Rachel Maddow Struggles To Read Report Of Babies Sent To 'Tender Age' Shelters

apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go," the MSNBC host later wrote. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tried to share a breaking story from The Associated Press during her program on Tuesday evening about so-called tender age shelters, where immigrant babies and young children are being placed after they’re separated from their parents at the U.S. border. But she struggled to share the report, tearing up and turning away from the camera before the program ended.

“This is incredible,” Maddow said while reading the AP alert. Unable to complete her next sentence, she passed the news to the hour’s next host, noting, “I think I’m going to have to hand this off.”

In the midst of her program on Tuesday, the AP reported that Trump administration officials have been sending young children to at least three age-specific shelters as part of the Justice Department’s new “zero tolerance” immigration policy that’s resulted in thousands of kids being separated from their parents. The “tender age” facilities reportedly house children with special needs and those younger than 13.