Rachel Maddow is talking out hours after it was introduced that Pleasure Reid can be exiting MSNBC.

On Monday, Feb. 24, The Rachel Maddow Present host, 51, started her present by expressing that Reid’s departure from the community earlier the identical day was “very, very, very exhausting to take.”

She stated that all through her profession, “There is no such thing as a colleague for whom I’ve had extra affection and extra respect than Pleasure Reid.”

“I really like every part about her. I’ve realized a lot from her. I’ve a lot extra to be taught from her. I don’t need to lose her as a colleague right here at MSNBC,” stated Maddow.

“And, personally, I believe it’s a unhealthy mistake to let her stroll out the door. It’s not my name, and I perceive that,” she added whereas trying across the room. “However that’s what I believe.”

As a result of Alex Wagner additionally misplaced her present amid the ongoing shakeups in tv information, Maddow stated it’s “unnerving” that “each of our non-white hosts in prime time are shedding their reveals, as is Katie Phang on the weekend.”

Whereas Phang will lose her present, she’s going to stick with the community as MSNBC’s authorized correspondent. Wagner can also be remaining on the community as a senior political analyst.

Rotating anchors are anticipated to fill The ReidOut’s 7 p.m. ET slot within the coming weeks. Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, present hosts of The Weekend, will now transfer to weekdays at 7 p.m. to host a brand new ensemble information hour. This may make Menendez the primary Latina in MSNBC primetime. 

Maddow stated that “feels worse than unhealthy, irrespective of who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I don’t defend it.”

Though Maddow informed viewers that they’re “not going to be disillusioned,” by who fills the anchor chairs throughout the community, she stated that “the individuals who get our reveals on the air,” are those who’re “actually being put by means of the ringer,” amid extra potential layoffs.

Maddow stated that whereas her colleagues are being invited to use for brand new jobs, it “has by no means occurred at this scale on this means earlier than relating to programming modifications, presumably as a result of it isn’t the proper technique to deal with folks, and it’s inefficient and it’s pointless.”

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She stated that “this sort of limbo, the nervousness and the discombobulation is off the charts, at a time when this job already is further annoying and troublesome.”

Reid’s departure occurred hours after NBC Nightly Information anchor Lester Holt introduced he can be exiting the present this summer time after greater than 10 years.