1. Mark Evan Halperin was born on January 11,1965 and is an American journalist, television cable host, political commentator and founder of the interactive media platform 2WAY.
17 Facts About Mark Halperin
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In 2010, Mark Halperin joined MSNBC, becoming the senior political analyst and a contributor.
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Mark Halperin was born in New York City but raised in Bethesda, Maryland.
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In that capacity, Mark Halperin appeared frequently as a correspondent and political analyst for ABC News television and radio programs.
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Mark Halperin founded and edited The Note, which appeared daily on ABCNews.
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Since 2006, Mark Halperin has served as a board member of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
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Mark Halperin has been on their public advisory board since it was created in 2008.
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In March 2007, Mark Halperin became a political analyst for ABC News and was replaced as political director by David Chalian.
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On June 30,2011, Mark Halperin was suspended from his duties at MSNBC for "slurring" President Barack Obama on the program Morning Joe, after he said of Obama "I thought he was kind of a dick" for his performance at the previous day's press conference.
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The Washington Post's Dana Milbank noted that in June 2016, on his Bloomberg TV show, With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin asserted that "it's not racial" for Trump to attempt to disqualify an Indiana-born federal judge as a "Mexican" because of his ancestry.
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On November 3,2016, NBC's Brian Williams said Mark Halperin had "gone out of his way" to give Trump favorable coverage.
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Yet another woman told CNN that Mark Halperin once pressed his penis to her shoulder during the 2004 campaign cycle.
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Mark Halperin apologized for pursuing "relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me", but he denied allegations that he had ever pressed his genitals against one woman and grabbed another woman's breast.
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Mark Halperin apologized to the women he "mistreated" while acknowledging that he recognized he had a problem near the end of his tenure at ABC, received weekly counseling sessions, and ended the behavior; however, a later report from The Daily Beast included an allegation of harassment from 2011.
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Since the beginning of 2019, Mark Halperin resumed posting on Twitter.
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Around the same time, Mark Halperin appeared on Sirius XM with Smerconish, where he said he has been working with the Fortune Society, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that provides essential support to the formerly incarcerated.
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In 2024, Mark Halperin founded and launched a startup interactive video platform called "2Way," where he currently facilitates daily live video conference calls.