MSNBC is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City. It is owned by NBCUniversal —a subsidiary of Comcast —and provides news coverage and political commentary. The network produces live broadcasts for its channel from studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan,New York City,and aggregates its coverage and commentary on its website,msnbc.com.
Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont. Sanders is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history but has a close relationship with the Democratic Party,having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020,coming second in both campaigns. He is often seen as a leader of the U.S. progressive movement.
The Hill is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington,D.C.,that was founded in 1994.
Krystal Marie Ball is an American political commentator and media host. She was previously a political candidate,as well as a television host at MSNBC,a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and a co-host of The Hill's Rising along with Saagar Enjeti. In May 2021,Ball and Enjeti announced that they were leaving the show in order to release their own independent project titled Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar. Ball is a co-host with her husband Kyle Kulinski on the podcast Krystal Kyle &Friends. She has made guest appearances on networks such as CNN,CNBC,Fox News and programs including Real Time with Bill Maher.
MSNBC is a news and political commentary organization that has been the focus of several controversies. It has been accused by academics,media figures,political figures,and watchdog groups of having various biases in their news coverage as well as more general views of a liberal bias. Most of these controversies took place during the 2008–2015 era.
The Cycle was an ensemble news and political talk show that was broadcast on MSNBC and hosted by four network analysts/commentators:Republican Abby Huntsman,author and culture critic TouréNeblett,The Nation correspondent Ari Melber,and former congressional candidate turned Democratic strategist Krystal Ball. Per its ensemble format,all four hosts appear on every show,with each host taking turns to facilitate the discussions.
Bill Scher is an American pundit and liberal political analyst. He is the Politics Editor for the Washington Monthly. He also is a Contributing Editor to POLITICO Magazine,and a contributor to RealClearPolitics. He also co-hosts "The DMZ," an online TV show with conservative pundit Matt Lewis on YouTube. Scher is an alumnus of Oberlin College.
Marissa Johnson is an activist who attained notoriety when she interrupted U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at an August 2015 rally in Seattle. Her activism has been associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. She is a founder of a Seattle-based justice group called Outside Agitators 206,which was disbanded when she became a cofounder of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter around September 2015.
Lindy Li is an American political commentator,campaign advisor,and former political candidate serving as the Women's Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee. She served on the Asian American outreach team for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
Bernie Bro,collectively Bernie Bros,is a term coined in 2015 by Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic as a pejorative to describe young male supporters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the 2016 United States presidential election. The term remained in use for the 2020 United States presidential election.
Symone D. Sanders-Townsend is an American political strategist and political commentator. She served as national press secretary for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential campaign. She left the campaign abruptly in late June 2016,saying "she was not let go and that leaving the campaign was her decision." In October 2016,she was hired to be a Democratic strategist and political commentator by CNN. In April 2019,Symone Sanders joined the 2020 presidential campaign of former vice president Joe Biden as a senior advisor,and after Biden won election,was named chief spokesperson and a senior advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris. On December 2,2021,Sanders announced that she would be resigning from her position by the end of 2021 to return to broadcasting,this time at MSNBC.
Kyle Edward Kulinski is an American political commentator and media host. Kulinski is the host and producer of The Kyle Kulinski Show on his YouTube channel Secular Talk and is a co-host with his wife Krystal Ball on the progressive podcast Krystal Kyle &Friends.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Tulsi Gabbard,the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district,began on January 11,2019. In January 2020,she was polling at about 1 to 2 percent. Had she won,she would have become the first female,Hindu,and Samoan president in American history,and the youngest person to ever hold the office. She made reducing military activity abroad a central message of her campaign.
Saagar Enjeti is a journalist,podcast host,and political commentator currently hosting the American political news and opinion series Breaking Points.
The media coverage of Bernie Sanders,a U.S. Senator from Vermont,became a subject of discussion during his unsuccessful 2016 and 2020 presidential runs. His campaigns,some independent observers,as well as some media sources have said that the mainstream media in the United States is biased against Sanders. Others say that coverage is unbiased or biased in his favor. The allegations of bias primarily concern the coverage of his presidential campaigns.
The Hill's Rising is an American daily news and opinion web series produced by Washington,D.C. political newspaper The Hill. The series is available on The Hill's website and YouTube.
Briahna Joy Gray is an American political commentator,lawyer,and political consultant who served as the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Gray is a contributing editor for Current Affairs,and was a senior politics editor for The Intercept. She hosts her own podcast,Bad Faith,and co-hosts The Hill's web series Rising.
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar is an American political news and opinion series created and hosted by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. It was launched in June 2021 by Ball and Enjeti,both former hosts of The Hill's Rising web series. They publish an audio-only podcast and the video program is available on YouTube,Rumble and Spotify. Its format includes one left-leaning anchor (Ball) and one right-leaning anchor (Enjeti),who give views from both sides of the political spectrum.
Jamal Nkosi Simmons is an American political advisor who formerly served as the communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris from January 2022 to January 2023.
