'What a shock!' Morning Joe brings receipts as key Trump official contradicts himself

A day after Vice President JD Vance blamed the Democrats for the impending government shutdown, Morning Joe aired a September, 2024 video of the vice president directly contradicting his current stance on funding the government.

Following the bipartisan meeting Monday at the White House, Vance emphatically said, "I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing."

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough wasn't having any of it, noting Vance originally "changed" his stance on President Donald Trump from fervent critic to ardent supporter.

"Didn't [Vance] say, like, not so long ago, that this is exactly when you use your leverage to try to get the other party to change when the other party's in the [majority]?" Scarborough mused.

In a reference to the legendary episode of 1980s hit TV drama Dallas — in which allegedly dead lead character Bobby Ewing emerges alive and well the following season in what was just a dream — Scarborough continued to point out the vice president's hypocrisy.

"Is this, like a dream from Dallas? Where is the next season? I don't know. Yeah, it could be," Scarborough quipped before airing video from September 2024 in which Vance indeed said Republicans should "force" a government shutdown.

"Yeah, man. Why shouldn't we be trying to force this government shutdown fight to get something out of it that's good for the American people?" Vance said just before Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing a bipartisan continuing resolution days before the September 30 deadline. "That's good for the American people. Like, why have a government shutdown if it's not a functioning government?"

Sarcastically, Scarborough quipped, "What a shock. What a shock ... I thought that [video] might have been a decade, thirty years ago."