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Dylan Byers, Puck's founding partner, and media expert, swings by to discuss MSNBC's overwhelming problems: Maddow's oncoming departure, Ari Emanuel's vulcan grip on the network's leadership, and the widening chasm with CNN, just to name a few. MSNBC seems to be running the Trump-era playbook in an entirely new age. So what's next? And does anyone at NBCU even care?

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