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President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, is remembered as a humanitarian and a champion of human rights around the globe. His legacy, though, includes supporting a military regime in El Salvador during the beginning of the Salvadoran Civil War, including the assassination of Saint Óscar Romero.

The United States sent military and economic aid to the government of El Salvador during its bloody 12-year civil war, and trained military leaders. A reminder that the Cold War was not always “cold,” 75,000 people were killed in the war, most at the hands...

Updated, with Trump comment: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said that they met with Donald Trump on Friday, in what they described as an effort to restart communications with the president-elect after years of criticism and warning about his rhetoric and potential return to office.

At the opening of Morning Joe, Brzezinski said that, after expressing their desire to meet with Trump, they were given the opportunity “to do just that” on Friday. It was the first time they had seen him in seven years, she said.

Scarborough said, “We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportations, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets. We talked about that a good bit. It is going to come as no surprise to anyone who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or the past decade, that we didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of issues,...

Seven years after they last spoke to him, MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski traveled to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

The duo, who used to be friends with Trump, turned into fierce critics during his first term in office, and he returned the favor, occasionally ripping into them in posts on X (formerly Twitter). At the top of Monday’s program, they disclosed their trip, acknowledging that his decisive win influenced their decision.

“Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him,” Brzezinski said. “For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, why wouldn’t we? Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country.

“Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski apologized on Friday morning for using a gay slur to describe Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The MSNBC anchor was criticized heavily on social media platforms and by President Donald Trump after she mused during Wednesday’s broadcast that Pompeo wanted to be a “wannabe dictator’s butt boy.” Brzezinski’s comments were in reference to the secretary’s attempts to duck questions about Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“The term is crass and offensive, and I apologize to everyone, especially the Lgbtq community and to my colleagues, for using it,” Brzezinski said during Friday’s show.

The “Morning Joe” host was off on Thursday dealing with a “family matter.” She tweeted an apology for her remarks on Wednesday, but elaborated during her return to the broadcast, by referencing the imagined reaction of her father,...

Mika Brzezinski apologized on-air two days after using a homophobic slur while talking about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

“There’s a lot going on, but I want to get to something first,” she segued clunkily after a recap of the morning headlines.

“I was off yesterday for a family matter…but I wanted to address a term that I used on this show on Wednesday that was vulgar. I knew it right away, and I tweeted that it was a terrible choice of words and that I was sorry.”

“But please allow me to say this face to face: The term is crass and offensive and I apologize to everyone, especially the Lgbtq community, and to my colleagues, for using it.”

“It was a mistake. My father would have found it so unbecoming and disrespectful and he would have told me. I will work hard to be better.

On Thursday, Mika Brzezinksi and Joe Scarborough celebrated their engagement with a star-studded party in New York City.

Brzezinksi, 50, opted to wear a dark green dress for the occasion and the bride-to-be was all smiles as she was spotted holding onto her fiancé’s arm. Scarborough, 54, also kept things simple, wearing a plain dark suit with a red tie.

The party for the TV hosts was thrown at Morning Joe contributor Steve Rattner’s Fifth Avenue apartment and attracted a variety of notable guests.

CBS anchor Gayle King was one of the celebrities who showed up to support the happy couple,...

Mika Brzezinski wasn’t ruffled by the president’s vicious personal Twitter attacks against her last month – but says the low-blow was “just another thing you put on the shelf of sadness about this presidency.”

The Morning Joe star opened up about being the subject of some of President Donald Trump‘s infamous tweets in a new, lengthy New York magazine profile alongside fiancé and co-host Joe Scarborough.

“I’m glad I’m at kind of a more confident, comfortable place in my life,” Brzezinski told the outlet. “I think if this had happened when I was, like, 30, it might’ve been really painful,...

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough slammed President Donald Trump Friday morning as they returned to the air after he personally attacked the Morning Joe hosts in a pair of tweets on Thursday.

“Unfortunately, we’ve learned what we’ve always learned. He for some reason takes things very personally with women. He’s so much worse with women,” Scarborough said.

He added: “He attacks women.”

Brzezinski, whom Trump called “low-iq, crazy” in a tweet and claimed she was “bleeding from a face-lift” when he last saw her, assured viewers that she has not taken the attacks to heart – but she...

President Trump was almost immediately condemned for his crudely personal attack on Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski Thursday morning — and some of the most biting comments came from fellow Republicans.

Trump, 70, took to Twitter early Thursday morning with a series of insults aimed at Brzezinski and her cohost/fiancé Joe Scarborough.

“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me,” Trump wrote. “She was bleeding badly from a face-lift.

President Donald Trump launched a deeply personal attack on Morning Joe cohosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Thursday morning.

“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me,” Trump tweeted. “She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”

I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came.

Former President Jimmy Carter gave his fellow airplane passengers a memorable experience last week, taking the time to shake hands with everyone on his flight from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.

Footage from the flight on Thursday shared on Twitter by James Parker Sheffield showed Carter making his way down the aisle with a smile on his face as he said hello to other travelers.

“Jimmy Carter is on my plane to DC from Atl and just shook every hand of every passenger,” he captioned the video.

Sheffield tells People that it was “nice to have a warm and humble moment connected to politics,...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and advised many Democratic presidential campaigns, died Friday at age 89. His daughter, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski, announced the news on Friday night. The elder Brzezinski, a Polish-American diplomat who had advised campaigns from Hubert Humphrey and Barack Obama, had appeared on his daughter’s program to discuss security issues as recently as last November. Mika took to Twitter to honor her father in a series of tweets. My father passed away peacefully tonight. He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his… https://t.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter and father of MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. He was 89. Mika Brzezinski announced the news on Instagram. “My father passed away peacefully tonight. He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his grandchildren as Chief and to his wife as the enduring love of her life. I just knew his as the most inspiring, loving and devoted father any girl could…...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, father to Mika Brzezinski and former U.S. National Security Advisor, has died. He was 89.

