Scripps News is working with Politico on new shows covering the 2024 election.

The Race will air weeknights at 6 p.m. ET starting January 15. The show aims to tell viewers how politics and the 2024 campaign impact their lives. It will be anchored by Chance Seals and include contributions from Politico journalists.

The Race — Weekend will appear Saturdays at 9 a.m. on Scripps News starting January 20. It will also air in weekend timeslots on stations owned by parent company E.W. Scripps.

The weekend show will break down the week’s biggest political headlines. Contributors will include Scripps White House correspondents Haley Bull and Serena Marshall, congressional reporters Nathaniel Reed and Stephanie Liebergen, national political correspondents Ava-joye Burnett and Alex Miller, political director Andrew Rafferty and deputy political director Joe St. George.

A wide range of Politico’s journalists will join the program to share reporting and insights.

The first edition of the show will talk about the results of the Iowa caucuses and look ahead to the New Hampshire primary, with a panel featuring Politico senior campaign and elections editors and chief polling officer Steven Shepard and Politico national political correspondent Natalie Allison with Scripps’ Marshall and Rafferty.

Also being added to the Scripps News schedule on January 15 is Main & Wall, a show focusing on how the day’s news affects viewers’ finances and lives. Appearing at 4 p.m. weekdays, Main & Wall is anchored by Chris Stewart and Chris Nguyen and features reporting from Bianca Facchinei.

“Scripps News has experienced correspondents living, working and reporting in cities and towns big and small all over the country,” said Kate O'Brian, president of Scripps News. “This new program lineup puts our strengths on impactful display — independent, on-the-ground reporting delivered live and with timely context.”

Scripps News is a national network broadcast over the air and carried live on most major streaming platforms.

According to a new poll, fewer than a quarter of respondents say Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) should remain in the Senate in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, now from two different women.

The Morning Consult/Politico poll found that 50% of voters said Franken should resign, including 49% of Democrats, while only 22% said he should not. Another option would be for the Senate to expel him, an unusual move, but one that has been raised were Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, the subject of numerous sexual harassment and assault allegations were to win his Senate race.

Only 25% said Franken should not be expelled, while 46 said he should be. Moore's expulsion got the nod from 57% of respondents, while only 18% said he should be allowed to serve.

The senator is familiar to media watchers as both the former SNL cast member, author of books taking aim at Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives. and as one of the strongest critics of media consolidation in the Senate.

More of the respondents (65%) found allegations of sexual impropriety against former President Bill Clinton that about Donald Trump (49%). That was because4 while there was bipartisan support for the Clinton allegations--69% of Republicans and 65% of Democrats, the Trump allegations responses were heavily partisan, with 64% of the Dems saying they were credible versus only 37% of Republicans.

Voters were split over whether public officials

In the sexual allegation credibility category--the poll was taken before the revelations in the past few days regarding Charlie Rose and Rep. John Conyers and Disney's Jon Lasseter, 59% believed the allegations against Harvey Weinstein were credible; 50% said the Kevin Spacey allegations were credible and 47% said the Bill O'Rielly allegations were credible.

The poll was conducted Nov. 16-19 among 2,586 registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.

The poll comes as Franken faced a second allegation of groping.

Lindsay Menz told ABC News that Franken put her hand on her behind while taking a photo together at the state fair. In a statement, Franken said he didn't remember the photo--he takes thousands of them, he said--but said he "felt badly that Ms. Menz came away from our interaction feeling disrespected.”

A Morning Consult/Politico poll finds that the morning news cycle has a majority or respondents feeling nervous about the future in the wake of the reports of various controversies surrounding the Trump administration, a perception held largely by Democrats.

The poll found that a majority of voters (55%, with a plus-or-minus two percentage point margin of error) say they feel nervous about the future. But that number is 83% for Democrats, compared with only 27% of Republicans.

On the angst meter, 62% of Democrats said they "experience anxiety" because of the president's controversies, while only 19% of Republicans say that is the case.

Respondents were split over whether the media were treating Trump fairly, with 43% saying yes and 42% saying no. But in terms of the political breakdown, that was like saying the average of one leg in the fire and the other in a bucket of ice is a pleasant temperature.

