Leland Vittert Talks About His Autism Struggles and NYT Best-Selling ‘Love Letter’ To His Father On Morning Joe

Zachary Leeman Oct 9th, 2025, 3:56 pm

NewsNation’s Leland Vittert hopped over to MSNBC’s on Thursday, where he and Joe Scarborough discussed his best-selling “love letter” to his father.

Vittert joined Morning Joe to promote his new book , the story of his father helping him cope with his autism struggles growing up. Vittert told Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that his father gave up his job to help his son “adapt” to the world. Vittert and Scarborough bonded as Scarborough has a son with Asperger’s.

Vittert broke down how his father helped to smooth out some of his social skills, and it turned out to be similar to Scarborough’s experience.

Vittert said:

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