At the end of her MSNBC show last night, Rachel Maddow was handed breaking news by the Associate Press about the Trump administration operating “tender age” shelters for migrant babies and toddlers.
As has been widely reported, journalists who have toured the facilities have described the experience being similar to "visiting an animal shelter."
Coming after an hour of reporting on the "zero tolerance" policy, Maddow tried to read the report live on air she kept choking up while speaking.
Rachel Maddow breaking down on live television is all of us. pic.twitter.com/KBa9ewcG48— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 20, 2018
"This has just come out from the Associated Press," she began, then paused, as her emotions were clearly taking hold.
She attempted to continue reading, but her voice broke.
Trying to get the camera off of her, Maddow asked producers to put up a graphic, but it’s not ready.
There was a final attempt before shaking her head, saying: "I think I’m gonna have to hand this off."
And that's exactly what happened. Thankfully Lawrence O'Donnell was at the ready for the handoff into the next hour.
Maddow later apologized via Twitter to her viewers:
"Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas...— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
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"Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the "tender age" shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis...— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
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"Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents...— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
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“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.”— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
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All from this Associated Press story that broke while I was on the air tonight, but which I was unable to read on the air:https://t.co/2VBLTVxvQq— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.
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