MSNBC has taken its celebrated "Morning Joe" off-air on Monday reportedly on fears that their well-known leftist hosts could say the wrong thing or something deeply insensitive about the Saturday Trump assassination attempt which could leave the network in a bind.
"The progressive news network confirmed the decision to preempt its influential and top-rated morning show after a CNN inquiry Sunday evening," CNN confirms.
As speculation abounds, and as some try to dubiously claim that it's 'normal' for Morning Joe to not air during a major political news event, NBC issued the following statement: "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 said.
The press release followed with: "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."
A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show's stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.
MSNBC has pulled Morning Joe off air this week because they don't think their leftist hosts can control themselves from celebrating the attempted assassination of President Trump.
MSNBC has not alluded to any deeper reasons behind temporarily pulling the program other than to say it wishes to provide coverage via a single news feed.
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