“Hey, Mark, I’ve known you for a long time, buddy, you’re in deep shit. You’re in the middle of this conspiracy. You may want to get yourself a really, really good defense attorney. To quote Donald Trump, you may want to get one of those. Oh, wait, here’s an idea, Mark. You can do something that you’ve refused to do for years now. You can show courage and you can tell the truth. Hey, Mark, Donald Trump won’t protect you. He will throw you under the bus, he will stab you in the back, he will let you rot in jail. Defend the country or, well, get ready to pay a criminal defense attorney a lot of money.”
Morning Joe Scarborough on-air to his longtime friend and former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who was not in-studio for the lecture