“They behaved so badly and acted against their own core values. We know these men. And they went against their own core values for a wannabe dictator. It’s incredible at this point,” Mika Brzezinksi, a Morning Joe co-host, said on Thursday morning’s broadcast.
Co-host Joe Scarborough jumped in and said it would be “preferable” if Republicans in Congress actually did nothing rather than blindly support Trump’s behavior, especially during the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
The MSNBC hosts then shared several clips of Senator Lindsey Graham trying to defend the president on Wednesday. In one interview with Fox News, Graham tried to assert that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland colluded with Democrats when he changed his congressional testimony to support allegations that the president sought to establish a quid pro quo deal with Ukraine, exchanging military aid for “dirt” on political rival Joe Biden.
Sondland, a Trump donor, originally told House investigators that there was no quid pro quo between the two countries. But days later he edited his testimony to acknowledge that military aid to Ukraine was being withheld until the foreign ally promised to investigate corruption as requested by Trump.
Graham told Fox News that he was “incredibly, incredibly suspicious” of Sondland’s reversal and questioned whether the Trump official was in cahoots with “Democratic operatives.”
“I just wonder how low these people are going to go. How much they’re going to degrade themselves?” Scarborough asked. The host then went on to air a clip of Senator Kennedy insulting Pelosi’s intelligence over the impeachment probe.
Kennedy made the remarks while speaking on behalf of Trump during a rally in Louisiana on Wednesday night. Kennedy commended Trump for growing the “greatest economy in all of human history” during his three years as president.
“And do you know what our Democratic friends have done for him?” Kennedy asked. “Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach him. I don’t mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb.”
Scarborough, a former GOP congressman, said he felt “so sorry” and “embarrassed” for Kennedy and other Republicans who are putting themselves on the line for a president who “never returns a favor.”
“By the way, Senator, guess what? No matter what you do for the rest of your life, that’s your moment when you die. Your bio 30, 40 years from now, whenever—that’s your moment. Congratulations, you did it for a man who committed crimes,” Scarborough added.
