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Morning Joe exec producer Daniel Norwick this morning posted the powerful opening to the MSNBC show, featuring startling images of Wednesday’s riot set against the Johnny Cash song “Hurt.” During this morning’s show, host Joe Scarborough made an impassioned speech about the level of policing during the riot.  “If…

Joe Scarborough devoted a segment of Morning Joe on Wednesday to paying tribute to Lori Klausutis, an aide in his congressional office whose death in 2001 is the source of Donald Trump’s claims of a debunked conspiracy theory. Klausutis’ widower, Timothy J. Klausutis, last week wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack…

Donald Trump continued to claim that the circumstances surrounding the 2001 death of aide to Joe Scarborough were clouded in suspicion, even as the woman’s husband has pleaded with Twitter to take down the president’s tweets spreading the conspiracy theories. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said that “a lot of…

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany deflected questions of why Donald Trump has been tweeting conspiracy theories about the 2001 death of an aide to Joe Scarborough by trying to cast blame on the Morning Joe co-host himself. The widower of the aide, Timothy Klausutis, sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey l…

UPDATED: Twitter is not immediately removing President Donald Trump’s tweets about the 2001 death of an aide to Joe Scarborough, even though her widower asked the platform’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, to remove them. Timothy Klausutis, the husband of Lori Klausutis, wrote in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week, “My…

As the national death toll from COVID-19 approaches the stunning 100,000 milestone, The New York Times is devoting its entire Sunday May 24 front page to a list – a partial list – of the dead. And the grim, powerful impact of the newspaper’s unusual approach might have contributed to yet another round in the ongoing…

Morning Joe co-anchor Mika Brzezinski said that a call between her and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is being set up after she asked why President Donald Trump’s tweets continued to be allowed on the platform. Earlier on Wednesday, Brzezinski called Trump’s latest tweet about her husband and co-host, Joe Scarborough, “sick.&#8221…

Donald Trump again tweeted a baseless conspiracy theory about Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough, again suggesting that he was involved in a murder. But what’s revealing is the ho-hum reaction to the President’s wild claims. Instead of trending, the tweet, like dozens of others the past few days, barely even…

Joe Scarborough said that Donald Trump should step aside and let Vice President Mike Pence “run things for the next week,” after the president rage-tweeted Monday against the Morning Joe co-host by pushing out a conspiracy theory. “Mr. President, I ask that you take a rest. I ask that you get checked out. I ask that…

Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski weighed in today on their no-longer-MSNBC-colleague Chris Matthew’s abrupt resignation last night, with Brzezinski expressing her thoughts on shifts in cultural attitudes and wondering if “there might be a better way.” In a stunning on-air moment last night, Matthews…

MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says he broke “every rule” he made for himself on Twitter today by posting a six-tweet “venting” in which he beseeched “woke Democrats” to “refrain from blowing themselves up politically and re-electing Trump.” What set him off? Betsy Ross and Nike, apparently. His first post…

Morning shows took over for late-night programs Wednesday morning, defending Devin Nunes’ Cow. California’s Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intel Committee, is suing Twitter because a fake cow was mean to him on the internet. On Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show Tuesday night Nunes wondered how he…