JOE SCARBOROUGH (CO-HOST): I don't think Donald Trump and I don't think anybody in the media ever confused Donald Trump making his slanderous statements about anybody other than [CIA Director John] Brennan and the people he thought were leaking the documents. It wasn't about the 117 CIA officers deceased or the other officers around the world.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI (CO-HOST): Well, I disagree. I think there's been some tension with the intelligence community that was unnecessary, a bad start, and that's on Trump.
SCARBOROUGH: It is. And there were repugnant statements, there's no doubt about it. I just wonder whether this is again something else that -- I wish everybody would just be quiet. Just go to their corners.
KATTY KAY: You just never need to use the phrase “Nazi Germany.”
BRZEZINSKI: I believe Joe has given that advice himself.
KAY: Just -- if you're running for high office, if you're about to take high office, just delete it. It's not necessary.
SCARBOROUGH: If only the media would have followed that, because that really is a very good -- that is a very good guideline to follow. Unfortunately, the media has not followed it over the past several months in referencing Donald Trump and fascism. The New York Times has had one reference after another, even in their art section. I agree. And I agree that what Donald Trump did was repugnant. I just, I wish somebody could wrestle his phone away from him, and I wish other people wouldn't respond. I don't know.
