Joy Reid reacted with tears, as well as “anger, rage, disappointment [and] hurt” to the sudden cancellation of her MSNBC show “TheReidOut” in a video shared to X on Monday.
“I’ve been through every emotion, from anger, rage, disappointment, hurt … feeling guilt that I let my team lose their jobs,” she said in a Zoom video call with the account Win for Black Women in which she also said she is “not sorry” for criticizing President Donald Trump or for her support of Gaza.
As she spoke, Reid became more emotional and began crying, expressing that she does not like crying on camera. At one point, an assistant handed her tissues to wipe her tears.
“I try not to cry,” she said. “I try not to cry on TV, and I think [this Zoom call] is kind of like me on TV, so I apologize.”
Watch a clip from the Zoom interview below:
“We talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty,” she said. She also defended her support for Gaza, saying, “We as the American people have a right to object to little babies being bombed and and where I come down on that is, I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things, because those things are of God.”
She continued, “But in the end, where I really land, and where I’ve landed on today is just gratitude, just pure gratitude,” she said of the news program, which she hosted since 2020.
“I went hard on so many issues, whether it was the Black Lives Matter, issues of a young baby or a mom or dad that was killed or when we opened up people’s eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted, and not just Black folks,” she said, reflected on some of her proudest coverage moments.
Katie Phang was also among the MSNBC casualties early Monday. The Asian-American anchor’s show was also canceled by MSNBC and shared a statement to X later in the day in which she said, in part, “I believe in Democracy and in an independent Fourth Estate the fiercely guards its ability to hold power to account. Keeping our focus on doing the right thing will bring us out of America’s darkest times.”
Read Phang’s tweet in full below:
