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'''Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough''' (/ˈmiːkə brəˈzɪnski/; polnisch: ''Brzezińska''; geboren am 2. Mai 1967) ist eine US-amerikanische Talkshow-Moderatorin, politische Kommentatorin und Autorin, die derzeit die werktägliche Morgensendung ''Morning Joe auf'' MSNBC moderiert. Zuvor war sie Korrespondentin bei CBS News, wo sie am Morgen der Anschläge vom 11. September als Hauptreporterin für "Ground Zero" tätig war. Im Jahr 2007 kam sie als Gelegenheitsmoderatorin zu MSNBC und wurde anschließend neben Joe Scarborough zur Co-Moderatorin von ''Morning Joe ernannt''.
{{Short description|American television host}}
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'''Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough''' (; {{née}} '''Brzezinski'''; born May 2, 1967) is an American talk show host who co-hosts [[MSNBC]]'s weekday morning broadcast show ''Morning Joe'' alongside her husband [[Joe Scarborough]]. She was formerly a CBS News correspondent, and was their principal "Ground Zero" reporter during the morning of the September 11 attacks. In 2007, she joined MSNBC as an occasional anchor, and was subsequently chosen as co-host of ''Morning Joe''.


Mika Brzezinski ist Gastwissenschaftlerin am Harvard Institute of Politics. Ihr politisches Hauptinteresse gilt der Lohngleichheit für Frauen. Sie ist außerdem Autorin von drei Büchern, zwei über ihre Karriere als Journalistin und eines über Essenssucht.
Brzezinski is the daughter of diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson and as the National Security Advisor to President [[Jimmy Carter]]. Brzezinski is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. Her main political interest is in wage equality for women. She is the author of three books: two on her career as a journalist and one on food addiction.


Brzezinski ist die Tochter des Diplomaten und Politikwissenschaftlers Zbigniew Brzezinski, der als Berater von Präsident Lyndon B. Johnson und als nationaler Sicherheitsberater von Präsident Jimmy Carter tätig war.
==Early life==
Brzezinski was born in New York City on May 2, 1967, the daughter of Polish-born foreign policy expert and former National Security Advisor [[Zbigniew Brzeziński]] and Swiss-born sculptor Emilie Anna Benešová. Her mother, of Czech descent, is a grandniece of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneš. Her father was teaching at Columbia University when she was born. The family moved to McLean, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., in late 1976, when Zbigniew was named National Security Advisor by newly elected President [[Jimmy Carter]]. Her brother, [[Mark Brzezinski]], is an American diplomat, was the United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015 and from 2022 has been the United States Ambassador to Poland. Her second brother is military expert Ian Brzezinski. She is a first cousin of the author Matthew Brzezinski.


== Frühes Leben ==
Brzezinski attended the Madeira School and then attended Georgetown University for two years before transferring to Williams College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1989.


Brzezinski wurde in New York City als Tochter des in Polen geborenen Außenpolitikexperten und ehemaligen nationalen Sicherheitsberaters Zbigniew Brzeziński und der in der Schweiz geborenen Bildhauerin Emilie Anna Benešová geboren. Ihre Mutter ist tschechischer Abstammung und eine Großnichte des ehemaligen tschechoslowakischen Präsidenten Edvard Beneš. Ihr Vater lehrte an der Columbia University, als sie geboren wurde; die Familie zog Ende 1976 nach McLean, Virginia, in der Nähe von Washington, D.C., als Zbigniew vom neu gewählten Präsidenten Jimmy Carter zum nationalen Sicherheitsberater ernannt wurde. Ihr Bruder, Mark Brzezinski, ist amerikanischer Diplomat, war von 2011 bis 2015 Botschafter der Vereinigten Staaten in Schweden und ist seit 2022 Botschafter der Vereinigten Staaten in Polen. Ihr zweiter Bruder ist der Militärexperte Ian Brzezinski. Sie ist eine Cousine ersten Grades des Schriftstellers Matthew Brzezinski.
==Career==
[[File:Brzezinski -MBFI 2013 fRF.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Brzezinski at the [[Miami Book Fair International]] 2013]]


Brzezinski besuchte die Madeira School und anschließend zwei Jahre lang die Georgetown University, bevor sie an das Williams College wechselte, wo sie 1989 einen Bachelor of Arts in Englisch erwarb.
Brzezinski began her career in journalism as an assistant at [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''World News This Morning'' in 1990. A year later, she moved to Tribune-owned Fox affiliate WTIC-TV/WTIC-DT in Hartford, Connecticut. There, she progressed from assignment and features editor to general assignments reporter. In 1992, she joined CBS affiliate WFSB-TV/WFSB-DT in Hartford and quickly progressed through the ranks to become its weekday morning anchor in 1995. In 1997, she left that role to join CBS News, where she served as a correspondent and as anchor for the overnight ''Up to the Minute'' news program. In 2001, Brzezinski began a short hiatus from CBS News, during which she worked for rival [[MSNBC]] on the weekday afternoon show, ''HomePage,'' with co-anchors Gina Gaston and Ashleigh Banfield.


