WATCH: Kari Lake recalls heated confrontation with Mika Brzezinski at airport
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Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake said she had a less-than-friendly run-in with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski Wednesday.
Lake ran into Brzezinski and the Morning Joe crew at a Florida airport when she saw Joe Scarborough, Lake told Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice.
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“I was leaving, and I happened to see Joe Scarborough. So I turned around and got on the escalator down, and he was heading into the restroom,” Lake recalled. “I said, ‘Hey, Joe,’ and he was nice. He said, ‘Hey.'”
“I said, ‘Hey, I just wanted to introduce myself because you guys spend an awful lot of time bad-mouthing me on your show, and I just wanted to, you know, put the human being behind the face that you guys kind of go after.'”
Brzezinski was not “very pleasant” during the encounter, according to Lake.
“She started recording me, unbeknownst to me, which is fine,” she said. “When I called her out on it, I said, ‘Are you recording this?’ She said, ‘Yes,’ and Joe said, ‘Don’t do that.'”
Scarborough appeared “perturbed” by Brzezinski’s actions, Lake recalled.
“I just said, ‘Look, you know, I’m the human being behind the person you guys like to bash 24/7, and that’s OK. But I just wanted to introduce myself,'” she told Bannon.
At this point in the confrontation, Brzezinski’s “handler” called Lake a “liar” and “election denier,” according to Lake.
“I said, ‘I’d love to come on your show and talk about it,'” she said. “Mika did jump in and reiterate what the staffer said. … Like I said, Joe was pretty pleasant, and when I said to Mika, ‘Are you recording this?’ she said, ‘Yes,’ and Joe said, ‘Don’t do that.'”
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“I don’t know if that started something when I walked away. I walked away from it alive and fine. So that’s good.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to MSNBC for comment but did not receive a response.