MSNBC's Joe Scarborough takes swipe at colleague Lester Holt over Biden questioning: 'I was shocked'

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough swiped at his colleague Lester Holt on Tuesday, suggesting that the NBC News anchor engaged in "phony moral relativism" when he asked President Biden about his anti-Trump rhetoric.

During an interview that was released on Monday, Holt asked Biden about politically charged statements he has made about Trump, including a comment he made to donors about putting Trump in a "bullseye."

Biden admitted that his comment was a "mistake" and stressed that he was talking about shifting focus toward Trump's leadership failures.

"It was a mistake to use the word … I meant focus on him: Focus on what he's doing, focus on one, on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told," Biden said.

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Scarborough, who works for NBC's cable affiliate MSNBC, took issue with Holt's line of questioning. He said that while it was an important question, Holt's framing lacked context—such as prior instances of other concerning rhetoric levied against other politicians on both sides of the aisle.

"I think anyone would have asked that question," Scarborough said. "But to ask that question without any context about the politically violent rhetoric that Republicans have been engaged in for close to a decade now."

Scarborough later admitted he was "shocked" by Holt's question and said it appeared to be a sort of "phony moral relativism."

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Earlier in the segment, Scarborough criticized his own network after his show was left off the air a day earlier in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Trump.

"We were told, in no uncertain terms, on