The crew over at MSNBC’s Morning Joe were back Tuesday morning — and they weren’t happy. Host Joe Scarborough said he was “disappointed” and “surprised” that his network decided not to air Joe & Co. in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against former President Trump.
“We were told, in no uncertain terms, on Sunday evening, that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC News channels yesterday,” Scarborough said, referring in part to NBC’s parent network and his home at MSNBC, the left-leaning cable affiliate. “That was going to be one news feed across all NBC News channels. That we were going to stay as a network in breaking news mode throughout all day yesterday. That did not happen. We don’t know why that didn’t happen. Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen, but it didn’t happen.”
“We were very surprised,” Scarborough said on Tuesday. “We were very disappointed. And if we had known that there wasn’t going to be the one news feed from NBC News across all NBC News channels, Willie [Geist], we obviously would have been in yesterday morning.”
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From Fox News:
Scarborough quipped the next time the hosts are told a news feed would be replacing them, they would be in their chairs and ready to broadcast. Brzezinski and co-host Willie Geist added they wanted to be on air yesterday.
“This show began, and continues 17 years later on being the place where you can go to have the hard conversations in a civil way. So it seemed like, now more than ever, is a day, a time that we would like to be on. I think our viewers agree with that,” Brzezinski said.
A network spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Scarborough has been one of the most prominent anti-Trump voices on a network filled with incendiary rhetoric.
More over at Fox News:
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