<p>&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski made another stop on the apology tour as she and her husband and cohost Joe Scarborough attempt to do damage control and appease their left-leaning audience after they dared to take a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Brzezinski and Scarborough announced during Monday morning&#8217;s broadcast that they had met with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago in an effort to reopen the lines of communication after not speaking for a number of years. The move prompted critics on the left to say that they shouldn&#8217;t have offered Trump that kind of legitimacy — and critics on the right to wonder why, after they had compared him to Adolf Hitler, Trump would give them the time of day.</p>
<p>In the days since the pair have offered several explanations for their decision to meet with Trump — and they have repeatedly assured their audience that they still don&#8217;t agree with him on many things — and Wednesday was no exception.</p>
<p>&#8220;People are really scared,&#8221; Brzezinski told The Daily Beast editor-in-chief Joanna Coles and her <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mika-defends-mar-a-lago-visit-musk-trump-road-trip/id1767675909?i=1000677726300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> cohost Samantha Bee.</p>
<p>&#8220;I’ve been surprised at the backlash,&#8221; she said of their meeting. &#8220;And the way I look at it is, people are really scared. And it’s one of the reasons we went in there is people are really scared about Donald Trump’s comments that, you know, political adversaries, a lot of people are scared because of what has happened with abortion. These are all issues that are important to me and in some ways personal to me, but definitely personal to the people I really care about.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Brzezinski went on to say that she believed it was part of her job to talk to people who might disagree or even attack her personally and that she felt she had made a mistake in not speaking with Trump over the last several years.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, I mean, it’s my job to interview and talk to people I disagree with, feel threatened by or who have hurt my feelings in some way. So here’s how I do it. I do my job. I mean, do I really not go in there because he tweeted about me bleeding badly from the facelift at Mar-a-Lago, I don’t know, eight, nine years ago?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;I mean, we haven’t talked in seven years. And I will say that’s a problem, too. So I’m worried about myself and how I conduct myself in this media universe that we’re in, taking stock of everything that has happened. I don’t regret anything I’ve said during the campaign, and I stand by it. But I’m also looking at how to do things differently. And I would never turn down an opportunity to gain insider information. Never. So how I handle mean tweets or the personal stuff is that that’s just not something I’m supposed to worry about. That’s my job.&#8221;</p>

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