'Worth it': 'Morning Joe' insider hits back at critics' fury over Mar-a-Lago visit

A "Morning Joe" show insider claims the host’s controversial visit with President-elect Donald Trump may have played a part in saving a free press.

Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski took flak Monday after announcing they’d taken a trip to Mar-a-Lago for a face-to-face visit with the incoming president.

“They bent the knee,” one onlooker said of the pair who have spent years criticizing Trump.

But a source at the show told the Daily Beast the meeting “was f—cking worth it” ...