MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski is making headlines today for landing an interview with Michelle Obama, but few people are talking about the family connections she relied on to score her scoop. Her father Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served in the Jimmy Carter administration, is one of Barack Obama’s national security advisers. “My daughter wrote her a note, and she wrote her back,” Mika noted on Morning Joe today.

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Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, was steaming mad this morning when his daughter Mika Brzezinksi, a host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, indicated he didn’t show much affection to her as she grew up. She said his hugs were few and far between, and were often stiff and angry when they did come her way. Almost immediately after she made the claims, her cell phone rang on-air; after taking the call, she said it was her dad, who had been watching, telling her that he disputes her memories. Still, Zbigniew has long been known to be a grouch. In a WaPo article last year, several of his suburban DC neighbors spoke out about his refusal to let city planners install a sidewalk through his front yard.

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