*** Friday’s “The Daily Rundown” line-up: Obama advisor David Simas on the health care adjustment and final hours of the first wave of sign-ups… Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on his Ukraine trip and Russia’s role there… Rich Cohen on his book “Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football” and how that team’s impact echoes on and off the field today… plus more on the top ten races to watch in 2014.
*** Friday’s “Jansing & Co” line-up: Richard Lui hosts: Guests: Benjy Sarlin, MSNBC.com; Ju Hong, Asian Students Promoting Immigrant through Education (ASPIRE); Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA); Bob Herbert, Demos; Chris Kofinis, Democratic Strategist; Kristan Hawkins, President, Students for Life; Bob Sullivan, Tech Writer and Sharon Epperson, CNBC.
*** Friday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Joy Reid hosts. Guests: Josh Barro, Politics Editor at Business Insider (@jbarro), Karen Finney, Former DNC Communications Director/MSNBC Host “Disrupt” (@finneyk), Kate Nocera, Congressional Reporter, BuzzFeed (@katenocera), Matthew Yglesias, Business and Economics Correspondent, Slate (@mattyglesias). Plus: Ezekiel Edwards, Director of the Criminal Law Reform Project, ACLU (@ezekielaclu) and Deepak Chopra, Author, “What Are You Hungry For?”
*** Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: Andrea will interview Sen. Ron Wyden, msnbc's Chris Matthews, NBC "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza and Anne Gearan, Maj. General (Ret.) Michael Lehnert, Film producer Harvey Weinstein and AFT Pres. Randi Weingarten.
*** Saturday’s and Sunday’s “Weekends with Alex Witt” line-up: For a “holiday edition” Office Politics extravaganza, MSNBC’s Alex Witt interviews fellow MSNBC anchors/hosts Chris Jansing, Thomas Roberts, Tamron Hall, Krystal Ball, Abby Huntsman, Toure, Ari Melber, Steve Kornacki, Craig Melvin, and Karen Finney.
*** Saturday’s “MSNBC Live Weekends” line-up at 2pmET: TJ Holmes fills in for Craig Melvin and his guests will include Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY); David Finkel, author of “Thank You for Your Service”; AP staff photojournalist Charlie Dharapak; Hoover Institution’s Lanhee Chen, a former Romney policy advisor; MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal; Harvard School of Public Health Professor John McDonough; Dennis Brack, author of “Presidential Picture Stories: Behind the Cameras at the White House”; Dr. Jim Tucker, author of “Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives”; Gordon Chang, author of “Nuclear Showdown”; King Features columnist Bob Franken; Matt Schlapp, former political director for President Bush; IMPACT Strategies’ Angela Rye; and Aamir Patel, founder of the Silic shirt.
***Sunday’s “MSNBC Live Weekends” line-up at 3pmET: TJ Holmes fills in for Craig Melvin and his guests will include Katon Dawson, fmr. South Carolina GOP Chair; Jon Ralston, host of “Ralston Reports”; LA Times reporter Chad Terhune; Marc Caputo of The Miami Herald; and Retired Army Lt. Rajiv Srinivasan.
