On Monday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe sent out co-host and Atlantic writer Jonathan Lemire to squirm and awkwardly reject comments made without evidence on Friday by MSNBC and NBC News law enforcement analyst Frank Figliuzzi that FBI Director Kash Patel was spending “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building.”
Lemire bizarrely pivoted to this in the fourth hour even after co-host Mika Brzezinski had done a tease for the next segment ahead of a commercial break: “And now let’s circle back to a segment from Friday’s show. Frank Figliuzzi was on that morning during this hour, discussing the work of administration officials. At the end of that segment, Figliuzzi said that FBI director Kash Patel has reportedly been more visible at nightclubs than at his office at FBI headquarters.”