Joe Scarborough Congratulates Donny Deutsch on ‘Great Run’ of Quickly Cancelled Saturday Night Politics

‘I feel very patriotic’

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BRZEZINSKI: "Donny Deutsch is here, preeminent branding and marketing expert. Did he write that?"
SCARBOROUGH: "Can U tell you what else he is? Can I tell you what else he is? I made fun of the name. But 'Saturday Night Politics,' they give him a summer run. Knocks it out of the park."
BRZEZINSKI: "Yeah."
SCARBOROUGH: "Doubled CNN’s ratings."
DEUTSCH: "In households."
SCARBOROUGH: "in households, exactly.
SCARBOROUGH: "That’s what — that’s what the older dudes look at, households. Me, I’m like Britney Spears, right? Sort of the ‘90s thing. How many Britney spears fans — but what a great run and a fun show. Again, a lot of weeks you’re doubling our main competitor at CNN. I mean —"
DEUTSCH: "It was a great run. Here’s the thing. In the national interest, I think after this summer, it was too much. It was very disconcerting to the President. You know? He had tweeted about it a few times. It was unnerving to him, and we thought Sunday mornings were rough on him as it is."

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