‘Morning Joe’ Attacks Joe Klein for Critiquing Trump, Likens Trump to Reagan
BRZEZINSKI: “Welcome back to ‘Morning Joe.’” (Applause)
SCARBOROUGH: “What a crowd.”
BRZEZINSKI: “49 past the hour. What a great show.” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “What a crowd — place. I love this place.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Joe, Joe.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yes.”
BRZEZINSKI: “This is Georgia Caroline.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Georgia.”
BRZEZINSKI: “She goes to Charleston Day.”
SCARBOROUGH: “So cute.”
BRZEZINSKI: “And she came here because she had a question.”
SCARBOROUGH: “What was that?”
BRZEZINSKI: “She noticed on the show that Joe Klein said Donald Trump had a lizard brain.”
SCARBOROUGH: “No. He did not —“ [crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: “And she said — she came up to me and she said, ‘Could I please have some context on Joe Klein’s comments especially pertaining to Ronald Reagan.’” (Laughter)
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah. She’s making that up.”
BRZEZINSKI: “It’s OK, Georgia, Joe is going —“
SCARBOROUGH: “She’s making that up.”
BRZEZINSKI: “— to answer your question.” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Well, anyway, so — so, my argument has long been the same thing a lot of people are saying about Donald Trump — they said — about Ronald Reagan. Joe Klein decide that. Well, the Internet, it’s a wonderful thing.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Oh, here you go [indecipherable]”
SCARBOROUGH: “At February of 1980 exactly this time in the 1980 presidential cycle a young contributing writer to New York magazine by the name of — wait, wait —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Here you go Georgia.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Joe Klein —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Oh.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— wrote this about — wait, wait.”
BRZEZINSKI: “This is what you’ve been waiting for.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Ronald Reagan. He says, ‘He deliver the homilies well...The speech works, but it also works against him, emphasizing the pre-packaged torpid nature of his candidacy...”
BRZEZINSKI: “Oh.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— and his modest intellectual capacity.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Is that a lizard brain?”
SCARBOROUGH: “One would even say a lizard brain. (Laughter) His extremism was simple minded rather than mean spirited.”
HALPERIN: “Only one explanation. There’s only one explanation.” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Once again, this is the second person that he has called dumb.”
HALPERIN: “Different Joe Klein, got to be.”
SCARBOROUGH: “It’s got to be a different Joe Klein.”