On Friday, the MSNBC Morning Joe co-host, 50, announced the sad news on Instagram and Twitter.

“My father passed away peacefully tonight,” Mika captioned a family photo of her daughters Carlie and Emilie with their grandfather. “He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his grandchildren as Chief and to his wife as the enduring love of her life. I just knew his as the most inspiring, loving and devoted father any girl could ever have. I love you Dad,” she added.

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Happy 80th birthday, Shirley MacLaine!

The legendary, award-winning actress, who was born April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Va, started out as a dancer and got her big break on Broadway. She made her first film with Alfred Hitchcock, became a Rat Pack regular, flirted briefly with politics but has never stopped acting as she enters her 7th decade in Hollywood.

She started off as a lovably kooky ingenue, but is known today for her cantankerous matriarch roles in "Downton Abbey," "Bernie," "Steel Magnolias," "Guarding Tess," and, of course, her Oscar-winning role as Aurora Greenway in "Terms of Endearment."

Her next gig is a singing and dancing role on "Glee," of course. Happy Birthday to one of the most talented, most colorful character actresses of all time.

1. She was named after Shirley Temple.

2. She's been performing since age 3, when she began doing ballet.

3. As a girl, she pretended she was Rita Hayworth, since...

Washington -- His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales, better known as Prince Harry, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon offered complementary perspectives on international conflict Monday night at the annual Atlantic Council Awards Dinner.

Prince Harry and Mr. Ban accepted awards for humanitarian leadership and international leadership, respectively, before a black-tie dinner crowd of more than 800 at the Ritz-Carlton. The guest list included foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Henry Kissinger, former National Security Advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, and former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). Violin soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter accepted an award for her contributions to the arts, and Unilever CEO Paul Polman was honored for corporate leadership.

Founded in the early 1960s as a non-partisan, intellectual off-shoot of the N.A.T.O. alliance, today the Atlantic Council regularly convenes scholars and policy makers for talks and research projects,...

On Monday morning, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were joined by Brzezinski's father, for National Security Adviser Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, fresh off winning the 2011 Jury Du Prix Tocqueville prize. In his acceptance speech, as his daughter noted, he opined that the United States is becoming "a country of socially ominous extremes between the few super rich and the increasingly many who are deprived." One source of the frustration among the American people, as Dr. Brzezinski sees it, is the "mystery" surrounding the way our economic system and the great, instantaneous flow of money works.

Hey Los Angeles… grab your popcorn, because Landmark Theatres has announced it’s Fall-Winter film calender for the Nuart Theatre. It highlights limited-run films to avid cinephiles in Los Angeles, offering an essential guide for audiences to discover exciting films that may never enjoy the publicity of nationwide exposure. Included in the mix of programming are documentaries, reissues, features from a variety of foreign countries and other edgy, alternative cinema.

Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles

Showtimes and information: (310)281-8223

http://www.LandmarkTheatres.com

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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby

A son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, The Man Nobody Knew uncovers the secret world of legendary CIA spymaster William Colby, who rose through the ranks of “The Company” and soon was involved in covert operations in...

“Yeah, you’re dad was a murderer.” Imagine growing up as the son of one of the most famed CIA agents. The Man Nobody Knew is one person’s account of growing up in a CIA family. Carl Colby directs a film about CIA Spymaster and his father William Colby. Check out this trailer for a taste of what to expect from what looks to be an intriguing documentary: The Man Nobody Knew features Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Donald Rumsfeld, James Schlesinger, Bob Woodward, Seymour Hersh, and Tim Weiner. A son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby uncovers the secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby’s son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of...

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Trailer. Carl Colby‘s The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011) movie trailer stars William Colby and is narrated by Carl Colby. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby‘s plot synopsis: “From the beginning of his career as an Oss officer parachuting into Nazi-occupied Europe, William Colby rose through the ranks of “The Company,” and soon was involved in covert operations in hot spots around the globe. He swayed elections against the Communists in Italy, oversaw the coup against President Diem in Saigon, and ran the controversial Phoenix Program in Vietnam, which sparked today’s legacy of counter-insurgency. But after decades of obediently taking on the White House’s toughest and dirtiest assignments, and rising to become Director of CIA, Colby defied the President.

Richard Holbrooke pushed harder and cared more than other American foreign-policy players. Peter Beinart on Holbrooke's special blend of superpower swagger and moral passion.

There will probably never be another American diplomat like Richard Holbrooke. The reason is partly personal. Most diplomats are careful, reserved, discreet... diplomatic. Holbrooke was the opposite. He didn't merely court reporters; he stalked them. And when they didn't write enough about him, he wrote about himself. He did not do subtle. When he bore down on people, he had about as much respect for personal space as Lyndon Johnson in a men's room. As Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman once put it, "he's not entirely housebroken."

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In all these ways, Holbrooke was part of the sociology of 20th-century American Jewry. He entered the Foreign Service in the 1960s, when it was still something of a Wasp club.

Example number 214 of why we love Morning Joe: Willie Geist reported on this morning's program of Miley Cyrus slamming co-host Mika Brzezinski's condemnation of the teen-starlet's "pole dance" last summer. Not only was Joe Scarborough sitting back and watching Mika's stunned reaction in amusement, but so too was Mika's father Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former cabinet member under President Carter. Good times! Video after the jump.