Mika Brzezinski was in tears of laughter on Thursday’s (Could 15) episode of Morning Joe because the panel mentioned Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s look earlier than members of Congress on Wednesday (Could 14).
“Well being and Human Companies secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confronted powerful questions throughout two congressional hearings yesterday,” Brzezinski stated on Thursday’s present.
Her husband and co-host Joe Scarborough then interrupted, saying, “Did anybody ask him about swimming in Rock Creek and floating in piles of [inaudible] throughout him, along with his youngsters?”
“I used to be questioning about that… he was fully submerged,” Brzezinski responded as fellow panelists Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist laughed.
The hosts have been referencing a put up RFK Jr. made on X on Sunday (Could 11), the place he revealed that he spent Mom’s Day swimming along with his household in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek.
“Mom’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek,” the well being secretary wrote.
Mom’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek. pic.twitter.com/TXowaSMTFY
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Could 11, 2025
The Nationwide Park Service forbids swimming and wading within the creek as a result of sewage flows instantly into it.
“Swimming and wading aren’t allowed as a consequence of excessive micro organism ranges,” the company’s web site warns. “Keep out of the water to guard streambanks, crops and animals and maintain you and your loved ones (together with pets!) protected from sickness.”
“And swimming in denims, which, for me, is the bigger situation,” Geist interjected.
“The issue with denims is that all of it sticks to you for fairly a while,” Brzezinski added. “And it will get in there, ?”
“Yeah, it units up store,” Geist retorted, which set Brzezinski off right into a match of giggles.
“It units up store, will get a house,” Scarborough added earlier than making an attempt to maneuver the phase on. Nonetheless, Brzezinski might nonetheless be heard laughing off display screen.
When the digicam returned to Brzezinski, she was seen wiping away tears with a tissue.
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