Richard Engel is live with his new Friday program on MSNBC.

[madaboutharry]

He is doing Friday nights for the summer in Rachel's time slot.

He started off the show by saying that Trump got played by the Russians.

[BigmanPigman]

1. I have always enjoyed his reporting over the years.

I am glad he was given this opportunity. He deserves it.

[Satch59]

2. Engel is smart & worldly...

I trust his take on this. Kasparov saying Trump was playing into Putin's hands...

Good job Trump...

[bigtree]

3. so far, it has the look and feel of a weekend news 'special'

...veering around the news of the day.

Now going over history....I can't imagine there's a big audience for this, given we come to this time slot to hear Rachel bring it on Friday news dumps.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Engel's a great reporter.

He also makes an excellent point.

[badhair77]

5. I didn't intend to watch it

But I got sucked in quickly. Thought I'd miss Rachel but he did a great job of showing corruption and the horror of this Russian govt. I thought he connected some dots toward the Trump admin also. He scared the daylights out of me with the Christian Right, Trump's people, and Russia. It is scary to have so many Russia and Putin supporters so close to home. Christ and Putin - don't get it at all.