‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Again Defend Mar-A-Lago Meeting; ‘The View’s Sunny Hostin Remains Unswayed

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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 Hegseth’s teetering nomination as Trump’s next secretary of defense, Frum quipped, “If you’re too drunk for Fox News, you’re very, very drunk indeed.” That was in response to an NBC News report that colleagues on Fox & Friends Weekend had concerns over Hegseth’s drinking.

Brzezinski followed up the segment by telling viewers that Frum’s comment was “a little too flippant” and that “we have differences in coverage with Fox News, and that’s a good debate that we should have often, but right now I just want to say there’s a lot of good people who work at Fox News who care about Pete Hegseth, and we will want to leave it at that.

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.” “I write these words very aware that I’m probably saying goodbye forever to a television platform that I enjoy and from which I have benefited as both viewer and guest.