Joe Scarborough Suspended for Two Days for Political Donations

Joe Scarborough, a co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," was briefly suspended Nov 19 after Politico uncovered donations he had made to political candidates. Scarborough's donations to friends and family members totaled $4,000.

His suspension will keep him off "Morning Joe" for two days. Those donations were a violation of a policy at MSNBC and its parent, NBC News, which prohibits political contributions without advance approval. Scarborough apologized to MSNBC and said "this will not happen again." Scarborough said his contributions were "not relevant to my work at MSNBC" because they were made "to close personal friends and family members and were limited to local races." That said, "there is nothing more important than maintaining the integrity" of the NBC News brand, he said.