THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2023

Cable News Ratings

MONDAY: Maddow leads MSNBC prime time to 2 million average viewers ... read our full Monday cable news ratings analysis here.

Total Viewers (thousands)

ET FNC CNN MSNBC NEWSMAX NEWSNATION
6a FOX AND FRIENDS:
760		 CNN THIS MORNING:
264		 MORNING JOE:
853		 WENDY BELL COMMON SENSE:
34		 EARLY MORNING:
16
7a FOX AND FRIENDS:
1025		 CNN THIS MORNING:
308		 -- WAKE UP AMERICA:
63		 MORNING IN AMERICA:
33
8a FOX AND FRIENDS:
1298		 CNN THIS MORNING:
418		 -- -- --
9a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
1521		 CNN NEWSROOM:
507		 MORNING JOE:
889		 NATIONAL REPORT:
120		 --
10a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
1492		 CNN NEWSROOM:
535		 MSNBC REPORTS- LIVE:
712		 -- NWSN LIVE W/ MARNI HUGHES:
36
11a FAULKNER FOCUS, THE:
1620		 AT THIS HOUR:
590		 JOSE DIAZ-BALART REPORTS:
633		 -- --
12p OUTNUMBERED:
1703		 INSIDE POLITICS:
691		 ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:
646		 JOHN BACHMAN NOW:
87		 --
1p AMERICA REPORTS:
1438		 CNN NEWSROOM:
653		 CHRIS JANSING REPORTS:
743		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
108
2p AMERICA REPORTS:
1417		 CNN NEWSROOM:
592		 -- AMERICAN AGENDA:
96		 BLUE BLOODS:
236
3p STORY, THE:
1319		 CNN NEWSROOM:
579		 KATY TUR REPORTS:
860		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
288
4p YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:
1397		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
569		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
1436		 CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:
170		 BLUE BLOODS:
377
5p FIVE, THE:
3128		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
591		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
1689		 SPICER & CO:
161		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
174
6p SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:
2358		 SITUATION ROOM:
515		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
1970		 RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUS:
190		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
60
7p JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME:
2769		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
664		 REIDOUT:
1386		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
270		 ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:
56
8p TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:
3408		 ANDERSON COOPER 360:
682		 ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:
1529		 ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:
154		 CUOMO:
148
9p HANNITY:
2552		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
489		 RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:
2537		 PRIME NEWS:
127		 DAN ABRAMS LIVE:
76
10p INGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:
2030		 CNN TONIGHT:
426		 LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:
1907		 GREG KELLY REPORTS:
165		 BANFIELD:
67
11p GUTFELD!:
1861		 CNN TONIGHT:
356		 11TH HOUR W/ S. RUHLE:
1028		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
124		 CUOMO:
71

25-54 Demo (thousands)

ET FNC CNN MSNBC NEWSMAX NEWSNATION
6a FOX AND FRIENDS:
102		 CNN THIS MORNING:
74		 MORNING JOE:
87		 WENDY BELL COMMON SENSE:
0		 EARLY MORNING:
2
7a FOX AND FRIENDS:
152		 CNN THIS MORNING:
60		 -- WAKE UP AMERICA:
2		 MORNING IN AMERICA:
4
8a FOX AND FRIENDS:
164		 CNN THIS MORNING:
85		 -- -- --
9a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
157		 CNN NEWSROOM:
83		 MORNING JOE:
77		 NATIONAL REPORT:
4		 --
10a AMERICAS NEWSROOM:
140		 CNN NEWSROOM:
93		 MSNBC REPORTS- LIVE:
91		 -- NWSN LIVE W/ MARNI HUGHES:
4
11a FAULKNER FOCUS, THE:
198		 AT THIS HOUR:
114		 JOSE DIAZ-BALART REPORTS:
110		 -- --
12p OUTNUMBERED:
183		 INSIDE POLITICS:
129		 ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:
110		 JOHN BACHMAN NOW:
7		 --
1p AMERICA REPORTS:
174		 CNN NEWSROOM:
130		 CHRIS JANSING REPORTS:
112		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
20
2p AMERICA REPORTS:
152		 CNN NEWSROOM:
108		 -- AMERICAN AGENDA:
12		 BLUE BLOODS:
43
3p STORY, THE:
145		 CNN NEWSROOM:
86		 KATY TUR REPORTS:
98		 -- BLUE BLOODS:
53
4p YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:
147		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
99		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
144		 CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:
12		 BLUE BLOODS:
60
5p FIVE, THE:
288		 LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:
117		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
160		 SPICER & CO:
10		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
30
6p SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:
230		 SITUATION ROOM:
102		 BEAT W/ARI MELBER:
179		 RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUS:
6		 NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:
10
7p JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME:
274		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
149		 REIDOUT:
146		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
23		 ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:
9
8p TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:
439		 ANDERSON COOPER 360:
162		 ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:
154		 ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:
13		 CUOMO:
21
9p HANNITY:
262		 ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:
120		 RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:
249		 PRIME NEWS:
9		 DAN ABRAMS LIVE:
13
10p INGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:
203		 CNN TONIGHT:
107		 LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:
168		 GREG KELLY REPORTS:
16		 BANFIELD:
22
11p GUTFELD!:
273		 CNN TONIGHT:
103		 11TH HOUR W/ S. RUHLE:
123		 ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:
5		 CUOMO:
10

Media Winners & Losers
MEDIA WINNER:
Pamela Brown

CNN’s Pamela Brown interrogated Drew Findling about his client’s January 2021 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Just days before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, former President Donald Trump phoned Raffensperger to “find” the necessary number of votes to vault Trump ahead of Joe Biden, who won the state.

Findling is now representing Trump in a case where Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating the former president’s efforts to overturn the election in Georgia.

While speaking with Findling on Monday, Brown aired a snippet of the roughly hourlong phone call from Trump to Raffensperger, later asking, “Are you worried the facts in this case are not favorable to your client given what we just heard there and other calls?”

Findling encouraged people to "look at the evidence" instead of listening to "eight or nine seconds" of a call, claiming that his "client did not break any laws whatsoever.”

Brown pushed back, noting that the snippet was not taken out of context, as she read the whole transcript of the call, which shows Trump asking Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" needed to stop Biden's win.

"What is an innocent explanation for that if you’re saying that that is ok?” Brown asked.

Findling refused to answer Brown throughout the grilling, dodging Brown when she asked how that call could be acceptable for the president to make.
MEDIA LOSER:
Simon Ateba

Pete Santilli, a right-wing radio host, advocated recently on his show for the execution of former President Barack Obama along with former Attorney General Eric Holder and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice if former President Donald Trump is indicted this week — as Trump has claimed he will be.

This comes after Trump’s post on Truth Social over the weekend where he alleged that he will be arrested Tuesday stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation over a hush-money payment to adult star Stormy Daniels.

The video was posted by Right Wing Watch on Twitter Monday and shows Santilli raging for the military’s involvement so that the “criminals” can be held accountable.

“Get the military, whatever few are left that are gonna side with the people. That you military personnel and you people with guns and badges and law enforcement will succumb to the will of the people,” Santilli raged.

He then demanded that those responsible for the murder of John F. Kennedy "rise up" and take accountability for ultimately creating an "entire criminal cabal that came about as a result" of the murder.

Those in the "cabal"? Obama, Holder, and Rice, of course.

The radical right-wing host then suggested lining up the former officials against a concrete wall and “do what we must do to save not just our country, the entire world."

Um, seems obvious but ... a big no to that one, Santilli.

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