Mark Finkelstein
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Mark's undergrad degree is from Cornell. He has law degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Harvard. He practiced law in NYC, Mexico City, and Paris, before doing a stint as a pro tennis manager and tournament organizer. He returned to his college town of Ithaca, NY and got involved in real estate development and politics.

In 2011, Mark moved to Pecan Plantation, TX, and in 2018, to Oak Island, NC.

Mark's a dog lover who has used his small plane to do many dog-rescue flights. He speaks Spanish and French.
 

MarkF | September 18, 2013
On Morning Joe, new "Time" editor Nancy Gibbs says the move of her predecessor Rick Stengel from "Time" to a State Department job in the Obama administration was a "natural extension" for him.
MarkF | September 17, 2013
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says MSNBC and the media at large would be "killing" George W. Bush if he had given a harshly partisan speech attacking the other party, as President Obama did yesterday,  on a day when mass murder such as that at the U.S. Navy shipyard was still unfolding.
MarkF | September 16, 2013
On Morning Joe, MSNBC's Richard Wolffe, touting his new book on the 2012 Obama campaign, says senior campaign officials got together and decided to fire deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter but that no one had the "balls" to tell her.
MarkF | September 13, 2013
Ed Schultz says "it amazes me that people don't love Obama."
MarkF | September 12, 2013
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell claims the world is coalescing around President Obama's position on Syria and says there is a lot of optimism surrounding US negotiations with Russia.   James Carville expresses pessimism.
MarkF | September 6, 2013
On Morning Joe, after Joe Scarborough empathizes at length, in the context of the Syrian situation, about what a lonely job President Obama has, David Axelrod says "there have been many days where I wonder, gee, I wonder if all of us who helped him get elected did him a favor."
MarkF | September 5, 2013
On Morning Joe, Howard Dean says we should trust President Obama on Syria because he knows more about the situation than we do.Joe Scarborough rejects Dean's argument, saying "don't ever trust that the president has more information than we do."
MarkF | September 4, 2013
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell accuses President Obama of "bungling" Syria.
MarkF | September 3, 2013
On Morning Joe, man-about-Manhattan-and-the-Hamptons Donny Deutsch tells Scarborough that "your liberal friends are making you soft."
MarkF | August 30, 2013
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, without naming him by name, suggests that Mark Levin, who has been very critical of Scarborough, is "jealous" of him and that he feels "sorry" for Levin.