<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/morning-joe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221;</a> host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-scarborough" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Scarborough</a> lashed out on Tuesday because his show was removed from the MSNBC lineup the previous day following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and as the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee got underway.
Sitting next to his wife and co-host, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mika-brzezinski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mika Brzezinski</a>, Scarborough tore into his own network after a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/media/msnbc-morning-joe-pulled-trump-assassination/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN source claimed</a> the decision to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-pulls-morning-joe-off-air-monday-over-fear-guests-could-make-inappropriate-comment-after-trump-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pull the show</a> was meant to avoid the prospect of a guest making an inflammatory comment that could open the program or network to criticism. Scarborough, a former GOP congressman, even suggested the hosts of &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; would quit the top-rated show if it was sidelined again.
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Trump broke MSNBC. <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeNBC</a> says this morning, the day after his bosses didn’t allow him to go on air, that if <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> bumps them from the air again they can find new hosts. <a href="https://t.co/8d0Rkuev8X">pic.twitter.com/8d0Rkuev8X</a>
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&#8220;We were told, in no uncertain terms on Sunday evening, that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC news channels yesterday, and today’s show would be Lester Holt,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Other people that, well, you worked with on Sunday and that was going to be one news feed across all NBC news channels, that we were going to stay as a network in breaking news mode throughout, all day yesterday. That did not happen.&#8221;
Scarborough continued, &#8220;We don’t know why that was — that didn’t happen. Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen, but it didn’t happen. We were also told it was going to happen throughout the day. And I guess, after there was such a strong blowback about yesterday morning, I guess they changed their plan. And so those plans changed as well. So it didn’t.&#8221;
The host said, &#8220;We’ve talked about it, off the air&#8221; and stressed, &#8220;We’ll talk about it on the air because we talk about everything on the air.&#8221;
&#8220;We were very surprised. We were very disappointed,&#8221; Scarborough added. &#8220;And if we had known that there wasn’t going to be the one news feed, from NBC news across all NBC news channels, Willie, we obviously would have been in yesterday morning.&#8221;
Willie Geist, another co-host of &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; said he was up early to help with coverage on Sunday in the aftermath of the attack on Trump and explained that he was &#8220;suited up and ready to go&#8221; for Monday&#8217;s show, but was told there would be something else airing. &#8220;We want to be here for our audience, and we know you trust us, and we have ultimate respect for you guys. So we are here today. I wish we’d been here yesterday,&#8221; he said.
After Scarborough cut in to emphasize how they would like to figure out why there was not one news feed, Brzezinski explained the reason why they wanted to be there was &#8220;this show began and continues 17 years later on being the place where you can go to have the hard conversations in a civil way and so it seemed like now more than ever is a day — a time we&#8217;d like to be on, and I think our viewers agree with that. So we continue.&#8221;
Scarborough interjected. &#8220;Let me just say, next time we&#8217;re told there&#8217;s going to be a news feed replacing us we will be in our chairs,&#8221; he said. Brzezinski agreed, saying they would be there, and Scarborough went on, &#8220;The news feed will be us or they can get somebody else to host the show.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to MSNBC and NBCUniversal seeking comment. Please check back for updates.

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‘Very Disappointed’: Joe Scarborough Threatens Revolt If MSNBC Pulls ‘Morning Joe’ Again

'Very Disappointed': Joe Scarborough Threatens Revolt If MSNBC Pulls 'Morning Joe' Again

