Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski sided with Bernie Sanders over Elizabeth Warren in the he-said-she-said dispute over whether a woman can be president.
Warren, 70, claimed that Sanders, 77, told her that a woman could not be president of the United States. When confronted about it during the CNN/Des Moines Register debate, Sanders denied Warren’s claim and said he would support any Democrat against President Trump.
The Massachusetts senator then confronted Sanders after the debate, saying, “I think you called me a liar on national TV.” She also refused to shake his hand.
During Morning Joe on Thursday, Brzezinski, 52, said that she believed Warren was the real liar in the situation. She claimed that Warren unnecessarily dragged Sanders into the conflict to bolster her odds before the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3.
“She would not shake his hand after they fought about something she decided to thrust into this election weeks before Iowa that makes her look brittle and completely weak after she’s had a robust campaign where she looked like a happy warrior who really had this all in control, and then this happens,” Brzezinski said.
She explained that many people had frank conversations about whether America was ready for a black president during the Obama campaign and noted that she didn’t think it was wrong to have the same conversation about whether the U.S. is ready for a female president.
“There is also private conversations as to whether or not America is ready to have a woman president, and someone can say, ‘I think maybe not,’ and should not be criticized for it. I don’t know what happened there, but somebody is not telling the truth, and I have a bad feeling it might be the accuser,” Brzezinski explained.
Brzezinski also ripped conservative author Rick Wilson for suggesting that both Warren and Sanders looked “small” in the exchange. She said: “Bernie is just being pulled into it. What’s he supposed to do?”
