I still remember the moment Mika Brzezinski became a star in my eyes. It was years ago on "Morning Joe," when she visibly recoiled at the fluff piece she was handed to read -- something about Paris Hilton that had no place in a hard news segment.

Viewers have been fleeing MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in droves since co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed on Monday that they trekked down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump,

Brzezinski positioned the meeting as “restarting communications” and invoked her late father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to insist that diplomacy was important. The elder Brzezinski was National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s, of course, and not ostensibly a reporter covering an incoming president.