Three-quarters (75%) of Democrats said the media were being fair, while three-quarters of Republicans (76%) said they weren't.

Independents were actually split, with 37% saying the media was treating Trump fairly, but 40% saying they were not.

CNN says it was banned from a White House briefing with press secretary Sean Spicer and is reporting the same went for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Politico. The New YorkTimes and Politico confirmed online that they were not allowed to be part of the post-briefing gaggle.

President Donald Trump has said the mainstream media are the enemies of the American people, including taking particular aim at CNN, which he has called "very fake news," and the New York Times, which he has branded "failing" and disgraceful." He  repeated the “enemies” characterization at the conservative CPAC conference Friday. "We are fighting the fake news," he told CPAC. "They are the enemy of the people. They have no sources. They just make them up  when there are none." The President challenged the media to stop using unnamed sources.

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CNN said Breitbart News (its former editor is a top Trump advisor), the Washington Times and One America News Network were allowed to participate in the off-camera briefing, as were other TV news outlets, CNN said.

"The WHCA board is protesting strongly against how today's gaggle is being handled by the White House," the White House Correspondents' Association said in a statement supplied to CNN. "We encourage the organizations that were allowed in to share the material with others in the press corps who were not. The board will be discussing this further with White House staff." 

“Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” said Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, in a statement. “We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.”

Lynn Walsh, national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, suggested the move was out of line.

"Information coming from the White House Press Secretary should be expected to be on the record and open to all news organizations," she said. "The position, by title and purpose, is to share information with journalists and the public so insight and answers can be obtained from the White House and the President regarding policy, decisions and procedures."

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She said that while President Obama and other presidents had allowed one-on-one access to some hand-picked reporters, but said that was different from "a Press Secretary not allowing specific news organizations access to a briefing meant for groups of journalists."

“President Trump's calls for an end to anonymous sources was alarming. It is not the job of political leaders to determine how journalists should conduct their work, and sets a terrible example for the rest of the world, where sources often must remain anonymous to preserve their own lives,” said Committee to Protect Journalists  Executive Director Joel Simon. “We are concerned by the decision to bar reporters from a press secretary briefing. The U.S. should be promoting press freedom and access to information.”

In what could be an industry-wide “I-told-you-so” moment, the federal Rural Utilities Service much-ballyhooed rural broadband initiative appears to have stumbled badly, with about half of the projects funded through the program failing to fully draw the money available to them and a large number of existing projects facing a looming deadline to either spend the money allotted or forfeit it forever, according to a Politico report.

In a sweeping investigation, “Wired to Fail,” Politico found what cable operators have been saying for years – the RUS broadband program is inefficient and has done little to spread high-speed Internet service to the small, rural communities that need it.

Several prominent figures in the cable community tweeted links to the Politico piece, including National Cable & Telecommunications Association CEO Michael Powell; American Cable Association vice president of communicatons Ted Hearn; and Mediacom Communications vice president of legal and public affairs Tom Larsen.

According to Politico, about half of the 300 projects that RUS has approved as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 have not yet drawn on the full amounts awarded. Also, according to the Politic report, all of the infrastructure projects funded by the program were to be completed by June 30, but the RUS has declined to say whether they’ve been finished. About 40 projects funded by the program never were started in the first place – bringing into question RUS’ screening practices.  

For the projects that are still underway an even bigger deadline looms – if they don’t draw on all their available funds by Sept, 30 they risk forfeiting the balance, meaning that about $277 million in funding will be wasted. According to Politico, that money cannot be used in other neglected rural communities.

Cable operators have complained for years that the federal broadband initiatives were merely funding overbuilds of their existing territories, not extending service to so-called underserved communities. In its investigation, Politico found 64 communities near large cities that received loans and grants because they were easier to build – their proximity to denser areas with more people and higher demand for service made it easier to recover costs.

According to Politico, it’s not going to get any better. Even the RUS admits that it is not going to provide better broadband service to the 7 million rural households it once claimed. Instead, the number will be in the hundreds of thousands.