Mediaite’s Noah Rothman joined Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV Wednesday to react to the surprise information of Martin Bashir stepping down from MSNBC. Except, for Rothman, it in point of fact wasn’t all that surprising. He mentioned that this will have to were expected when Bashir’s “trip” carried over into week two.

However while Rothman mentioned this seems to be a favorable sign for MSNBC cracking down on one of the crucial extra “reprehensible” rhetoric on their community, he did categorical sympathy for Bashir’s production team, now stuck within the fallout of his resignation.

Rothman additionally took on President Obama‘s interview with Chris Matthews, a surprise he described as determined in his Mediaite column on the topic. Rothman laughed that Matthews seems to lack any roughly “self-consciousness” in his preview of the interview.

Rothman and Malzberg additionally tackled the rebranding occurring at CNN, with Rothman noting Jeff Zucker appears to be overlooking the ratings-grabber The Lead, a superior news express hosted through Jake Tapper, while Malzberg was once amazed to listen to there’ll actually be a conservative power hour of sorts on CNN this week.

Watch the video under, by means of Newsmax TV:

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