Joy Reid Speaks Through Tears On MSNBC Ouster — Says ‘I Am NOT Sorry I Went Hard’ At Trump

Now-former MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke out in emotional first remarks about her firing from MSNBC — telling fans she’s “not sorry” for going “hard” at President Donald Trump and other difficult issues.

Reid’s firing was leaked to the press before her team at The Reidout were notified, and is part of a programming overhaul that MSNBC officially announced on Monday.

After years of guest-hosting and contributing on-air, Reid was tapped to host AM Joy on weekends, and was promoted to primetime in 2020 with the 7pm show The ReidOut.

But all that came to an end this week at the hands of  Rebecca Kutler, who was named president of MSNBC earlier this month.

In remarks during a Zoom call on Sunday’s edition of the Win With Black Women podcast, Reid spoke for the first time, and fought through tears to thank her team and her support system — over 10,000 people joined the call.

Reid also ticked through a series of issues that she “went hard” at — and for which she is not sorry even notwithstanding the result:

I’ve been through every emotion from, you know, anger, rage, disappointment, hurt, you know, a feeling that, you know, guilt. You know, that I let my team lose their jobs.

But in the end, where I really land and where I’ve landed on today is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and and and gratitude–. Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value and that I’m sorry that it what I was doing and value and value.

And in the end–, I’m sorry I’m not. I try not to cry on TV and I think this kind of like me on TV. I apologize.

And that, and then it kind of. And then it matter. I think Karen is there and she’s been texting me as well. And so what I will just say is that in the end, thank you.

Where I land is that the moment that I’ve– of guilt that I felt that 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.

That– or went hard for immigrants who’ve done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and try to make a life and defended them.

Or whether we’ve talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nikole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country.

Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to 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 those things because those things are of God.

Watch above via the Win With Black Women podcast and watch the full call here.