Sparks flew when Arizona Republican Kari Lake ran into Joe Scarborough of MSNBCâs âMorning Joeâ and his wife, Mika Brzezinski, at a Florida airport.
âRan into Joe & Mika from @MSNBC at the airport. @joenbc was fairly nice, but his wife @morningmika started recording me, called me a âLiarâ & said I was âDelusionalâ They constantly lie & disparage me on National TV. I wonder if theyâd be brave enough to have me on their show?â Lake posted on her Twitter account.
She explained the incident with the âMorning Joeâ duo in more detail on Steve Bannonâs podcast, a clip of which was posted to Twitter.
âI happened to be at the airport, West Palm Beach, and I was leaving, and I happened to see Joe Scarborough,â she said.
âSo I turned around and got on the escalator down, and he was heading into the restroom and I said, âHey, Joe,â and he was nice. He said, âHey,ââ she said.
âI said, âHey, I just wanted to introduce myself because you guys spend an awful lot of time bad-mouthing me on your show, and I just wanted to, you know, put the human being behind the face that you guys kind of go after.'â
Lake said Brzezinski âwas not very pleasant.â
âShe started recording me, unbeknownst to me, which is fine,â she said.
âWhen I called her out on it, I said, âAre you recording this?â She said, âYes,â and Joe said, âDonât do thatâ like he was a little bit perturbed that she was recording.â
She said her intention was merely to say hello, not have a public spat, but the conversation grew testy.
âBut I just said, âLook, you know, Iâm the human being behind the person you guys like to bash 24/7, and thatâs OK. But I just wanted to introduce myself,'â she said.
âAnd then her handler, the handler you see in that picture, said âYouâre a liar. Youâre an election denier. Youâre delusional.â And all of this,â said Lake, who has challenged the results of the 2020 election for governor of Arizona.
âI said, âIâd love to come on your show and talk about it,'â she said.
âMika did jump in and reiterate what the staffer said. Like I said, Joe was pretty pleasant, and when I said to Mika, âAre you recording this?â she said, âYes,â and Joe said, âDonât do that.'â
She offered her summary of the interaction.
âI donât know if that started something when I walked away. I walked away from it alive and fine. So thatâs good,â she said.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
