{"id":549183,"date":"2021-06-02T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549183"},"modified":"2021-06-02T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:05:40","slug":"were-gonna-need-a-marriage-counselor-joe-and-mika-go-head-to-head-in-awkward-argument-about-illegal-gun-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-gonna-need-a-marriage-counselor-joe-and-mika-go-head-to-head-in-awkward-argument-about-illegal-gun-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re Gonna Need A Marriage Counselor\u2019: Joe And Mika Go Head To Head In Awkward Argument About Illegal Gun Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwere-gonna-need-a-marriage-counselor-joe-and-mika-go-head-to-head-in-awkward-argument-about-illegal-gun-sales%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-8.17.06-AM-e1622642110583.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Married \u201cMorning Joe\u201d hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went head to head Wednesday in a squabble about illegal gun sales and police reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/rep-sean-patrick-maloney-msnbc-joe-scarborough-defund-the-police-gop-talking-points-2022-midterm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scarborough<\/a> pivoted from a discussion about illegal guns to the real reason he believed murder rates and overall crime rates were spiking, prompting a quick reaction from Brzezinski. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/01\/joe-scarborough-people-forgot-what-it-was-like-to-be-american-because-trump\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Destabilizing For You\u2019: Joe Scarborough Claims Some People Have \u2018Forgotten What It\u2019s Like To Be Americans\u2019 Because Of Trump)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The panel discussion included Steve Rattner and Rev. Al Sharpton. It centered on crime spikes and the fact that most crimes were not being committed by people who had walked into a sporting goods store and walked out \u2014 after the requisite background checks \u2014 with a handgun or a hunting rifle. They argued that most crimes were committed by people who had purchased their firearms on the black market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I give you this assignment? Back in our community, can we find out what percentage of crimes and of deaths do police believe are committed by people who illegally purchased a gun?\u201d Scarborough asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will find that out. But remember for there to be an illegal guns there have to be guns around,\u201d Rattner replied. \u201cYou have to have a country in which there\u2019s a gun culture and a huge majority of guns floating around and I don\u2019t know the answer, it\u2019s not a statistical answer, why are murder rates going up now? We have had guns for a long time floating around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t want to know the answer. You can give them \u2014 they don\u2019t want to know the answer. Why the crimes is going up. I give them the answer and they get really mad. You know why. We won\u2019t answer it though,\u201d Scarborough said.<\/p>\n<p>Brzezinski interrupted then, saying that Scarborough\u2019s ending to the segment was \u201cawkward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody wants to hear this,\u201d Scarborough insisted, but went on to say, \u201cCops are back on their heels \u2026 Good cops are back on their heels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brzezinski continued to talk over him, prompting Scarborough to say, \u201cThis is retro \u2018Morning Joe\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re back!\u201d Willie Geist agreed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/11\/joe-scarborough-trump-supporters-new-religion-conspiracy-theories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scarborough<\/a> steered the discussion back to police reform, arguing that there had to be a balance between calls for police reform and reassurances to good police officers that they would be allowed to do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/25\/mika-brzezinski-wants-investigations-post-mortem-trump-presidency-the-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brzezinski<\/a> wrapped up the segment a short time later, saying, \u201cif we don\u2019t go to break, we\u2019re gonna need a marriage counselor in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMika, you were triggered,\u201d Scarborough laughed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Married \u201cMorning Joe\u201d hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went head to head Wednesday in a squabble about illegal gun sales and police reform.Scarborough pivoted from a discussion about illegal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278886,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-8.17.06-AM-e1622642110583.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018We\u2019re Gonna Need A Marriage Counselor\u2019: Joe And Mika Go Head To Head In Awkward Argument About Illegal Gun Sales","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-02-at-8.17.06-AM-e1622642110583.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018We\u2019re Gonna Need A Marriage Counselor\u2019: Joe And Mika Go Head To Head In Awkward Argument About Illegal Gun Sales","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}