MSNBC opted not to air its flagship daily news program “Morning Joe” on Monday, reportedly out of concern for what the show’s notoriously left-leaning panelists would say about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
According to an inquiry from CNN, the broadcast was preempted with continued breaking news coverage of the shooting, preventing hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from making “an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.”
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“Given the gravity and complexity of this unfolding story, NBC News, NBC News NOW and MSNBC have remained in rolling breaking news coverage since Saturday evening,” a spokesperson for NBCUniversal News Group told the outlet. “As we continue to cover this story into the week, the networks will continue to cross simulcast, alternating between NBC News, NBC News NOW and ‘MSNBC Reports,’ so there is one news feed covering this developing situation.”
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