‘That is What They Do!’ Mika Brzezinski Goes OFF on Fox’s Bret Baier Airing Misleading Trump Clip During Kamala Harris Interview

Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski did not hold back calling out Bret Baier Friday morning after the Fox News anchor apologized for mistakenly airing the wrong clip of former President Donald Trump during his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

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

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

They were saying I was like, threatening. I’m not threatening anybody. They’re the ones doing the threatening. They do phony investigations, I’ve been investigated more than Alphonse Capone. He was the greatest– no, it’s true. But think of it. It’s called weaponization of government. It’s a terrible thing.

“Bret, I’m sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people,” the vice president said. “That’s not what you just showed!” She continued by saying “This is a democracy!” and making such threats should not be easily dismissed.

Baier addressed the clip that aired at the end of Thursday’s Special Report. “Harold, I did make a mistake,” he told his panelists Faulkner and Harold Ford Jr. “And I did want to say that I did make a mistake. When I called for a soundbite, I was expecting a piece of the ‘enemy from within’ from Maria Bartiromo’s interview to be tied to the piece from your town hall, Harris, where you asked the former president about ‘the enemy from within.’ It just had the piece about the town hall. Just take a listen to what I meant to roll.”

Brezinski wasn’t buying it.

“As I look back at it, what she was able to do in that one moment when she called out Bret Baier for showing the wrong clip for misleading the American people, she was able to point again to Donald Trump’s threat to go after his political adversaries with the military and show how a friendly media network that bends to his will will play to him in even avoiding stories so they show completely the wrong clip,” Brezinksi praised VP Harris. “She calls him out on it.”

Afrer citing her own television experience and bona fides, she explained to viewers how she thinks this alleged “mistake” was curiously handled.

“If a clip runs and it’s wrong, everybody knows that right away. It’s like not the clip you’re expecting. You know what you’re expecting. And Bret Baier is really intelligent. I mean, they’ve got the best producers and their highest-rated shows,” she said. “They knew it was the wrong clip. And if they had even said something in the broadcast that they did 20 minutes later after the interview, that would have been reasonable. They waited a full day to tuck and to the end of Bret show ‘Oh by the way, I did make a mistake. I did not see the clip I was expecting. Here’s the clip I was expecting.'”

“And no one on the network has talked about the clip at all,” she continued, pivoting to condemn the right-leaning network. “All they’ve done is talk about how Kamala Harris is nasty, but they haven’t talked about how she actually called out Fox News on Fox News for what they do, which is sometimes disinformation, depending on the show. But at other times, it’s subtle, like misleading the American public, moving things, avoiding the actual 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 a contentious interview. And yet she noticed the clip was wrong. He didn’t? I am absolutely certain he knew it was the wrong clip and he should have said it right away. ”

She then turned to Eugene Robinson to discuss his recent Washington Post column, which is neatly summed up in its headline, “Harris ought to send Bret Baier flowers for that Fox News interview,” before she interrupted him to return to the Fox interview clip being discussed and hit Baier again, even harder for his immediate reaction to the wrong clip being played during the interview.

“He’s not owning up to it!”  That he has … He’s he’s hoping that she’ll get really angry going,” Brezinski said. “But the thing is, they have shown the wrong clip, and he’s not saying to his viewers, ‘You’re right, that was the wrong clip. Let’s get the right clip prepared or let’s find it and let’s show it.’ Instead, he moves on and leaves it hanging there. And I’m sorry. That is what they do. And I’m really glad that 8.2 million Americans had a chance if they wanted it. And a lot of people can’t be moved but had a chance to see what they do in real time. ”

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