== Karriere ==
===9/11 correspondent===
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She returned to CBS News as a desk correspondent in September 2001, a move that thrust her into the limelight as a principal "Ground Zero" reporter for the September 11, 2001, attacks. Brzezinski was broadcasting live from the scene when the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|South Tower]] collapsed. In her last position at CBS News, Brzezinski served as a CBS News correspondent, substitute anchor, and segment anchor for breaking news segments and routine updates. During this period she became an occasional contributor to ''CBS Sunday Morning'' and ''60 Minutes''.


Brzezinski begann ihre journalistische Laufbahn 1990 als Assistentin bei ABCs ''World News This Morning''. Ein Jahr später wechselte sie zum Fox-Tochterunternehmen WTIC-TV/WTIC-DT in Hartford, Connecticut, das der Tribune gehört. Dort avancierte sie von der Redakteurin für Aufgaben und Features zur Reporterin für allgemeine Aufgaben. 1992 wechselte sie zur CBS-Fernsehstation WFSB-TV/WFSB-DT in Hartford und stieg dort schnell auf, bis sie 1995 zur Morgenmoderatorin des Senders aufstieg. 1997 verließ sie diese Position und wechselte zu CBS News, wo sie als Korrespondentin und Moderatorin der Nachrichtensendung ''Up to the Minute tätig war''. Im Jahr 2001 begann Brzezinski eine kurze Auszeit von CBS News, während der sie für den Konkurrenten MSNBC bei der werktäglichen Nachmittagssendung ''HomePage'' mit den Co-Moderatorinnen Gina Gaston und Ashleigh Banfield arbeitete. ''Entertainment Weekly'' bezeichnete das Trio als &quot;die Powerpuff Girls des Journalismus&quot;.
===MSNBC===
Brzezinski returned to [[MSNBC]] on January 26, 2007, doing the evening "Up to the Minute" news updates. Then she worked primetime newsbreaks during the week. She also filed occasional reports for ''NBC Nightly News'' and appeared as an occasional anchor on ''Weekend Today''. Brzezinski resigned from both shows on the eve of a renewal option, said Brzezinski, when Scarborough selected her to co-host on ''Morning Joe''.


=== 9/11-Korrespondent ===
[[File:First Lady Jill Biden participates in an interview with Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski on 10 January 2024 in the her East Wing Office of the White House.jpg|thumb|Brzezinski interviewing [[Jill Biden]] at the White House in January 2024.]]
Since the program's inception, Brzezinski appeared as co-host and news reader on MSNBC's morning program ''Morning Joe'', alongside [[Joe Scarborough]] and Willie Geist.


Im September 2001 kehrte sie als Korrespondentin zu CBS News zurück, wo sie als Hauptberichterstatterin für die Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 am &quot;Ground Zero&quot; ins Rampenlicht rückte. Brzezinski sendete live vom Ort des Geschehens, als der Südturm zusammenbrach. In ihrer letzten Position bei CBS News war Brzezinski als Korrespondentin, Ersatzmoderatorin und Segmentmoderatorin für aktuelle Nachrichten und Routine-Updates tätig. Während dieser Zeit leistete sie gelegentlich Beiträge für ''CBS Sunday Morning'' und ''60 Minutes''.
===Campaign against trivial journalism===
On June 26, 2007, near the beginning of ''Morning Joe'', Brzezinski refused to read a report about Paris Hilton's release from jail. One hour later during another news break segment, her producer Andy Jones again pushed the story as the lead, ranking it over Indiana's Republican Senator Richard Lugar's break with [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] on the Iraq War, which Brzezinski considered more important. After several sarcastic remarks from host Scarborough, she attempted to set the story's script on fire on the air, but was physically prevented from doing so by co-host Geist. She then tore up the script, and one hour later, got up and ran another copy of the script through a paper shredder retrieved from Dan Abrams's office. The incident was quickly popularized on the Internet, and in the days that followed, Brzezinski received large quantities of fan mail supporting her on-air protest as a commentary on the tension between "hard news" and "entertainment news". Similarly, on July 7, 2010, she objected on-air to pressure to report on Lindsay Lohan and Levi Johnston. Eventually, Geist and Pat Buchanan reported the stories with the caption, then popularized, "News You Can't Use".


=== MSNBC ===
Erik Wemple of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' criticized Brzezinski and co-host Scarborough for frequent phone interviews with [[Donald Trump]] during the 2016 Presidential campaign.


