MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski roasted Republicans who repeatedly embarrass themselves on the record by defending President Donald Trump's shameless and scandalous behavior.
The "Morning Joe" co-host said their fealty showed Trump had completely taken over the Republican Party -- but she warned that his dominance would eventually destroy the GOP.
"The iceberg is coming, so why are you afraid of being primaried?" Brzezinski said. "The whole thing is going down anyway. The Republican Party does not exist right now."
NBC News reporter Heidi Przybyla said Republicans had already invested too much in Trump to abandon him now.
"They all bought a ticket on the U.S.S. Trump and it was all up to all of them to keep it afloat," Przybyla said. "Now that you're seeing holes poked in the ship and folks starting to see that it's sinking potentially, that there's a huge wave coming, you know, there is definitely panic, but at the same time they are on the record in some of the most controversial statements that this president has said. Their silence is on the record."
Przybyla said the only thing that might turn the GOP against the president would be "conclusive evidence" of collusion or obstruction of justice in the Mueller probe, but even then she's not so sure.
"Look what you just saw this week with the House Intelligence Committee essentially shutting down (their) investigation," Przybyla said. "That is members again putting themselves on the record in quite a public way that they don't want to know and that they're willing to take that risk that they look silly when the evidence comes out."
Brzezinski said the current state of the Republican Party disgusted her.
"I've never seen a larger group of self-destructive suck-ups," she said. "Like, what good is going to come out of it -- how does this help them?"
