNN, which have seen year-over-year declines. The past month saw the debut of MSNBC's new nighttime lineup, with The Weeknight taking the 7 p.m. ET slot, Rachel Maddow returning to one night a week at 9 p.m. ET and Jen Psaki filling that time period Tuesday to Thursday. More from Deadline David Leavy To Depart As COO Of CNN, Will Return To Parent Warner Bros. Discovery Hoda Kotb, In Return 'Today' Visit, Denies Rumors She Will Succeed Kelly Clarkson With Daytime Talk Show Donald Trump Says He Plans To Pardon Reality Stars Todd And Julie Chrisley But the new shows are not reversing the trendlines vs. 2024. While MSNBC has recovered some audience since a post-election fall off, the network, like CNN, has seen double-digit drops from a year ago. The caveat is that last year was a presidential election year, when networks typically see an increase in viewership. In primetime, Fox News averaged 2.46 million viewers, up 23%, while MSNBC posted 877,000, down 24%, and CNN averaged 426,000, down 18%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 262,000, up 32%, compared to CNN with 76,000, down 21%, and MSNBC with 73,000, down 34%. In total day, Fox News averaged 1.56 million viewers, up 21%, compared to MSNBC with 545,000, down 33%, and CNN with 353,000, down 24%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 180,000, up 22%, while CNN posted 59,000, down 27%, and MSNBC averaged 49,000, down 41%. The Rachel Maddow Show was MSNBC's top rated show, averaging 1.89 million viewers, while The Briefing with Jen Psaki averaged 950,000, according to Nielsen figures of the four weeks through May 23. The latter is down from the previous occupant of the Tuesday-Friday time slot, Alex Wagner Tonight, which averaged 1.3 million viewers of its run from 2022 to 2025. Psaki's show did improve on its lead in, All In with Chris Hayes, which averaged 912,000. The Weeknight, featuring hosts Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez, averaged 772,000 total viewers. In its final month in February, Joy Reid's ReidOut averaged 955,000. Fox News' The Five was the most viewed cable news show of the month, drawing an average of 3.77 million viewers, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime with 3.23 million, Gutfeld! with 2.92 million, Special Report with 2.81 million and Hannity with 2.73 million. In the 25-54 demo, The Five averaged 368,000, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime with 363,000, Gutfeld! with 328,000, Hannity with 299,000 and The Ingraham Angle with 297,000. The figures are from Nielsen via Fox News. Best of Deadline 'The Morning Show' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Yahoo
3 days ago
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‘Chaos and cruelty': Rep. Eugene Vindman describes what constituents say about Trump admin
As Republicans attempt to hide from the ire of their constituents over support for Trump's budget bill, Rep. Eugene Vindman is hosting events with voters in his district. He joins The Weeknight to discuss what he's hearing.
Boston Globe
5 days ago
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Members only: A new Trump club, Ned's Club, and the enduring old guard
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In a 2025 Washington firebombed by political and ideological differences, all four clubs are growing, have wait lists, or both. While they have varied levels of snobbery and exclusivity, Executive Branch is an outlier because of the price of its access to the White House and its enrichment of the Trump family. Advertisement But all four clubs reflect the sorting of the city's establishment into separate corners at a turbulent time. 'Everybody is so disoriented and depressed and untethered,' said Sally Quinn, a journalist, author, and authority on social Washington who was married to the late Benjamin Bradlee, a storied editor of The Washington Post. 'It's comforting to know there's a place where they know your name, you're going to see your friends, and you can always get a table. And that's a lot.' Advertisement Symone Sanders Townsend, host of 'The Weeknight' on MSNBC and who is on the Ned's Club membership committee, said she uses the club to connect with members of Congress she would like on her show and to meet sources and friends. 