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Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough delayed their planned vacation and appeared on their show 'Morning Joe' Friday morning to respond to President Trump's shockingly personal attack on them a day earlier.
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00:00But I am very concerned as to what this once again reveals about the president of the United States.
00:06Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough delayed their planned vacation
00:10and appeared on their MSNBC show Morning Joe Friday morning
00:13to respond to President Trump's shockingly personal attack on them a day earlier.
00:18I'm fine, Brzezinski said.
00:20My family brought me up really tough.
00:21This is absolutely nothing for me personally.
00:23But I am very concerned as to what this once again reveals about the president of the United States.
00:28We're okay. The country's not, Scarborough said.
00:32Yesterday was just another example of how deeply personal he is.
00:36He attacks women because he fears women.
00:38Thursday, President Trump tweeted that he heard the poorly rated show speaks badly of him,
00:43said low IQ crazy Mika and psycho Joe went to Mar-a-Lago for three nights around New Year's Eve
00:49and insisted on joining him, while Brzezinski was bleeding badly from a facelift.
00:54On the show Friday morning, Brzezinski also said she's concerned about the larger ramifications of Trump's actions
00:59and what they signify.
01:01She said,
01:02He appears to have a fragile, childlike, impetuous ego that we've seen over and over again,
01:08especially with women.
01:09It's like he can't take it.
01:11On Trump's claim that Brzezinski was bleeding badly from a facelift,
01:14the two explained in Scarborough's Weekly Washington Post column that Brzezinski never had a facelift.
01:19They wrote,
01:20She did have a little skin under her chin tweaked, but this was hardly a state secret.
01:25On the show, Brzezinski added,
01:26I'm pretty transparent about what I do and I think it looks awesome.
01:29It looks awesome.
01:30Writing in the Post column, the two passed along a story about a planned hit piece in the National Enquirer.
01:35This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer
01:39was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spike.
01:45We ignored their desperate pleas.
01:47Then on the Friday show, Scarborough said Trump called him during the campaign
01:51to brag about his friendship with David Pecker, who owns the Enquirer parent company.
01:56There were all these stories that were planted in the National Enquirer
01:59for people who Donald Trump wanted to attack, Scarborough explained.
02:03Apparently, the president tuned in.
02:05Watch low-rated Morning Joe for first time in long time.
02:08Fake news.
02:09He called me to stop a National Enquirer article.
02:12I said no.
02:13Bad show.
02:14Make sure to check out the full story up now at THR.com for ongoing coverage.
02:18Guys, what's your response to this whole thing?
02:20Let us know in the comments and please be nice.
02:23For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Paul Costabile.
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