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MSNBC pulled &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; off the air on Monday in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, opting to continue running breaking news coverage instead.
The leftist network decided not to air the top-rated politics show&#8217;s first broadcast since Saturday&#8217;s deadly shooting over concerns that one of the show&#8217;s guests might make an &#8220;inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/media/msnbc-morning-joe-pulled-trump-assassination/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing a person familiar with the matter.
&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; will resume airing on Tuesday, the network said.
Trump narrowly missed being killed by a bullet to the head at Saturday&#8217;s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The bullet grazed the former president&#8217;s right ear, and he ducked behind his podium before being whisked away by Secret Service agents. He raised his fist and shouted, &#8220;Fight!&#8221; as he exited the stage.
Law enforcement returned fire immediately, killing the shooter. At least one rallygoer was killed, and two others were injured.
On social media, some <a href="https://x.com/MarkDavis/status/1812817058951811373" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> MSNBC&#8217;s decision proved that the network does not trust its own highly influential show.
&#8220;Stunning. On this uniquely impactful morning, MSNBC pulls its signature show Morning Joe, for fear that some jackwagon panelist would say something grotesquely inappropriate. Profoundly pathetic&#8230; and probably a wise move on their part,&#8221; conservative radio host Mark Davis posted.
The decision to pull &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; for Monday was made by Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC, and the show hosts themselves, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the source told CNN.
“Given the gravity and complexity of this unfolding story, NBC News, NBC News NOW and MSNBC have remained in rolling breaking news coverage since Saturday evening,” a spokesperson for NBCUniversal News Group said in a statement to CNN.
“As we continue to cover this story into the week, the networks will continue to cross simulcast, alternating between NBC News, NBC News NOW and ‘MSNBC Reports,’ so there is one news feed covering this developing situation,” the spokesperson said.
MSNBC has frequently come under fire for its coverage attacking Trump, some blaming the network for fomenting a heated political atmosphere that could contribute to violent acts.
Scarborough said Sunday that his family is praying for Trump and the other victims of the shooting.
&#8220;Political violence has scarred America’s landscape from JFK through January 6th. Republican and Democratic politicians alike have been victims and this violence has caused incalculable harm to America. Thank God President Trump is safe,&#8221; Scarborough said in a <a href="https://x.com/JoeNBC/status/1812451524385050722">post</a> on X.
MSNBC also previously pulled three Muslim broadcasters off the air in the wake of Hamas&#8217; deadly October 7 attack on Israel.

MSNBC TV Hosts Joe Scarborough And Mika Brzezinski Interviewed By Philanthropist And Financier David Rubenstein In DC

MSNBC Pulls ‘Morning Joe’ Off Air Monday Over Fear Guests Could Make ‘Inappropriate Comment’ After Trump Assassination Attempt

MSNBC Pulls 'Morning Joe' Off Air Over Fear Guests Could Make 'Inappropriate Comment' After Trump Assassination Attempt

