Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, under fire for three-year-old texts in which he advocated the assassination of a political opponent, found no support on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Host Mika Brzezinski brought up the topic, noting that the messages were so disturbing she hesitated to read them on air. Co-hosts Jonathan Lemire and John Heilemann appeared to share her sentiment, expressing similar discomfort with the content.
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The DNC hacks over at Morning Joe are now calling for Jay Jones to get out of the race.
The propaganda press is suddenly turning on Jones after being mum all weekend. <a href="https://t.co/3i4obiuWZG">https://t.co/3i4obiuWZG</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZBVGAC2SIQ">pic.twitter.com/ZBVGAC2SIQ</a>
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“[The] text messages, horrible, I didn’t even want to read them out loud,” Brzezinski began. “How did the — I’m wondering how the text messages came to light?”
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“Deep — deeply disturbing messages,” Lemire agreed, immediately and repeatedly insisting that condemnation of Jones’ texts had come from both sides of the aisle. “Messages that have been swiftly condemned across the political aisle. The Republicans have tried to tie this to the — Congresswoman Spanberger, the gubernatorial candidate, she did very quickly denounce them.”
Spanberger did issue a statement voicing her “disgust” over the messages, but she — and many other Democrats stopped short of calling on him to drop out of the race:
<blockquote>&#8220;After learning of these comments earlier today, I spoke frankly with Jay about my disgust with what he had said and texted. I made clear to Jay that he must fully take responsibility for his words. What I have also made clear is that as a candidate — and the next Governor of our Commonwealth, I will always condemn violent language in our politics.&#8221;</blockquote>
“But it&#8217;s unclear whether this attorney general candidate will stay in the race,” Lemire concluded. “I think there&#8217;s a growing sense that he probably should not. We heard from President Trump last night, but even some Democrat leaders, John Heilemann, have started to say, look, this is inappropriate, you can&#8217;t — and especially at a time right now with such concern about violent rhetoric and political violence — that this is just way beyond the line.”
“Who says that?” Brzezinski interjected.
Heilemann agreed with Lemire’s take, adding, “I would say, not to be too much on the high horse, it’s wildly inappropriate under any circumstances — today, tomorrow, ten years ago, six months ago — I think the pressure is going to be on Spanberger to — and for the whole of the party to ask this candidate to just quit the race because just — both because it&#8217;s the right thing and also the political splash back.”

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‘I Didn’t Want To Read Them Out Loud’: Even ‘Morning Joe’ Isn’t Standing Up For Vile Jay Jones Texts

'I Didn't Want To Read Them Out Loud': Even 'Morning Joe' Isn't Standing Up For Vile Jay Jones Texts

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&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski appeared to realize too late that in their zeal to oppose President Donald Trump at any cost, Democrats were charging headlong into the &#8220;trap&#8221; of defending the violent crime that Trump had promised to stop in Washington, D.C.
Brzezinski and former &#8220;Hardball&#8221; host Chris Matthews were discussing President Trump&#8217;s takeover of law enforcement in the capital city, and the oppositional stance taken by many prominent Democrats and media talking heads — and they came to the conclusion that what the American people would see was Democrats siding with criminals in their efforts to get Trump.
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💡The moment when MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Mika Brzezinski finally realize Democrats have been duped by Trump into defending violent crime in DC:
“It’s a trap!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/J3AlvIKGHA">pic.twitter.com/J3AlvIKGHA</a>
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For Matthews, the sticking point was the murder rate. &#8220;The murder rate — you can&#8217;t keep saying violent crime is down, but the murder rate&#8217;s up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To the average person, the murder [rate] is about life and death. You don&#8217;t brag about a rising murder rate.&#8221;
&#8220;And the Democrats — I agree with you, Mika — have fallen into the trap of defending what&#8217;s indefensible,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a trap! Yes, it&#8217;s a trap,&#8221; Brzezinski replied. &#8220;I mean, it — it&#8217;s not a winner politically to say, &#8216;You&#8217;re wrong, look at the data.&#8217; Because if one violent crime happens in a very heavy populated part of the city, people hear about it and it&#8217;s visceral.&#8221;
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&#8220;They don&#8217;t want it, and they want to — they&#8217;ll gravitate to the person who appears to be doing something about it,&#8221; she concluded.
Meghan McCain was among those who had already noticed a number of Democrats going in that direction, and she commented on the trend: &#8220;Since 2020 — I will NEVER understand democrats messaging of &#8216;murder and crime is actually not a big deal.&#8217; And why they continue to double, triple, quadruple down on it.&#8221;
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Since 2020 &#8211; I will NEVER understand democrats messaging of &#8220;murder and crime is actually not a big deal&#8221;.
And why they continue to double, triple, quadruple down on it.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1955267299184677034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A number, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-to-clean-up-d-c-and-democrats-are-mad">insisted</a> that the crime rate in the nation&#8217;s capital is at a 30-year low — but reports have also circulated suggesting that those numbers come from a D.C. Metro Police report that may have downplayed violent crimes in order to make the city appear safer on paper.

