After they minimized the influence of Democratic Socialists on the Democratic Party the week prior, Monday’s Morning Joe spent over two segments, elapsing over 20 minutes, on controversies related to the Democratic Socialists of America. Their first segment focused on the controversies surrounding radical DSA candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, as co-host Mika Brzezinski bashed Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) for “gaslighting” about the situation. Later, the final segment of the show, they discussed the harassment of leftist Democratic House candidate and current California State Senator Scott Weiner, as ADL chief Jonathan Greenbelt said the Democrat’s anti-Semitism can be defined by three letters: “DSA.” After a clip of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani played from an ABC softball interview, Brzezinski detailed the controversies of Mamdani-endorsed Chevalier, mostly pertaining to old social media posts where she “expressed support for abolishing police, prisons, and borders, as well as seizing private property,” among other things. Brzezinski shifted into a clip of Murphy on Sunday’s Meet The Press, where, she said, he “appeared to dodge” Chevalier’s past comments.   In response to Sen. Murphy’s non-answer on the controversies of Darializa Avila Chevalier, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski accused the senator of gaslighting: “We both love Chris Murphy. We think he's a great guy and serves our country. But don't gaslight people." https://t.co/XhSsQrcYay pic.twitter.com/ExvsgcDcrn — Nick (@nspin310) June 29, 2026   She read an X post from her co-host and husband Joe Scarborough, who did not appear on Monday’s show, where Scarborough called on Democrats to “call out crazy,” before she tore into Murphy for “gaslighting”: And one of the most frustrating things about Trump's first presidency and his second, and folks who chose to vote for Trump the first time and then vote for him a second time, and then act shocked about the cruelty of the mass deportations, or to act shocked about the tariffs, or to say, well, I haven't been watching the news. I don't know about that one. That is like the most gaslighting experience one can ever, ever see throughout this entire political cycle or cycles. Because pretending you haven't seen it is impossible. It's an out. And now to see a Democrat doing it. And I like - we both love Chris Murphy. We think he's a great guy and serves our country. But don't gaslight people. At the end of the show, a discussion began on the harassment of California politician Scott Weiner, known for his radical transgender policies, at a transgender rally. After a clip played of Weiner being yelled at by protesters, Brzezinski exclaimed, “Whoa.” Greenbelt was brought on as a panelist to discuss the Weiner incident, and remarked the DSA was the Democrats’ antisemitism problem: “The Democratic Party has an anti-Semitism problem, and I can define it in three letters: the DSA.“   In the last segment of Morning Joe, ADL Chief Joanthan Greenbelt said, "The democratic party has an anti-semitism problem, and I can define it in three letters: the DSA." The segment came after they once again focused on a DSA-related topic, as they discussed the incident… https://t.co/OD78EkVDKe pic.twitter.com/XtyhaXe2QA — Nick (@nspin310) June 29, 2026   At the end of the segment, former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin asked Greenbelt, “How much of this is about money?” She continued: “The idea that we spend billions of U.S. Taxpayer dollars investing in this government and the Israeli government, that is a source of a tremendous amount of tension with American citizens who, to Barnicle’s point, are watching what that money they believe is used to kill children.” Abedin’s question to Greenbelt represented the reality of the rise of the DSA. While not every Democrat may be completely DSA-oriented, some, like Huma Abedin, seemed to take similar positions on some topics, like Israel. For a show that downplayed the rise of the DSA after the NYC elections, it seemed like they realized their newfound influence on the Democrat Party was too big to ignore. MS NOW’s Morning Joe June 29, 2026 6:12:39 AM Eastern MIKA BRZEZINSKI: But Chevalier has been facing scrutiny over previously articulated stances and numerous social media posts that she has since deleted. And her appearance at a rally the day after Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, where attendees reportedly suggested the attack was justified.  In a now-deleted social media post between 2018 and 2022, multiple posts, Chevalier also used expletives to refer to former Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee, and expressed support for abolishing police, prisons, and borders, as well as seizing private property and calling into question Israel's right to exist. Other reports noted she called former president Joe Biden a rapist and disparaged white people in some of her posts.  Chevalier has said she regrets the posts, adding that she is, quote, “grown considerably since writing them.” Some Democrats have pushed back against her past comments, while others, like Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, appeared to dodge these concerns. [Cuts to clip] SEN. CHRIS MURPHY (D-CT): [On 6/28’s Meet the Press] Yeah, well, I mean, I'm not super familiar with that race. All I'm saying is that this party has to have a real contest of ideas. And I just don't think that our defense of incrementalism has worked.  [Cuts back to live] So, I don't mind a contest of ideas. And I just don't know that we have had it to the extent that voters have been satisfied. Listen, it's no secret voters aren't super happy with establishment Democrats or establishment Republicans these days. I will say, though, what binds together, I think every Democratic candidate that is running, including the ones in New York, is that they are standing up to protect American democracy. And right now, the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York. BRZEZINSKI: So [laughs] Joe reacted to that response, posting on X quote, “Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not super familiar with that race. This is what frightened Republicans do when confronted with the horrid things Donald Trump has said. Now, democratic senators are saying this about a congressional candidate who accused Joe Biden of rape. Stop. Now.” His memo to Democrats: “Call out crazy. Even when it's on your side, especially when it's on your side, voters will reward you for being better than Republicans.” I have to say, JMart, this is going to be an interesting issue, actually, for candidates on both sides of the