Brzezinski kehrte am 26. Januar 2007 zu MSNBC zurück und übernahm die abendlichen &quot;Up to the Minute&quot;-Nachrichten. Danach arbeitete sie während der Woche in den Hauptnachrichten. Außerdem berichtete sie gelegentlich für ''NBC Nightly News'' und trat gelegentlich als Moderatorin bei ''Weekend Today auf''. Brzezinski trat von beiden Sendungen zurück, als Scarborough sie als Co-Moderatorin für ''Morning Joe'' auswählte, kurz bevor die Option auf eine Verlängerung bestand, so Brzezinski.
===Democratic National Committee email leak===
The 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak revealed that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, had emailed Chuck Todd, the Political Director of [[NBC News]] and host of ''Meet the Press'', to demand that he "stop" Brzezinski from criticizing the DNC's treatment of [[Bernie Sanders]]. In December 2016, after Clinton had lost, Brzezinski suggested the Clinton campaign had tried to silence her by calling executives at NBC and telling them she "needed to be pulled off the air".


Seit dem Start der Sendung trat Brzezinski als Co-Moderatorin und Nachrichtensprecherin in der MSNBC-Morgensendung ''Morning Joe auf'', neben Joe Scarborough und Willie Geist.
===Refusal of Kellyanne Conway interviews===
On February 15, 2017, Brzezinski banned Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway from future appearances on her show. Brzezinski said, "We know for a fact that [Conway] tries to book herself on this show. I won't do it. Because I don't believe in fake news, or information that is not true... every time I've ever seen her on television, something's askew, off or incorrect".


=== Kampagne gegen Trivialjournalismus ===
On February 15, 2017, ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'' columnist Jennifer Rubin agreed that Conway should be banned from future television appearances. "In recent days, [[George Stephanopoulos]] and Matt Lauer blasted her directly, essentially calling her a fabulist. Given all that, it would be irresponsible for any news show to put her out there, suggesting she really does not know what is going on at any given moment", Rubin wrote. According to both Scarborough and Brzezinski, Conway is privately "disgusted" by her job and [[Donald Trump]], and her words do not reflect her actual beliefs—though Conway disputed the claim.


Am 26. Juni 2007 weigerte sich Brzezinski zu Beginn von ''Morning Joe'', einen Bericht über die Entlassung von Paris Hilton aus dem Gefängnis zu verlesen. Eine Stunde später, während einer anderen Nachrichtensendung, machte ihr Produzent Andy Jones die Geschichte erneut zum Aufmacher und stellte sie über den Bruch des republikanischen Senators von Indiana, Richard Lugar, mit Präsident Bush über den Irakkrieg, den Brzezinski für wichtiger hielt. Nach mehreren sarkastischen Bemerkungen von Moderator Scarborough versuchte sie, das Skript der Geschichte in der Sendung in Brand zu setzen, wurde aber von Co-Moderator Geist physisch daran gehindert, dies zu tun. Anschließend zerriss sie das Skript, und eine Stunde später stand sie auf und ließ eine weitere Kopie des Skripts durch einen Papierschredder laufen, den sie aus Dan Abrams' Büro geholt hatte. Der Vorfall wurde im Internet schnell bekannt, und in den darauffolgenden Tagen erhielt Brzezinski jede Menge Fanpost, in der sie ihren On-Air-Protest als Kommentar zur Spannung zwischen &quot;harten Nachrichten&quot; und &quot;Unterhaltungsnachrichten&quot; darstellte. In ähnlicher Weise protestierte sie am 7. Juli 2010 auf Sendung gegen den Druck, über Lindsay Lohan und Levi Johnston zu berichten. Schließlich berichteten Geist und Pat Buchanan die Geschichten mit der damals populären Überschrift &quot;News You Can't Use&quot;.
===Conflict with Donald Trump ===
[[File:Interviewers Turned Interviewees (10604).jpg|thumb|Brzezinski being interviewed at [[BookExpo America]] in 2018]]
During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]] tweeted several times criticizing both Brzezinski and Scarborough. In March 2017, Brzezinski called Trump's presidency "fake and failed", and soon thereafter Trump unfollowed Brzezinski and Scarborough on Twitter.


Erik Wemple von der ''Washington Post'' kritisierte Brzezinski und Co-Moderator Scarborough für ihre häufigen Telefoninterviews mit Donald Trump während des Präsidentschaftswahlkampfs 2016.
In late June 2017, Brzezinski was again the target of Trump's tweets in which he called her "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and asserted that she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift".


=== E-Mail-Leck des Demokratischen Nationalkomitees ===
Brzezinski and Scarborough then accused the White House of threatening to blackmail them with an exposé in a tabloid magazine unless the pair apologized publicly to the President.


