Mika Brzezinski shuts down in misleading Fox’s Bret Baier clip

Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski he didn’t stop to shout Bret Baier Friday morning after the Fox News anchor apologized for mistakenly airing the wrong clip of the former president donald trump during his interview with the vice president Kamala Harris.

More than 11 million people watched the tense interview Wednesday evening, which featured a back-and-forth over Trump’s comments about going after “the enemy within” America. After Harris brought it up, Baier posted a clip, not of Trump’s original comments made to his Fox colleague. Maria Bartiromo last weekend

“We asked the former president that question today,” Baier told Harris. “Harris Faulkner he had a town hall, and that’s how he responded.” Viewers and Harris watched a clip of Trump insisting he did not threaten to use the National Guard against American citizens he described as “the enemy,” saying:

They were saying he was like, threatening. I’m not threatening anyone. They are the ones who threaten. They do bogus investigations, I’ve been investigated more than Alphonse Capone. He was the greatest, no, it’s true. But think about it. It’s called government weaponry. It’s a terrible thing.

“Bret, I’m sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he’s been saying about the enemy within that he’s been repeating when he talks about the American people,” the vice president said. “That’s not what you just showed!” He went on to say, “This is a democracy!” and making such threats should not be easily dismissed.

Baier addressed the clip that aired late Thursday Special report. “Harold, I did make a mistake,” Faulkner told his panelists and Harold Ford Jr. “And yes I wanted to say I was wrong. When I asked for a bite, I was hoping that the “enemy from within” bit of Maria Bartiromo’s interview would tie into the excerpt from your town hall, Harris, where you asked the former president about “the enemy from within inside”. I only had the piece about the town hall. He just listens to what he wanted to shoot.”

Brezinski wasn’t buying it.

“When I look back, what he was able to do in that moment when he called out Bret Baier for showing the wrong clip to mislead the American people, he was able to point back to Donald Trump’s threat to go after his politics. adversaries with the military and show how a friendly media network that conforms to his will will play him even avoiding stories to show the clip completely wrong,” Vice President Harris praised. “She calls him out on it.”

After citing his own television experience and good faith, he told viewers how he thinks this alleged “mistake” was curiously handled.

“If you play a clip and it’s bad, everyone knows right away. It’s like it’s not the clip you expect. You know what you’re waiting for. And Bret Baier is really smart. I mean, they have the best producers and their highest-rated shows,” he said. “They knew it was the wrong clip. And if they had even said anything on the broadcast they did 20 minutes after the interview, that would have been reasonable. They waited a whole day to get on and until the end of Bret’s show “Oh, by the way, I was wrong. I didn’t see the clip I was waiting for. Here’s the clip I was waiting for.”

“And no one at the network has talked about the clip at all,” he continued, turning to condemn the right-leaning network. “All they’ve done is talk about how nasty Kamala Harris is, but they haven’t talked about how she called Fox News out on Fox News for what they do, which is sometimes misinformation, depending on the show. But other times, it’s subtle , like misleading the American public, moving things around, avoiding the real point of the story, or just not covering it.And in this case, it was all revealed in one moment by the candidate, who was in the hot seat during an interview controversy. And yet he realized that the clip was wrong. I’m absolutely sure that he should have said it right away.”

She then turned towards Eugene Robinson to talk about his recent WAshington Post column, which is perfectly summed up in its headline, “Harris Should Send Bret Baier Flowers for Fox News Interview,” before interrupting to return to the clip of the Fox interview being arguing and hitting. Baier again, made even more difficult by his immediate reaction to the wrong clip being played during the interview.

“He’s not taking care of it!” What has … He expects her to get very angry,” Brezinski said. “But the thing is, they’ve shown the wrong clip, and he’s not saying to his viewers, ‘You’re right, that was the wrong clip. Let’s prepare the proper clip or let’s go ahead and leave it hanging there and I’m so glad 8.2 million Americans had a chance they wanted it. And a lot of people can’t move, but they got a chance to see what they do in real time.”

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