Rachel Maddow tweets about the close of tonight's show

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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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"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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"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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"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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“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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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://apnews.com/dc0c9a5134d14862ba7c7ad9a811160e …

Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.

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[dalton99a]

1. There is no depth to his depravity

[workinclasszero]

15. Trump is a monstrously evil depraved beast

Trump is anti Christ as far as I'm concerned.

[iluvtennis]

20. I agree.

[tblue37]

2. K&R for visibility. nt

[uponit7771]

3. Thank you Rachel for keeping the need to see these babies up front !!

[donkeypoofed]

4. No need to apologize, dear Rachel

We were crying with you

[Dem_4_Life]

5. We were all crying with you.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. Here's the link to the end of Rachel's show tonight.

It reminded me of watching Walter Cronkite announce that President Kennedy had died.

[lagomorph777]

6. I was not able to be near a TV tonight; I desperately need to cry and I can't even remember how.

The Trump situation is destroying me; I wish I could have cried with Rachel.

[leanforward]

7. No need to apologize. I understand.

There is no reason for what he has done.

[3catwoman3]

8. She has nothing to apologize for.

Absolutely nothing.

[uppityperson]

9. K&R for humanity

[Cha]

10. What a Sweetheart! Bless her humanity.. that makes

me tear up, too.

[Lucinda]

11. ...

[Honeycombe8]

12. She's so funny (her first comment about her job being "speaking on tv").

The rest of it...the horror.

That's really who these people are. They are actually jumping off the cliff. No holds barred. Swastikas are out.

[flibbitygiblets]

13. Bless you Rachel. You are a consummate professional, but you are a human first. We love you!!

Never apologize. Our humanity is all that separates us from this horror. It's what will stop it.

[PatrickforO]

14. How could any decent person NOT cry

when confronted with crimes against humanity like these?

[mulsh]

16. Rachael read the lede perfectly. no need to explain or applogize. great work. P.S. thanks for

explaing cable car breaking methods. it brought back lots of memories of scary rides for me.

[workinclasszero]

17. Rachel weeping for Trump's littlest victims..

[Hekate]

18. Rachel has a human soul. Trump/Sessions, not so much.

[workinclasszero]

19. The GOP, pro life, family values patriot party

have proven that they are the spawn of Satan with the kidnapping and hostage taking of innocent babies!!

[kag]

21. Rachel is such a warrior.

Tonight was a reminder that even the toughest among us (and by "us" I mean those of us who have a soul and a conscience), are horrified by the depravity of this administration.

And tonight Rachel reminded us that "they want this". The outrage and backlash are NOT an unintended consequence of this policy. This is what they were hoping for. It is up to those of us who still give a shit what this country stands for to stop the agony.

Rachel, thank you for doing what you do. Please continue doing it.

[niyad]

23. frankly, I am amaed that any journalist can get through these horrific stories without

breaking down.


I wish I believed in hell and eternal damnation, because each and every person involved in this obscene crime against humanity, and each and every person who approves, it, deserves it.

I hope kharma bites them all bigtime.