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Subject: Chuck Todd Blasts His Own Network On-Air For Hiring Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
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NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd slammed his network during a 
Sunday broadcast of “Meet the Press” after NBC hired former Republican 
National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor.

Todd discussed McDaniel’s hiring with journalist Kristen Welker, who recently 
sat down with McDaniel for an interview on the relationship between the Trump 
campaign and the RNC in the aftermath of the 2020 election. McDaniel stepped 
down from her role as chair of the RNC following a private meeting in 
February with former President Donald Trump, who tapped her to lead the party 
after his 2016 presidential election victory.

“Let me deal with the elephant in the room,” Todd said, looking at Welker. “I 
think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation because 
I don’t know what to believe. [McDaniel] is now a paid contributor by NBC 
News. I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she 
didn’t want to mess up her contract.”

“She wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC when the RNC was 
paying for her, so she has credibility issues that she still has to deal 
with,” Todd added. “Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf 
of who is paying for her?”

Todd went on to say that he believes many NBC journalists “are uncomfortable” 
with McDaniel’s hiring “because many of our professional dealings with the 
RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met 
with character assassination.”

“When NBC made the decision to give her NBC News’ credibility, you have to 
ask yourself, ‘What does she bring NBC News?'”

Todd added that there’s an argument to be made for the network bringing 
McDaniel on to get more access to the Republican Party.

“If you told me we were hiring her as a technical adviser to the Republican 
convention, I think that would be certainly defensible,” he said.

In his critique of NBC, Todd did not mention former RNC Chair Michael Steele, 
who has worked as a regular MSNBC contributor since 2011. Steele endorsed Joe 
Biden in his 2020 run against Trump and joined the anti-Trump Lincoln 
Project.

	Quite a moment on Meet the Press this morning. 
	pic.twitter.com/1RKvAq7mj2

	— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) March 24, 2024

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McDaniel officially announced her resignation weeks before the RNC elected 
Michael Whatley as chair and Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair 
of the party.

“President Trump deserves to have the team he wants in place at the RNC,” 
McDaniel said.

“I will do everything possible to re-elect President Trump in November,” she 
added. “And I ask all of you out there who worked so hard during this primary 
season or supported another candidate, that you come in and join me in 
supporting our president as well.”

Todd was ripped for his comments on “Meet the Press” as many conservatives 
pointed out that many who are employed by NBC News, including Todd, 
previously worked for Democrats.

“Chuck Todd was a Dem staffer. Tim Russert was a Dem staffer. George 
[Stephanopoulos] was a senior Dem WH staffer. Jen Psaki was a senior Dem WH 
staffer. But, NBC hired a Republican??!!?! It’s the end of the world,” Sen. 
Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote. 

The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway added, “Chuck Todd, a 
dangerous propagandist who has pushed the Russia collusion lie FOR YEARS, 
trashes his employers and warns about ‘gaslighting’ and ‘credibility’ because 
NBC — which employs Democrat activists Jen Psaki and Kristen Welker, etc. — 
hired a single Republican.”

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