MSNBC Isn’t Airing ‘Morning Joe’ Monday Because of the Trump Assassination Attempt

MSNBC didn’t air Morning Joe on Monday after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend, choosing instead to continue rolling breaking news coverage of the shooting and its aftermath.

The show’s X account told followers Sunday that the popular morning show will “return on Tuesday,” inviting viewers to tune in to MSNBC anyway for more coverage of the attempt on the former president’s life. The decision to bench the politics roundtable show on the day that the Republican National Convention starts in Milwaukee—days after the party’s presumptive presidential nominee’s brush with death—was reportedly made for a very particular reason.