NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that many journalists at his company were uncomfortable with the hiring of former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
Addressing host Kristen Welker, Todd said, “I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation. Because I don’t know what to believe. She 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 it. So she has she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with. Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who’s paying her? Once at the RNC, she did say that. Hey, I’m speaking for the party. I get that that’s part of the job. So, what about here? I will say this, I think your interview, did a good job of exposing, I think, many of the contradictions.”
Todd concluded, “So I do think, unfortunately, this interview was always going to be looked through the prism of who is she speaking for? I think you did everything you could do. You got put into an impossible situation booking this interview, and then all of a sudden, the rug pulled out from under you. You find out she’s being paid to show up. It’s unfortunate for this program. I am glad you did the best you could.”
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