Backlash Over NBC News’ Ronna McDaniel Hire | The View

former Republican National committee chair Rona McDaniel just became a paid contributor for NBC News yesterday her credibility was called into question on Meet the Press over her past comments about election results in the January 6th Insurrection take a look do you disagree with Trump saying he's going to free those who've been charged I do not think people who committed violent acts on January 6 should be freed so you disagree with that he's been saying that for months R why not speak out earl

ier why just speak out about that now when you're the RNC chair you you kind of take one for the whole team right now I get to be a little bit more myself right this is what I believe 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 so I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn't want to mess up her contract um she wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC

when the RNC was paying for her so she has she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with I don't think is going to bring the network what they think it wants to bring to the network I understand the motivation but this execution I think was poor so I leave it to yall what do you what do you think look I think she's a shape shifter uh and she says and does what's convenient for her to say and do when it's convenient she's uh from Michigan where the name Romney which is her name you

she used to use when she was in Michigan she was a Romney when she became the RNC chair and it was under Trump who did not like Romney she took out the word the name Romney when it was convenient for her to amplify the things that Donald Trump was saying to amplify the conspiracy theories to Gaslight journalist to malign journalist she did that now that she's on NBC she's changed her tune so I think that Chuck Todd uh is very right in calling into question on the air and I and I and by the way k

udos to NBC for having Chuck Todd giving that Chuck Todd had the freedom or felt he had the freedom to say that on the air just following that the head of n uh NBC uh news is a very good friend of mine from Miami Cesar I've known him for over 20 years I think this was a mistake because um you're allowing somebody who was part of the machine right a Figure Head a household name reinvent herself and and I do think that there's credibility issues and and it's up to the host the journalist the staff

the viewers to to um to make it known if they are unhappy about it well kud kudos to Kristen Welker who did we didn't see all the interview but she did a great job challenging her she's an incredible journalist and one point in that interview Ron McDaniel starts talking about all these election officials who felt intimidated because they didn't want to certif the election what she failed to mention is the countless of us who told the truth about the election and faced intimidation and harassmen

t and people with a lot more power than myself like sheane moss and Ruby Freeman and Rusty Bowers who we know of who simply did their job to move forward with the election and had their lives torn apart because of it I feel very strongly obviously that there needs to be Republican representation in media we represent 50% of the country but there are credible Republicans who never dabbled in this dangerous lie that Joe Biden didn't legitimately win the election who would be far better served for

NBC could offer the same expertise but with more credibility I think of people like Chris Christie Chris kreb Sarah Matthews Mick Mulaney will herd to give her this platform when she was such a contributor she hosted that insane RNC press conference where they blamed Hugo Chavez who was no longer with us for stealing the election like there's just such a credibility factor and I I think it was a mistake MBC said sorry sunny in the the when they announced the hire they said we do need to represen

t more voices I agree with that but you cannot have election deniers being uh given these types of roles in major Network news she was someone that you know continues to actually plant while saying she believes uh President Biden was elected fairly also kind of Towing the line with some stories about things that weren't right and when you have 60 court cases that say there was no evidence otherwise you have to come questioning election is fine denying every result that proves you wrong is not fi

ne so I I think that the only sketchy thing that happened in that election was when the former president asked for someone the the um the Secretary of State in Georgia to find 11,000 votes so let's come clean on what was sketchy about the election and she should not have there was also other sketchy things that happened um and she was a direct part of it you know I think when journalist ism is shrinking especially on linear television to pay a woman like that $300,000 is obscene and let's rememb

er that she was the person involved in the 2020 phone call to pressure Michigan County officials to not certify the vote from the Detroit area in particular Detroit uh the Detroit population is 77.8% black so she was involved in actively suppressing the or attempting to suppress the black vote she also as you mentioned said while she was being interviewed by Kristen Welker and I I I think there could have been more push back she said but there were problems with the vote so she is still pushing

the same exact narrative she is being rewarded for basically trying to take away the votes of Americans and I think it's a Despicable decision and Joe and Ma Joe Scarboro this just this morning said mik said we hope NBC reconsiders its decision and I hope they do as well yeah and you know one of the things that Chuck Todd says is sometimes we hire folks like this for access and I don't know what access she has because thrown out of the r Trum just threw her out of the RNC and replaced her with a

n even bigger psychoan right his daughter-in-law and most of the people that work with r McDaniel R Romney McDaniel I'm gonna say it uh like it or not uh have gotten thrown out as well so I'm not sure access to what does she have other than $300,000 well I'm sure this isn't the end of that story so we'll when we know more we'll come back and talk more