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MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” returned to television Tuesday morning without an immediate mention of the program being pulled off air following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
The left-leaning station pulled its morning talk show off the air on Monday following the assassination attempt on Trump over fears that one of its anti-Trump guests would make an inappropriate comment, according to a CNN report.
Hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, staunch Joe Biden advocates, jumped right into coverage of the assassination attempt Tuesday, while only making clear they were glad to be back on air.
“Good morning, it is very good to be here and welcome to ‘Morning Joe,’” Brzezinski said.
They then introduced the show’s guests for the morning and continued their coverage of the attempted assassination of Trump over the weekend.
MSNBC rolled out breaking news coverage Monday morning instead risking having someone on the show who could paint it and the network in a bad light, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
An NBCUniversal spokesperson denied the CNN report.
At 6 a.m. Monday — when “Morning Joe” starts – viewers instead watched NBC News special reporting and then coverage simulcasting from the company’s streaming service, NBC News Now.
“They were shocked,” an MSNBC insider said of the show’s production team, according to Fox News. “It was supposed to be one feed like it was this weekend. It was supposed to be one feed with all NBC News platforms.