‘Very disappointed’ Morning Joe hosts slam their own network for pulling show off air after Trump shooting

The hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe are “very disappointed” that the network pulled the show off the schedule on Monday, what would have been the program’s first broadcast after Donald Trump was nearly killed at a campaign rally.

The morning news and commentary show had announced on Sunday that the following day’s broadcast would be preempted by breaking news coverage of the assassination attempt, raising eyebrows that the network’s influential and top-rated program was being sidelined at the beginning of a critical week, with emerging news of the attack and the opening of the Republican National Convention.

“We were told in no uncertain terms that on Sunday evening that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC channels … That we were going to stay as a network in breaking news mode,” host Joe Scarborough said on Tuesday as the show returned to air.

“That did not happen,” he said.

The network ended its breaking news coverage to cover the Republican National Convention and continued with regular news programming.

“We don’t know why that didn’t happen, our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen, but it didn’t happen,” Scarborough said. “We were also told it was going to happen throughout the day. I guess after there was such strong blowback after yesterday morning I guess they changed their plans. And so those plans changed as well. It didn’t.”

He said they were “very surprised” and “very disappointed” by the decision.

“If we had known there was going to the one news feed from NBC News across all NBC news channels … we obviously would have been in yesterday morning,” he added. “We all wish we would have been here yesterday. We still are, we’d like to figure out why there wasn’t that news