Scarborough Admits GOP Approach To Iran Deal Is A 'Toxic Mix'
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough said Monday that in light of the letter from Republican senators to Iranian leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress looks more political.
Scarborough said that each action on its own was not a big deal, but the "one-two punch" of the Netanyahu invitation and the letter is "toxic."
"If you just asked me about Netanyahu, I’d say 'It’s happened before. He can show up,'" he said. “If you ask me about the letter, taken apart, I go, 'The letter? You know what? Freshmen do stuff like that. It was stupid.'"
"But there’s something about those two accents in tandem, together, a couple weeks apart, that I must agree with a lot of really smart writers at [the Washington Post] and the New York Times," Scarborough continued. "Taken together, I do think it has a really toxic mix about how dysfunctional the United States of America is right now."
This concession marks a change of tune for Scarborough, who previously defended both the letter and Netanyahu's speech. Last week, Scarborough seemed sympathetic about the Senate Republicans' letter to Iran, even though he did say he wouldn't have signed it himself.
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