The Trish Regan Show - MSNBC Crisis! Jen Psaki Being Replaced by Rachel Maddow Ahead of Comcast Spinoff??
Aired: 2025-06-19
Duration: 08:30


=== Cable Crisis and Tanking Ratings (07:01) ===

[00:00:00]  YouTube dominating, cable dominating, legacy media.
[00:00:03]  The news just coming out today, four months straight in a row now, they have taken over this space.
[00:00:09]  And this has turned into a crisis at MSNBC because you see MSNBC is spinning off into that fancy Versant company.
[00:00:17]  It used to be called Spinco, but you know, they need a little more panache.
[00:00:20]  So they went with Versant and that's going to be spun off.
[00:00:23]  And nobody really knows what's going to happen.
[00:00:26]  You see they have all of their cable entities that they're spinning off.
[00:00:30]  And some of them do better than others.
[00:00:32]  CNBC, my former employer, does actually an excellent job.
[00:00:36]  I will credit them with that.
[00:00:37]  I mean, they have their own biases too.
[00:00:38]  It's partly why I started 76 Research.
[00:00:40]  But in the scheme of things, I think the business media tends to be a little bit more fair.
[00:00:45]  They have to be, right?
[00:00:46]  Because there's money on the line.
[00:00:47]  MSNBC is a whole other thing entirely.
[00:00:50]  And now they're realizing they can't make a go of it because they've got really bad ratings Tuesday through Friday night.
[00:00:57]  Not very good on Mondays either with one Rachel Maddow coming in for a guest appearance on Monday night.
[00:01:03]  And I I'll tell you, it's no surprise.
[00:01:06]  You know why it's no surprise to me?
[00:01:08]  Because I think they got caught lying.
[00:01:11]  That's the thing.
[00:01:13]  And in this brave new world where YouTube is taking over, people appreciate authenticity and they appreciate what's real and they don't want to be lied to.
[00:01:22]  And so you know here on this show, I mean, sometimes I can be a little too opinionated.
[00:01:27]  I get it.
[00:01:28]  Maybe a little too opinionated for some.
[00:01:30]  I mean, hey, when you're too opinionated for Fox, you'll learn pretty quick that you got an opinion.
[00:01:35]  But it's better this way, I think.
[00:01:38]  owning my own content, being here with you so directly is very empowering and very exciting.
[00:01:45]  But when you look over there at some of these cable channels, I don't know what the future is because they've been so badly lying.
[00:01:52]  I mean, think about poor Biden.
[00:01:54]  Remember when he was falling asleep with reporters?
[00:01:57]  Now they're doing an investigation into the auto pen to see if there was any shady stuff going on.
[00:02:01]  Well, MSNBC wouldn't tell you the truth here.
[00:02:07]  I mean, you wonder.
[00:02:08]  I'll start your questions.
[00:02:09]  I'll get in trouble.
[00:02:10]  He said, Don't start the questions.
[00:02:12]  I'll get in trouble.
[00:02:13]  You wonder why YouTube has taken over for legacy media.
[00:02:16]  It's because the legacy media was looking at video that was coming into them.
[00:02:19]  They see the same live feeds that I do, and they wanted to tell you he was perfectly fine.
[00:02:23]  In fact, I do remember, I do remember the signature host that's going to like live forever, right?
[00:02:30]  On MSNBC in the mornings, Morning Joe saying, this is the best Biden ever.
[00:02:34]  I'm sorry, if that's the best Biden ever, I don't know.
[00:02:38]  I don't even know what to tell you.
[00:02:40]  I mean, or think about LaMonica MacGyver facing up to 17 years for that little incident there.
[00:02:46]  over in Newark, New Jersey, where she's caught pushing everyone and somehow they're on La Monica's side.
[00:02:54]  You know I had to say it.
[00:02:59]  Unbelievable.
[00:03:15]  Slowed down just so you can really see it.
[00:03:19]  There she is in all her glory, making a run at those ice agents.
[00:03:24]  Okay, so they wanted you to think that this was somehow not at all wrong for her to do that.
[00:03:29]  And you wonder why their ratings are tanking.
[00:03:31]  I'm sorry, but you know, she's out there with one Jen Saki, who can't even do as well as Rachel Maddow.
[00:03:37]  And Saki's like, I totally agree.
[00:03:39]  You know, Alina Haba had no business charging you for any of that.
[00:03:42]  Listen.
[00:03:43]  I think there are so many other important things for.
[00:03:45]  Alina to be focused on that she should be focused on rather than trying to stop, you know, Congress members from doing their jobs.
[00:03:52]  No question about it.
[00:03:53]  Lots happening in every state.
[00:03:55]  No question about it.
[00:03:56]  And the woman's now facing up to 17 years.
[00:03:58]  Like, how is that ever a good thing?
[00:04:01]  Alina Haba hitting her with violating Title 18, U.S. Code Section 111, A14, assaulting, impeding, interfering with law enforcement.
[00:04:09]  I have a feeling a lot of people, like that guy, Lander, right, who wants to be the next mayor of New York, is going to get hit with impeding and interfering with law enforcement.
[00:04:17]  So you wonder why these ratings are down.
[00:04:19]  You wonder why they're in a crisis.
[00:04:20]  You wonder why they don't know what to do with the likes of us YouTubers over here that are giving you a little bit more spice and a little bit more personality, right?
[00:04:30]  In the news where we actually own our opinions.
[00:04:33]  I'm telling you, MSNBC, here is my advice today.
[00:04:37]  You need to hire, I'm being facetious, more people that look just like Rachel.
[00:04:43]  I mean, what the heck are you doing with a redhead in prime time?
[00:04:47]  I'm seeing a candidate coming up through the ranks.
[00:04:51]  He, she, I think it's he.
[00:04:53]  Sometimes it's a little confusing, right?
[00:04:54]  You know, Chris Hayes.
[00:04:55]  I nearly said Chris Maddow.
[00:04:58]  You see?
[00:04:59]  You see?
[00:05:00]  Right?
[00:05:00]  They all kind of look alike.
[00:05:01]  They're like little carbon copies of each other, and I found one.
[00:05:04]  The bosses at MSNBC are watching this guy.
[00:05:08]  Jens Hackie, run for it.
[00:05:10]  Or squash him.
[00:05:14]  However, you political people handle things like that.
[00:05:16]  The big picture is Los Angeles is a so called majority minority city in a majority minority state.
[00:05:23]  There are more people of color that live in Los Angeles than white people at this point.
[00:05:28]  And many of those people are undocumented.
[00:05:29]  By some counts, 10% of the population of LA County, one of the largest counties, the largest county by population in the United States, is undocumented, maybe as many as a million people.
[00:05:39]  Those people are our neighbors, our coworkers, our classmates, our friends, our parishioners, fellow parishioners in churches.
[00:05:48]  They are part of the fabric of the city of Los Angeles.
[00:05:51]  So here's the thing their ratings are in the tank.
[00:05:58]  They can't actually figure out how to navigate this new position, right?
[00:06:02]  Joe and Mika are trying, hence the visit to Mar-a-Lago.
[00:06:07]  And their viewers said, bye-bye.
[00:06:08]  You know, they were right with Rosie.
[00:06:10]  We don't want anything to do with you if you're going to be on Trump's side or like try and present something kind of in the middle.
[00:06:15]  And the rest of the viewers are like, wait a second, you lied.
[00:06:17]  And you're still lying.
[00:06:19]  And by the way, you put a Reddit in, in prime time.
[00:06:23]  What was that?
[00:06:24]  I'm telling you, watch that guy, okay?
[00:06:27]  Watch, watch, watch, because they like clone him over there.
[00:06:30]  And if you look like Rachel and sound like Rachel, you might just have a future.
[00:06:34]  This one, oh, poor Peppermint Patty.
[00:06:37]  One Jen Saki is not good on television, has no personality, is an excellent liar, and is looking at sinking ratings.
[00:06:47]  She's at 971,000 viewers.
[00:06:49]  Over the last month, down from Rachel's nearly 2 million earned through 2025, a 47 drop according to the ratings that were out in may.
[00:06:58]  So that's not looking good.
[00:07:00]  But you know what?
[00:07:00]  They shouldn't be surprised.