‘It’s A Trap!’: MSNBC Host Realizes Too Late That Dems Are Defending Violent Crime To Get Trump

Chris Matthews

Actor George Clooney was reportedly livid after &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski suggested on live television that former President Barack Obama was pulling the &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Eleven&#8221; star&#8217;s strings.
Biden biographer Chris Whipple revealed details of the heated conversation — between Clooney and an unnamed MSNBC producer — in his upcoming book about the 2024 presidential campaign, &#8220;Unchartered: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.&#8221;
The exchange began with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-clooney-joins-chorus-of-stars-telling-biden-its-time-to-drop-out-of-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clooney&#8217;s shock op-ed</a> after he attended a Hollywood fundraiser for former President Joe Biden, who was still running for re-election at the time. Clooney led with the fact that he considered Biden a friend — but then made it clear he believed it was time for him to step aside and bow out of the race.
&#8220;The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” Clooney wrote at the time. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-joe-biden-team-says-obama-pushed-george-clooney-to-turn-on-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brzezinski</a> was on the air the next morning and argued that it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t George Clooney&#8221; behind the op-ed.
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&#8220;This wasn’t George Clooney,&#8221; Brzezinski declared. &#8220;It just wasn&#8217;t &#8230; I think that Barack Obama has a lot of influence, and I think that there’s, there’s a lot there.&#8221;
Clooney, according to Whipple&#8217;s upcoming tome, was incensed. He reportedly called one of the &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; producers and gave him an earful, asking, &#8220;How the f*** could you let her link me with Barack Obama saying he made me write the op-ed?&#8221;
&#8220;You f***ed me… You’re my friend. You should have stood up for me,&#8221; Clooney continued, even as the producer pointed out he had nothing to do with Brzezinski&#8217;s comments, according to Whipple.
&#8220;George, this is not a f***ing movie,&#8221; the producer reportedly said. &#8220;There’s no script. It’s just not a movie where you go script page to script page.&#8221;

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George Clooney Unloads On Producer After ‘Morning Joe’ Host Claimed Obama Pulled His Strings: Report

George Clooney Unloads On MSNBC Producer After 'Morning Joe' Host Claims Obama Pulled His Strings

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&#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.
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.
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.
&#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.
&#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;
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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.
&#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;

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The Apology Tour Continues: ‘Morning Joe’ Host Is Still Doing Damage Control Over Trump Meeting

The Apology Tour Continues: 'Morning Joe' Host Is Still Doing Damage Control Over Trump Meeting

