Joy Reid’s ascension to MSNBC's vaunted 7pm weekday time slot makes her one of the few Black women to ever host a prime time news show so we had to dig into the archive and replay our interview from 2018. She digs into how she handles Trump surrogates on TV, how she dealt with getting fired while on the air, and how she survived the death of her mother just before she was set to go to Harvard. She’s an extraordinary person who’s both brilliant and hard working and I’m proud to call her a friend. 

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