Willie Geist

On Morning Joe, MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan demands that AG Merrick Garland "get in the game" and "fight" Republicans, by prosecuting Members of Congress who haven't replied to subpoenas. She says the actions of the House January 6th committee is legitimate. But the panel frets that if the Republicans take back the House in January, they will exact "revenge" by investigating Democrats,…

Saying, "there's always something," Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mock Sen. Susan Collins' opposition to the so-called Women's Health Protection Act because there is no exemption for people with religious objections to abortion. They also mock Collins, calling her a "snowflake," for calling the police after the sidewalk outside her home was chalked. Joe and Mika ignore the fact that…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough argues that the leaker of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was likely a "fanatical" right-wing law clerk, or Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. 

On Morning Joe, reacting to the leak of an apparent draft SCOTUS opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Joe Scarborough said the opinion represents the "illegitimacy" of the Supreme Court, and that most Americans will view the decision and the Court as "illegitimate."  Jon Meacham said the decision is a "nightmare scenario" in which the US is in its "darkest days" for democracy. Neal Katyal, Obama's…

Moments after the release of March’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) showing 8.5 percent inflation and a 1.2 percent rise from February, MSNBC’s 11th Hour host and unofficial Team Biden cheerleader Stephanie Ruhle was left to be the bearer of bad news (as NBC’s chief economic analyst) for her fellow liberals on the cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Los Angeles Times television writer Stephen Battaglio profiled the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe -- Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist. The headline is certainly West Coast-snooty: “MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ tries to keep cable news smart while expanding to four hours.” The story’s premise – that Morning Joe plays it down the middle -- was just wacky. A…

File this one under NewsBusters' "Sudden Respect" rubric. Friday's Morning Joe celebrated Richard Nixon! It did so because, in contrast with Trump, Nixon conceded the 1960 presidential election to JFK, despite strong evidence that the results in Illinois and Texas were stolen on behalf of the Democrat. There was even the spectacle of Washington Post's David Ignatius, speaking of Nixon…

On Morning Joe, NBC international correspondent Keir Simmons, says that Putin is "not frightened" by Biden's threat of imposing "severe sanctions" should Russia invade Ukraine. 

On Morning Joe, Jeremy Bash, a former chief of staff to Leon Panetta in the Obama-Biden administration turned MSNBC security analyst, says Biden "deserves a lot of the credit," is doing a "phenomenal job" in dealing with the potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, and is handling things "absolutely perfectly."

On Tuesday morning, MSNBC finally got around to covering Special Counsel John Durham's latest filing that revealed Democratic operatives obtained internet data from the Executive Office of the President and other Donald Trump-related entities in an attempt to spin the Russian collusion narrative. Unfortunately, both dismissed it with MSNBC's Morning Joe treating it as a Benghazi-like…

Talk about having a potty mouth! With Joe Scarborough leading the [dis]charge, the Morning Joe crew mentioned "toilets" no fewer than 14 times in its six opening minutes today. We've talked before about Scarborough getting on his "hobbyhorse" and riding a favorite phrase into the ground. But this morning, it's more apt to describe Scarborough mounting his . . . commode. Morning Joe was making…

On Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Elise Jordan says it is "shameful, shameful" of Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi telling US Olympians not to protest at the Olympics in China. Richard Haass and Al Sharpton are more tempered in their remarks, saying they "respectfully disagree" with Pelosi's position. Mika Brzezinski makes no comment other than a "wow."

While claiming that he wasn't comparing Joe Biden to Neville Chamberlain, Joe Scarborough says that Chamberlain was so "desperate for peace" that he appeased Hitler, leading to WWII. Scarborough suggested that Biden might also be "desperate for peace" in suggesting at his press conference that Putin ordering a "minor incursion" of Ukraine wouldn't merit a full-blown US response. 

In a speech on voting rights to be delivered in Georgia on Tuesday, Biden boasts, "I will not yield, I will not flinch." He also implicitly accuses Republicans of being domestic "enemies." Stacey Abrams has announced that she won't attend because of a "scheduling conflict,' leading Joe Scarborough to joke about Abrams having an appointment for a car tune-up and tire rotation.