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Joe Biden is in very, very serious electoral trouble.
A brand new <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/june-2024-state-polls-trump-maintains-edge-over-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set of polls</a> from Emerson Polling finds that Donald Trump is currently up five points in Pennsylvania, five points in Georgia, one point in Michigan, four points in Arizona, three points in Wisconsin, and six points in Nevada.
In other words: a Donald Trump blowout.
Biden&#8217;s team is trying to pretend that all is well and fine, but CNN’s Harry Enten said that the polls are actually worse than they have been for any Democrat since the year 2000. That&#8217;s how bad these polling numbers are.
In an interview yesterday, Enten <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnc/date/2024-07-08/segment/04" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
<blockquote>Right now Donald Trump leads in an aggregate of national polls by about three percentage points. If you go back four years ago at this point, Joe Biden was ahead by nine points. This, right now, [doesn’t] look anything like what we saw four years ago at this point. … The idea that the polls underestimated Joe Biden last time around, simply put, does not hold any water.</blockquote>
He continued:
<blockquote>So, the idea in the Trump era that the polls have underestimated Democrats, whether it be in a Joe Biden matchup, whether it be a matchup against Hillary Clinton, whether it be in the midterms, at least in the national polling that right now shows Donald Trump in his strongest position, simply put, is not true. If anything, the polls have underestimated Republicans during the Trump era, especially in the presidential races in 2016 and in 2020.</blockquote>
The stonewalling and the excuse-making from the White House? None of it is working. And Biden is not going anywhere.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2000-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
On Monday, Biden put out <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-the-democratic-party-intention-accept-the-presidential-nomination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a letter</a> on his intention to accept the presidential nomination, writing to his fellow Democrats:
<blockquote>I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.
I have had extensive conversations with the leadership of the party, elected officials, rank and file members, and most importantly, Democratic voters over these past 10 days or so. I have heard the concerns that people have &#8211; their good faith fears and worries about what is at stake in this election. I am not blind to them. Believe me, I know better than anyone the responsibility and the burden the nominee of our party carries. I carried it in 2020 when the fate of our nation was at stake.
I also know these concerns come from a place of real respect for my lifetime of public service and my record as President, and I have been moved by the expressions of affection for me from so many who have known me well and supported me over the course of my public life.
I&#8217;ve been grateful for the rock-solid, steadfast support from so many elected Democrats in Congress and all across the country and taken great strength from the resolve and determination I&#8217;ve seen from so many voters and grassroots supporters even in the hardest of weeks.
I can respond to all this by saying clearly and unequivocally: I wouldn&#8217;t be running again if I did not absolutely believe I was the best person to beat Donald Trump in 2024.</blockquote>
That&#8217;s because he is delusional; his brain no longer functions and he is blocking out all outside interference and voices at this point. 
He continued, writing:
<blockquote>We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively. I received over 14 million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. </blockquote>
He didn&#8217;t have an opponent, so there’s that.
<blockquote>This was a process open to anyone who wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me. One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent. Another attacked me for being too old and was soundly defeated. The voters of the Democratic Party have voted. They have chosen me to be the nominee of the party.
Do we now just say this process didn&#8217;t matter? That the voters don&#8217;t have a say?
I decline to do that. I feel a deep obligation to the faith and the trust the voters of the Democratic Party have placed in me to run this year. It was their decision to make. Not the press, not the pundits, not the big donors, not any selected group of individuals, no matter how well intentioned. The voters &#8211; and the voters alone &#8211; decide the nominee of the Democratic Party. </blockquote>
All those voters voted before Biden basically had a mental collapse on stage with Trump, of course. But he&#8217;s not leaving. He’s telling you that he is not going away. But how exactly is Biden going to recapture the magic with the base?
There&#8217;s one outlet he knows he can trust. One place where everybody knows his name. And that, of course, is on &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; over at MSNBC, his favorite show. 
Joe Scarborough, who, just a few days ago after the debate, said that perhaps it was time for Biden to reconsider staying in the race, is back on the bandwagon, and he says the Dems should stop calling for Biden&#8217;s ouster.
On Sunday, Scarborough <a href="https://x.com/JoeNBC/status/1810052883183743290" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “Joe Biden can now say he’s having to fight: Media elites. Billionaire donors. Washington politicians. Hollywood moguls and MAGA extremists. Biden allies will likely mock these elites for wanting to substitute their judgment for that of millions of Democratic primary voters.”
There&#8217;s a big problem with that particular argument, which is that the Democratic base is significantly less comfortable with Biden, according to polls, than the Democrat elite.
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Yesterday, Mika Brzezinski defended Biden’s performance in an interview with George Stephanopoulos: “It’s not like it’s the first time he flubs his words.”
So Biden called into &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; And this was a big moment for MSNBC, the magic moment where Biden had the friendliest reporters to him on planet Earth speaking with him.
The first thing Biden did was make a bad joke about Donald Trump golfing. And then it started to get a little worse because, again, Biden can&#8217;t keep with it. He obviously had notes right in front of him, and he was actually reading from the notes. In fact, at one point during this interview as he read from the script, you could hear him fumble with the papers.
But even with Joe and Mika, he couldn&#8217;t keep it under control. He was asked why he wouldn&#8217;t take a cognitive test. (Biden doesn&#8217;t want to take a cognitive test. He&#8217;s going to fail. That&#8217;s the problem.) So he started protesting about how he doesn&#8217;t need tests; he has been testing himself.
“It drives me nuts, people talking about this,” he said.
Biden was then asked about how he could assure he wouldn’t have a night like the debate again. He started rambling about how people can’t be sure they won’t get hit by a car on their way to work.
It all ended with some shouting, which is what you want from an old man — shouting at clouds.
At the very end of this interview, he started yelling how he&#8217;s frustrated by the elites in the party. He started ripping into the elites because that was his cue from Scarborough. And then he started bristling, “Challenge me.”
I love Joe Biden ripping the elites. That dude has been in Congress since he was 29-years-old. He&#8217;s now 8,211-years-old.
By what standard is he not an elite?

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President Joe Biden lashed out at his favorite MSNBC hosts during a Monday morning interview, scolding them for daring to ask about his apparent cognitive decline and whether or not any official testing had been done to evaluate him for any potential age-related conditions.
Biden, 81, whose last two weeks have been punctuated by a disastrous debate performance followed by an &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-pollster-calls-on-biden-to-resign-now-after-incoherent-stephanopoulos-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incoherent</a>&#8221; interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, seemed equal parts frustrated and belligerent when &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski pressed him about his cognitive state.
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MSDNC: &#8220;Have you been tested for any age-related illnesses &#8230; that might explain having a night like that where you couldn&#8217;t finish sentences!?&#8221;
BIDEN (angry rambling): &#8220;I&#8217;ve been testing myself! &#8230; It drives me NUTS people talking about this!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/A5iyoij06s">pic.twitter.com/A5iyoij06s</a>
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Brzezinski posed the question, asking, &#8220;Have you been tested for any age-related illnesses — pre-Parkinson&#8217;s or anything like that — that might explain sort of having a night like that where you couldn&#8217;t finish sentences?&#8221;
Biden started out laughing a bit uncomfortably.
&#8220;I was feeling so badly before the debate, when I came back they tested me for &#8230; they thought maybe I had COVID, there was something wrong, I had an infection or something,&#8221; Biden said, suggesting that he had received some medical tests but not directly answering whether he had been tested for anything age-related. &#8220;They tested me, they gave me those tests, I was clear.&#8221;
&#8220;So, but look, I had a bad night,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;But the fact of the matter is &#8230; look at what I&#8217;m doing, I mean, let me put it this way. If there was something that was wrong that night, it&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s [unintelligible] that&#8217;s one night and goes away, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been out. I&#8217;ve been testing myself everywhere I go. Going out and making the case. The night of that debate I went out, I was out until two o&#8217;clock in the morning. That very night! That very night! It drives me NUTS people talking about this!&#8221;

