George Clooney denies unloading on MSNBC producer after Brzezinski claim about actor's op-ed critical of Biden

Actor George Clooney denied during a Wednesday interview that he called a producer with MSNBC's Morning Joe last year to yell about co-host Mika Brzezinski accusing the actor of taking orders from former President Obama to write an op-ed calling on then-President Biden to exit the race That never happened Now it s an fascinating thing You know here s a funny thing about this You re writing a book you know and all I have to do is tell the truth I have emails I was ticked off when it was Mika Brzezinski who I like perfectly nice woman but she announced that you know that President Obama was behind me writing the op-ed and that s not true at all It has no basis in fact And I wrote Mike Barnicle and I just noted what is that about he explained CNN's Jake Tapper Clooney wrote a guest essay for The New York Times in early July calling on Biden to drop out of the race After the opinion piece came out Brzezinski accused Obama of influencing Clooney to write the essay during Morning Joe Author Chris Whipple wrote in his new book Uncharted How Trump Beat Biden Harris and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History that the Morning Joe segment led to Clooney reportedly calling a producer and shouting How the f--- could you let her link me with Barack Obama saying he made me write the op-ed GEORGE CLOONEY SAYS HE DROPPED ADVOCACY FOR BIDEN AFTER SEEING HIM UP CLOSE CONDEMNS DEMOCRATIC COWARDICE Clooney revealed Barnicle who appears on Morning Joe often revealed he had no idea And I noted the one thing you know about me is that I don t take my marching orders from anybody And that s the only person I know over there And I wrote him We have a four-email exchange Clooney added And then this guy Whipple says I called up a producer who I don t know how to call a producer there I don t know any producer there And I yelled at them which isn't true And here s the predicament with that what that does is it calls into question any other facts in this book Clooney explained Tapper GEORGE CLOONEY RUBS ELBOWS WITH BIDEN AT STAR-STUDDED LA CHARITY FUNDRAISER AFTER CALLING WHITE HOUSE WITH COMPLAINTTapper also required Clooney if he thought the Democratic Party should have had a few kind of primary after Biden dropped out Yeah if you think about it and she may have ended up winning that contest he noted referring to former Vice President Kamala Harris And here s the obstacle that we were facing with that Whether or not you agree that that administration was profitable or not that s a different thing But the perception was and how they were running was that it was a failed administration I could argue that it s not but that s a different argument Clooney continued You can t run against yourself right And that s why that was a formidable campaign It s hard to run against yourself and say well yeah I disagree with all this stuff He mentioned it was impossible for Harris because she would have had to run down Biden CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREClooney also stated it was his civic duty to call for Biden to drop out during the interview with Tapper CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP I m a Democrat in Kentucky so I get it When I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth I thought that was time he mentioned