NBC star Chuck Todd throws liberal hissy fit over network hiring ex-RNC chair Ronna McDaniel and demands an APOLOGY from bosses

Anger among the NBC staff over the hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel spilled onto the screen Sunday when veteran analyst Chuck Todd told viewers that his bosses should apologize.

The liberal network stunned D.C. insiders on Friday when it announced that the combative Republican would join its roster of election-year commentators.

And she was directly challenged by her new colleague Kristen Welker over her claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump when she appeared on Meet The Press.

NBC’s left-wing cable arm MSNBC said McDaniel would not appear on its shows and former Meet The Press host Chuck Todd told his successor that their bosses had put her in an “impossible situation.”

“Let me just deal with the elephant in the room,” Todd said. “I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation because I don’t know what to believe.”

The former Meet The Press host told his successor Kristen Welker that she had been put in an ‘impossible position’ when station bosses demanded she interview the new recruit on Sunday’s programme.

Welker asked McDaniel if she owed the American people an “apology,” and McDaniel seemed eager to tone down her previously fiery rhetoric, telling Welker that Biden won the election “fair and square.”

Welker felt compelled to distance herself from McDaniel at the start of the show, telling viewers, “This will be a news interview and I was not involved in her hiring,” before the pair entered the studio.

The host asked McDaniel if she owed the American people an “apology,” and McDaniel seemed eager to tone down her previously fiery rhetoric, telling Welker that Biden won the election “fair and square.”

‘He’s the president. He is the legitimate president,” she emphasized.

“I have always said, and I continue to say, there were problems in 2020. I believe both can be true.”

Sources told The Wall Street Journal that MSNBC president Rashida Jones (pictured) ‘has no plans to have McDaniel on the channel’

But that wasn’t enough to satisfy Todd, still furious about her “gaslighting” and “character assassination” of NBC staff during her time with Trump.

“She has credibility issues that she’s still dealing with,” he told Welker.

‘Does she speak for herself or on behalf of whoever pays her?

“I’ll say this. I think your interview did a good job of exposing many of the contradictions.”

But anger over McDaniel’s partisan past confused viewers accustomed to seeing former Biden White House aides Jen Psaki and Symone Sanders as analysts on the channel.

“Did he ever worry about Jen Psaki joining the left-wing network? Symone Sanders?’ Sean Spicer asked.

“I didn’t think so.”

McDaniel was first elected chairman of the RNC in 2017. Previously, she chaired the Michigan Republican Party and helped deliver the state to Trump in 2016.

She is the granddaughter of the late Michigan Governor George Romney and the niece of Utah Senator Mitt Romney.

But under her leadership of the RNC, while Trump was president, Republicans lost the House and Senate and then the White House in 2020.

In late February, she announced she would step down from her Republican leadership role after pressure from Trump, who publicly endorsed close loyalist Michael Whatley and daughter-in-law Lara Trump for leadership as he closed in on the Republican presidential nomination.

NBC News Senior Vice President of Politics Carrie Budoff Brown told staff on Friday that “it couldn’t be a more important time to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team.”

As chair of the Republican National Committee, she spent nearly eight years at the highest levels of American politics.

“She will bolster our industry-leading reporting by providing an insider perspective on national politics and the future of the Republican Party.”

Symone Sanders was chief spokesperson and senior advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris before being hired by MSNBC

Jen Psaki served as White House press secretary under Joe Biden for a year before being hired by MSNBC in 2022

But Todd, who presented Meet The Press between 2014 and 2023, insisted the channel would regret his decision.

“When NBC made the decision to bring her in, what did she bring to NBC News?

“And when we do these kinds of deals, and I’ve been at this company for a long time, you do it to gain access. ‘Access to the public, sometimes it is access to an individual.

“This is a Washington operative who I don’t think is going to bring to the network what they think they want to bring to the network.

“I understand the motivation, but this performance was poor in my opinion.”