On Tuesday morning, Joe Scarborough addressed MSNBC's decision to cancel Monday's edition of Morning Joe.
This was obviously a dramatic weekend with the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate. As a result of the incident, MSNBC bosses decided that they wouldn't air their regular block of programming in the morning, but apparently the network changed that decision over the course of the day.
Scarborough began Tuesday's program by saying: I just wanted to briefly talk to our friends and viewers that watch us every day; talk about what happened yesterday; 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. The 'Today Show' would be Lester Holt, other people that, well, you worked with on Sunday."
The host continued, "We were also told it was going to happen throughout the day. I guess after there was such a strong blowback about yesterday morning, I guess they changed their plans, and so those plans changed, as well."
The MSNBC pundit then noted, "We've talked about it off the air. We'll talk about it on the air because we talk about everything on the air. We were very surprised, we were very disappointed. If we had known that there wasn't going to be the one news feed from NBC news across all NBC news channels, we obviously would have been in yesterday morning."
Mika Brzezinski then jumped in, "Let me just say, the next time we're told there is going to be a news feed replacing us, we will be in our chairs."