Two of MSNBC’s most liberal personalities, Andrea Mitchell and Mika Brzezinski, blasted away at Hillary Clinton’s defenses that she has used in response to her use of a private email server.

Appearing on “Morning Joe” on Thursday, Brzezinski said that “It feels like [Clinton is] lying straight out,” and Mitchell argued that Clinton’s response “doesn’t hold up. There’s so many inconsistencies including their response yesterday.” (RELATED: State Department IG: Clinton Mishandled Emails, Posed Cybersecurity Risk)

Throughout the coverage of Clinton’s private server, Brzezinski, who who supports Clinton, has been critical of her use of a private server. (RELATED: Brzezinski On Hillary’s Emails: ‘Why Do They Keep Saying Something That Is Not True?’ [VIDEO])

Even more strikingly, Mitchell’s criticism is noteworthy because she usually defends Clinton. (RELATED: Sanders Loses It: Tells Andrea Mitchell Don’t ‘Moan’ About Clinton’s Problems [VIDEO])

While discussing the State Department inspector general’s report that Clinton broke the rules, Brzezinski said, “Andrea, here are the things that like over time we remember here. Her saying repeatedly it was allowed. A private server set up in her home by an IT guy who was given immunity and his emails are missing. And she even joked when she was asked, and I think in a high school gym, ‘Did you wipe the server,’ meaning get rid of everything so no one could see it and she joked it being with a cloth.”  (RELATED: CNN’s Bash: IG Report Fuels Narrative That Hillary Thinks She Is Above The Rules [VIDEO])

“I really don’t want to be the one delivering this, but I’ve got to tell you, this is really hard to believe. It feels like she’s lying straight out,” Brzezinski insisted. “Andrea Mitchell, is she lying?”(RELATED: IG Report: Hillary Refused To Make Secret Email Account ‘Accessible’)

“I can’t say that. I would let the viewer, I would let the voter make those determinations,” Mitchell claimed before she said, “but it doesn’t hold up. There’s so many inconsistencies including their response yesterday.”

“It was jaw dropping that [the Clinton campaign] tried — instead of coming out and saying, ‘Look, it was a mistake,’ as she has previously acknowledged, ‘it was bad judgment, and we don’t know whether or not it was hacked. We know there were attempts to penetrate. There’s no evidence in this report that that penetration that that actually happened.'”

“They should have just come out arguably and said, ‘This is a mess and we’re going to try to move on,'” Mitchell suggested.

“Instead they are fighting it and coming out with a completely non-credible argument on her behalf. And it also makes her defensive and makes her run from reporters and not want to do interviews and not want to talk to people covering her events all day yesterday,” Mitchell lamented. “So she’s hunkered down now” ahead of the California primary.

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