Morning Joe snickers at Trump's claim that 'everyone' at the G-20 is talking about John Podesta and the DNC server
Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski aren't buying President Trump's claim that world leaders are sitting around chatting about Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman and the Democratic National Committee email server at the G-20 summit in Germany this week. In a tweet Friday morning just before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump insisted that "everyone" at the summit "is talking about why [Clinton campaign chairman] John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA."
"I would dare say, no one there is talking about that," Scarborough said. "You don't think the outdoor cafes in Hamburg are abuzz with talk of Podesta and the DNC server?" co-host Willie Geist quipped, pointing out that Podesta "didn't run the DNC."
Then Brzezinski chimed in, raising the question of Trump's mental fitness. "What's going on in his head?" Brzezinski said. "It's so wildly out of place that you can't help but go, 'What is wrong with him?'"
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Talking Points Memo noted that Fox Business Network had questioned Podesta about the server over the weekend. Podesta said in the interview that he'd turned over Clinton's servers to the FBI, but he was not sure if the DNC had turned over its server because he wasn't working for the committee.
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