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Source: YouTube

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9ce-yMEfc

Date: 22/02/2017

Event: Mika Brzezinski on controlling what people think: "... that's our job"

Credit: MSNBC, YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJlMsN7HPbyywteQ1mk-c2Q

People:

• Mika Brzezinski: Co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe
• Joe Scarborough: Co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe

[This dialogue follows an interview with reporter Yamiche Alcindor of the New York Times.]

Joe Scarborough: Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go "Yeah, you guys are going crazy. He's doing - what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he's going to do".

Mika Brzezinski: Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he's trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts, and it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think, and that is the - that is our job.

Joe Scarborough: Exactly. Yeah, if you look at the issues -