MSNBC host challenges Biden aide on bizarre De Niro press conference: 'Doesn't feel right to me at all'

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MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski challenged the Biden campaign on its decision to hold a chaotic press conference outside Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan with actor Robert De Niro, as the defense and prosecution gave their closing arguments.

"I guess I have to ask you why you decided to speak there and to have the campaign show up at the courthouse. I don’t know. It doesn’t feel right to me at all," Brzezinski told Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler.

Tyler said the campaign, De Niro and two former police officers, who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, decided to speak outside the courtroom on Tuesday because the media had been "incessantly posted up there for weeks." He said Trump needed to answer for the "continued threat" he poses to democracy, as well as his "embrace of political violence."

"So that’s what Robert De Niro and officers [Michael] Fanone and [Harry] Dunn were speaking to down in Manhattan yesterday. They were speaking to the fact that Donald Trump still regularly embraces political violence, is calling for a bloodbath if he loses this election, and is pledging to rule as a dictator on day one," Tyler continued.

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Brzezinski pushed back and questioned the location of the press conference.

"Last week when the members of Congress