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‘It Drives Me NUTS!’: Biden Scolds ‘Morning Joe’ Over Questions About Cognitive Decline

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&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mika-brzezinski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mika Brzezinski</a> raised the specter of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast, saying that as they devolve into chaos and violence, the anti-Israel protests on college campuses have taken on the same look.
Brzezinski addressed the issue with her guest, the Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s Jonathan Greenblatt, who said that anti-Semitism has risen dramatically on college campuses as the protests grow into &#8220;Gaza Solidarity Encampments.&#8221; In some cases — a few of which have been caught on video — masked protesters have physically blockaded Jewish students and refused to speak with reporters.
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Morning Joe says the student protests are reminiscent of January 6:
&quot;This does look like January 6th. What a terrible example for our students.” <a href="https://t.co/9v0296agsZ">pic.twitter.com/9v0296agsZ</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1785315138255401083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Brzezinski, upon viewing footage of some of the protests, made the connection to January 6.
&#8220;That’s the place we’ve all been sitting in, watching this, going, ‘What the hell is going on? What are these universities doing? Why aren’t they doing something?’ And I’ll echo the horror that this does look like January 6th. What a terrible example for our students,&#8221; she said.
Brzezinski went on to warn that if they persisted in such actions — especially if things escalated to more vandalism and even violence — the students risked throwing away everything they&#8217;d worked for in getting to college, as universities have begun to threaten protesters with suspensions and even expulsion.
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&#8220;I think these college students obviously are missing the part where they need to see what’s going on across the country with these protests, that it’s now in the realm of violence, it’s in the realm of hatred whether some are peaceful or not,&#8221; Brzezinski continued, suggesting that they engage in debate on the issues rather than participating in protests and violence. &#8220;They need to watch the news and look at all the different arguments and be adults or start learning to be adults.&#8221;
Brzezinski is not the first to draw a comparison to January 6. Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo made the point several days earlier, wondering why people were not as angry about the anti-Semitic protests as they had been about the Capitol riot.
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Maria Bartiromo wonders why people aren&#39;t as upset about demonstrations at Columbia as they are about January 6 <a href="https://t.co/V4poC5Nyyx">pic.twitter.com/V4poC5Nyyx</a>
&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1782763239274697136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘Morning Joe’ Host Says Pro-Hamas College Protests ‘Look Like January 6th’

'Morning Joe' Host Says Pro-Hamas College Protests 'Look Like January 6th'

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NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss took the media furor over former President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; comments to new heights during a Monday appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221;
During an Ohio campaign rally over the weekend, Trump predicted a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if he does not win reelection in 2024, and media outlets fell all over themselves trying to make it look as though he was predicting politically motivated violence and a literal bloodbath. They left out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medias-wall-to-wall-coverage-of-trump-bloodbath-comment-delivers-zero-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">important context</a>, however — namely that he had made the comment while talking about the potential impact of a car company owned by Communist China building vehicles in Mexico in order to evade U.S. tariffs.
Beschloss left out the context as well — and suggested that Trump would promote political violence whether he won or lost.
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MSNBC’s <a href="https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BeschlossDC</a>: “A major party candidate is saying, ‘You elect me, there’s going to be dictatorship, bloodbath, violence, retribution against my political enemies that equals what we’ve seen in Germany &amp; Italy &amp; other places.” <a href="https://t.co/Yg7KHdWibq">pic.twitter.com/Yg7KHdWibq</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1769716525659807832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Host Mika Brzezinski set him up to take that particular path, claiming as she introduced him that Trump was beginning to sound &#8220;more and more like a fascist&#8221; and complaining that too few people knew history well enough to recognize the signs.
&#8220;There&#8217;s that vulnerability that Trump preys upon,&#8221; Brzezinski said. &#8220;And then there are those who are making the choice — I need to understand that. Is there any precedent, or is this how fascism works?&#8221;
Brzezinski went on to suggest that no one could support Trump unless they were either compromised or uneducated. &#8220;Are they sucked in and brought in on different terms whether Trump has something on some Republican leaders or others are just so uninformed — they don&#8217;t care. Is it a mixture? How does it work? Is there a precedent?&#8221;
&#8220;I totally agree with what you just said,&#8221; Beschloss told Brzezinski. &#8220;That&#8217;s how fascism and totalitarianism and — in Germany&#8217;s case, the Holocaust came to Germany, which had been a country where there were big institutions of democracy until as you well know, the early 1930s.&#8221;
&#8220;In a way, Donald Trump has done us all a favor,&#8221; Beschloss continued, arguing that Trump was making it easier for people to identify the risk of fascism by telling the American people who he was when he made such comments.
&#8220;A major party candidate is saying, &#8216;You elect me, there’s going to be dictatorship, bloodbath, violence, retribution against my political enemies that equals what we saw in Germany and Italy and other places,'&#8221; he said, suggesting that even if Trump were to win his reelection bid, political violence would necessarily follow.

