Marcus Mabry Joins MSNBC As Senior Vice President Of Content Strategy
Marcus Mabry is joining MSNBC as senior vice president of content strategy, in which he will be tasked with overseeing the network's current and future digital products and for how it connects with non-liear audiences.
Mabry has been at CNN, most recently as senior vice president of digital editorial and programming for CNN Worldwide.
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'He will lead the development of new, innovative consumer experiences for MSNBC, including identifying new revenue streams for the network, and will oversee the network's growing direct-to-consumer, subscription and premium businesses,' MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler wrote in a memo to employees. He will start on Tuesday and report to Kutler. He'll also work with with Madeleine Haeringer, who joined the network last month as senior VP of digital, audio and longform.
Mabry also will oversee MSNBC Live, the network's live events business. Lauren Peikoff will continue as executive producer, reporting to Mabry.
At CNN, Mabry led the digital editorial and programming teams and was responsible for the CNN.com homepage, mobile and off-platform alerting and publishing and engagement support across the network's businesses. Before CNN, he was the first North American editor of Twitter 'Moments,' the social media platform's news offering. He previously was at The New York Times, and he served as a foreign correspondent, including as Africa bureau chief for Newsweek. He is the author of two books, Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power and White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming Of Age Black In White America.
Mabry's hiring is the latest at MSNBC as it prepares to be spun off from Comcast. The new company, Versant, will include MSNBC, CNBC and other cable networks and brands.
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"Once you're losing people in elections, that's not because you just started losing them," Moore said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun. "It's because you lost them a long time ago." Nationally, Democrats have begun exploring similar outreach. California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a podcast, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox created a task force focused on the well-being of boys and men, and New York Democrats appear to have nominated 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, who ran a heavily social-media-based campaign. Multiple political analysts and Democratic leaders told The Sun that Moore's approach comes across as authentic, with policy ideas to back him up. But Republicans in Maryland question whether Moore's rhetoric has translated into measurable results. Democrats losing ground with young men Support for Democrats among young men fell sharply in 2024. Just 42% of men aged 18 to 29 voted Democratic, down from 56% in 2020, according to a Tufts University CIRCLE analysis. Political researcher John Della Volpe, who co-founded the "Speaking with American Men Project," says many young men see Democrats as weak and out of touch. He attributes Donald Trump's gains among this group more to personality than policy. Young men largely feel betrayed by institutions, Della Volpe said. That feeling started during the pandemic and has been coupled with economic anxiety. "It is deeply frustrating that so many young men still feel the same thing to this day," Moore said. A new model? In his February State of the State address, Moore highlighted rising incarceration and suicide rates among young men, along with declining college enrollment and workforce participation. He asked state agencies to propose targeted solutions - such as promoting entrepreneurship, homeownership and job reintegration after prison. These efforts build on earlier initiatives like mentorship programs, funding for county summer programs, a paid service year for high school graduates and mass pardons for low-level cannabis offenses. "It's not an election strategy for us," Moore said. "It's something we believe in." Sen. Cory McCray, a Baltimore Democrat, praised Moore's job training efforts as a way to give young men "exposure and access" to role models and tools for success. But Republicans remain skeptical. "A lot of things … with this administration, sounded real good," said Senate Minority Whip Justin Ready. But he said he hasn't seen "a lot of action" or concrete results. Ready said many of the policies Moore touts don't specifically target young men. Senate Minority Leader Steve Hershey added that Moore's "priorities seem to shift with political headlines," and said Marylanders deserve consistent, comprehensive leadership. Moore also faced pushback from Democrats who have not been universally supportive of some of the governor's recent actions, including policies they say could impact young men in the state. The governor recently vetoed a bill that would have created a commission to study reparations for descendants of enslaved people. Moore said he wanted policies that deliver results - not "another study." Is it working? Moore has positioned himself as a results-oriented leader, often distancing himself from what he calls "needless debate," which has helped people see him as a doer and addresses a common desire among younger people to change the status quo, Washington College associate professor Flavio Hickel said. In a speech in South Carolina this year, Moore called on his party to stop being the party of "no and slow." About 53% of 18- to 34-year-olds and 53% of men in Maryland approve of the job he's doing, according to a March Gonzales Poll, the most recent one available. 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A rush transcript of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" airing on Sunday, June 29, 2025 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor transcription errors. For previous show transcripts, visit the "This Week" transcript archive. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ZOHRAN MAMDANI, DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL CANDIDATE FOR NEW YORK: Together, New York, we have renewed our democracy. We have given our cities permission to believe again. In our New York, the power belongs to the people. (END VIDEO CLIP) JONATHAN KARL, ABC "THIS WEEK" CO- ANCHOR: That was 33-year-old Democratic socialist Zohan Mamdani, who shocked the political world with his victory in the New York Democratic primary for mayor. I'm joined now by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Let -- let's start with the big news, Leader Jeffries, out of your home town. Mamdani won a big victory. Have you endorsed him yet? REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES - HOUSE MINORITY LEADER, (D) NEW YORK: I have not. We had a conversation on Wednesday morning where I congratulated him on the campaign that he ran, a campaign that clearly was relentlessly focused on the high cost of living in New York City and the economy. He out worked, he out communicated and he out organized the opposition. And that's clearly why he was successful. KARL: So, what's holding you back from endorsing him right now? JEFFRIES: