Internal liberal outrage boiled over into an on-air struggle session on Meet the Press. NBC just hired Ronna McDaniel immediately after she was removed as Republican National Committee leader, and so moderator Kristen Welker punched away at McDaniel for 20 minutes, and when that was finished, they had a roundtable about the horror of NBC’s hiring, combined with this awkward interview, which was scheduled before the personnel move.
Everyone on set seemed blissfully unaware of how it looked to the public when NBC was negotiating with White House press secretary Jen Psaki about a position while she was still at the White House. No one’s ever complained in a Sunday morning meltdown.
Former host Chuck Todd began the internal decompression with a fulsome apology:
TODD: Look, let me deal with the elephant in the room. I think our bosses owe you an apology…