2024 Election

Donald Trump

Joe Scarborough

Leftist activist and TV personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rosie-odonnell">Rosie O’Donnell</a> expressed her fury over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/msnbc">MSNBC</a> hosts recently traveling to Florida to meet with President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>.
The comedian <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rosie/video/7438776026525732138?lang=en">vented</a> about the meeting on TikTok. “Turn off the TV, because it’s like, impending doom, impending doom,” O’Donnell says in the clip. “But without a warning, they’re just like, ‘Well, Trump nominated so and so.’ Not like, ‘Holy s***, people. You’re not gonna believe this. We gotta do something.’ That’s what the newscaster should be saying. But they’re not. Hopeless.”
She continued, “So Mika [Brzezinski] and Joe [Scarborough] went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. So, last time I ever watch ‘Morning Joe,’ period. End of statement. Unreal, unreal. For months you were telling us he’s the worst thing that could happen to this country and democracy. And then you go kiss his ring. Despicable. Despicable you; both of you.”
O’Donnell was referencing the meeting Brzezinski and Scarborough had with Trump on Friday, which has generated a lot of criticism from Democrats. That meeting was the first time they had spoken face to face with Trump in seven years, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-joe-hosts-blistered-over-attempt-to-restart-communications-with-trump">reported</a>, and it was done in an effort “to restart communications.”
&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-hosts Scarborough and Brzezinski, who are married, said they talked to Trump about several controversial issues, from immigration to abortion, and did not agree on much but stressed that having open communication was the main goal.
&#8220;For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back – why wouldn’t we?&#8221; Brzezinski said. &#8220;Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate.&#8221;
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&#8220;But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote,” she continued. “Joe and I realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.&#8221;
Other MSNBC hosts were also outraged that the meeting happened, with contributor Jennifer Rubin calling it &#8220;disgusting&#8221; on Bluesky, the social media platform started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey that’s become popular with leftists.
Host Katie Phang <a href="https://x.com/KatiePhang/status/1858520409710182606">posted</a> on X, &#8220;Normalizing Trump is a bad idea. Period.&#8221;
Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8216;The Daily Show,&#8217; answered Brzezinski&#8217;s rhetorical question about why wouldn’t they meet with Trump. “Uh…Because you said he was Hitler.”
Even conservatives are questioning the motives of the meeting. Nikki Haley, who lost the GOP presidential nomination to Trump, weighed in, <a href="https://x.com/NikkiHaley/status/1858573360256393618">posting</a> on X Monday, “Let’s be clear, Joe and Mika didn’t suddenly see the light, they saw their ratings. They realized they needed Trump for their survival.”

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Rosie O’Donnell Melts Down Over MSNBC Hosts Meeting With Trump: ‘Despicable’

Rosie O'Donnell Melts Down Over MSNBC Hosts Meeting With Trump: 'Despicable'

Entertainment

Rosie O'Donnell

Well, folks, it&#8217;s time for Joe and Mika version 3.0.
On Monday, there was a big announcement on Morning Joe that had a lot of heads spinning. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who are now a married couple (although, when they first started the show, they were married to other people), decided that it was time for a little <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-what-was-discussed-in-meeting-with-scarborough-brzezinski">kiss and make up</a> with Donald Trump.
Let’s take a bit of a trip down memory lane with Joe and Mika to understand just how astonishing and dishonest this is.
In 2015 and 2016, Joe and Mika were largely responsible for Trump receiving the Republican nomination. They had him on the air all the time. They sat with him as primary results came in. They were so close that Joe Scarborough was actually asked by radio host Hugh Hewitt if he would be Donald Trump&#8217;s vice presidential  nominee.
Then, after Trump got the nomination and he didn&#8217;t keep making time for Joe and Mika, they decided they were going to favor Hillary Clinton instead, for political reasons. They became quite vicious about President Trump, and they remained vicious for years.
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Here are a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2088-member-exclusive">few excerpts</a> of what they had to say about President Trump over the course of the next eight years or so:
<blockquote>Donald Trump keeps <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@msnbc/video/7359172651140615466">talking</a> about how America sucks, and before he got elected, America sucked, and then he got elected, suddenly America was great. Then he lost. Now America sucks again. You&#8217;re voting for a guy like that?
What rises to the threat of democracy that we have ever seen in America since the Civil War if what Donald Trump has done over the past four years does not?
Trump is literally <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mrctv/videos/msnbc-attacks-trump-on-his-mental-capabilities/26187969194119963/">crazy</a> on stage and I say it not in a good way. Not well, not fit, not mentally capable.
I mean, you talk to people who served with him … they will tell you now the guy was completely ignorant on policy. It was frightening. It was scary. It was depressing.
It&#8217;s going to be <a href="https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20240913_100000_Morning_Joe">very hard</a> for the former president to convince anybody except for diehard MAGA — the types of people who will follow him anywhere — it’s going to be very hard for him to convince most Americans that he had a modicum of sense.
This is what voters know <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/24/mika_brzezinski_trumps_obsession_with_hitler_is_huge_news_he_is_killing_women.html">right now</a>: that he is killing us and talking about us women. He is killing us. He is putting us at risk. He is making us afraid to have babies. He is putting our reproductive health at risk. And some women have died already because of this.</blockquote>
They just went on and on and on.
Eight years of “Donald Trump Is Orange Hitler.” Eight years of it. They spent eight long years talking about how he was the threat to the republic. But they were standing in the breach.
Now, after Trump won, it turns out that they want to be friends again.
So Morning Joe&#8217;s team <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6364855233112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apparently went to Mar-a-Lago</a>. And on Monday, they opened their show by recounting their visit to make kissy-face, nice-nice with President-elect Donald Trump.
<blockquote>Mika: Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.
Joe: Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents, and media outlets. We talked about that a good bit. And it’s going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn&#8217;t see eye to eye on a lot of issues and we told him so.
Mika: What we did agree on was to restart communications. My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed. That&#8217;s a task shared by reporters and commentators alike.</blockquote>
They are walking this thing back. And then, of course, they have to maintain that they are just doing this for the sake of their <a href="https://x.com/simonateba/status/1858512927889699060" target="_blank" rel="noopener">journalistic objectivity</a>.
<blockquote>Joe: Well, of course, you look at the results of the election too, a new approach I think is needed, where, again, we speak truth to power. We push back hard, like we push back hard, whether it was with Barack Obama, whether it was with George W. Bush, whether it was obviously with Donald Trump or Joe Biden.</blockquote>
You didn&#8217;t push back hard with Joe Biden. And you just called Donald Trump “Hitler” for eight years.
So what does this say about the legacy media?
This: They are unbelievable garbage liars. They are such liars. How do you go on bended knee to Hitler?
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This is the same as Joe Biden sitting in the Oval Office with Donald Trump grinning ear to ear after suggesting not only that Trump was Hitler, but also that his supporters were Hitler supporters. It showed that he was lying that entire time, that it had all been an act of demonization, of demagoguery.
It&#8217;s the same thing when it comes to Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and so much of the legacy media.
The only entity whose credibility was destroyed in this entire process were the people of the legacy media.
The Left wonders why trust in legacy media has completely cratered?
It&#8217;s because of things like this.

