Joe Scarborough said Donald Trump's language about the press is "very, very dangerous" and agreed with pundit John Heilemann that when you call something enemy of the people that can "incite violence."



Scarborough said that Republicans "grow up with the press being biased and beating us up and always giving our Democratic opponent every benefit of the doubt." However, Scarborough said if you are a Republican then that is "just part of the playing field." He said it is "one thing" to call out the media as liberal but what Trump is doing is "dangerous."



From Monday's edition of Morning Joe:





JOHN HEILEMANN: Look, he has been waging war on the press for a while but I have to say this language is really, you know, far outside -- it's not like Nixon, you said it before. Enemy of the people is pretty far outside of what is the standard Republican playbook of attacking like Nick Confessore of The New York Times and other places.



And, you know, there's -- administrations always take offense when they are criticized and challenged. But I think part of what you are seeing is bipartisan. And even inside the Trump administration itself it seems kind of beyond the pale...



I think most of the people at this table were alive, politically conscious, at the time of the Oklahoma City bombings. And every time that Donald Trump uses this kind of language I kind of worry that it's an incitement to elements in our country that may go ahead and do something when the president of the United States calls the press the enemy of the people and they might take that seriously. Does that concern you?



JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, you know the thing is you try to take a lot of what you get, the incoming in stride. I know a lot of people love to retweet all of the death threats they get and the nasty things that they get, but when you receive tweets every day and somebody is threatening your life and they talk about lynching you and your family after President Trump has his way with the media, this happens over and over again and I don't think there is anybody that is in the media that doesn't hear that every day.



So, yes, there are unbalanced people on the left, there are unbalanced people on the right, there are unbalanced people that support Donald Trump as well. So, yeah, this is very, very dangerous. And as Chris Wallace said yesterday on -- I thought it was significant on FOX News Sunday, the president crossed a line.



We Republicans talking about myself -- you know, I hear John McCain saying, well, I hate you, I hate the press. He's not joking! We grow up with the press being biased and beating us up and always giving our Democratic opponent every benefit of the doubt. That's just part of the playing field. And it's one thing to say the press is liberal and one thing to say the Ninth Circuit is liberal, but when you start saying that somebody has -- is an enemy of the people, then that does incite people to violence, especially if it's coming from the president of the United States.



And Mike Barnicle, what is so rich about Donald Trump, talking about fake news and Reince Priebus talking about stories that are inaccurate, there's a president who, from the second he got into office, was lying about crowd sizes, that were verifiably false if you just look at satellite images. Lied last week in a press conference having the largest electoral college victory since Reagan. That was a lie as well. Lied about the crime rate being at 47-year high when it was a 47-year low, except for last year when we had a slight bump-up. And ten, of course, the terror attack in Sweden this weekend. As Jesus said, I mean, you know, don't throw stones if you live in glass houses. This man lives in the biggest glass house there is when it comes to a disconnection from the truth. So to attack the media and say they are enemy of the people is beyond the pale.