Morning Joe Claims Admin Tried To ‘Blackmail’ Them Into Better Coverage; Trump Denies

Friday, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, as well as Willie Geist, spoke about a peculiar story involving the White House, the National Enquirer, and blackmail:

SCARBOROUGH: We got a call that, hey, the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story against you guys, and…the president is friends with the guy who runs the National Enquirer. And they said: “If you call the president up, and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and, basically, spike this story.”