Today – Season 67

NBC Historian Takes Media’s ‘Bloodbath’ Insanity To A Whole New Level

NBC Historian Takes Media's 'Bloodbath' Insanity To A Whole New Level

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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews claimed on Wednesday that rural Americans were essentially members of a &#8220;cult&#8221; and would &#8220;vote their craziness&#8221; if Democrats did not show up at the polls in numbers large enough to prevent them from doing so.
Matthews made an appearance during a panel discussion on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; joined by fellow panelist and former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) as well as regular hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. He explained that if Democrats wanted to fight back on issues they cared about, they would have to make sure they voted in large numbers.
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Brzezinski began by setting the stage, noting that the Iowa caucuses were just days away and primary elections would begin just a short time after.
McCaskill noted that caucuses could be awkward for those who are not supporting former President Donald Trump, particularly in more rural areas where he is more popular.
&#8220;If you are not on Donald Trump’s bandwagon, if you’re not a member of the cult, then you just stay quiet,&#8221; she said — but pointed out just how difficult that could be when there was a caucus rather than a traditional primary. &#8220;Everybody sees which — which corner of the room you go to, uh, who you are joining.&#8221;
&#8220;Iowa is days away. New Hampshire is coming up. And Donald Trump, given this conversation, even, is the clear frontrunner,&#8221; Brzezinski prompted, turning the floor over to Matthews.
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&#8220;You know, I think President Biden gave a good speech on Friday. I think he began the conversation about the Constitution and democracy,&#8221; Matthews began. &#8220;But I think he has to turn the corner and go to the next step. The reason we love our democracy. The reason we all love it is, if we don’t like the government and they’re doing something, we can do something about it.&#8221;
Matthews went on to argue that the most important issue to vote for was civil rights, giving a rambling story about the city of Philadelphia to illustrate his point.
&#8220;You know, when I was growing up in Philadelphia, there were the black, a majority of black, majority now, they voted, they were highly registered voters. They were more registered than the white people. You know why? Because they had Frank Rizzo as mayor. You had a law and order guy, and they said, this is the only way we can defend ourselves. You had, you had black lives, this is an early case of that. You have to defend yourself. You have to vote to protect your rights in the Constitution.&#8221;
&#8220;The Bill of Rights was put there by Jefferson and Madison because people said the Constitution and democracy is not enough. We have to write in here our Bill of Rights,&#8221; Matthews continued, adding, &#8220;And I have to, and voters have to get out there and say, damn it, if I’m a young person, if I’m a black person, if I’m out in the streets and I don’t trust the cops, I got to vote that way. And if I am a woman, I want to protect myself in my own decisions. I’ve got to vote that way.&#8221;
He then argued that the 2024 election was likely to be a close one, saying that made it even more important for Democrats to get out and vote: &#8220;It’s going to be very close in places like Pennsylvania, and you’re gonna have rural people out there voting their craziness about the cult, so you better be there to match them and you got to be there. Vote against that. And I’m telling you, this is really important that you vote for your rights.&#8221;
&#8220;I know it is. And for women especially, we’ve already lost many rights,&#8221; Brzezinski said, referencing the overturning of the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. &#8220;Fifty years of rights.&#8221;

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Chris Matthews Calls Rural Americans ‘Cult’ Members Who Will ‘Vote Their Craziness’ If Democrats Don’t Stop Them

Chris Matthews Calls Rural Americans 'Cult' Members Who Will 'Vote Their Craziness' If Democrats Don't Stop Them

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> unnerved Democrats and leftist commentators over the weekend with his remarks on immigration at a New Hampshire rally. 
During a speech in Durham, New Hampshire, on Saturday, Trump focused on illegal immigration as the border crisis under President Joe Biden worsens with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/migrant-encounters-at-border-last-month-mark-highest-october-on-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record numbers</a> of migrants unlawfully crossing into the U.S. 
“They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said at the rally, adding, “That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
Trump’s reference to “poisoning the blood” outraged many on the Left, who said that the phrase was reminiscent of language used by Adolf Hitler. Democrats and the Biden campaign took issue with the words, claiming Trump was “parroting Hitler” with the remark. Biden’s campaign then argued that Trump has a plan “to lock up millions of people into detention camps.” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-trump-defense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Trump was “literally channeling Hitler, talking about poisoning the blood of America.&#8221; Scarborough’s co-host, Mika Brzezinski, added, “Donald Trump, once again, used the language of 20th-century authoritarians.”
The Biden campaign issued a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/17/biden-campaign-trump-parroted-hitler.html">statement</a> on Saturday, criticizing Trump for the comments he made during his rally, including remarks about having good relationships with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and quoting Russian President Vladimir Putin. 
“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy. Trump is not shying away from his plan to lock up millions of people into detention camps and continues to lie about that time when Joe Biden obliterated him by over 7 million votes three years ago,” the Biden campaign said.
On Sunday, Kristen Welker, another MSNBC host, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/sen-graham-could-care-less-when-trump-uses-poisoning-the-blood-remark-200448581544" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed</a> Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to address Trump’s language on immigration. 
“You endorsed former President Trump,” Welker said. “Are you comfortable with him using words like that?”
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“We’re talking about language. I could care less about what language people use as long as we get it right,” Graham responded. 
Brzezinski later responded to Graham’s remarks, saying, “The language that [Trump] uses turns out to be what he does.”
Trump’s GOP foe Chris Christie also chimed in on the controversy <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/17/chris-christie-trump-comments-jake-tapper-sotu-vpx.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on CNN.</a> 
“He’s disgusting, and what he’s doing is dog-whistle to Americans who feel absolutely under stress and strained from the economy and from the conflicts around the world, and he’s dog-whistling to blame it on people from areas that don’t look like us,” Christie said. “The other problem with this is the Republicans who are saying this is okay.”

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Trump Enrages The Left With Immigration Comments, Team Biden Claims He Wants To 'Lock Up Millions' 

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&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski warned viewers on Wednesday that if Democrats were not successful in the upcoming 2024 election, the &#8220;mini-Trumps&#8221; would be sure to continue in the same vein as former President Donald Trump.
Brzezinski made the comments during a conversation with Molly Jong-Fast, during which they argued that Democrats needed to do a better job of attacking Trump — and warning that if they didn&#8217;t, Republicans would be able to control the narrative.
&#8220;There’s always the issue. ‘We don’t want to go negative. We don’t want to go ugly.’ When you’re running against Donald Trump, just go real,&#8221; Brzezinski said, as Mediaite reported, arguing that the smartest thing Democrats could do is just highlight the things that Trump himself has said and done.
&#8220;Just use what material Donald Trump has provided, put it in proper context, and give people information about what will be happening if he gets another term. I think that would be enough, and I think Democrats need to pound away at the dangers of Donald Trump, using Donald Trump’s own words against him, and actions,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mika-brzezinski-sounds-alarm-on-the-spread-of-mini-trumps-like-tommy-tuberville-and-republicans-caught-in-a-cult/#:~:text=Just%20use%20what%20material%20Donald,words%20against%20him%2C%20and%20actions.">said</a>.
Jong-Fast agreed, saying that media had to be careful to cover everything — and then work to counter everything Trump said on social media as well.
&#8220;When mainstream media does not cover a subject, there becomes a vacuum. And Trump and his people get into social media and they spread stuff. And if there isn’t a fair amount of debunking, you will see these lies go again and again and again,&#8221; she claimed.
&#8220;And talk about spreading. You can also cover the mini-Trumps,&#8221; Brzezinski replied, suggesting that Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-NC) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) fell into that category.
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&#8220;They’re all mini-Trumps, all Republicans caught in a cult that honestly, Republicans that you know in your life, you can’t recognize these Republicans,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is all out there, and it’s accurate information that can be used against him that Trump has amassed over the course of 4 to 8 years, and he has given the Democrats on a silver platter. Take it and run with it!&#8221;

Mika Brzezinski Warns Democrats They Have To Stop Invasion Of ‘Mini-Trumps’

Mika Brzezinski Warns Democrats They Have To Stop Invasion Of 'Mini-Trumps'