=== Unsurprisingly Lacking Talent (01:28) ===

[00:07:02]  They really shouldn't be surprised because, i'm sorry, she's not talented, she's just not.
[00:07:07]  I mean Rachel, she's not my cup of tea, but the, the woman, does have talent.
[00:07:12]  Okay, i'm gonna tell you that, even when you you may say I can't stand her, I don't like her, she does have talent.
[00:07:18]  She's got the je ne sais quoi.
[00:07:19]  She takes you down some crazy rabbit hole.
[00:07:21]  I mean, I used to think conspiracy theory on steroids.
[00:07:24]  For goodness sakes, you guys look at us and think that we're the conspiracy theorists.
[00:07:27]  She's the one with the Russia Russia, Russia rabbit hole non-stop.
[00:07:30]  She did an excellent job with that conspiracy theory.
[00:07:33]  That never turned out to be true.
[00:07:34]  And, by the way, did she ever find Trump's taxes right?
[00:07:36]  All of this stuff that she kept you going on, day in, day out, constantly on the edge of your seat waiting and, of course, none of it happened.
[00:07:46]  None of it materialized, but she presented a good little story along the way.
[00:07:49]  So, even with the short hair and the glasses, you know what it worked for her.
[00:07:53]  Jen's sake, does not have that.
[00:07:55]  I'm just saying it like it is, okay?
[00:07:57]  So MSNBC is going to continue to struggle.
[00:08:00]  Their ratings are going to continue to dive.
[00:08:02]  And my prediction is at some point they move Jens Hockey into the contributor role and Rachel comes back, ladies and gentlemen, with a bang.
[00:08:12]  I know you don't like that, but if I were in charge, if I were producing and I had to produce a Democrat network, that's what I would be thinking.
[00:08:23]  We shall see.
[00:08:24]  But you know what?
[00:08:25]  They're going to have to deal with their crisis and it's going to get worse and it's going to get worse.
[00:08:28]  And well, who really? cares right