‘Morning Joe’: ‘Don’t Blame Us If the Other Candidates Are Not as Accessible’ as Trump

‘If Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz would like to call into the show we would take their call at any time’

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BRZEZINSKI: “...mention you are set to join us live again tomorrow so we look forward to that. And good to have you on this morning. Appreciate it.”
TRUMP: “OK. Thank you very much.” [crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: “Also — Thanks, Donald. And Governor —”
SCARBOROUGH: “Good luck.”
BRZEZINSKI: “— John Kasich is going to be joining us ahead this morning. And I should just point out for all the eye rolling that I hear happening that if Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz would like to call into the show we would take their call at any time. [crosstalk] Donald Trump has proved himself to be the most accessible candidate, like it or not, but don’t blame us if the other candidates are not as accessible. So we won’t —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Oh, yeah, listen — and by the way, we’ve made this offer. We’ve made it starting six months ago. Anybody who wants to call —“
BRZEZINSKI: “If Marco Rubio called us now, we’d put him right on. We’d blow through the commercial break.”

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