Awkward moment Mika Brzezinski looks away while Joe Scarborough slams influencers in bizarre rant [Video]

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was spotted in an awkward on-air moment as her co-host and husband Joe Scarborough slammed citizen journalist influencers during a bizarre rant Monday. 

The host of Morning Joe appeared shocked as Scarborough unleashed a foul-mouthed rant against influencers and commenters who he claimed get away with lying on social media while ‘what reporters do matters.’

The intense conversation stemmed from a speech that Axios CEO Jim VandeHei gave at the National Press Club Thursday, where he called out Elon Musk for claiming that the media has been replaced by ‘citizen journalists.’  

VandeHei joined the Morning Joe show Monday as the MSNBC team congratulated him on winning the Fourth Estate award alongside his publication’s co-founder, Mike Allen – but the conversation quickly took a sharp turn. 

After the Morning Joe team praised VandeHei, Scarborough immediately hopped on the bandwagon, repeating the CEO’s comment he made last week about influencers ‘popping off on Twitter.’ 

As Scarborough grew aggravated, he dropped …