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'Morning Joe' host Scarborough addresses being off air, criticizes network: 'We were very disappointed'
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough criticized his network on the air Tuesday after his show was left off the air a day earlier in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against former President Trump.The MSNBC program was replaced by NBC News special reporting a day earlier, leaving political and media observers surprised that the show was sidelined at a historic political moment.
Returning to the airwaves, Scarborough took some time at the top of the show's second hour on Tuesday to address the confusion.
"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."
Fox News Digital reported Monday that the show's producers and hosts had been informed that would be the case but were left shocked and upset when it appeared to be the only significant MSNBC program on Monday to be sidelined.
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosts address their viewers on July 16, 2024, over why they were absent a day earlier.
"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."
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.
"And the newsfeed will be us, or they can get somebody else to host the show," Scarborough said, seeming to suggest he and his wife would quit if it happened again...
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Awe isn't that cute. NEXT time he will quit. How about quitting THIS TIME and stop issuing empty threats.
