Joe Scarborough said that it was apparent that the president-elect was worried about one of his administration picks during their controversial meeting last week.

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.

Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough joked that their show could be gone in a year, referencing the news that Comcast will spin off a large chunk of NBCUniversal cable channels. Among the networks set to be affected by Comcast is MSNBC,