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie got into a heated spat with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski over abortion — specifically late-term abortion — which led to the two scolding each other: &#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with me!&#8221;
Christie joined Thursday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; where Brzezinski brought up the topic of abortion — as it had been discussed at the third Republican presidential primary debate the night before — and accused the former New Jersey governor of being &#8220;dishonest&#8221; about it.
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2024 GOP candidate Chris Christie and MSNBC’s <a href="https://twitter.com/morningmika?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@morningmika</a> get into an intense back-and-forth on abortion.
Christie: “Don’t mess with me on the law, Mika.”
Brzezinski: “Don’t mess with me on how women feel about using the ninth month argument on the issue of abortion.” <a href="https://t.co/VPWNtXEkBu">pic.twitter.com/VPWNtXEkBu</a>
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&#8220;Another issue that you talked about last night was abortion. You and I disagree on this issue,&#8221; Brzezinski began. &#8220;But the one thing you keep saying is, you keep talking about abortion in the ninth month, which is allowed in your state. And the last time I asked you to like bring me the case where a woman walked into a doctor’s office in the ninth month and said I’ve decided I don’t want to have a baby, please take this out. It doesn’t happen. Less than 1 percent of abortions are performed after 21 weeks.&#8221;
Brzezinski went on to claim that the majority of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46-democrat-senators-voted-for-it-jen-psaki-faces-fact-check-tidal-wave-over-abortion-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">late-term abortions</a> happened due to medical emergencies, and Christie did not appear to disagree until she suggested that he had said something he hadn&#8217;t.
&#8220;I just think, of all the candidates, you’ve been the most honest about Trump and election integrity, but in this one respect I have to call you out because you’re not being honest on the issue. We can debate abortion, but there isn’t abortion in the ninth month,&#8221;
&#8220;Mika, you’re the one who’s not being honest. I did not say there was abortion in the ninth month. What I said was that the law in New Jersey and New York and Illinois and California permits it,&#8221; Christie replied. &#8220;And you can’t deny that that’s the truth because it is. And so – and so, look, you know, don’t call somebody a liar –&#8221;
&#8220;It doesn’t happen, Chris,&#8221; Brzezinski objected.
Christie continued to push back, saying that he had only made the point that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-abortion-won-ohio-voters-add-abortion-to-state-constitution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the law permitted it</a> — which it did — and had not ever claimed that people were having abortions in the ninth month.
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&#8220;I’m not calling you a liar,&#8221; Brzezinski insisted. &#8220;I – it’s not honest.&#8221;
The conversation continued in that vein until Christie finally asked, &#8220;Does the law permit it in those states? Well, that’s all I said. So I don’t understand what your problem is with that. In the end, if that’s what the law permits, that’s what the people who passed those laws said is OK, is legally permissible. That’s the point I’m making.&#8221;
&#8220;Chris, you’re painting a picture about the issue of abortion that is not honest. And this is a health issue for women,&#8221; Brzezinski insisted. &#8220;And there are women who are in extreme situations who need healthcare, and they should get it. We can debate that &#8230; But there are not women in the state of New Jersey trouncing into doctor’s offices asking for abortions in the ninth month. It doesn’t happen.&#8221;
&#8220;And – and – and – and by the way, you know, you could continue to set up that straw man for yourself to knock it down because you’re mischaracterizing what I said. I am giving you the state of the law. And the state of the law in those states are that you could go into a doctor’s office and do it. And that’s all I said,&#8221; Christie said again.
Christie continued to point out the fact that he had only been describing the law as it was written – not necessarily how it was or was not being applied — and asked Brzezinski to explain what he had said that was dishonest.
&#8220;Don’t mess with me on the law, Mika, I know that,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Yes, don’t mess with me on how women feel about using the ninth month argument on the issue of abortion,&#8221; Brzezinski said.

