'Nine seconds!' Morning Joe flips out on Trump assassination attempt

Having been taken off the air on Monday by the NBC brass, the entire panel on "Morning Joe" spent the first 35 minutes of Monday's broadcast discussing the assassination attempt on Donald Trump three days ago.

An incredulous Joe Scarborough repeatedly ranted at about the Secret Service not sufficiently protecting the former president who quit stopping to exhort the crowd, while showing a clip of the event and counting off the nine seconds he was exposed as agents hustled him to a waiting car.

With co-host Mika Brzezinski and "Way Too Early" host Johnathan Lemire sitting by mutely, Scarborough raged as the video rolled, "I'm hearing about resources, finite resources. I'm hearing that RFK Jr. – his last name, Kennedy! Kennedy doesn't have Secret Service."

"We have been, before this shooting, a nation on edge," he shouted. "Political rhetoric more violent than any time since the 1960s. This cannot be a question of manpower."

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"I do not understand why the Secret Service around him allowed him to do that, and with a nation on edge, with so much at stake, with the high level of threats out there against both candidates," he ranted. "The consequences of this for this nation are existential so how are we depending on Butler County police officers to protect a presidential candidate and protect America? "

Still attacking the Secret Service, he complained, "There are no good answers; they need to come up with their best answer. It is still going to be inadequate, it is still going to be terrible. The fact that there weren't snipers all on top of that building, Secret Service people or other people protecting Donald Trump, it's just -- again, this is just beyond shocking."

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