"This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas," they wrote.
Scarborough added on the "Morning Joe" show on Friday that he received calls from three top administration officials asking the co-hosts to call Trump and apologize for their coverage of his administration. They told him that if he called and apologized, Trump would get the story killed, Scarborough said.
"The calls kept coming, and kept coming. And they were like 'Call, you need to call. Please call. Come on, Joe. Just pick up the phone and call him,'" Scarborough said. "That's blackmail," said MSNBC panelist Donny Deutsch.
On the "Morning Joe" show, Brzezinski, a daughter of former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said her main concern was how such behavior affects the country.
"I am very concerned as to what this once again reveals about the president of the United States," said Brzezinski, who is engaged to be married to Scarborough.
Keep in mind that before Ms. Brzezinski went on air in this latest media drama and pretended to be 'taking the high road' with her "concern," she had already decided to roll in the mud with the President by posting a counterbullying twitter taunt. There's no moral high ground to be found between people in glass houses who throw stones at each other, then vie for public approval as if enmeshed in some high school popularity contest.