Brzezinski Orders Panel: ‘Stop Giving Passes’ to Clinton in Exchange for Interviews

Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski only half-jokingly ordered the panel of Beltway pundits Tuesday morning to “stop giving passes” to presumed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in exchange for interviews.

“Everybody stop giving passes, hoping you’re going to get some sort of interview,” Brzezinski said. “Stop. All of you. It is not good. These people, when you were watching them leave the White House, it was being reported over the inauguration how much they were going to make during speeches.”

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“And for [Clinton] to do a book and to have a section on this, saying we were dead broke and it was hard, let me just tell you: that shows just how contrived the book is,” Brzezinski continued. “It does! Because that’s a huge mistake. And you would think everything else is planned out so perfectly, it does enough to say nothing.”

Brzezinski then agreed with guest Mark Halperin that if a Republican were giving paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, “we would eviscerate them.”

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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