Jonathan Capehart

On Saturday morning's The Weekend on MS NOW, co-hosts Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels, and Jackie Alemany reacted with visible emotion — Capehart especially overcome — to Pete Buttigieg’s Substack post detailing an anonymous false report to Child…

The Friday night pundit panel concluded on a historic PBS topic: Watergate. In its earliest years, PBS found it delightful to contribute to President Nixon's political demise, running the Watergate hearings live during the day and repeating them at night. PBS anchor Jim Lehrer was elated: "as justice, it was pure delicious!" 

Co-host Jonathan Capehart opened Saturday's The Weekend on MS NOW show by branding Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon as a “roadblock to a permanent peace deal with Iran.” Capehart highlighted Lebanese casualties from strikes that came “just hours after a ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hezbollah.” MS NOW contributor Inzaman Rashid, reporting from Dubai, piled on. He declared that…

For all the media bluster that Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter could ultimately nuke his net worth, the goalposts have since been moved and those same media talking heads are having a meltdown over the fact that the world’s richest man just proved all of them wrong.

On MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” the panel engaged in a full-throated class-warfare kvetch over Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire. Co-host Eugene Daniels grew visibly agitated as economist Justin Wolfers claimed Musk “bought” the 2024 election for Donald Trump with a $250 million investment. Daniels declared the discussion made him “very angry” — not at Wolfers, but at the country…

PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks, and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart concluded their weekly Friday night news recap by looking ahead to Sunday’s UFC fight at the White House, which, according to them, signifies America’s “cultural decline” and is “unconscionable.”

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the abuse allegations made by Lyndsey Fifield against far-left Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. When asked if Platner should drop out of the race, Capehart eventually said no because it is unfair to hold anyone running for office to any moral standard because Donald Trump is currently the president.…

On Saturday's episode of MS NOW's The Weekend, co-host Eugene Daniels offered a revealing defense of the Cuban regime: "It's their country, so them deciding what kind of government and political system they want to have, the leaders and the folks in that country, is their business, I think a lot of people would say."

PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart teamed up to try to absolve the media from their past errors on Friday by making the curious claim that “Joe Biden's health has been litigated in public exhaustively.” For his part, Capehart went so far as to try to shift the presidential health concerns to President Trump for simply having three semi-annual…

The Friday night Week In Politics segment of the PBS News Hour is almost always focused on blasting Trump. So it was shocking when they took up the DNC “autopsy” of their 2024 losses, allowing MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart to lecture Democrats to stop internal fighting…minutes after he mocked the Republican resistance to Trump as a “one-cell organism.”

On Saturday's The Weekend, MS NOW displayed overt hypocrisy by having on House Minority Whip and Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA) to complain about Southern Republicans cutting Democrat-leaning seats when her own home state has shut out Republicans from all its congressional districts since the 1990s.

On Saturday's edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend, Eddie Glaude went OFF! The normally measured Princeton professor — known for his calm, scholarly demeanor — unloaded in raw, fiery language rarely seen from him. Reacting to the Supreme Court’s recent Callais decision on Louisiana and the Voting Rights Act, Glaude openly questioned whether African Americans remain “full citizens…

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday to recap President Trump’s recent trip to China and hype the idea that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping threw some “high-class shade” at Trump when he invoked the idea of the Thucydides Trap.

On Saturday’s The Weekend on MS NOW, Stacey Abrams was given the full VIP treatment. Co-host Eugene Daniels introduced her as “Madam Leader,” and the panel kept the unctuous title going throughout the segment — even though her time as minority leader in the Georgia House ended nine years ago. Abrams accused Republicans of trying to “legalize the restoration of Jim Crow,” compared the…