Mika Brzezinski to Trump: 'You have no idea what your words mean'

Mika Brzezinski laced into Donald Trump on Friday after his latest defense of calling Hillary Clinton a bigot, suggesting that the Republican nominee does not understand the impact of his statements.

"We were just talking off set. I just have to say it," Brzezinski began during the first hour of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," after the show played a clip of Trump's interview with Anderson Cooper.


In that interview, Trump declared multiple times that Clinton is a "bigot," suggesting that either a hatred of African-Americans or laziness was at the core of it.

"Donald Trump, you have no idea what your words mean," Brzezinski remarked. "You have no idea. You have no idea what your words mean. And I can't pretend and sort of try and cover this fairly and put it in the objectivity. You have no idea what your words mean and what you're doing to this country."

Former George W. Bush communications aide Nicolle Wallace remarked upon Clinton's reference to the former president's visit to a mosque in the days after 9/11, adding that as a senior adviser for John McCain, she was "10 feet away" from the 2008 GOP nominee when he rebuked a woman in his audience who called Barack Obama a Muslim.

"When he did the right thing, because he knows from right and wrong," Brzezinski interjected. "Whether we agree with him or not, he's a human being who knows from right and wrong and knows what his words mean."

Wallace remarked, "And I thought, my God, [McCain] doesn't care what happens in this election, he's worried about the country."

"So it's not just what he's doing," Wallace said of Trump. "It's what he's done to the Republican Party, and I think we've sort of entered this black box phase, where we've crashed."