On Saturday’s Up with Steve Kornacki, we’ll be discussing the politics of the death penalty from state to state, austerity’s effect on entitlements, and Obamacare’s implications for the GOP in 2014.
Joining Steve at 8 AM ET will be:
Ed Pilkington, U.S. Correspondent, The Guardian (@EdPilkington)
Kirk Bloodsworth, Director of Advocacy, Witness to Innocence and the first American sentenced to death row who was exonerated by DNA (@BloodsworthDNA)
Christina Swarns, Director of the Criminal Justice Practice, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (@ChristinaSwarns)
Patrick Murphy, msnbc Contributor, Former Congressman (D-PA) (@patrickmurphypa)
Jared Bernstein, msnbc Contributor, Sr. Fellow, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities (@econjared)
Heather McGhee, Vice President, Demos (@hmcghee)
Josh Barro, Columnist, Bloomberg View (@jbarro)
Lori Montgomery, Economic Policy Reporter, The Washington Post (@loriamontgomery)
Sarah Kliff, Health Policy reporter, The Washington Post (@sarahkliff)
Perry Bacon, Jr., msnbc Contributor, Political Editor, TheGrio.com (@perrybaconjr)
Meredith Clark
Meredith Clark is a freelance writer and editor. She was previously a senior news producer for "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj," a reporter with MSNBC.com, the digital politics and culture editor at Glamour and a senior news and politics editor at Refinery29. She has written for Vulture, Rolling Stone, Self, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast and Bustle.