As anxieties run high throughout the media business, MSNBC’s Ari Melber sees the positives in the channel’s pending spinoff from Comcast, meaning that NBC News no longer will be a sister organization.

Actor and director Rob Reiner is issuing a warning amid Donald Trump’s continued crackdown on free speech, cautioning that the United States has only a year before it becomes a “full-on autocracy” and “democracy completely leaves us.”

MSNBC ’s Ana Cabrera cut into Speaker Mike Johnson ’s press conference on Thursday to correct his claim that Democrats seek free health insurance for undocumented immigrants. (Watch the video below.) Parroting the GOP’s wildly misleading assertion about the Democrats’ intent while negotiating an end to the government shutdown, Johnson said: