Maddow during her report | Photo: Twitter @ShaunKing
In a recent segment, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow discussed the Trump administration’s current policy of separating families at the US border.
Numerous reports have revealed children separated from adult family members, with some being kept in cage-like facilities by border patrol.
In her report, Maddow talked about new so-called ‘tender age’ facilities where authorities keep babies apart from parents.
However, she couldn’t make it through the story as she kept choking up while speaking.
This is Rachel Maddow upon getting the breaking news that Trump has established detention centers for babies who’ve been forcefully taken from their parents.
FULL STORY: https://t.co/By54MCjWmQ pic.twitter.com/OX2XBNVKM4
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 20, 2018
‘This has just come out from the Associated Press,’ she begins, relaying the breaking news. Maddow then pauses, emotions already coming out.
As she shares the news about babies and young children sent to facilities on their own, her voice cracks. She tries to report the story, but keeps getting choked up and having to pause.
Maddow then asks to put up a graphic, but it’s not ready, and the camera remains on her. She tries once more before shaking her head, saying: ‘I think I’m gonna have to hand this off.’
She finally apologizes before ending her segment.
Whe @maddow is too choked up to finish a segment you know we are in deep fucking shit
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) June 20, 2018
‘Not the way I intended that to go’
Following the segment airing, Maddow took to Twitter to apologize and share the story in full.
“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…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
“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…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
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
Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.
— 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,’ she finished.
People immediately expressed their empathy for her, telling her not to apologize.
@maddow In a nation that is losing its heart, never apologize for showing yours. Your emotion is the nation’s. You were not and are not alone.
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) June 20, 2018
Kathy Griffin compared it to Walter Cronkite reporting on John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Walter Cronkite cried with the world when JFK was shot. It’s in the Smithsonian. This moment is another national tragedy. Thank you for giving a fuck @maddow (I KNOW, your Mom hates swearing:). KG
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) June 20, 2018
We love you. Thank you for what you do and never apologize for having a heart
— David Arquette (@DavidArquette) June 20, 2018
Another person tweeted: ‘We need way more Rachel Maddows in America and way less Corey Lewandowskis.’
We need way more Rachel Maddows in America and way less Corey Lewandowskis.
— Ryan Knight 🌊 (@ProudResister) June 20, 2018
In another recent news report, Republican commentator Corey Lewandowski responded to a story about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome being separated from her mom with: ‘Womp, womp.’
Donald Trump today said he would sign an executive order ending this practice. However, he still blames Democrats for the situation, though Attorney General Jeff Sessions started the policy this year.