'I enjoy walking into the Ned and seeing other young Black professionals,' she said. As for Executive Branch, she said, 'I don't think I'll be on the membership list for that one.' Executive Branch is set to open in June in a subterranean space tucked behind the Georgetown Park shopping mall, reachable from Wisconsin Avenue via a set of stairs next to the mall's parking garage. A grand entrance it is not. And that is the point. Unlike the other three clubs, which are in grand early-20th century buildings that have landed on the National Register of Historic Places, Executive Branch is a hidden cavern for fewer than 200 members of the Trump ultrarich. The expectation is that the president will drop by now that he no longer has the Trump International Hotel, where he spent nights in his first term holding forth in the steakhouse and providing fodder for journalists on alert in the lobby. Executive Branch, which has taken over the sprawling space of a defunct bar called Clubhouse, will have what members say is modern decor inspired by Aman New York, a luxurious hotel and private club that opened in 2022. There are to be no prying outsiders. Advertisement 'You have to know the owners,' said an Executive Branch spokesperson who declined to be interviewed on the record but did say he was speaking on a private jet heading back to the United States from overseas. 'This is not just for any Saudi businessman.' Members, he said, want a place 'where they're not annoyed.' Sacks, a founding member of the club, made clear on his 'All-In' podcast this month (where he announced the club's ban on media members) that the chosen ones are unlikely to include traditional Republicans who frequent decades-old Washington clubs. 'To the extent there are Republican clubs, they tend to be like more Bush-era Republicans as opposed to Trump-era Republicans,' Sacks said. 'So we wanted to create something new, hipper, and Trump-aligned.' Beyond Sacks, founding members of the club include Jeff Miller, a lobbyist and top Trump fund-raiser, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, whose crypto firm was targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission until new agency leaders picked by Trump put the lawsuit on hold. In addition to Donald Trump Jr., owners of the club include Zach and Alex Witkoff, the sons of Trump's Middle East envoy; Omeed Malik, who leads 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a senior executive; and Chris Buskirk, a close ally of Vice President JD Vance who cofounded the Rockbridge Network, an influential conservative donor group. A big question about Ned's Club, which opened in late January on three Roaring '20s-themed floors in a five-building complex across from the Treasury Department, is whether it can attract enough members of both parties willing to be in the same room. That, at least, is the goal of Joiwind Ronen, the club's executive director of membership and programming, who in a town of warring camps keeps a careful watch on the ratio of Democrats to Republicans. Advertisement 'Say someone from the administration joins and it's a visible face,' she said over coffee on a recent rainy morning in the club's sumptuous library. 'I make sure we have a Democratic senator who is also recognized. I want people when they walk in to feel comfortable.' It costs $5,000 to join the club, plus another $5,000 in dues a year. Government workers pay $1,000 to join. Ronen said there are 1,500 members, a waiting list, and 10 to 30 applicants a day. The average age of members is 45. There are more members in technology than in any other field, including law, finance, government, and real estate. 'Founders Club' members pay $125,000 to join and get their own dining room. Members of all kinds include billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Gina Raimondo, the Biden administration's commerce secretary; and Steven Mnuchin, treasury secretary in Trump's first term. Bessent is spotted at the club regularly. Journalists like the place, which includes a rooftop terrace with views of the White House, because they can cozy up to sources. 'The Trump folks are there; Lutnick is always there; half the lobbyists in town are always there,' said a journalist who asked not to be identified because his media organization would not allow him to be quoted. As for other private clubs in Washington, Banner called them 'all very niche.' In other words, he said, 'You have to have gone to an Ivy League university or you have to be a published author.' Advertisement Banner appeared to be referring to the Metropolitan Club, founded in 1863, now housed in an imposing Renaissance Revival building on H Street near the White House, and to the Cosmos Club, founded in 1878, located in a beaux-arts-style mansion on Massachusetts Avenue just beyond Dupont Circle. For the record, the Cosmos Club does not require members to be published authors, although it does display photos of members who have won Pulitzer Prizes, among them the late Herbert Block, a Post cartoonist. About 1,300 people belong to the Metropolitan Club, and 2,500 belong to the Cosmos Club. Both have active speaker series. Former Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, and Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, will be at the Cosmos Club in June. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns was at the Metropolitan Club in May. Both clubs are also on the lookout for younger members. So far, they do not seem bothered by the two new clubs in town, although in their comfortable corners of Washington, many members have not heard of either of them. This article originally appeared in