Das E-Mail-Leck des Demokratischen Nationalkomitees von 2016 enthüllte, dass Debbie Wasserman Schultz, die Vorsitzende des Demokratischen Nationalkomitees, Chuck Todd, dem politischen Direktor von NBC News und Moderator von ''Meet the Press,'' eine E-Mail geschrieben hatte, in der sie ihn aufforderte, Brzezinski von ihrer Kritik an der Behandlung von Bernie Sanders durch das DNC abzuhalten. Im Dezember 2016, nachdem Clinton verloren hatte, behauptete Brzezinski, die Clinton-Kampagne habe versucht, sie zum Schweigen zu bringen, indem sie die Führungskräfte von NBC anrief und ihnen mitteilte, sie müsse &quot;aus der Sendung genommen werden&quot;.
On May 20, 2020, while hosting ''Morning Joe'', Brzezinski spoke out against Trump for tweeting a conspiracy theory that her husband was involved in the death of Lori Klausutis, an intern in Scarborough's Florida office in 2001, while he was in Congress. Trump labelled Klausutis' death a "cold case" in his tweet. Klausutis was found dead at her desk in July 2001. An autopsy revealed an undiagnosed heart problem that caused her to lose consciousness and hit her head when she fell. During a live segment on ''Morning Joe'', Brzezinski stated "Donald, you're a sick person. You're a sick person, to put this [Klausutis'] family through this, to put her husband through this, to do this just because you're mad at Joe, because Joe got you again today. Because he speaks the truth, and he speaks plainly about your lack of interest and empathy in others and your lack of ability to handle this massive human catastrophe (COVID-19), the fact that you have made it worse and you make it worse every day. And that you won't even wear a mask to protect people from your germs". Brzezinski later announced in a tweet that she would be contacting Twitter about Trump's tweet, which she said violated their policies, and urged the platform to stop allowing their policies "to be abused by the day", citing Trump's tweet as libel, and further announced a call with the company was being arranged.


=== Ablehnung von Interviews mit Kellyanne Conway ===
On May 26, 2020, ''[[The New York Times]]'' published an op-ed, containing a letter in which the husband of Lori Klausutis, Timothy Klausutis demanded Trump stop exploiting his late wife and urged Twitter to take down the tweets. Klausutis wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking him to intervene and claimed Trump has violated Twitter's terms of service and "has taken something that does not belong to him-the memory of my dead wife-and perverted it for perceived political gain". Later, the same day, Trump posted two tweets seemingly addressing the letter, writing: "The opening of a Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough was not a Donald Trump original thought, this has been going on for years, long before I joined the chorus. In 2016 when Joe & his wacky future ex-wife, Mika, would endlessly interview me, I would always be thinking .... about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing? [...]".


Am 15. Februar 2017 untersagte Brzezinski der Trump-Sprecherin Kellyanne Conway künftige Auftritte in ihrer Sendung. Brzezinski sagte: &quot;Wir wissen mit Sicherheit, dass [Conway] versucht, sich selbst in dieser Sendung zu buchen. Ich werde es nicht tun. Denn ich glaube nicht an Fake News oder an Informationen, die nicht wahr sind... jedes Mal, wenn ich sie im Fernsehen gesehen habe, war irgendetwas schief, falsch oder inkorrekt&quot;. Ihr Co-Moderator Joe Scarborough begründete die Entscheidung, Conway von künftigen Auftritten auszuschließen, damit, dass sie &quot;nicht eingeweiht&quot; und &quot;bei keinem der wichtigen Treffen dabei&quot; sei. &quot;Sie ist nicht informiert. Sie sagt nur Dinge, um vor den Fernseher zu kommen und ihre Relevanz zu beweisen&quot;.
== Controversies ==
In December 2017, Brzezinski complained on her show that women who had accused her friend and former colleague Mark Halperin of sexual harassment would not meet with him so he could apologize. Ten of Halperin's accusers released a statement criticizing Brzezinski's comments.


Am 15. Februar 2017 stimmte die Kolumnistin der ''Washington Post,'' Jennifer Rubin, zu, dass Conway von zukünftigen Fernsehauftritten ausgeschlossen werden sollte. &quot;In den letzten Tagen haben George Stephanopoulos und Matt Lauer sie direkt angegriffen und sie im Wesentlichen als Fabelwesen bezeichnet. In Anbetracht all dessen wäre es für jede Nachrichtensendung unverantwortlich, sie dort auftreten zu lassen und zu suggerieren, dass sie wirklich nicht weiß, was zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt vor sich geht&quot;, schrieb Rubin. Sowohl Scarborough als auch Brzezinski zufolge ist Conway privat &quot;angewidert&quot; von ihrem Job und Donald Trump, und ihre Worte spiegeln nicht ihre tatsächlichen Überzeugungen wider - obwohl Conway diese Behauptung bestritt.
On December 12, 2018, Brzezinski called Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "a wannabe dictator's butt-boy", referring to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, during a live MSNBC broadcast. She apologized later that day (as well as the next day) after her remarks were criticized as homophobic.


=== Konflikt mit Donald Trump ===
==Personal life==
On October 23, 1993, Brzezinski married TV news reporter James Patrick Hoffer, now of WABC-TV. They met when both worked at WTIC-TV. They have two daughters. Hoffer and Brzezinski divorced in 2016 amidst allegations of an affair that started years prior in 2010, between Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.


Während des Präsidentschaftswahlkampfs 2016 kritisierte der damalige Präsidentschaftskandidat Donald Trump in mehreren Tweets sowohl Brzezinski als auch Scarborough. Im März 2017 bezeichnete Brzezinski Trumps Präsidentschaft als &quot;gefälscht und gescheitert&quot;, woraufhin Trump Brzezinski und Scarborough auf Twitter nicht mehr folgte.
In early 2017, Brzezinski became engaged to her co-host Joe Scarborough, and they were married on November 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C., with Rep. Elijah Cummings serving as the officiant.


