\t\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Sunny Hostin is speaking out against Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski\u2019s decision to meet with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of his return to the White House. The \u201cMorning Joe\u201d co-anchors visited Trump and members of his team at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Nov. 15. It was the first time in seven years that Scarborough and Brzezinski met Trump in person, with Brzezinski saying that \u201cwhat we did agree on was to restart communications.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tHostin reacted to the revelation by telling her \u201cThe View\u201d co-hosts: \u201cThe bottom line is America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power, right now more than ever. And I think we have to be very clear-eyed when we think about the President-elect and cover the President elect. And I don\u2019t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and be able to cover a story.\u201d \t<\/p>\n
\tScarborough and Brzezinski are \u201copinion journalists\u201d and not necessarily reporters, Hostin then admitted before adding: \u201cWe have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news. He\u2019s the guy who ushered in alternative facts. He is the guy who attacked three Black female journalists. He\u2019s the guy that revoked Jim Acosta\u2019s press credentials for asking a question. So I think this President-elect, I hate to say it, would like nothing more than to have only Fox News cover him, nothing more than a state media. And I don\u2019t think he can be trusted in the way that other presidents can be trusted. This is an aberration.\u201d <\/p>\n
\t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \tBut not all of the \u201cThe View\u201d co-hosts agreed with Hostin\u2019s disapproval over Scarborough and Brzezinski\u2019s meeting with Trump. Sara Haines said it was \u201cthe right decision\u201d for the \u201cMorning Joe\u201d anchors to see the President-elect because \u201cthey work on MSNBC. I don\u2019t want only Fox people going to see them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI\u2019ve heard a lot of folks on the left coming after Joe and Mika, saying don\u2019t normalize him. Well, 75 million-plus American voters normalize Donald Trump by making him president-elect Donald Trump,\u201d Alyssa Farah Griffin said. \u201cAnd the notion that if a sort of resistance who opposes him stayed in their safe bubbles, sat on their hands and complained about him for four years, that that would have a bigger impact than sitting down\u2026 This is absolutely the right thing. I would sit down with Donald Trump. I would interview Donald Trump and I\u2019ll go a step further. I hope good people work for him.\u201d \t<\/p>\n
\tWatch the the full discussion on \u201cThe View\u201d here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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