MSNBC's Joe Scarborough rejects criticisms of meeting with President-elect Trump: 'Massive disconnect'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reacted to societal media disapproval connected Tuesday of his gathering with President-elect Donald Trump and said determination was a "massive disconnect" betwixt societal media and existent life. 

"Yesterday I saw for the archetypal clip what a monolithic disconnect determination was betwixt societal media and the existent satellite due to the fact that we were flooded with telephone calls from radical each day, virtually astir the world, each precise positive, precise supportive, ‘I recognize what you did,' etc," Scarborough said.

 Scarborough, on with his woman and co-host Mika Brzezinski, revealed connected Monday that they met with Trump astatine Mar-a-Lago connected Friday. 

"But erstwhile successful a portion I would get a substance oregon telephone from idiosyncratic going, ‘Oh, man, I anticipation you’re doing okay,'" Scarborough added connected Tuesday, referring to criticism the brace received connected societal media.

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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough said Tuesday that determination was a "massive disconnect" betwixt societal media and reality, reacting to criticisms of his gathering with Donald Trump. (Screenshot/MSNBC)

"All of america volition bash the champion we tin bash and we’re each moving towards a amended America," Scarborough said. 

Brzezinksi added, "Take it time by day, people."

Brzezinksi explained connected Monday that the hosts wanted to re-open communications with the president-elect, contempt being immoderate of his biggest critics successful the media. 

"Joe and I realized it’s clip to bash thing different, and that starts with not lone talking astir Donald Trump, but besides talking with him," she said. 

"Don't beryllium mistaken," Scarborough added. "We're not present to support oregon normalize Donald Trump. We're present to study connected him and to hopefully supply you insights that are going to amended equip each of america successful knowing these profoundly unsettling times."

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Co-hosts of "The View," Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin, were captious of the gathering connected Monday, arsenic Hostin suggested the brace were not existent journalists. 

"I deliberation there’s a batch of radical who are astir apt looking astatine what Joe and Mika did and find it opportunistic. There are radical who alteration their stripes, oregon possibly their spots, I should say, today, depending connected who is successful powerfulness and what benefits them. I don’t cognize that that’s what they are doing, and to me, it’s a to-be-determined situation, due to the fact that close now, it’s the transition," Navarro said.

"We don’t cognize what he’s going to bash arsenic president. We don’t cognize what they’re going to bash if helium commits abuses of powerfulness arsenic president. So, you know, everybody has to unrecorded with their decision. Everybody has to look astatine themselves successful the mirror. I’m good," she added. 

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Hostin said it wasn't indispensable successful her presumption to spell and "kiss the ring" to beryllium capable to decently screen Trump.

"I don’t deliberation you request to beryllium down for 90 minutes astatine Mar-a-Lago and buss his ringing to beryllium capable to talk information and to beryllium capable to screen a story," she said. "So possibly they’re not journalists successful the existent sense. Maybe they’re saying that they’re sentiment journalists, but we person to retrieve that Trump is the feline who ushered successful the epoch of fake news."