Ende Juni 2017 war Brzezinski erneut das Ziel von Trumps Tweets, in denen er sie als &quot;verrückte Mika mit niedrigem IQ&quot; bezeichnete und behauptete, dass sie &quot;stark von einem Facelifting blute&quot;.
==Awards and honors==
Brzezinski was selected for the inaugural 2021 [[Forbes]] 50 Over 50; made up of entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists and creators who are over the age of 50.


Brzezinski und Scarborough beschuldigten daraufhin das Weiße Haus, sie mit einem Exposé in einem Boulevardmagazin zu erpressen, falls sich die beiden nicht öffentlich beim Präsidenten entschuldigen würden.
In August 2022, Brzezinski was awarded an honorary doctorate by SWPS University.


Am 20. Mai 2020 wandte sich Brzezinski als Moderatorin von ''Morning Joe'' gegen Trump, weil dieser eine Verschwörungstheorie getwittert hatte, wonach ihr Mann in den Tod von Lori Klausutis verwickelt sei, einer Praktikantin in Scarboroughs Büro in Florida im Jahr 2001, als er im Kongress saß. Trump bezeichnete Klausutis' Tod in seinem Tweet als &quot;Cold Case&quot;. Klausutis wurde im Juli 2001 tot an ihrem Schreibtisch aufgefunden. Eine Autopsie ergab ein nicht diagnostiziertes Herzproblem, das dazu führte, dass sie bei einem Sturz das Bewusstsein verlor und sich den Kopf stieß. Während einer Live-Sendung bei ''Morning Joe'' sagte Brzezinski: &quot;Donald, du bist ein kranker Mensch. Du bist ein kranker Mensch, der der Familie [Klausutis] das zumutet, der ihrem Mann das zumutet, nur weil du sauer auf Joe bist, weil Joe dich heute wieder erwischt hat. Denn er spricht die Wahrheit aus, und er spricht klar und deutlich über Ihr mangelndes Interesse und Ihr fehlendes Einfühlungsvermögen in andere und Ihre mangelnde Fähigkeit, mit dieser massiven menschlichen Katastrophe (COVID-19) umzugehen, die Tatsache, dass Sie sie verschlimmert haben und sie jeden Tag verschlimmern. Und dass Sie nicht einmal eine Maske tragen, um die Menschen vor Ihren Keimen zu schützen&quot;. Brzezinski kündigte später in einem Tweet an, dass sie Twitter wegen Trumps Tweet kontaktieren werde, der ihrer Meinung nach gegen die Unternehmensrichtlinien verstoße, und forderte die Plattform auf, nicht länger zuzulassen, dass ihre Richtlinien &quot;tagtäglich missbraucht werden&quot;, wobei sie Trumps Tweet als Verleumdung bezeichnete, und kündigte außerdem an, dass ein Gespräch mit dem Unternehmen arrangiert werde.
==Works==
In January 2010, Brzezinski published a memoir entitled ''All Things at Once''. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the book "follows Brzezinski through her professional chutes and ladders — the freelance gigs, the graveyard shifts, the drama (covering 9/11), the dreariness (puff segments on shoes) — the only constant being the precariousness of her employment". ''The News-Times'' says that Brzezinski uses "the roller-coaster model of her own career to advise people" who have become unemployed, which she sees as a "reset" that can be "cleansing and liberating in ways you never knew." Her inspiration for the book came in part from talking to young women who did not believe they could have kids before establishing a career.


Am 26. Mai 2020 veröffentlichte ''die New York Times'' einen Meinungsartikel, der einen Brief enthielt, in dem der Ehemann von Lori Klausutis, Timothy Klausutis, Trump aufforderte, die Ausbeutung seiner verstorbenen Frau zu beenden und Twitter aufforderte, die Tweets zu löschen. Klausutis schrieb an Twitter-CEO Jack Dorsey und forderte ihn auf, zu intervenieren. Er behauptete, Trump habe gegen die Nutzungsbedingungen von Twitter verstoßen und &quot;etwas genommen, das ihm nicht gehört - die Erinnerung an meine verstorbene Frau - und es für einen vermeintlichen politischen Gewinn pervertiert&quot;. Später, am selben Tag, postete Trump zwei Tweets, die sich scheinbar auf den Brief bezogen, und schrieb: &quot;Die Eröffnung eines Cold Case gegen Psycho Joe Scarborough war kein origineller Gedanke von Donald Trump, das geht schon seit Jahren so, lange bevor ich mich dem Chor angeschlossen habe. Im Jahr 2016, als Joe und seine verrückte zukünftige Ex-Frau Mika mich endlos interviewten, dachte ich immer .... darüber nach, ob Joe so etwas Schreckliches getan haben könnte oder nicht? [...]&quot;.
''Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You're Worth,'' published in 2011, discusses women and financial negotiations. It includes tips for negotiating salaries and compensation packages. In 2018 this was revised, updated, and was released as ''Know Your Value''. Her third book, ''Obsessed: America's Food Addiction and My Own'', was published in 2012. In 2021, [[Forbes]] partnered with Brzezinski and her "Know Your Value" initiative, to shine a light on 50 diverse women over the age of 50 who have achieved significant success later in life, often by overcoming formidable odds or barriers.


