Rachel Maddow After Again Draws Huge Ratings for MSNBC
The Nielsen ratings for its next night of Rachel Maddow’s meeting with Lev Parnas Thursday on MSNBC dropped short of Wednesday’s record-breaking viewership (4.5 million viewers), notching down marginally at 4.3 million.
However, it was the third largest most-watched app at the background of”The Rachel Maddow Show.” (The 2nd most-watched was on Jan. 8, 2019.)
From the essential mature 25 into 54 market, Thursday’s continuation of this Parnas interview on”Maddow” attracted 745,000, beating Fox News (621,000) and CNN (375,000). In total viewers at the 9 p.m. hour,”Maddow’s” 4.3 million supposed that the program defeat”Hannity” (3.9 million) by that dimension also. “Maddow” has been the first time most-watched series on television Thursday night.
The interviews “Maddow” aired the week that the impeachment of Donald Trump has transferred into the Senate, once the arguments over whether there’ll be new evidence introduced there’ve reached a fever pitch. Parnas is a former partner of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. He also Igor Fruman were arrested in October on charges they had been funneling foreign currency to politicians so as to influence U.S.-Ukraine relations. Parnas has pleaded not guilty, and is now out on bond.
In Section 1 of this meeting, Parnas implicated Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, former national security advisor John Bolton, attorney general William Barr and Republican congressman Devin Nunes in Trump’s alleged efforts to stress Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into exploring former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
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In Section 2, he appointed former energy secretary Rick Perry, Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. When Maddow pushed him he had been doing the meeting, Parnas said he is fearful of Barr’s Justice Department, which manages the Southern District of New York, where he’s been billed.
“They are trying to frighten me into not speaking,” Parnas informed Maddow. “My wife is fearful. My children are worried.”
