Cesar Conde has found himself — yet again — on the receiving end of a stinging on-air rebuke from his high-wattage MSNBC stars. For the second time in only a few months, questions about the NBC News Group chairman's leadership were raised in extraordinary fashion, with the "Morning Joe" team on Tuesday publicly expressing dismay that NBC brass had the day before pulled their broadcast from the air in wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Joe Scarborough, speaking alongside co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, offered viewers a peek behind the curtain into the conspicuous decision-making process that transpired over the weekend.
Scarborough said that the "Morning Joe" team had been informed Sunday evening that all of MSNBC's opinion-oriented dayside lineup would be pre-empted for a single NBC News feed covering the attempt on Trump's life. But, as Scarborough noted, "That did not happen." Instead of high-profile NBC News anchors, such as Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie, anchoring special coverage, MSNBC aired two hours of "MSNBC Reports" and two hours of its streaming service's programming, NBC News Now.
And oddly enough, no other MSNBC shows were pre-empted. Only "Morning Joe." "We don't know why that was that didn't happen.
Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn't happen," Scarborough said. "But it didn't happen." Scarborough, who said the entire "Morning Joe" team was "very surprised" and "very disappointed" in the .