== Kontroversen ==
==See also==
* Cable news in the United States
* New Yorkers in journalism


Im Dezember 2017 beschwerte sich Brzezinski in ihrer Sendung, dass Frauen, die ihren Freund und ehemaligen Kollegen Mark Halperin der sexuellen Belästigung beschuldigt hatten, sich nicht mit ihm treffen wollten, damit er sich entschuldigen konnte. Zehn von Halperins Anklägerinnen veröffentlichten eine Erklärung, in der sie Brzezinskis Kommentare kritisierten.


Am 12. Dezember 2018 bezeichnete Brzezinski Trumps Außenminister Mike Pompeo in einer Live-Sendung auf MSNBC als &quot;Möchtegern-Diktator-Arschkriecher&quot; und bezog sich dabei auf den saudischen Kronprinzen Mohammed bin Salman. Sie entschuldigte sich später an diesem Tag (und auch am nächsten Tag), nachdem ihre Äußerungen als homophob kritisiert wurden.


== Persönliches Leben ==
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Am 23. Oktober 1993 heiratete Brzezinski den Fernsehreporter James Patrick Hoffer, der heute bei WABC-TV arbeitet. Sie lernten sich kennen, als beide bei WTIC-TV arbeiteten. Sie haben zwei Töchter. Hoffer und Brzezinski ließen sich 2016 scheiden, weil sie eine Affäre vermuteten, die Jahre zuvor, 2010, zwischen Brzezinski und Joe Scarborough begonnen hatte.
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Anfang 2017 verlobte sich Brzezinski mit ihrem Co-Moderator Joe Scarborough. Die beiden heirateten am 24. November 2018 in Washington, D.C., wobei der Abgeordnete Elijah Cummings als Trauzeuge fungierte.
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== Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen ==


Brzezinski wurde für die erste Forbes 50 Over 50-Auswahl 2021 ausgewählt, die sich aus Unternehmern, Führungskräften, Wissenschaftlern und Kreativen zusammensetzt, die über 50 Jahre alt sind.
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Im August 2022 wurde Brzezinski die Ehrendoktorwürde der SWPS-Universität verliehen.
 
== Werke ==
 
Im Januar 2010 veröffentlichte Brzezinski ihre Memoiren mit dem Titel ''All Things at Once''. Der ''New York Times'' zufolge folgt das Buch &quot;Brzezinski durch ihre berufliche Laufbahn - die freiberuflichen Auftritte, die Nachtschichten, die Dramen (Berichterstattung über den 11. September), die Tristesse (Puff-Segmente über Schuhe) - die einzige Konstante ist die Prekarität ihrer Beschäftigung&quot;. ''In der News-Times'' heißt es, Brzezinski nutze &quot;das Achterbahnmodell ihrer eigenen Karriere, um Menschen zu beraten&quot;, die arbeitslos geworden sind, was sie als &quot;Neustart&quot; betrachtet, der &quot;auf ungeahnte Weise reinigend und befreiend&quot; sein kann. Ihre Inspiration für das Buch kam zum Teil aus Gesprächen mit jungen Frauen, die nicht glaubten, dass sie Kinder haben können, bevor sie eine Karriere aufgebaut haben.
 
''Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You're Worth, das'' 2011 veröffentlicht wurde, befasst sich mit Frauen und Finanzverhandlungen. Es enthält Tipps für die Verhandlung von Gehältern und Vergütungspaketen. Im Jahr 2018 wurde es überarbeitet, aktualisiert und als ''Know Your Value'' veröffentlicht. Ihr drittes Buch, ''Obsessed: America's Food Addiction and My Own'', wurde 2012 veröffentlicht. Im Jahr 2021 hat sich Forbes mit Brzezinski und ihrer Initiative &quot;Know Your Value&quot; zusammengetan, um 50 verschiedene Frauen über 50 Jahren vorzustellen, die in ihrem späteren Leben große Erfolge erzielt haben, indem sie oft große Hindernisse oder Barrieren überwunden haben.

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Mika Brzezinski
Brzezinski in 2011
Geboren
Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski

(1967-05-02) May 2, 1967 (age 57)
New York City, U.S.
UniversitätWilliams College (BA)
Occupation(s)Television host, author
EmployerNBCUniversal
TelevisionMorning Joe (co-host)
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
  • James Hoffer
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    (m. 1993; div. 2016)​
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    (m. 2018)​
Children2
Parent(s)Zbigniew Brzezinski (father)
Emilie Benešová (mother)
RelativesIan Brzezinski (brother)
Mark Brzezinski (brother)
Matthew Brzezinski (cousin)

Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough (; née Brzezinski; born May 2, 1967) is an American talk show host who co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show Morning Joe alongside her husband Joe Scarborough. She was formerly a CBS News correspondent, and was their principal "Ground Zero" reporter during the morning of the September 11 attacks. In 2007, she joined MSNBC as an occasional anchor, and was subsequently chosen as co-host of Morning Joe.

