MSNBC elevates Nicolle Wallace to be the heart of the network's midday programming

[riversedge]

Source: Washington Post




August 3, 2020 at 3:36 p.m. CDT

Host Nicolle Wallace, who has long stood out in MSNBC’s daily lineup as a former GOP strategist, will now have a bigger perch at the network when her show doubles in length from one hour to two, starting Aug. 17.

Her expanded role comes as part of a slate of programming changes announced by MSNBC on Monday, including anchor Chuck Todd’s weekday show moving from the more coveted 5 p.m. time slot to 1 p.m.

Todd, who will continue as host of “Meet the Press” on Sunday mornings on NBC, will also begin anchoring a new weekly show in September that will air on streaming news service NBC News Now and the company’s Peacock streaming platform.

Wallace’s “Deadline: White House” show has been something of a ratings success story for the network. In July, the show bested its 4 p.m. competitors on both Fox News and CNN in total viewers, with an average of 2 million people tuning in each day. (Though it came in third in the 25-to-54 viewer demographic, which is most valued by advertisers.)......................

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/08/03/msnbc-elevates-nicolle-wallace-be-heart-networks-daily-programming/

---

women anchors rising on msnbc--Rachel, Joy and now Nicole

Link to tweet

?s=20

[highplainsdem]

1. Good news!

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. She is an awesome replacement for Rachael tonight.

I like her more every day. She is peeling moderate Republicans everyday. Good on her.

[stillcool]

3. yeah! I can watch tv again!

is Kornacki still doing the 6 p.m. thing?

[dhol82]

4. She's actually been doing the two hour thing for a while now

She was on at three with Brian Williams starting the show for about a month. Not sure why they focused that start with Williams.
I like her a lot and am happy that she is now permanent.

[iluvtennis]

5. Discovered Nicole early last year. Was skeptical as she was former republican, but she won me over.

Love her show. She's smart, witty, engaging, good conversationalist, and an all around real person. And I like the insights she sahres from working in the George W. Bush White House.

[elleng]

7. YES to all her attributes you mention!

[Cha]

6. chuckie backed the wrong

horse.. career wise. With his "both sides" gaslighting Shtick.

[iluvtennis]

9. Nothing lost as I can't stand him - turn the channel everythime he comes on.

[Cha]

20. I know what you mean & I don't even have

a tv anymore.. but I read DU.

And, I did an OP on him in September 2014 when he took over MTP and had President Obama as his first guest.

The interview didn't go well for Todd. He told Obama that he never talked about Syria when he had.. four times right before Chuck said that..

Part of being a good interviewer is to actually Listen to your interviewee.

PBO's WTF Expression when 10 Seconds after he mentioned "Syria" Chuck Todd said "You have Not mentioned Syria..."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10025502533

6 years ago & here we are.. "Finally" as many are saying!

[AKing]

26. Move Chuck Todd to 3AM

[moonscape]

8. I don't understand how MTP is so strong on Sunday.

Face The Nation is so much better. Well, everything is.

[trocar]

12. Thank you

C Todd moving eliminates the need to flip a coin between Todd and Blitzer, no win there. Love Nicolle

[blueinredohio]

10. Never cared for her when she was on The View.

I believe she'll jump back on the republican side when Trump gets voted out.

[RhodeIslandOne]

13. And be yukking it up with Bill Kristol and John Podhoretz again

Hope everyone enjoys her heaping praise on Mitt Rmoney.

[Zambero]

17. Trump (gasp) or no Trump...

Trumpism is deeply ingrained in what the GOP has become. It's not going to readily disappear. And given that, I would not expect Nicole Wallace and other former Republicans to embrace the party any time soon. On the other hand, I can see the Never-Trumper element aligning themselves with Democrats as a centrist alternative to the liberal and progressive elements of the party.

[MontanaMama]

19. I don't think so.

Shes TOUGH repukes and she’s got no fucks left to give. Nicolle is worth your time.

[iluvtennis]

33. + agree. nt

[Raine]

21. Wallace is anti-Trump not anti-GOP

she'll jump right back on the GOP bandwagon as soon as she feels it's safe to do so.

[JI7]

23. WRONG, she did not vote for McCain either because of Palin .

[JI7]

22. BS, she didn't even vote for McCain so she has actually been supporting Democrats

than many who claim to be democrats who have never supported democrats.

[obamanut2012]

32. Exactly this

She has supported and voted for more Dems than many "liberals."

[Hekate]

11. Congratulations to Nicolle. I've been a fan since shortly after the beginning...

At first I pegged her as a cutie-pie with a great smile, but very quickly saw that she is well-prepared and has an uncommon gift for picking good panelists, drawing them out, and letting them finish their freaking sentences. Too many hosts and anchors (talking to you, Chuck T and Chris Matthews) let their egos and hobby-horses get in the way.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Hmmmm..

[LovingA2andMI]

15. FAVORITE Show on MSNBC

Congrats Nicolle!

[melman]

16. Nicolle Wallace on torture: "I don't care what we did."

Nicolle Wallace, a frequent “Morning Joe” guest and former George W. Bush spokeswoman, gave an impassioned defense of the agency’s waterboarding of three al-Qaeda suspects.

“In the history of this country, I think months after 9/11 there were three people who we thought knew about imminent attacks and we did whatever we had to do,” Wallace said. “And I pray to god that until the end of time, we do whatever we have to do to find out what’s happening.”

“The notion that somehow this makes America less great is asinine and dangerous,” she added.

Wallace then expressed frustration that White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest wouldn’t say whether President Barack Obama found information gleaned from those harsh interrogation techniques helpful in tracking down Osama Bin Laden.

“That’s what this is about. Does this help us kill people who want to kill us regardless of what we do,” she said. “But the notion that what we do affects terrorists is a lie. It’s a lie perpetrated by political correctness and liberals, and it’s dangerous.”


Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean pushed back on that point, arguing that the problem isn’t whether the CIA waterboarded three people but rather what else the U.S. government did that American citizens don’t know about yet.

“What else did we do to make sure that 3,000 people weren’t blown out, obliterated on a New York City morning?” Wallace said. “I don’t care what we did.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nicole-wallace-asinine-to-think-waterboarding-made-america-less-great

[Just_Vote_Dem]

24. I wish people would realize

that Nicole Wallace types just want to save the Republican Party from going into the dustbin of history, where it belongs, unless they do make radical changes. I don't think many of these tigers will change their stripes, though.

[XanaDUer2]

28. Thanks for posting this

A republican is a republican in the end.

[niyad]

18. Congratulations, Nicolle. And, gee, WaPo ??? "Strident critic"??? You just HAD

To use that word in talking about a woman?...

[NurseJackie]

25. I like her. I dislike him. I truly dislike that spazzed-out Kornacki guy (is he on drugs?)

[George II]

31. Kornacki may be the biggest fraud and nut job on either MSNBC or CNN.

[brooklynite]

35. What has he said that's fraudulent?

[Paladin]

27. Way past time for MSNBC to do this.

The less I see of a sub-talented "both sides do it" poseur like Todd, the better. They ought to hand off "MTP" to somebody with more ability, as well.

[DeminPennswoods]

29. Wallace is the best interviewer MSNBC has

I wish she'd been the one to interview Mary Trump, but she'd already interviewed Bolton (and did a good job).

She really listens to what the interviewee says and she asks great follow up questions.

As for her political leanings, it seems like she's had her Saul at Tarsus moment regarding Republicans. She has said several times that I've heard on air that she feels the Rs, including her, are responsible for promoting racial division in order to win elections. You never know how someone will evolve. David Horowicz went from being a lefty to being a right winger. David Brock went the other way.

[George II]

30. Double good news - Nicole Wallace has been great over the last few years, this will give her more...

....opportunities to be great.

I like her style and delivery, and she's proven to be a pretty good ally of Democrats.

The second good news is that Chuck Todd seemingly has been demoted to a relatively meaningless slot, especially meaningless since he'll be opposite Brianna Keilar on CNN, who just might be the best daytime anchor/host of all.

I wonder, is Todd still the moderator of the Sunday Meet the Press show? I haven't watched that in years.

[brooklynite]

34. I can recall when folks hated Nicolle (former Comms Director for GWB)...

I guess you can only hate one anchor at a time?

[rkleinberger]

36. Time to retire the Chuckster.

[jimlup]

37. Love Nicole even though she is a reformed Repub.

She's smart and poised.

Her dark side is that she was a member of the GWB administration. Despite the fact that he now looks like a sane option compared to now.

Nevertheless...