Well, we don't really know each other well. Our districts don't overlap. I have never had a substantive conversation with him. And so, that's the next step in terms of this process, to be able to sit down, which we agreed to do, in central Brooklyn, discuss his vision for moving the city forward and addressing the issues that are important to the communities that I represent. A very diverse district that I represent in Brooklyn, including many African Americans, many Jewish Americans, many Caribbean Americans who are dealing with a lot of challenges in the city and want to make sure that the next mayor of the city of New York, whoever that may be, is prepared to tackle them. KARL: Mamdani calls himself a Democratic socialist. He proposed, obviously, big tax increases, free mass transit, free bus fares, government run grocery stores. Is this the kind of progressive socialism it is -- we're going to see as the future of the Democratic Party or is this unique to New York City? JEFFRIES: I think that one of the things we've been clear about from the very beginning as House Democrats is that we need to relentlessly focus on addressing the high cost of living in the United States of America. This country is far to expensive for working class Americans, for middle class Americans, for all those who aspire to be part of the middle class. Imagine a country where every single, hard-working American taxpayer can afford to live the good life, work hard, play by the rules, have a good paying job, good health care, be able to afford a home, educate your children, go on vacation every now and then, and one day retire with grace and dignity. The good life. The American dream. That is not accessible to everyone. And so I think it will continue to be important for all of us on the Democratic side to address relentlessly the issue of the lack of affordability in this country. Donald Trump promised to lower costs on day one. Costs haven't gone down. They're going up. In fact, the guy is crashing the economy in real time and posing these reckless Trump tariffs that are going to increase costs by thousands of dollars a year. And he may even drive us toward a recession. KARL: You mentioned the diversity of your district, including a lot of Jewish constituents. Mamdani has made comments that some have said veer towards anti-Semitism. 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And when there are moments of crisis and a rise in anti-Jewish hate, that's a threshold, of course, that needs to be crossed. With respect to the African American and Caribbean American communities that I represent, it's going to be important for our nominee to articulate the case for dramatically and decisively addressing the rise in gentrification and the housing displacement that threatens to continue to wipe out low and moderate income, black and Latino communities in New York City. It's an unacceptable phenomenon. And the next mayor of the city of New York has to be able to articulate a clear plan and commitment to address these concerns for the people that I represent and folks all across the great city of New York. KARL: All right, let's turn to developments here in Washington. The Supreme Court (INAUDIBLE) decision empowering Donald Trump by limiting the power of judges to stop his executive orders or to freeze his executive orders. How big a deal is this? This was really the one way -- the one restraint on his actions that's been effective so far. JEFFRIES: Well, it was an unfortunate decision from a procedural standpoint as it relates to what should have been a very clear case. If there is any instance where nationwide injunctions are appropriate, it would be in a -- in a manner like what we've just experienced in terms of birthright citizenship, which is clearly a part of the Constitution. If you are born as a child in the United States of American, you are a citizen. So, it was a procedural setback that was quite unfortunate, and it was a reckless decision, in my view. However, in terms of the fight judicially to protect birthright citizenship, that remains alive and well. And we're just going to have to intensify our efforts now in district court after district court or to get a class action certified on behalf of people who may be adversely impacted by this reckless Trump executive order. KARL: And -- and you were at the briefing, the classified briefing, Friday on Iran and on the U.S. air strikes. Did you get satisfactory answers and do you have a sense now, was the program really -- I mean the president says obliterated, but -- but what did you learn? JEFFRIES: Well, let's be clear, Iran is a sworn enemy of the United States of America, as well as our allies in the Middle East, like Israel and Jordan. And we can never allow Iran to be a nuclear capable power. That said, there are a lot of questions that remain unanswered, in my view, as it relates to the actions that the Trump administration took relative to Iran. Why did they not seek the congressional authorization required by the Constitution for this type of preemptive strike? I still haven't seen facts presented to us as a Congress to justify that step, and I certainly haven't seen facts to justify the statement that Donald Trump made that Iran's nuclear program has been completely and totally obliterated. We also need the case to be made by the administration to the American people as to how to best accomplish the objective of preventing Iran from becoming nuclear capable. Why did they abandon the aggressive diplomacy that was successful under the Obama administration, and what is their plan to stop us from getting into another failed Middle Eastern war. A lot of questions that need to be answered. And those answers haven't been compelling to date. KARL: All right, a lot of questions for sure. Leader Jeffries, thank you for joining us. JEFFRIES: Thank you. KARL: Up next, the roundtable's take on what the New York mayor's race could mean for Democrats nationwide and how the Justice Department forced out the president of the University of Virginia over DEI policies. We're back in a moment.
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Jeffries holds back on endorsing Democratic NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hesitated to endorse Democratic New York City mayor contender Zohran Mamdani but praised his 'successful' campaign and messaging. 'I have not,' Jeffries said when asked by 'This Week' co-anchor Jonathan Karl if he had endorsed Mamdani. Jeffries said he spoke to Mamdani on Wednesday but plans to meet in person soon in Central Brooklyn. 'I congratulated him on the campaign that he ran, a campaign that clearly was relentlessly focused on the high cost of living in New York City and the economy. He outworked, he out communicated, and he out organized the opposition, and that's clearly why he was successful,' he said. Pressed on why he's holding back from endorsing Mamdani, Jeffries said, 'We don't really know each other well.' 'Well, our districts don't overlap. I have never had a substantive conversation with him. And so that's the next step in terms of this process … to discuss his vision for moving the city forward and addressing the issues that are important to the communities that I represent,' he said.
