MSNBC host Rachel Maddow called out her network for dropping her soon-to-be former colleagues such as Joy Reid, Alex Wagner, and Katie Phang. Maddow also noted that the network’s primetime lineup will become much more white.

“I have been gainfully employed since I was 12,” Maddow said. “And I have had so many different kinds of jobs you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid.”

“I love everything about her,” Maddow continued. “I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call. And I understand that. But that’s what I think. I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two, count them two, nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on The Weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them.”

“That feels indefensible. And I do not defend it,” Maddow added.

Read Maddow’s full monologue:

RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC: I’m going to take a little point of personal privilege here just for a moment, if it is okay with you. You may have already heard about changes that have been announced at MSNBC over the last couple of days. The new president of our network made it official today.

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In a story that’s quickly capturing hearts across America, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has quietly done something few could imagine — and even fewer would believe.

Some of our shows are moving to different time slots or expanding or going away altogether. In primetime, just so you know, I am here five days a week for the first hundred days of Trump’s presidency as planned. And as planned, I will go back to just Mondays after that.

That is not changing. What is changing is that the show, Alex Wagner Tonight, is not coming back at 9 after the first hundred days. Instead, Alex will be a senior political analyst for MSNBC and Jen Psaki will start hosting the 9 p.m. hour all the other nights except for Mondays. So that’s a big change. An even bigger programming change is at 7 p.m., 7 p.m. Eastern, where Joy Reid’s show, The Readout, ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different job in the network.

She is leaving the network altogether. And that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old.

I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid.

I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her.

I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call.

And I understand that. But that’s what I think. I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two, count them two, nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on The Weekend.

And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible. And I do not defend it.

But there’s just one other piece of it that you should know. From your side of the TV screen, you will mostly see changes in terms of who’s in the anchor chair. And actually, everybody who’s going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they do.

And you are not going to be disappointed in who’s on our air and what you’re going to be seeing. But one thing you cannot necessarily see is that the people who get our shows on the air, they’re really being put through the wringer. Dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building, are facing being laid off.

They’re being invited to reapply for new jobs. That has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, presumably because it’s not the right way to treat people and it’s inefficient and it’s Whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work, so we don’t generally do things that way. Maybe all of our folks, including most of the people who are getting this very show on the air right now, maybe they will all get new jobs here.

And I hope they do. But in the meantime, being put in this kind of limbo, the anxiety and the discombobulation is off the charts at a time when this job already is extra stressful and difficult. It is not news for me to tell you that the press and freedom of the press are under attack in a way that is really.

It’s a big deal for our country. It’s very visceral for us here. I know that the business of the press is not an easy thing, and I know that no job is forever.

But I think I think I’m safe in saying for all of us anchors who, you know, through the TV, please know that what pains us the most is not what happens to us. It is what happens to our co-workers on whom we depend and who you don’t necessarily know. But we respect and love them and depend on them.

And did I mention we respect them? This is a difficult time in the news business, but it does not need to be this difficult. We welcome new voices to this place and and some familiar voices to new hours.

It’s going to be great, honestly. And we want to grow and succeed and reach more people than ever and be resilient and stay here forever. I also believe and I bet you believe that the way to get there is by treating people well, finding good people.

Good colleagues. Doing good work with them and then having their back. That we could do a lot better on a lot better