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Following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, MSNBC took its main AM program “Morning Joe” off the air on Monday.

Viewers who tuned in Monday expecting the staunchly anti-Trump show featuring Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were instead greeted with continued special NBC News coverage of the Trump attack on Saturday. A spokesman said the broadcast of “Morning Joe” would resume on Tuesday.

According to a CNN report, a person familiar with the decision said it was made in part out of fear that one of the show’s numerous guests “might make an inappropriate comment live on television during a four-hour broadcast that could be used to attack the show and the network as a whole.”

According to a CNN report, Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, decided to cancel the show in consultation with MSNBC President Rashida Jones and the show’s co-hosts.

MSNBC’s call to pull “Morning Joe” from its schedule shocked political observers, with some conservatives saying it showed a lack of confidence in one of the network’s best-known shows to report sensitively on a sensitive situation.

“The fact that Morning Joe’s own network can’t trust its flagship brand not to spout reckless and inflammatory crap during breaking news says everything you need to know about the credibility of MSNBC’s programming,” a veteran Republican consultant told Fox News Digital.

The news also upset the left.

Liberal journalist Jeff Jarvis fumed on X: “What the hell, MSNBC? You preempted your excellent weekend program… and now you’ve silenced (Morning Joe) in favor of your boring streaming news cosplay called Now? Now we need the analysis and conversation that these shows bring us (yes, with controversy; that’s just how public discourse works: with debate). It’s shocking that NBC/Comcast doesn’t understand their own company’s programs and raison d’être.”

Scarborough and Brzezinski have a complicated history with Trump. The two hosts were notable for their optimistic assessment of his political prospects in 2015 and 2016 and frequently interviewed him on their show, but after he became president they became two of his fiercest critics.

This is an excerpt from an article by David Rutz and Brian Flood of Fox News