then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. screw it, let him run it. go ahead and run it. we re not coddling. they ended up running something my colleagues at morning joe told a harrowing story about the president on friday, part of their response to trump s rude tweets about them earlier, a day earlier. well, trump took to twitter again after that, of course, to say this. watched low rating morning joe for the first time in a long him. fame news. he called me to stop national enquire irarticle, i said no. the enquirer promoted that article on friday, the tabloid replaced it with this statement at no time did we threaten either mow or mika or their children in connection with our reporting on the story. we have no knowledge of any discussions between the white house and joe and mika about our
story. joining us is gabe sherman, ta mara holder and david korn of mother jones. i want to play the sound bite what the national enquire irwas responding to. this is mika telling the more harrowing part of that story. and let me explain what they were threatening. they were calling my children. they were calling close friends the nation the national enq. and pinning the story on my ex-husband, who would absolutely never do that, so i knew immediately it was a lie, and that they had nothing, and these calls persisted for quite some time. so i just want to be very clear here. the national enquirer is harassing your children. right. your daughters who are teenagers. yes. and the story goes on essentially someone in the white house is telling joe scarborough and mika brzezinski, if you want this to stop, apologize, beg for forgiveness and change the way
you cover donald trump. i reported this out yesterday and what i learned was that go-between the white house official that was unnamed on air was trump s son-in-law, jared kushner, and joe scarborough reached out to jared, my knowledge of these conversations and said listen this has got to stop and jared said to the effect if you want this to stop you got to call the president and apologize, and this is a case it might seem like inside baseball media gossip. this is actually a really important story. it goes to something you talked about in the last block the win at all costs mentality, the way donald trump about we to upweap the media in exchange for coverage. this goes to the core of what freedom of the press in this country is about. david korn is for the way jared kushner operates let alone donald trump? let s also remember yesterday joe said three white house, top white house guys who made repeated calls to him. the story doesn t end, if joe is accurate, at jared kushner and
launched a quest to obtain emails he believed were stolen from hillary clinton s private server while implying he was connected to michael flynn. another wall street journal story that broke overnight revealed that smith also listed other senior members of trump s campaign in a recruitment document including steve ban none, kellyanne conway, and sam clovis. senior adviser at the agriculture department now. the journal says there s no evidence smith sought information from the campaign officials. author of the plot to hack america navid jamali former fbi double agent and author of how to catch a russian spy and former white house senior director, nayhira we have to get you a book. malcolm i ll let you say i told you so. i feel we ve had the same conversation every week for a
behavior. donald trump has a history of using the tabloids to attack his enemy, whether it was calling allegedly his pregnant wife melania at the time a blimp and a monster for gaining weight during his pregnancy, after the access hollywood tape planting a story about ted cruz in the national enquirer essentially alleging that he was cheating on his wife with multiple women, some of whom worked for donald trump. yes. just goes on and on, even planting allegedly a story about salma hayet because she wouldn t date him. donald trump used the national enquirer as an outlet to done research on his rivals like ben carson and ted cruz. we don t know if he was using the enquirer personally to go after joe and mika. the owner david pecker is a close personal friend so if he was going after trump creditic trump has that relationship there. this say case donald trump s alliance with the tabloids using