Brzezinski is the daughter of diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson and as the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter. Brzezinski is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. Her main political interest is in wage equality for women. She is the author of three books: two on her career as a journalist and one on food addiction.

Early life

Brzezinski was born in New York City on May 2, 1967, the daughter of Polish-born foreign policy expert and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński and Swiss-born sculptor Emilie Anna Benešová. Her mother, of Czech descent, is a grandniece of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneš. Her father was teaching at Columbia University when she was born. The family moved to McLean, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., in late 1976, when Zbigniew was named National Security Advisor by newly elected President Jimmy Carter. Her brother, Mark Brzezinski, is an American diplomat, was the United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015 and from 2022 has been the United States Ambassador to Poland. Her second brother is military expert Ian Brzezinski. She is a first cousin of the author Matthew Brzezinski.

Brzezinski attended the Madeira School and then attended Georgetown University for two years before transferring to Williams College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1989.

Career

Brzezinski at the Miami Book Fair International 2013

Brzezinski began her career in journalism as an assistant at ABC's World News This Morning in 1990. A year later, she moved to Tribune-owned Fox affiliate WTIC-TV/WTIC-DT in Hartford, Connecticut. There, she progressed from assignment and features editor to general assignments reporter. In 1992, she joined CBS affiliate WFSB-TV/WFSB-DT in Hartford and quickly progressed through the ranks to become its weekday morning anchor in 1995. In 1997, she left that role to join CBS News, where she served as a correspondent and as anchor for the overnight Up to the Minute news program. In 2001, Brzezinski began a short hiatus from CBS News, during which she worked for rival MSNBC on the weekday afternoon show, HomePage, with co-anchors Gina Gaston and Ashleigh Banfield.

9/11 correspondent

She returned to CBS News as a desk correspondent in September 2001, a move that thrust her into the limelight as a principal "Ground Zero" reporter for the September 11, 2001, attacks. Brzezinski was broadcasting live from the scene when the South Tower collapsed. In her last position at CBS News, Brzezinski served as a CBS News correspondent, substitute anchor, and segment anchor for breaking news segments and routine updates. During this period she became an occasional contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes.

MSNBC

Brzezinski returned to MSNBC on January 26, 2007, doing the evening "Up to the Minute" news updates. Then she worked primetime newsbreaks during the week. She also filed occasional reports for NBC Nightly News and appeared as an occasional anchor on Weekend Today. Brzezinski resigned from both shows on the eve of a renewal option, said Brzezinski, when Scarborough selected her to co-host on Morning Joe.

Brzezinski interviewing Jill Biden at the White House in January 2024.

Since the program's inception, Brzezinski appeared as co-host and news reader on MSNBC's morning program Morning Joe, alongside Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist.

Campaign against trivial journalism

On June 26, 2007, near the beginning of Morning Joe, Brzezinski refused to read a report about Paris Hilton's release from jail. One hour later during another news break segment, her producer Andy Jones again pushed the story as the lead, ranking it over Indiana's Republican Senator Richard Lugar's break with President Bush on the Iraq War, which Brzezinski considered more important. After several sarcastic remarks from host Scarborough, she attempted to set the story's script on fire on the air, but was physically prevented from doing so by co-host Geist. She then tore up the script, and one hour later, got up and ran another copy of the script through a paper shredder retrieved from Dan Abrams's office. The incident was quickly popularized on the Internet, and in the days that followed, Brzezinski received large quantities of fan mail supporting her on-air protest as a commentary on the tension between "hard news" and "entertainment news". Similarly, on July 7, 2010, she objected on-air to pressure to report on Lindsay Lohan and Levi Johnston. Eventually, Geist and Pat Buchanan reported the stories with the caption, then popularized, "News You Can't Use".

Erik Wemple of The Washington Post criticized Brzezinski and co-host Scarborough for frequent phone interviews with Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential campaign.

Democratic National Committee email leak

The 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak revealed that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, had emailed Chuck Todd, the Political Director of NBC News and host of Meet the Press, to demand that he "stop" Brzezinski from criticizing the DNC's treatment of Bernie Sanders. In December 2016, after Clinton had lost, Brzezinski suggested the Clinton campaign had tried to silence her by calling executives at NBC and telling them she "needed to be pulled off the air".

Refusal of Kellyanne Conway interviews

On February 15, 2017, Brzezinski banned Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway from future appearances on her show. Brzezinski said, "We know for a fact that [Conway] tries to book herself on this show. I won't do it. Because I don't believe in fake news, or information that is not true... every time I've ever seen her on television, something's askew, off or incorrect".

