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    Alex Wagner joins 'the most ambitious television program on the air,' Showtime's 'The Circus'

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2018 5 minutes

    NEW YORK - Alex Wagner grew up immersed in politics in Washington, D.C., where her late father, Carl Wagner, advised such Democrats as Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy. As she recently recalled over a pot of ginger tea, he'd sit by the phones at night waiting for poll numbers, answering calls with a gruff "Give me the numbers!"

    But she followed a circuitous path to political journalism. In her 20s, she focused on music, working as editor of the hipster magazine the Fader, but in 2007 the so-called Saffron Revolution in her mother's native country, Myanmar, stirred a desire to be "more engaged with the world."

    After stints as executive director of George Clooney's anti-genocide organization Not On Our Watch and a White House correspondent for Politics Daily, in 2011 Wagner landed her own MSNBC show, "Now With Alex Wagner," despite being a TV newbie. "We had no

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