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough

Joe And Mika Bend The Knee

Ben Shapiro

Legacy Media

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that MSNBC &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with him privately at his Mar-a-Lago estate in southern Florida, calling the discussion &#8220;extremely cordial.&#8221;
Trump told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-media-vital-making-america-great-again-vows-work-free-fair-open-press" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> that he met with the MSNBC hosts on Friday morning after Scarborough and Brzezinski had requested to talk with him. The &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; anchors told viewers on their show Monday morning the meeting was their first face-to-face discussion with Trump in seven years, saying that they agreed with Trump &#8220;to restart communications.&#8221;
Trump said the leftist hosts &#8220;congratulated me on running a ‘great and flawless campaign, one for the history books,’ which I really believe it was, but it was also a campaign where I worked long and hard — perhaps longer and harder than any presidential candidate in history.&#8221;
&#8220;We talked about various Cabinet members — both announced and to be announced. As expected, they like some very much, but not all,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;The meeting ended in a very positive manner, and we agreed to speak in the future.&#8221;
Brzezinski said that Trump appeared &#8220;cheerful,&#8221; &#8220;upbeat,&#8221; and &#8220;interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.&#8221; She added that she and her co-host, who is also her husband, continue to hold &#8220;deep concerns&#8221; about a second Trump administration but acknowledged that nearly 80 million Americans made their voices heard about the issues that matter most to them and sent Trump back to the White House.
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Joe and Mika went to Mar a Lago to talk with Trump over the weekend. First face-to-face meeting in seven years. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues and we told him so,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeNBC</a> says. &#8220;What we did agree on – was to restart communications,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/morningmika?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@morningmika</a> says. <a href="https://t.co/lyWZWK4CwX">pic.twitter.com/lyWZWK4CwX</a>
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1858471489906815033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Brzezinski and Scarborough were blasted by conservatives on social media who pointed out that the &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts routinely boosted the Democrats&#8217; narrative that Trump poses a &#8220;threat&#8221; to the country. CNN contributor Scott Jennings <a href="https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1858491506014695890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1858491506014695890%7Ctwgr%5Edc78a75a0e0e421e98042db9c5bf8d45cf995c74%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fmorning-joe-hosts-blistered-over-attempt-to-restart-communications-with-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;Hitler getting a lot more meeting requests than I would’ve thought.&#8221;
Trump told Fox News that he has &#8220;an obligation to the American public, and to our country itself, to be open and available to the press,&#8221; but warned that &#8220;if [he&#8217;s] not treated fairly &#8230; that will end.&#8221;
&#8220;The media is very important to the long-term success of the United States of America,&#8221; he added.
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The president-elect said many news outlets are reaching out to him and said he is willing to give second and third chances to media voices that have treated him poorly.
&#8220;And while many others are calling for meetings, I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly, or even badly beyond comprehension,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I am always looking to give a second and even third chance, but never willing to give a fourth chance — that is where I hold the line.&#8221;

