‘Ridiculous, preposterous’: Mika reacts to WH pushback over stunning Wiles interviews
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the dam is breaking. |
| 0:02.8 | Many Republicans may not have called him out, but last week, 13 Republicans voted with Democrats |
| 0:08.5 | to overturn one of President Trump's executive orders, which enabled him to fire federal |
| 0:15.3 | workers. |
| 0:16.3 | We also saw Indiana Republicans vote against redistricting. |
| 0:23.3 | He didn't call any of them traitors and call for primaries against them. But I would like to say that that is a sign where you're seeing |
| 0:29.0 | Republicans, they're entering the campaign phase for 2026, which is a large signal that lame |
| 0:35.8 | duck season has begun and that Republicans will go in all in for themselves in order to save their own re-elections. |
| 0:45.1 | Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green weighing in on President Trump's influence over the Republican Party. |
| 0:52.1 | It comes as the administration is playing defense on a number of fronts as the end of the year approaches, while arguing there is nothing to see here amid fallout from head-terming comments by Trump's own chief of staff. Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Wednesday, December 17th. With us, |
| 1:12.3 | we have the co-host of our 9 a.m. Hour staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, |
| 1:17.3 | co-host of the rest is politics podcast, the BBC's Caddy Kay, opinion writer at the New York Times. |
| 1:24.7 | Mara Gay is with us. And professor of history at Tulane University, |
| 1:29.5 | historian Walter Isaacson joins us this morning. He's the author of the new book, |
| 1:34.7 | the greatest sentence ever written. Uh, and Jonathan Lemire, uh, Marjorie Taylor Green, |
| 1:42.3 | seeming to predict, uh, where we're going here for the Republican Party. |
| 1:47.2 | It's not the person I expected to be hearing a lot of truth-telling about what might be happening. |
| 1:55.9 | Yeah, she's been remarkably candid in recent months. |
| 1:59.5 | Clearly had a conversion of sorts and we and very upset. We've seen her speak |
| 2:04.4 | at a very human level about some of the threats that she and her family have received after |
| 2:09.1 | crossing President Trump, but she has broken with him on a number of issues and laid it plainly |
| 2:14.9 | there. And she gives voice to what more Republicans are starting to whisper. |
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