Rachel Maddow used her MSNBC show to criticize the network for firing her colleague. Joy Reid's exit is one of several changes announced this week at the network.

Maddow also pointed out Katie Phang's upcoming departure from her weekend slot in a rare rebuke of her own network's "indefensible" actions, she said.

On Monday’s (February 24) edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, the host addressed Reid’s departure, just hours after Reid fronted her final episode of The ReidOut earlier that day. At the top of her show, Maddow said Reid’s exit was “very, very, very hard to take.”