MSNBC's post-Joy Reid era begins with hiring of Politico veteran Eugene Daniels

Eugene Daniels, a White House analogous for Politico, is joining MSNBC full-time arsenic a host.

The Comcast Corp.-owned quality transmission announced Monday that Daniels, 36, volition articulation the greeting variation of “The Weekend,” a three-hour programme airing Saturdays and Sundays. He volition beryllium joined by Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart and different co-host to beryllium named soon.

The existent hosts of “The Weekend” — Michael Steele, Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend — are moving to the 7 p.m. Eastern weekday clip play vacated by Joy Reid. The caller programme volition statesman successful precocious April.

Daniels besides volition beryllium elder Washington analogous for MSNBC, which is gathering its ain quality cognition aft being portion of NBC News since its motorboat successful 1996.

He is the archetypal extracurricular prosecute nether MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler, who is starring the quality web arsenic it becomes portion of a new institution spun off from Comcast.

Daniels has been an MSNBC contributor since 2021, appearing regularly connected “Morning Joe.” He volition permission Politico to instrumentality connected his caller role.

Daniels joined Politico successful 2018 and was co-author of its fashionable greeting newsletter “Politico Playbook.” He presently serves arsenic president of the White House Correspondents Assn., a station helium was elected to past year.

A Texas native, Daniels is simply a postgraduate of Colorado State University, wherever helium was a antiaircraft extremity connected the shot team.

While Reid was considered the astir left-leaning of MSNBC’s hosts, her departure does not portend a alteration successful absorption astatine the network, which has a tribal pursuing among governmental progressives.

Capehart is joining “The Weekend” aft having his ain evening MSNBC programme connected Saturday and Sunday since 2020. His programme volition end, on with those hosted by Katie Phang and Ayman Mohyeldin, erstwhile the network’s caller docket takes effect.

Mohyeldin volition beryllium portion of a caller evening variation of “The Weekend.” Phang volition stay with MSNBC arsenic a ineligible analyst.