Trump Reveals What Was Discussed In Meeting With Scarborough, Brzezinski

Executive

The hosts of MSNBC&#8217;s flagship morning show &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; announced on Monday that they were attempting to mend fences with President-elect Donald Trump — but not everyone was ready to simply forget their years of pointedly negative coverage.
Hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski explained during Monday morning&#8217;s broadcast that they had met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend — the first time they had spoken face to face in seven years — and that while they had not agreed on a number of issues, they had agreed that it was past time &#8220;to restart communications.&#8221;
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Joe and Mika went to Mar a Lago to talk with Trump over the weekend. First face-to-face meeting in seven years. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues and we told him so,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeNBC</a> says. &#8220;What we did agree on – was to restart communications,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/morningmika?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@morningmika</a> says. <a href="https://t.co/lyWZWK4CwX">pic.twitter.com/lyWZWK4CwX</a>
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1858471489906815033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Brzezinski began by attacking Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks thus far, saying that she agreed with many concerned people she&#8217;d spoken to and &#8220;they are scary.&#8221; Still, she said they had visited Mar-a-Lago to speak with Trump when they got the chance.
Scarborough noted that they had discussed a number of issues with Trump, from abortion to deportations and threats of political retribution — and that, unsurprisingly, they had not agreed on many things.
Brzezinski also revealed that Scarborough had made a personal call to Trump the morning after the first attempt on his life at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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&#8220;Joe and I realized it&#8217;s time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him,&#8221; Brzezinski added.
But still, there were those on the Right who felt that &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; was offering too little too late.
&#8220;Hitler getting a lot more meeting requests than I would’ve thought,&#8221; CNN Republican pundit Scott Jennings posted.
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Hitler getting alot more meeting requests than I would’ve thought 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/xRMi3Zet8d">https://t.co/xRMi3Zet8d</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1858491506014695890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So all that stuff about Trump being a fascist, etc was a load of crap. MSNBC viewers are the biggest dupes on earth,&#8221; another said.
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So all that stuff about Trump being a fascist, etc was a load of crap.
MSNBC viewers are the biggest dupes on earth. <a href="https://t.co/mYiU6BDOp0">https://t.co/mYiU6BDOp0</a>
— RBe (@RBPundit) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBPundit/status/1858491849117212983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Annals of shamelessness: They call Trump a fascist, and much, much more, and then, just 22 days after his &#8216;Nazi-like&#8217; rally, they fly to Florida for an audience. Afterward, they say, &#8216;We didn&#8217;t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues,&#8217; but they want to &#8216;restart communications.&#8217; What?&#8221; Byron York said.
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Annals of shamelessness: They call Trump a fascist, and much, much more, and then, just 22 days after his &#8216;Nazi-like&#8217; rally, they fly to Florida for an audience. Afterward, they say, &#8216;We didn&#8217;t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues,&#8217; but they want to &#8216;restart communications.&#8217; What? <a href="https://t.co/TUhJM9ofSD">https://t.co/TUhJM9ofSD</a>
— Byron York (@ByronYork) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1858485850356498858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;Tangerine Hitler is a fascist who will kill all his enemies&#8217; said the foes who visited his plush resort, sat down with him, and laughed while sharing a mojito,&#8221; another commented.
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“Tangerine Hitler is a fascist who will kill all his enemies” said the foes who visited his plush resort, sat down with him, and laughed while sharing a mojito <a href="https://t.co/cBLDI7b9iQ">https://t.co/cBLDI7b9iQ</a>
— Razor (@hale_razor) <a href="https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/1858505318637981719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika went to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and agreed to &#8216;reset&#8217; their relationship. Proving yet again that Democrats never actually thought Trump was Hitler or a fascist dictator. If you were propagandized, it’s ok. You got played. Usual dem playbook,&#8221; another said.
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika went to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and agreed to “reset” their relationship.
Proving yet again that Democrats never actually thought Trump was Hitler or a fascist dictator.
If you were propagandized, it’s ok.
You got played. Usual dem… <a href="https://t.co/wTAHnNKQws">https://t.co/wTAHnNKQws</a>
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonySeruga/status/1858493929207013778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – Season 9

‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Blistered Over Attempt To ‘Restart Communications’ With Trump

'Morning Joe' Hosts Blistered Over Attempt To 'Restart Communications' With Trump

MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough expressed shock on Thursday when he learned how expensive the cost of butter was for many Americans, prompting him to ask if it was wrapped in gold.
The moment came on the network&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; show with his wife, co-host Mika Brzezinski, as they discussed why President-elect Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris.
&#8220;I want to talk about the economy for a second,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A few weeks ago, three weeks ago, somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, &#8216;Oh my god, Trump&#8217;s going to win.&#8217; I go, &#8216;Why is that?&#8217; He goes, &#8216;I just, I went to the grocery store, butter is over $3.'&#8221;
&#8220;I kind of laughed and I said, &#8216;Well, that&#8217;s kind of reductive, isn&#8217;t it?&#8217; I said it to myself,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;To him, I smiled, and I said, &#8216;Good point.&#8217; But it actually, everything we&#8217;re hearing after the election is&#8211;&#8221;
Brzezinski then interrupted and pointed out that butter actually costs $7, not $3.
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&#8220;Butter is $7?&#8221; Scarborough asked. What, is it framed in gold?&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, well, yeah, okay, well, anyway, my point is this, the rent is too damn high, and this guy was saying the cost of butter is way damn too high,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so I thought it was a bit reductive.&#8221;
&#8220;It ended up being just the point, that if you look at the cost of groceries, if you look at the cost of gas, if you look at the cost of things compared to four years ago, it was a very simple answer for working-class Americans: things just cost too much,&#8221; he added.
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On today&#8217;s Morning Joe, Scarborough is still trying to square how Kamala Harris lost so bad and was SHOCKED to learn about the high price of groceries.
Scarborough was floored when a friend told him butter was $3 and he almost fell out of his chair when Mika Brzezinski told him… <a href="https://t.co/6MelvWoput">pic.twitter.com/6MelvWoput</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1854509215395594541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2024</a></blockquote>

National Action Network’s Women’s Empowerment Luncheon

Scarborough Shocked To Learn How Much Butter Costs: ‘Is It Framed In Gold?’

Inflation

Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Monday that former President Donald Trump, if reelected to the presidency on November 5, would break up interracial marriages solely to deport the non-white spouse.
Goldberg, who hasn&#8217;t been able to say Trump&#8217;s name aloud for years, declared that the former president was &#8220;out there&#8221; and would deport one spouse in order to &#8220;put the white guy with someone else.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s not gonna be — he&#8217;s not gonna say, &#8216;Oh, you&#8217;re with a white guy, I&#8217;m gonna keep you from being deported,'&#8221; she shouted. &#8220;No, he&#8217;s gonna deport you and put the white guy with someone else. The man is out there!&#8221;
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If you thought the unhinged hysteria on The View couldn&#39;t get any crazier, they brought on MSNBC banshee Mika Brzezinski who warned: &quot;These are the final hours!&quot; She claims the MSG rally was one big &quot;white nationalist, Nazi-type rally&quot; with &quot;historic parallels.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/N65ju6BWUn">pic.twitter.com/N65ju6BWUn</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1850927668855746971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Guest and regular &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski weighed in on the former president&#8217;s massive rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, repeating the Democrat narrative that because Nazi sympathizers had once held a rally there in 1939, Trump and his supporters at Sunday&#8217;s rally just also be Nazis.
&#8220;These are the final hours,&#8221; she warned, calling on everyone in the audience to get out and vote.
Referencing the rally, she said that it had &#8220;historic parallels&#8221; and was a &#8220;white nationalist, Nazi-type rally.&#8221;
&#8220;I come with such dire warnings, and I mean them from the bottom of my heart!&#8221; Brzezinski continued, warning that if the American people were to elect Trump a second time it would mean that there was truly no stopping the &#8220;descent into fascism.&#8221;
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Brzezinski adds that &quot;women will be the beacon in this election.&quot; Navarro chimes in to suggests Brzezinski has to STAB people with her stilettos. <a href="https://t.co/NmaA6s7Blx">pic.twitter.com/NmaA6s7Blx</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1850930575940489237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Brzezinski spoke of her own family history as &#8220;the daughter of refugees who cam here escaping war,&#8221; tearing up at the thought that Trump might win again. She concluded by saying that she had hope and believed that ultimately &#8220;women will be the beacon in this election.&#8221;

