Maddow Breaks Down During Migrant Story [VIDEO]

The Hill reports:

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow broke down in tears on-air over a report about the Trump administration operating “tender age” shelters for migrant babies and toddlers. Maddow choked up while reading the first lines of the Associated Press’ report on the three facilities where children under the age of 13 are being sent after being separated from their parents at the border.

She was unable to read the description of the shelters, first asking a producer to display a graphic, and then deciding to abruptly end her segment. “I think I’m going to have to hand this off, sorry,” the MSNBC host said through tears. Maddow apologized later in a Twitter thread, and shared the story again.

Rachel Maddow chokes up and cries on air as she struggles to deliver news that migrant babies and toddlers have been sent to “tender age” shelters pic.twitter.com/O6crm8cvyR

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 20, 2018

Ugh, I’m sorry.

If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I’m on TV.

What I was trying to do — when I suddenly couldn’t say/do anything — was read this lede:

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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018

“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

“Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the “tender age” shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis…

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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

“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.”

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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