MSNBC
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MSNBC (stylized as msnbc) is an American basic cable and satellite channel that provides news coverage and political opinion on current events. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group.
MSNBC's Self-Proclaimed Progressive Bias
Beginning in the mid-2000s, MSNBC's opinion programming increasingly reflected its concept of political progressivism. In October 2010, it publicly acknowledged this with a marketing campaign it called "Lean Forward." Further, in September 2013, MSNBC launched its revamped official website under the tagline, "What Progressives Have Been Waiting For." Their current tagline is: "This is who we are.
Despite the Supreme Court ruling against the Trump admin's effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Trump Justice Department indicated that it is still fighting to get that question on the census -- and it's all because of a presidential tweet. Lawrence discusses that and some new bad poll numbers for Trump with Neera Tanden and Eugene Robinson.