MSNBC’s weeknight viewers got a preview of a new show on Monday as Symone Sanders-Townsend joined Inside with Jen Psaki guest host Michael Steele for a panel on the political ramifications of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting initiatives. The fact that the ex-RNC chairman is so at home on MSNBC, he is guest hosting the Biden White House press secretary’s show aside, Sanders-Townsend alleged the beginning of the Trump Administration is akin to the rise of Vladimir Putin in Russia.
Sanders-Townsend told her current weekend and future weekday co-host, “Can I just say one point because I know you’re about to go. So, the point that you started with about why all the focus on Elon Musk. And we always talk about, kind of, some of these similarities between what’s happening now and Russia in 2000 when Putin first came to power. We don’t know any of…