Lawmakers are now up against the clock to avoid a government shutdown. And just this morning, President Trump said on social media, he won't meet with Democratic leaders to discuss their requests for a spending bill. And now, sources tell NBC News Republican leaders urged the president to cancel that meeting.What more are we learning about all this. And is a shutdown now imminent at this point. >> Well, it certainly is an ominous sign for government funding.This is just the latest twist in what has been an ...

And many households across America were unable to watch Kimmel's return last night. Next and Sinclair, two major TV station owners who together account for roughly 70 ABC affiliates in the US, continued to preempt the late night show despite Disney bringing it back nationally. Both groups are also pursuing major business moves that would require FCC approval.Sinclair is exploring merger options while Nextstar is trying to ex to close a $6.2% billion merger with another big station owner Tegna. Meanwhile, ab ...

There you go. >> Jimmy Kimmel Live returned to late night lineup last night, nearly one week after ABC pulled the show off the air amid controversy over Kimmel's comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In an emotional opening monologue, Kimmel addressed the remarks that led to his suspension while fiercely defending free speech, criticizing the Trump administration over what he called anti-American attacks on the First Amendment, and thanking those who supported him.Maybe most of all, I want to th ...

Well, seeing is believing, at least for some of us, because as we know, January 6 is highly disputed about what happened on that day. Um, but you know, especially if he's not going to come clean about what he did and with all the conspiracies that this White House and this administration is constantly putting out, the best thing that we can do is have some proof for those that actually want to know the truth. Um, so I hope that we can get that video footage, but last I checked, we're still having problems g ...

Conservative justices on the Supreme Court have just cleared the way for Donald Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, the lone Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, at least for now, as the court decides whether to append 90 years of legal precedent and give the executive branch more authority over supposedly independent government agencies. In her descent, Justice Elena Kagan blasted the decision, writing, "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent ...

There is a statutory framework and regulatory framework that has allowed this to happen. The concentration of these media outlets into these large corporations and the sort of compiling of all these affiliates into these single companies. Um so it's legal.I mean what nextar is attempting to do which we we can get into but the next business before the government is a a request for an accommodation. It's not just please apply the law but a request for you to change something for us. Um but with respect to lik ...

It's just one week before a potential government shutdown and President Trump abruptly cancelled a planned meeting with top congressional Democratic leaders. In a lengthy social media post, Trump wrote that after reviewing the details of what he called an unserious and ridiculous demand being made by the minority radical left Democrats in return for their votes to keep our thriving country open, "I've decided that no meeting with their congressional leaders could possibly be productive." Trump wrote that th ...

Well, today for every one of the 57 minutes that Donald Trump spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations, desperately pretending to be the smartest person in the room by insulting the entire world and insulting the intelligence of most Americans. Donald Trump was condemning himself to history with his own statements that historians will be using against him for the rest of time. I'm telling you that if you don't get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail.Future historians wi ...

So this weekend, MSNBC reporters Carol Lenig and Kendallian got a gargantuan scoop. Trump's borders are Tom Hman was caught on tape accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help businessmen secure potentially lucrative government contracts from the Trump administration. That was the promise.Now, only the businessmen weren't actually businessmen. They were, of course, undercover FBI agents. Again, just an incredible scoop they got.This reporting is based on conversations with multiple people famil ...

I think it's also important just to briefly point out how we got here over the last several days because the decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air sparked an incredibly swift and loud and expansive backlash. We saw protesters show up outside Disney studios in Burbank after Kimmel was suspended. We saw Disney start to actually lose subscribers.This is the Bob Iger calculation that Steph was talking about and widespread calls to cancel memberships. I mean, even Howard Stern was among the chorus of people ...