Shorts: Animated Shorts Curated by Whoopi G – 2024 Tribeca Festival

Whoopi: Trump Will Break Up Interracial Marriages And Deport The Non-White Spouses

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; regular Katty Kay conceded on Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris does not poll well with men — across a number of demographics — and she suggested a possible solution the campaign might implement in order to bridge that gap.
Kay argued that Harris&#8217; campaign — which has not been terribly forthcoming with regard to answering questions from the press or outlining actual policies that were likely to be implemented in a Harris administration — could have her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and her running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), do more from the campaign trail.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/KattyKay_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KattyKay_</a>: &quot;The real struggle for the Harris campaign is young men, older men, men of color, white men. And they&#39;re doing all they can. The debate next week will be really interesting to see how Tim Walz reaches out to that group.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/mwL41t104d">pic.twitter.com/mwL41t104d</a>
&mdash; Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1839626156888183170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Either the concern or the upside, depending on how you look at this from the Harris campaign&#8217;s point of view, is that Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin people think will break the same way,&#8221; she said of Harris&#8217; focus in the swing states. &#8220;That&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve done traditionally ever since 1980, I think there&#8217;s one exception, so if they lose Pennsylvania, what would that then mean for Wisconsin and Michigan? If they win Wisconsin and Michigan, does that then mean they&#8217;re going to win Pennsylvania?&#8221;
Kay then pointed out that the major problem facing the Harris campaign was &#8220;men.&#8221;
&#8220;But it&#8217;s men, I think the real struggle for the Harris campaign, is young men, old men, men of color, white men — and they are doing all they can, you can see – I think we&#8217;ll see the debate next week will be really interesting to see how Tim Walz reaches out to that group. Doug Emhoff &#8230; he is making a concerted effort in his own way to reach out to that group. They know that&#8217;s where they — they know that&#8217;s where they have a weakness.&#8221;
&#8220;No self-respecting man buys Tim Walz’s schmalzy Midwest Dad schtick. Mr Stolen Valor is as phony as his boss and even weirder. (Who gets married on the anniversary of a massacre? The Manchurian candidate.)&#8221; Miranda Devine commented via X.
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No self-respecting man buys Tim Walz’s schmalzy Midwest Dad schtick. Mr Stolen Valor is as phony as his boss and even weirder. (Who gets married on the anniversary of a massacre? The Manchurian candidate.) <a href="https://t.co/lqhTn1NdK1">https://t.co/lqhTn1NdK1</a>
&mdash; Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1839662264984428754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Gates McGavick added, &#8220;&#8216;Guys, male voters aren&#8217;t buying our campaign&#8217;/ &#8216;All good. Get Walz on stage and have him wave like a maniac on speed.'&#8221;
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&quot;Guys, male voters aren&#39;t buying our campaign&quot;
&quot;All good. Get Walz on stage and have him wave like a maniac on speed&quot; <a href="https://t.co/jQlqmoCbwC">https://t.co/jQlqmoCbwC</a> <a href="https://t.co/UOj37beqxI">pic.twitter.com/UOj37beqxI</a>
&mdash; Gates McGavick (@GatesMcgavick) <a href="https://twitter.com/GatesMcgavick/status/1839671661278187755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Ohhhh yeah, Tim Walz will absolutely solve that Man Problem,&#8221; Nan Hayworth said.
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Ohhhh yeah, Tim Walz will absolutely solve that Man Problem <a href="https://t.co/sIXEojlPaA">https://t.co/sIXEojlPaA</a>
&mdash; Nan Hayworth, M.D. (@NanHayworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/NanHayworth/status/1839698552966062121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Hard to believe that a political party built around demonizing men is having trouble with male voters of all ages, colors, ethnicities, etc,&#8221; William Jacobson responded in a post to X.
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Hard to believe that a political party built around demonizing men is having trouble with male voters of all ages, colors, ethnicities, etc. <a href="https://t.co/kWxsmYi9xA">https://t.co/kWxsmYi9xA</a>
&mdash; William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) <a href="https://twitter.com/wajacobson/status/1839655240003367139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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2024 Democratic National Convention: Day 4

Kamala Polls Badly With Men, And ‘Morning Joe’ Has … The Solution?

Doug Emhoff

Kamala Harris

Tim Walz

<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>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1813197058712453165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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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;
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