Jonathan Capehart on the Minneapolis Murder, Venezuela and Maduro, and Michelle Obama

Episode 456: Jonathan Capehart on the Minneapolis Murder, Venezuela and Maduro, and Michelle Obama

Journalist, author, MS NOW anchor, and PBS NewsHour analyst Jonathan Capehart

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is a co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MS NOW. From 2020 until 2025 he was anchor of The Saturday Show and The Sunday Show on MSNBC. He is also an analyst on The PBS News Hour. He is a former Associate Editor at the Washington Post, where he was an opinion writer for nearly two decades.He was also deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News and served on its editorial board. His editorial campaign in 1999 to save the Apollo Theater earned the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. His new memoir, “Yet Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home,”, is a NY Times bestseller.

Jonathan and I discuss the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis; Trump, Venezuela and Maduro; and his recent interview with Michelle Obama.

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