MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ hosts meet with Trump to reopen lines of communication [Video]

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, fierce critics of President-elect Donald Trump, say they travelled to Mar-a-Lago for a meeting with him to reopen lines of communication that would better serve their morning show viewers.

With feelings still raw two weeks after the election, their journey to Trump’s Florida home hasn’t gone over that well with many fans and critics of “Morning Joe.”

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The show’s anchor team had been so critical of Trump that, in September, Scarborough said that “it’s not a reach” to compare him to Hitler. MSNBC pulled “Morning Joe” from the air the Monday after the assassination attempt on Trump this past summer.

On Monday’s show, the hosts said they had reached out to Trump last Thursday and met with him the next day. “It was the first time we have …