

And the biggest draw on Fox News is a 5 p.m.

“We were talking about a lot of things,” said Phil Griffin, the MSNBC president, about the network’s discussions with Ms. Her eagerness to take on the president, especially from the vantage point of someone who long played a key role in the political party he now heads (and thus offered the perspective of a former insider) apparently appealed to her MSNBC bosses. Trump “is like a 12-year-old commander in chief.” Appalled for my former colleagues from the 43 White House.” On her program in January, she said Mr. Trump had made critical comments about the presidencies of both George H.W. “What a disgrace this White House is,” she tweeted in November, reacting to reports that Mr. That antipathy has not ebbed since the 2016 election. Before that, she had been an outspoken critic of his campaign, calling out the candidate for what she saw as his xenophobic and racist views, going back to his role in the “birther” movement that questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obama. Wallace’s most frequent on-air foil since her show began. And it is that president who has been Ms. Trump, which this week marks its one-year anniversary. Wallace’s show coincides with the presidency of Donald J. is a tough time because it really is the beginning of all the analysis.” “Four o’clock is the gateway drug to prime time,” said Jonathan Wald, who came to MSNBC as the senior vice president for programming and development last February from CNN and was instrumental in creating the format for “Deadline: White House.” “The morning has its own rhythm, but 4 p.m.

Wallace, 45, now occupies a key spot within the network’s afternoon lineup, leading the daily transition from hard news reports to the opinion and analysis programs that define its prime time, including “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.” Wallace is one of only a few former White House aides, most notably George Stephanopoulos (ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”) and Dana Perino (Fox’s “The Daily Briefing”), to be named solo anchor of a network news program.įurther, Ms. And while plenty of former White House aides or campaign strategists appear as pundits-for-hire on the cable and network news shows - David Axelrod and Josh Earnest (Barack Obama), Paul Begala (Bill Clinton), and Karl Rove (George W.