aisle, because they're now many of them are old enough to have passed tweets and ridiculous statements, and voters are going to have to decide what the line is. What's the deal breaker? In this case, I think it's pretty clear. Some of these statements are complete deal breakers, and it's not hard to say. It's just not hard to say. And one of the most frustrating things about Trump's first presidency and his second, and folks who chose to vote for Trump the first time and then vote for him a second time, and then act shocked about the cruelty of the mass deportations, or to act shocked about the tariffs, or to say, well, I haven't been watching the news. I don't know about that one. That is like the most gaslighting experience one can ever, ever see throughout this entire political cycle or cycles. Because pretending you haven't seen it is impossible. It's an out. And now to see a Democrat doing it. And I like - we both love Chris Murphy. We think he's a great guy and serves our country. But don't gaslight people. I mean, this story is out there. And what is rehema? What is the line of past tweets being deal breakers? (...) 7:50:18 AM Eastern BRZEZINSKI: But on Friday, as State Senator Wiener, who is also openly gay and Jewish, was on his way to a Pride Shabbat service led by a trans rabbi, he was run out of San Francisco's annual trans rights rally by protesters, who swarmed him and screamed at him, accusing him of endorsing genocide in Gaza. We have video of the incident. And a warning: some viewers might find the images disturbing. [Cuts to video] PROTESTOR: You’re wonderful for trans people. You've been terrible. And you've been terrible -  you've been terrible - you've been terrible on Gaza. You do not belong here anymore, Scott. [Cuts back to live] BRZEZINSKI: Whoa. The Mayor of San Francisco reacted to the incident in a statement on social media, writing in, quote unquote, “the language directed at Senator Wiener was targeted, hateful and anti-semitic. In San Francisco, we welcome disagreement and respectful dialog around issues many of us feel passionately about, but we cannot allow harassment and threats of violence.” What is going on here? (...) 7:55:50 AM Eastern  JONATHAN GREENBELT: Look, the Democratic Party. And as you know, I worked in the Obama White house. I worked in the Clinton white house. The democratic party has an anti-semitism problem, and I can define it in three letters: the DSA. The DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America. They should call it, you know, discrimination and stereotyping and anti-semitism. And I say that because we see this as the common thread that seems to link this party. And they're activists, they're not Democrats. But an obsession with the Jewish state seems to be the common denominator when you look at these candidates.  Now, look, I want to be super clear. There's problems with anti-semitism on the right as well. I'm not suggesting that this is only a problem on the Left. But we see this again and again and again. We see this in these congressional races last week. And by the way, we're seeing it right here in the city of New York with the largest Jewish population in the world. And we can talk about Mayor Mamdani, if you like, because he has been gaslighting our community for years, saying he believes in protecting the Jewish people, but then refusing to do so in ways that all other normal politicians in the past have done. So, yeah. Mika, you put it well. We have a problem. The democratic party has an anti-semitism problem. It is the DSA, and it needs to deal with this in order to make its Jewish, you know, members and Americans across the country feel safe. (...) 7:57:23 AM Eastern DAVE ARONBERG: Mika, good to be with you and Jonathan. I do, and I have an interesting perspective because I was classmates with Scott Wiener back in law school, and I knew him back then. He was known as a principled campus advocate for LGBTQ rights. And I do think that Scott compromised some of those principles when he did a sudden 180 for political reasons and adopted the blood libel that Israel's War against Hamas was a genocide.  But Scott learned the hard way, Mika, that the alligator is always hungry. You can feed it, and you can appease it, but eventually it's going to bite your face off. And you can sacrifice your principles to the anti-semitic mob, but it doesn't make them hate you any less. I mean, his position on Gaza is now indistinguishable from their own position. So, of course,, what you saw in that video was anti-semitism, because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. They berated and chased out a gay Progressive lawmaker because he's a Jew who simply believes that Israel has a right to exist. Meanwhile, Israel is the only country in the Middle East where a trans March like that could happen. (...) 8:01:21 AM Eastern HUMA ABEDIN: Jonathan, can I ask you, because so many of these candidates who are running for office are the Senate candidates in Michigan as well. How much of this is about money?  The idea that we spend billions of U.S. Taxpayer dollars investing in this government and the Israeli government, that is a source of a tremendous amount of tension with American citizens who, to Barnicle’s point, watching what that money they believe is used to kill children. GREENBELT: It's a fair question, Huma. You know, these issues from your time at the State Department, probably better than I do. If you look at the foreign aid budget and you look at the foreign defense spending budget, it's actually quite small as a percentage of overall U.S. Dollars. And you look at we spent a lot of money in Egypt, right?  ABEDIN: We certainly do.  GREENBELT: That's a country that persecutes gay people, persecutes religious minorities, etc. - ABEDIN: We can criticize that government too. GREENBELT: We do, but we don't. So the question we have to ask is, why the obsession with Israel, even before October the 7th, why were there people cheering on October the 7th here in New York City, after Jewish people, Israelis, were massacred, raped, and brutalized? I don't understand it. Until you start to peel it back. Look, we need to recognize that anti-semitism has been around for a long time. Again, the perceived misdeeds of the Israeli government or the Israeli military create a convenient target. But again, I don't think it's right to hold people collectively responsible.  And again, government dollars may get spent with this ally, but we spend them all around the world. I don't see people protesting the Egyptian government, the Saudi government, the Pakistani government. It seems to be that Israel is the only one that's held to this kind of double standard. That's the issue. (...)