Hillary’s interview with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski was lengthy and deep. If you missed it, you can catch highlights at the Morning Joe website. Some of the conversation is in the tickers at the bottom of the pictures below.
Reports in the aftermath of last night’s GOP debate refer to a Rubio-Cruz tag team going after Trump. In the run-up to this interview, I saw concerns from some of Hillary’s supporters that something like that would happen here. It didn’t.
This is just my opinion, but it seemed to me that the reason it didn’t was because rather than Joe and Mika teaming up against Hillary, Joe and Hillary somehow were the tag team. Her responses were reasonable, and Joe immediately responded to that in a positive way. Mika seemed superfluous to the proceedings except for twice – once when the question of women being held to a higher or different standard arose, and again when the issue of millennials came up. Hillary, in her signature manner, reached out to Mika and said, “You’ve got two.” So while Hillary was the one who said this is a generation who feel cheated and left out, it was Mika who called them willful and materialistic. Hillary said that once the process is complete she thinks they will see the value of her plans.
Joe said he saw the Hillary of 2008 again. That explains, perhaps, his tone throughout. In 2008 he called Hillary his “girlfriend.” Hillary agreed that she has sensed a change since Nevada.
The response below is very important. I think one of the faultiest and most damaging views of Hillary is that she is somehow a woman of steel who can weather anything – in many ways “inhuman.” She is very human. It is counter-intuitive to think that someone whose policies so incorporate and address the pain of others does not feel pain herself.
The most dramatic response to how trustworthy Hillary is and the degree to which she keeps her word is the support she immediately gave the Obama campaign as soon as she suspended her own in 2008. President Obama could count on her. We all can.
Here is where her caring, deeply, about others was apparent.
Again, when everyone else is held to this standard, she will comply. If this is a Hillary-only standard, it simply is not fair.
I don’t think she can remind people of this too many times.
She is not making any assumptions about who the GOP nominee will be.
Still4Hill 
It says so much about Hillary that she would even sit down for an interview with these two after the disrespectful way they have treated her. I never doubted that she would do fine no matter what.
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I’ve often said this, but I wish every voter in this country could meet Hillary and see who she really is. So much of voters’ perception of her is colored by the lens of GOP and media attacks that have been targeted at her since the early 1990s. The Hillary they think is real isn’t even a caricature of the real one – it’s 180 degrees different from the real one.
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I agree! The both of them would rail on Hillary for sometimes 45 min mainly about the emails as Joe S loves to rail on the email issue. Mika would just sit there with this dumb look on her face instead of once and awhile try sticking up for Hillary. It was a circus praising sanders since they knew he had no chance to win against a republican. He is Morning Joke.
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Hillary was GREAT and once again was honest and accessible and real. I will say, I have watched Morning Joe a few years. I hate the show, but I also like it. I’m a political junkie so it feeds my fix even though Joe is all ego and Mika is…🙄. Hillary is a better person than I could be to entertain those 2. But I am not that surprised neither pounced. They both talk a lot of stuff daily about HRC but at the end of the day just care about schmoozing and being able to say that XYZ was on their show. It’s why the two love Trump cuz he is so accessible to them and why they hate Rubio cuz he won’t go on MJ (among other reasons). Also, frankly, they were afraid to disrespect her to her face, as they should be.
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