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‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Again Defend Mar-A-Lago Meeting; ‘The View’s Sunny Hostin Remains Unswayed
Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski defended their decision to call out what they called a “flippant” comment from commentator David Frum, while the MSNBC personalities provided a further defense of their decision to meet with Donald Trump following his election victory. On Wednesday, during a segment on former Fox News host Pete […]
Frum, though, followed up with a column in The Atlantic headlined, “The Sound of Fear in the Air,” writing, “It is a very ominous thing if our leading forums for discussion of public affairs are already feeling the chill of intimidation and responding with efforts to appease.” You talk to anybody who has served with my in Congress, they will tell you — not fearful of leadership.” He added that he had a “wonderful conversation” with Frum and that he was supposed to be on the show today, while arguing that his comment would not have passed muster in The Washington Post, The Atlantic and other publications. He acknowledged that people were upset and that “maybe we should have given them more of a warning,” but “the main complaint was that we called Donald Trump’s rhetoric fascist during the campaign, and then we went down to have an off the record comment with him.” Brzezinski noted that other news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post and even The Atlantic have done the same.
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