No, I refuse to call it a scandal. It is instead a complete humiliation for the media. But Morning Joe has gone waaaaayyyyy too far, and there needs to be some type of accounting. I was watching this morning (only because Mike and Mike is having a 15th anniversary show and I have anniversary shows). They were attacking Hillary Clinton on the e-mail issue and at the heart of their discussion was a report from the Federalist. The friggin Federalist. Just to be sure I looked it up on Wikipedia. It was started in 2013 - two years ago - by Ben Domenech, a rightwing nut job, and is compared on its Wikipedia page to the Daily Caller and Breitbart. And the "journalists" on Morning Joe (snort, laugh) are using it as a major source of their reporting. Without even mentioning what the Federalist is, treating it as if it is a major, reputable news source.
But what happened next is even worse. Mika and Joe openly admitted that aides to Hillary Clinton were willing to come on an explain the issue. And Morning Joe refused then!!! They refused to hear anything about the other side. They would keep saying whatever they want about it, quoting the Federalist, and refuse to let anybody on to explain the issue from another position. And they were proud of this!!! The only thing acceptable was to have Hillary Clinton come on and be question by Federalist Mika (don't ever think of her as anything but a wingnut again) and JoeScar.
Morning Joe is now officially a satellite of Fox News.