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MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-scarborough-floats-questionable-theory-on-why-people-like-ron-desantis-better-than-kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Scarborough</a> led a &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; panel discussion on Tuesday during which he and several others attempted to spin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-mere-traffic-ticket-trump-slams-doj-for-hunter-biden-plea-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s indictment</a> as &#8220;good news&#8221; for his father, President Joe Biden.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-scarborough-reads-biden-admin-the-riot-act-over-classified-docs-fumble-amateur-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scarborough</a> set the scene, saying that the Hunter Biden indictment was just the last entry in a long laundry list of &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; that had been stirred up by Republicans — specifically &#8220;Trump Republicans,&#8221; who he said wanted to damage the president by connecting him to anything that stuck to his son.
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Hunter Biden gets indicted, MSNBC attacks Republicans Joe Scarborough says &quot;Republicans have been trying to stir up conspiracy theories&quot; Jonathan Lemire says that for Joe Biden, this &quot;is good news&quot; but the GOP &quot;will continue hammering away no matter what the facts actually hold&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uyvv4WYbh7">pic.twitter.com/uyvv4WYbh7</a>
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&#8220;Obviously Republicans, Trump Republicans have been trying to stir up conspiracy theories left and right, one after another have been disproven, one after another we found out – The Wall Street Journal editorial page themselves said, &#8216;No fire here, smoke all over the place, no fire,'&#8221; Scarborough began.
&#8220;Not only have they proven nothing, they have senior members of the Senate saying we don&#8217;t care whether he&#8217;s guilty or not, we don&#8217;t care whether he did this stuff or not, it&#8217;s all been a show,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Well, that show has just been exposed by Trump&#8217;s own — by Trump&#8217;s own prosecutor, a Trump-appointed prosecutor in Delaware.&#8221;
Scarborough referenced the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-reaches-plea-deal-over-tax-crimes-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal reportedly struck</a> by the president&#8217;s embattled son – a deal in which Hunter Biden will plead guilty to misdemeanor tax crimes and avoid jail time — and turned the question over to Jonathan Lemire.
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&#8220;Yes, Hunter Biden, pleading guilty,&#8221; Lemire repeated, going on to suggest that Republicans had simply been throwing accusations at the younger Biden in the hopes that something would eventually stick. &#8220;Certainly Republicans have, for literally years now, accused Hunter Biden of basically everything under the sun, including that he&#8217;s the mastermind behind the Biden crime family and corruption and all that, charges which we don&#8217;t need to get into now because they were never brought.&#8221;
Lemire concluded that was &#8220;good news&#8221; — the fact that he had not been charged with anything that could be directly tied to his father — but Lemire agreed that the investigations into Hunter Biden on other matters were still likely to continue: Republicans, he said, &#8220;will continue hammering away no matter what the facts actually hold.&#8221;

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MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-scarborough-reads-biden-admin-the-riot-act-over-classified-docs-fumble-amateur-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Scarborough</a> said that Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-abbott-deploys-special-national-guard-force-to-southern-border-ahead-of-expected-illegal-immigrant-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott&#8217;s</a> negligence (R-TX) was to blame for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-need-everybody-hero-cop-called-for-backup-before-taking-on-texas-mall-shooter-alone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting</a> that took place on Saturday at an outlet mall in his state — and another deadly incident involving a man who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-identify-suspect-accused-of-mowing-over-18-people-near-border-has-extensive-criminal-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drove a vehicle</a> into a crowd of migrants — arguing that Abbott was &#8220;refusing&#8221; to protect Texans.
Scarborough and his cohost Mika Brzezinski addressed the weekend&#8217;s violence on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; beginning with an editorial sent to the governor by The Dallas Morning News editorial board.
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&quot;There is a sickness in the state of Texas and that sickness starts at the very top with Greg Abbott, who refuses to protect little children&#8230;whether it&#39;s at school or church or shopping malls or even inside their own homes.&quot; &#8212;<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joenbc</a> <a href="https://t.co/LC5Z6yAprT">pic.twitter.com/LC5Z6yAprT</a>
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The letter <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2023/05/07/gov-abbott-you-must-act-on-gun-violence/">called</a> on Abbott to take action on gun violence, claiming it was not &#8220;conservative&#8221; to not act when there was a problem, saying, &#8220;You must speak to the terrible imbalance that you and Republican leaders have created between the individual liberty of nearly unrestricted ownership of the most powerful rifles and guns versus the increasing decline in society’s ability to function without constant fear of violent death.&#8221;
Scarborough immediately launched his attack on Abbott as well, saying, &#8220;You have a group of migrants being run down and killed here. The U.S. has by far the highest child and teen firearm mortality rate among poor countries. Our little children are being slaughtered. And Greg Abbott has nothing to say about it. He just wants to change the subject.&#8221;
Scarborough went on to claim that Abbott, after such acts of violence, was more interested in the alleged perpetrator&#8217;s immigration status than he was in how the individual was able to get his hands on a firearm.
&#8220;So is it any surprise that we have migrants being run over with this sort of lack of leadership, the sort of cynicism, this sort of hatred in Texas? Is it any surprise that we have migrants, on Sunday morning, some of them probably going to church, getting run over while they’re waiting for a bus, or that we have a neo-Nazi sympathizers, possible white supremacists going to malls to gun down other people?&#8221; he continued.
Scarborough finished with a direct accusation, saying, &#8220;There is a sickness in the state of Texas, and that sickness starts at the very top with Greg Abbott, who refuses to protect little children in the state of Texas, whether it’s at school or whether it’s his church or whether it’s at shopping malls or even inside their own homes.&#8221;

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