Mika Brzezinski’s firing from CBS in 2006 was a total surprise. Like, she was completely caught off guard.
“I still, I still wake up going, why did that happen? Like I was so shocked,” she tells The New Abnormal host Molly Jong-Fast on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal.
She remembers it clearly. She walked into a one-on-one meeting with former CBS president Sean McManus thinking she was going to pitch a new story idea or even get promoted. But then, she heard the words “it’s not working out.”