Morning Joe Debates Sarah Sanders Meal Mess: ‘Should Someone Who Lies Constantly’ be ‘Welcome in Open Society?’
On Morning Joe on Monday, the weekend’s biggest story came up pretty quickly as the panel discussed Sarah Sanders being kicked out of a restaurant by the owner because she works for the President of the United States.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski first addressed NBC News political analyst Elise Jordan, saying to her that Sanders had a “legitimate” issue before then asking “but who cares?”
Jordan answered with a rhetorical question and then answered herself.
“Should someone who lies constantly and enables the president’s lies be openly welcomed in society wherever they please? Should they face any kind of social or societal pressure?” she said. “I’m increasingly weighing towards yes, even though I’m all about civility.”
“I do think that there are choices, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders has made her choices,” said Jordan.
MSNBC’s Nick Confessore was the next to respond, and also didn’t find being kicked out of a restaurant to be a problem.
“She was politely asked to leave a restaurant and her meal was comped. I’m not super worried about that as a breach in civility,” he said. He then said a few words about not being “Trumpian” to each other, before adding “The owner did it politely, and said look this is my place, I oppose what you guys are doing , comped the meal… It was actually pretty polite, the whole thing.”
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haas disagreed. “What happened the other day violates the spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” he said, adding that it was “counterproductive.”
“This is the descent of America into tribalism, and this is dangerous,” said Haas.
He also noted “this is the kind of thing that makes me uneasy.”
Host Joe Scarborough also said that he disagreed with Confessore and Jordan.
Watch the clip above, courtesy of MSNBC.
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