Cable news channel’s top morning hosts seek to ‘restart communications’ with Mar-a-Lago meeting

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Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, top morning hosts at the liberal MSNBC cable news network, have revealed that they personally met with Donald Trump about “a new approach” as well as to “restart communications” after vocally opposing his successful campaign for a second presidency.

On Monday’s edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough said he and Brzezinski spoke with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida three days earlier about “abortion, mass deportation, threats of … retribution against political opponents and media outlets”.