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Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to this week's Work in Progress, friends. I know 2026 is off to a hell of a start,

and a lot of us are wondering where to turn. Today's guest is someone I often turn to to help me make

sense of what's going on in the world. Her coverage is incredible. There's few journalists

that have operated at the crossroads of influence scrutiny and national crisis quite like

Mika Bresenski, co-host of Morning Joe, the long-running news program that is ripe with opinions

about politics, policy, and people in power.

Mika has been at the heart of the story for decades, from reporting at Ground Zero on September 11th to navigating a high-profile professional personal partnership to facing very intense

scrutiny over engagement with certain powerful political figures.

But she consistently sticks to her principles.

She shows up and does the work to defend democracy

and to demonstrate her professional integrity while focusing on the issues she is most passionate about.

One of her most impactful contributions in my mind and many

others happens to be that she's turned her own battle with self-doubt into a movement for women

called Know Your Value. Know Your Value helps women reclaim power, redefine career timelines,

and thrive on their own terms.

And today, I'm going to ask Mika how she thinks we can do that as we hunker down for 2026,

for the fight ahead out in the world and the battles we might be fighting at home.

Let's dive in with Mika Bresensky.

Thank you. we might be fighting at home. Let's dive in with Mika Brzezinski. Hi, how are you? It's such a weird question these days, right?

I know. It really is. I guess my answer is I feel blessed and I'm very concerned about everybody.

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