She also has served as executive director of Not On Our Watch, the nonprofit set up to monitor and call attention to mass atrocities, and authored the book FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, which looked at her own family history to examine immigration and identity. Wagner will be the only Asian American to host a primetime cable news show, but she also has had an eclectic career in journalism, including stints as editor in chief at music and culture magazine Fader, contributor to The Atlantic, co-host of CBS This Morning Saturday and co-host and executive producer of Showtime’s The Circus. In selecting Wagner, 44, the network is tapping someone in sync with MSNBC’s progressive bent, but with a different background from Maddow’s. It’s a more deliberative process that that.”Īlex Wagner To Take Over Rachel Maddow's Time Slot At MSNBC
We’re not throwing spaghetti against the wall. “It’s been a lot of brainstorming, a lot of meetings. hour, and how we can make a through line with what we do Tuesday through Friday, and also add in some new elements that are reflective of my experience,” Wagner said in an interview with Deadline. “We are trying to figure out the ways we can carry through some of the incredible intellectual rigor and informative analysis that Rachel has established in the 9 p.m. PT slot the rest of the week.Ĭomparisons are inevitable, but while Alex Wagner Tonightwill share the same executive producer with The Rachel Maddow Show, Cory Gnazzo, and Maddow has figured in promotions for the debut, Wagner said, “This is going to be a different show.” While Maddow, the network’s top-rated personality, will continue to host her show on Mondays, Wagner will fill the 9 p.m. Listen in here.When Alex Wagner debuts her new MSNBC show on Tuesday, she will be taking on an unusual arrangement that came about following Rachel Maddow’s contract renewal with NBCUniversal. #SheWhoBorneTheBattle | #HealAmericanVeterans /FWZaTREg4KĪnd against a swirling legislative environment on Capitol Hill, I sat down with Eric Dehm, host of Connecting Vets to talk about the newest changes headed VA’s way, burn pits and toxic exposures, and more. 🎥 Last week, joined the #veterans panel of our "Healing American Veterans Symposium" to discuss issues still prominent in the military community, such as inequality and/or lack of female inclusion. Last week, I spoke at AMVETS “Healing American Veterans Symposium” on the challenges facing women veterans and the persistent inequality women veterans face: I spoke with MSNBC Live on this topic:Īnd while veterans very rarely are featured in the national news, we are continuing to beat the drum on the most important issues facing the Post-9/11 generation. Wilkie has recently been nominated to fill the role of VA Secretary permanently, the leadership vacuum at VA continues, with many top posts remaining unfilled. Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination for Secretary of the VA, leaving Robert Wilkie as the Acting VA Secretary. It’s crazy to think that just a month before, we were talking about the leadership vacuum at the Department of Veterans Affairs that continues today. Just before 3 PM EST, I sat down with Katy Tur on MSNBC to discuss the importance of Memorial Day and how we as a nation can best support our military members and families.
Between leadership shake-ups at the Department of Veterans Affairs, incredible progress on IAVA’s Big 6 Priorities, and a range of top-button issues coming to light, IAVA’s DC team has been busy!īut this past Memorial Day, IAVA stood with millions of Americans across the nation to #GoSilent at 3 PM EST in honor of all those men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. I mean, let’s face it, it’s been a crazy year.
It’s been a crazy couple of months here in DC.
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