Cable news channel’s top morning hosts seek to ‘restart communications’ with Mar-a-Lago meeting
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, top morning hosts at the liberal MSNBC cable news network, have revealed that they personally met with Donald Trump about “a new approach” as well as to “restart communications” after vocally opposing his successful campaign for a second presidency.
On Monday’s edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough said he and Brzezinski spoke with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida about “abortion, mass deportation, threats of … retribution against political opponents and media outlets”.
“We didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so,” Scarborough remarked. But Brzezinski said she and Scarborough agreed to resume a dialogue with Trump during what was their first in-person meeting in seven years.
Anticipating condemnation from Democratic viewers and other liberals who were upset that voters returned Trump to the Oval Office in the 5 November election, Brzezinski said “why wouldn’t” she and Scarborough – her husband – meet with him.
She recounted how she and her co-host expressed “deep concerns” with Trump’s threatening rhetoric on various issues as well as the deadly US Capitol attack that his supporters launched after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
