Jonathan Capehart

MSNBC AM Joy guest host Jonathan Capehart says he invited Stuart Stevens of the Lincoln Project on the show to discuss the tweet by Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT], in which he said, "Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prosperity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that." Lee's point is that the United States is not a pure democracy, it is…

Joy Reid reclaimed her spot today as host of AM Joy, the MSNBC show she left in favor of hosting a weekday primetime slot on the network. Reid, having big-footed the aspirants to her host chair, had an urgent message for Democrats: threaten, and exact, retaliation on Republicans should they manage to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Reid raised the…

Guest hosting the AM Joy show on MSNBC, Jonathan Capehart, in a rude, interrupting, and accusatory interview, tries and fails to corner Rudy Giuliani regarding his contacts with Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian legislator who the Treasury department has determined to be a Russian agent. 

On MSNBC's AM Joy show, Never Trumper Tom Nichols says, "we [Never Trumpers] all have a sentimental attachment to the Republican party. We all loved Old Yeller. But at some point you have to take Old Yeller behind the barn and put him down." Nichols' violent death wish for the Republican party shocked even the liberal host, Jonathan Capehart, sending him into a stumbling response…

Guest-hosting AM Joy today, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and MSNBC suggested that network execs shouldn't show the "felonious couple," i.e. the McCloskeys, when they speak at the RNC convention next week.  A guest on the show claims that President Trump would use the McCloskeys as an example to promote a "violent mutiny" should he lose the election.

MSNBC’s rushed to label a new Trump administration housing policy racist, but then actually admitted that it was not based on race. On Saturday morning’s AM Joy, guest host Jonathan Capehart said “Trump is taking a page straight out of George Wallace’s playbook,” and brought on two fellow race-baiters, Heather McGee and Nikole Hannah-Jones, in an attempt to accuse the President of…

After former President Obama gave a partisan eulogy at John Lewis' funeral on Thursday where he compared President Trump and federal law enforcement to George Wallace and called for the end of the filibuster, among other things, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart praised him for telling Americans what they can do to honor Lewis and the country.