Mika Brzezinski

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Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough (born May 2, 1967) is an American journalist, talk show host, liberal political commentator, and author who currently co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning television show Morning Joe.

She had been a CBS News reporter and was their top "Ground Zero" reporter during the September 11 attacks in the morning.

She joined MSNBC as an occasional anchor in 2007 and was later chosen as co-host of Morning Joe alongside Joe Scarborough.

Rep. Leo Varadkar and Scarborough married on November 24, 2018.

Elijah Cummings is the officiant. Mika Brzezinski is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.

The key political concern for her is in wage parity for women.

She is also the author of three books; two on her work as a writer and one on food addiction. Brzezinski's daughter, a diplomat and political scientist, who served as advisor to both Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, was the granddaughter of diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Early life

Brzezinski was born in New York City, the niece of Polish-born foreign policy expert and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezik Brzezianski and Swiss-born sculptor Emilie Anna Beneová. Her mother, who is of Czech descent, is a grandniece of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Bene. When her father was born, she was teaching at Columbia University; the family later moved to McLean, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., where Zbigniew was named National Security Advisor by newly elected President Jimmy Carter in late 1976. Mark Brzezinski, an American diplomat, served as the US Ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015, and the US Ambassador to Poland from 2022 to Poland. Ian Brzezinski, a military specialist, is her second brother. She is the first cousin of author Matthew Brzezinski.

Brzezinski attended Madeira School and then Georgetown University for two years before transferring to Williams College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1989.

Personal life

Brzezinski married TV news reporter James Patrick Hoffer, now of WABC-TV, on October 23, 1993. Both worked at WTIC-TV and met when they were together. Emilie and Carlie Hoffer have two children. Hoffer and Brzezinski divorced in 2016, following allegations of an affair that began years before Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough began years ago.

Brzezinski became engaged to her co-host Joe Scarborough in early 2017, and the pair married on November 24, 2018, Washington, D.C., with Rep. Elijah Cummings as the officiant.

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Career

Brzezinski began her writing career as an assistant at ABC's World News This Morning in 1990. In Hartford, Connecticut, she joined Tribune-owned Fox affiliate WTIC-TV/WTIC-DT. She went from assignment and features editor to general assignments reporter. She joined CBS affiliate WFSB-DT in Hartford in 1992 and quickly progressed through the ranks to become the weekday morning anchor in 1995. She left CBS News in 1997, where she spent time as a reporter and anchor for the overnight Up to the Minute news show. Brzezinski began a brief absence from CBS News in 2001, when she worked for sister MSNBC's HomePage on the weekday afternoon show, with co-anchors Gina Gaston and Ashleigh Banfield. The three youngsters were dubbed "the Powerpuff Girls of journalism," according to Entertainment Weekly.

In September 2001, she returned to CBS News as a desk reporter, thrusting her into the spotlight as the principal "Ground Zero" reporter for the September 11, 2001 attacks. When the South Tower fell, Brzezinski was live from the site. Brzezinski's last work at CBS News as a CBS News reporter, substitute anchor, and segment anchor for breaking news segments and routine news. During this time, she became an occasional contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes. She was then fired by CBS.

Brzezinski returned to MSNBC on January 26, 2007, providing the evening "Up to the Minute" news updates. During the week, she appeared on primetime newsbreaks. She has also worked on occasional reports for NBC Nightly News and appeared as an occasional anchor on Weekend Today. Brzezinski resigned from both shows on the eve of a renewal bid, according to Brzezinski, after Scarborough selected her to co-host on Morning Joe. "I struggled to keep up with the live interaction broadcasting style at 6 a.m.," Brzezinski said. When I found myself doing the lead-ins and breaks, I became more confident. Mika, the 'hot anchor,' was born. My participation in news reader segments became more popular as the producers became more comfortable with it. Geist and Joe gradually made me a good news reader, and my role as a journalist was a process. I was not happy with the mention of being the "hot anchor" in the news.

Brzezinski appeared as co-host and news reader on MSNBC's morning program Morning Joe, alongside Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist, since the program's inception.

