It was too much for the MSNBC host to handle. Rachel Maddow, arguably one of cable television\u2019s most popular hosts, could not keep herself from\u2026<\/b>
\nIt was too much for the MSNBC host to handle.
Rachel Maddow, arguably one of cable television\u2019s most popular hosts, could not keep herself from choking up while reading a report about the U. S. government sending babies to \u201ctender age\u201d shelters after they are separated from their undocumented parents at the southern border.
Maddow was in the midst of her Tuesday evening program when the Associated Press reported that Trump\u2019s officials were sending children below the age of 13 to at least three \u201ctender age\u201d shelters in Texas, where hundreds of babies and young children are being kept. The government is reportedly planning on making a fourth facility functional in Houston as the number of immigrant children continues to grow.
The MSNBC host struggled to get started with the first lines of the report.
\u201cThe AP has just broken some new news,\u201d Maddow began, absorbing the meaning of the words, before adding, \u201cThis is incredible.\u201d
But soon after, unable to continue, she asked her program\u2019s producer to show a graphic accompanying the report. But when no graphic came on, she passed the news to the hour\u2019s next host, saying, \u201cI think I\u2019m going to have to hand this off.\u201d
She then said \u201csorry\u201d before handing over the baton to Lawrence O\u2019Donnell.
Viewers of Maddow\u2019s show took to social media after the host left the program abruptly, saying they had never witnessed the usually composed host break down on air. Maddow then took to Twitter herself, apologizing for not being able to do her \u201cjob\u201d properly, adding that the AP report included lawyers and medical providers at the \u201ctender age\u201d facilities witnessing \u201crooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis.\u201d
\u201cIf nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I\u2019m on TV,\u201d she tweeted . \u201cI apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.\u201d
The AP report comes in the middle of intensifying domestic and international pressure against Justice Department\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d immigration policy, which has seen more than 2,300 children being separated from their undocumented parents at the southern border. Protests have been carried out in several U. S. cities, calling on president Donald Trump to reverse the decision, while as the Inquisitr reported, Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed out of a Mexican restaurant near the White House on Tuesday night for defending the policy.
Even so, Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have insisted that the separated children are getting standard care and that there is no option but to separate them as their parents face criminal prosecution for attempting to seek asylum in the United States.
Trump explains \u201cyou have to take the children away\u201d in rambling speech to small-business owners: https:\/\/t.co\/lnjIOfASSV pic.twitter.com\/8sDcDK8dtb
\u2014 Slate (@Slate) June 20,2018<\/p>\n

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