Mika Brezinski Of Morning Joe ATTACKS Steve Bannon & Trump: "Bannon Has To Go Or I'm Gone" - TRUMP

Mika Brezinski Of Morning Joe ATTACKS Steve Bannon & Trump: "Bannon Has To Go Or I'm Gone" - TRUMP

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski is worried President Donald Trump will lead the United States down a very dark path unless someone in his administration is willing to speak up. She led a panel Tuesday on “Morning Joe” on the president’s latest version of his controversial travel ban, which was announced the day before by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. “Two of the three are clean and have great reputations and are great leaders and great men,” Brzezinski said, apparently leaving off the attorney general, who recused himself last week from the Russia investigation after reports showed he’d met secretly with that nation’s ambassador during the election campaign. Brzezinski remains alarmed by Trump’s weekend tweets accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of ordering an illegal wiretap ahead of the election — although the president has offered no proof — and then asking Congress to investigate those baseless claims. “I just don’t know why there’s nobody at the White House who doesn’t walk down the hall and say, ‘Mr. President, you can’t do this, this has to stop,'” she said. “Whoever this person is (should say), ‘Steve Bannon has to go or I’m gone.’ When does that happen? When does somebody do the right thing and protect their own reputation and this country from this president?” MSNBC political analyst Mike Barnicle pointed out that Trump has always tried to manipulate facts to create his own reality to promote himself as a celebrity and to demonstrate the success of Trump Organization. “So in this situation, given what has happened just over the past three days, who in his party comes to his defense?” Barnicle wondered. “How do they defend him when he is really creating his own separate universe that maybe they don’t even understand?” Mika Brzezinski began Tuesday's "Morning Joe" episode by addressing Trump's baseless claim that his predecessor, President Obama, had his "wires tapped" in Trump Tower. "No one in the White House seem[s] to understand or appreciate the gravity of the claims," said Brzezinski. The fallout from the President's accusation continued this week. The Trump White House has yet to produce evidence for the claim. "I think the president's tweets speak for themselves," Spicer said Monday when asked whether President Trump believes that President Obama committed a felony. "I have some reporting talking to people who are close to the White House or inside it, that the president actually knows he messed up and won't admit it," Brzezinski revealed. "All this while there is infighting, really serious infighting and jockeying for jobs... they don't even realize Rome is burning." Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a frequent critic of Trump's, insisted Monday that the president must explain the reasoning behind the wiretapping claim which originated in a Breitbart article titled “Mark Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama’s ‘Silent Coup’ vs. Trump.” "I just don't know why there's nobody at the White House [to] walk down the hall [and say] ‘Mr. President, you can’t do this, this has to stop,'” Brzezinski said. “Whoever this person is [should say], ‘Steve Bannon has to go or I’m gone.’ When does that happen? When does somebody do the right thing and protect their own reputation and this country from this president?” New York Times reporter, Jeremy Peters, added that the problem is media coverage of Donald Trump; in particular, framing him favorably for access. "This is one of the more troubling developments for the truth in American political discourse right now, is that even when the facts are not on Donald Trump’s side, there are people around him — in talk radio, in conservative media, on Capitol Hill, in his own West Wing offices — who will create their own set of facts to back up whatever outrageous claim he has made,” he noted."How can anybody trust what this president says?" Brzezinski asked.

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