Brzezinski refused to read a study about Paris Hilton's release from prison on June 26, 2007, right at the start of Morning Joe. During another news break segment, producer Andy Jones pushed the story as the lead over Indiana Senator Richard Lugar's remark on the Iraq War, which Brzezinski found more significant. She attempted to set the story's script on fire on the air after a string of sarcastic remarks from host Scarborough, but she was physically limited from doing so by co-host Geist. She then rewrote the script and launched a new copy of the script one hour later using a paper shredder recovered from Dan Abrams' office. Brzezinski's on-air protest became a hot topic on the tense between "hard news" and "entertainment news" quickly spread on the internet, and in the days that followed, she received a lot of fan mail supporting her on-air demonstration as a reminder of the tense between "hard news" and "entertainment news." She protested on-air on July 7, 2010 and Levi Johnston's comments were similar. Geist and Pat Buchananan chronicled the stories with the caption, which was followed by the phrase, "News You Can't Use."

During the 2016 presidential race, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post chastised Brzezinski and co-host Scarborough for numerous phone interviews with Donald Trump.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairperson of the Democratic National Committee and host of Meet the Press, emailed Chuck Todd, the political director of NBC News and host of Meet the Press, to request that Brzezinski "stop" Bernie Sanders' treatment of the DNC. Brzezinski suggested that the Clinton campaign had sought to silence her by calling executives on NBC and telling them that "should be taken off the air."

Brzezinski barred Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway from future appearances on her show on February 15, 2017. "We know for a fact that [Conway] attempts to book herself on this page," Brzezinski said. I wouldn't do it. "I don't believe in fake news or information that isn't true," says the presenter on television. The decision to exclude Conway from future appearances was based on her being "out of the loop" and "in no one of the main meetings," her co-host Joe Scarborough explained. "She isn't briefed." She's only saying that she has to get in front of the TV to prove her value.

Conway should be barred from future television appearances, according to Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin on February 15, 2017. "George Stephanopoulos and Matt Lauer blasted her specifically in recent days, effectively calling her a fabulist." Given all of this, Rubin said that it would be irresponsible for any news show to have her out there, implying that she has no idea what's going on at any given moment. Conway is personally "disgust" by her work and Donald Trump, and her words do not reflect her true convictions, according to both Scarborough and Brzezinski, and Conway denies it.

During the 2016 presidential race, then-president Donald Trump mocked both Brzezinski and Scarborough on Twitter. Brzezinski called Trump's presidency "fake and failed," and Trump immediately followed Brzezinski and Scarborough on Twitter.

Brzezinski was once more the object of Trump's tweets in late June 2017, in which he called her "low I.Q." Crazy Mika" continued to "bleed badly from a face lift" and said she was "bleeding badly from a facelift."

Brzezinski and Scarborough then accused the White House of threatening to blackmail them with an article in a tabloid newspaper unless the pair apologized publicly to the President.

While hosting Morning Joe on May 20, 2020, Brzezinski condemned Trump for tweeting a conspiracy theory that her husband was involved in the murder of Lori Klausutis, an intern in Scarborough's Florida office in 2001 while he was in Congress. In his tweet, Trump referred to Klausutis' death as a "cold case." In July 2001, Klausutis was discovered dead at her desk. An autopsy revealed an undiagnosed heart condition that caused her to lose consciousness and struck her head when she fell. "Donald, you're a sick person," Brzezinski said during a live segment on Morning Joe. Because Joe got you again today, you're a sick person to put this [Klausutis'] family through this. Because he speaks straight about your lack of interest and compassion in others, as well as your inability to cope with this massive human tragedy (COVID-19), the fact that you have made it worse and you make it worse every day. And that you won't even wear a mask to shield people from your germs." Brzezinski later revealed in a tweet that she would be contacting Twitter to protest Trump's tweet, which she said she had mistook their policies "to be abused by the day," and that she would call the firm to cease encouraging their policies "to be misused by the day," quoting Trump's tweet as libel, and that a call with the corporation would be arranged.

On May 26, 2020, The New York Times published an op-ed containing a letter from Lori Klausutis' husband, Timothy Klausutis, that Trump should avoid exploiting his late wife, as well as urging Twitter to take down the tweets. Klausutis begged Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to intervene, and he claims Trump has broken Twitter's terms of service, "has taken something that does not belong to him," Klausutis wrote to Twitter, "the memory of my deceased wife, and perverted it for apparent political gain." "The beginning of a Cold Case Against Psycho Joe Scarborough was not a Donald Trump original idea," Trump wrote in a tweet later that day, long before I joined the chorus. I would always be wondering if or not Joe did such a horrible thing when Joe and his wacky future ex-wife, Mika, would endlessly interview me. "I'm a student at the University of Leopold" "Young" is the product of a literary analysis.

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