Former "Meet The Press" host Chuck Toidd dropped the hammer on his bosses on Sunday morning for not only hiring former RNC head Ronna McDaniel but also foisting her off on the current host Kristen Welker for an interview.
Following McDaniels' interview with the new host, where the new hire tap-danced around her history of claiming there was election fraud in the 2020 election, Todd took part in a panel where, as he put it, he needed to address the elephant in the room."
"I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” Todd began.
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“She is now a paid contributor by NBC News and I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn’t want to mess up her contract," he continued. "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. Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who’s paying her?”
“Look, there’s a reason why there’s a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this 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," he elaborated. "That’s where you begin here. So, when NBC made the decision to give her NBC News’ credibility, you gotta ask yourself, 'What does she bring to NBC News?' And when we make deals like this — and I’ve been at this company a long time — you’re doing it for access, access to audience, sometimes it’s access to an individual. "
"We can have a journalistic ethics debate about it. I’m willing to have that debate," he added.
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