On February 15, 2017, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin agreed that Conway should be banned from future television appearances. "In recent days, George Stephanopoulos and Matt Lauer blasted her directly, essentially calling her a fabulist. Given all that, it would be irresponsible for any news show to put her out there, suggesting she really does not know what is going on at any given moment", Rubin wrote. According to both Scarborough and Brzezinski, Conway is privately "disgusted" by her job and Donald Trump, and her words do not reflect her actual beliefs—though Conway disputed the claim.

Conflict with Donald Trump

Brzezinski being interviewed at BookExpo America in 2018

During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted several times criticizing both Brzezinski and Scarborough. In March 2017, Brzezinski called Trump's presidency "fake and failed", and soon thereafter Trump unfollowed Brzezinski and Scarborough on Twitter.

In late June 2017, Brzezinski was again the target of Trump's tweets in which he called her "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and asserted that she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift".

Brzezinski and Scarborough then accused the White House of threatening to blackmail them with an exposé in a tabloid magazine unless the pair apologized publicly to the President.

On May 20, 2020, while hosting Morning Joe, Brzezinski spoke out against Trump for tweeting a conspiracy theory that her husband was involved in the death of Lori Klausutis, an intern in Scarborough's Florida office in 2001, while he was in Congress. Trump labelled Klausutis' death a "cold case" in his tweet. Klausutis was found dead at her desk in July 2001. An autopsy revealed an undiagnosed heart problem that caused her to lose consciousness and hit her head when she fell. During a live segment on Morning Joe, Brzezinski stated "Donald, you're a sick person. You're a sick person, to put this [Klausutis'] family through this, to put her husband through this, to do this just because you're mad at Joe, because Joe got you again today. Because he speaks the truth, and he speaks plainly about your lack of interest and empathy in others and your lack of ability to handle this massive human catastrophe (COVID-19), the fact that you have made it worse and you make it worse every day. And that you won't even wear a mask to protect people from your germs". Brzezinski later announced in a tweet that she would be contacting Twitter about Trump's tweet, which she said violated their policies, and urged the platform to stop allowing their policies "to be abused by the day", citing Trump's tweet as libel, and further announced a call with the company was being arranged.

On May 26, 2020, The New York Times published an op-ed, containing a letter in which the husband of Lori Klausutis, Timothy Klausutis demanded Trump stop exploiting his late wife and urged Twitter to take down the tweets. Klausutis wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking him to intervene and claimed Trump has violated Twitter's terms of service and "has taken something that does not belong to him-the memory of my dead wife-and perverted it for perceived political gain". Later, the same day, Trump posted two tweets seemingly addressing the letter, writing: "The opening of a Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough was not a Donald Trump original thought, this has been going on for years, long before I joined the chorus. In 2016 when Joe & his wacky future ex-wife, Mika, would endlessly interview me, I would always be thinking .... about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing? [...]".

Controversies

In December 2017, Brzezinski complained on her show that women who had accused her friend and former colleague Mark Halperin of sexual harassment would not meet with him so he could apologize. Ten of Halperin's accusers released a statement criticizing Brzezinski's comments.

On December 12, 2018, Brzezinski called Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "a wannabe dictator's butt-boy", referring to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, during a live MSNBC broadcast. She apologized later that day (as well as the next day) after her remarks were criticized as homophobic.

Personal life

On October 23, 1993, Brzezinski married TV news reporter James Patrick Hoffer, now of WABC-TV. They met when both worked at WTIC-TV. They have two daughters. Hoffer and Brzezinski divorced in 2016 amidst allegations of an affair that started years prior in 2010, between Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.

In early 2017, Brzezinski became engaged to her co-host Joe Scarborough, and they were married on November 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C., with Rep. Elijah Cummings serving as the officiant.

Awards and honors

Brzezinski was selected for the inaugural 2021 Forbes 50 Over 50; made up of entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists and creators who are over the age of 50.

In August 2022, Brzezinski was awarded an honorary doctorate by SWPS University.

Works

In January 2010, Brzezinski published a memoir entitled All Things at Once. According to The New York Times, the book "follows Brzezinski through her professional chutes and ladders — the freelance gigs, the graveyard shifts, the drama (covering 9/11), the dreariness (puff segments on shoes) — the only constant being the precariousness of her employment". The News-Times says that Brzezinski uses "the roller-coaster model of her own career to advise people" who have become unemployed, which she sees as a "reset" that can be "cleansing and liberating in ways you never knew." Her inspiration for the book came in part from talking to young women who did not believe they could have kids before establishing a career.

Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You're Worth, published in 2011, discusses women and financial negotiations. It includes tips for negotiating salaries and compensation packages. In 2018 this was revised, updated, and was released as Know Your Value. Her third book, Obsessed: America's Food Addiction and My Own, was published in 2012. In 2021, Forbes partnered with Brzezinski and her "Know Your Value" initiative, to shine a light on 50 diverse women over the age of 50 who have achieved significant success later in life, often by overcoming formidable odds or barriers.

See also

  • Cable news in the United States
  • New Yorkers in journalism


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