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Dan Abrams: NewsNation A Threat to ‘Outrage Media’

Abrams then said Cuomo had also been slammed by conservative media members for his belief that Trump hadn’t been proven guilty, showing a clip from Jesse Watters of Fox News.

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After the hiring of Chris Cuomo to NewsNation, Dan Abrams is once again defending the channel, this time from what he calls “outrage” media who are threatened by the upstart network.

On his podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project, the newest member of the NewsNation team said the January 6th Committee hasn’t presented enough evidence to prove former President Donald Trump had committed a crime.

“One liberal commentator said ‘Cuomo was willing to lay low for all of a few months — now he’s back with a podcast and interviews in which he defends trump and demands America move on from January 6,” Abrams said. “Another said ‘Chris Cuomo was a liberal who got rejected by his fellow liberals. So now he’s moving to the right to try to find a new constituency.’ It couldn’t be that he believes it — and I will say that on this subject, I largely agree with him.”

Abrams then said Cuomo had also been slammed by conservative media members for his belief that Trump hadn’t been proven guilty, showing a clip from Jesse Watters of Fox News.

“So what does Chris Cuomo believe?”, Watters questioned. “We don’t know. Seems like he changes his opinion depending on who is paying him.”

Abrams then pointed out grievances aired by Newsmax host John Bachman after Cuomo’s hiring. Bachman shared skepticism that Cuomo is “neither a Republican or Democrat” and pointed out that Abrams himself worked at MSNBC.

“You got me. I worked at MSNBC… up until 2008,” Abrams said. “You know who else worked at MSNBC back in the day? Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. And did you know that Cuomo worked at Fox News at one point? What does this all prove? It’s just a dumb thing to say.”

The defense of the network’s position of neutrality by Abrams comes at the same time the Nexstar-owned group is reportedly in discussions with conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly to become a contributor to the cable outlet.

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NBC News Chair Cesar Conde: I Made Decision to Sever Ties With Ronna McDaniel

“I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down. While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility for it.”

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On Tuesday, NBC News ended its relationship with former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel after just five days due to intense internal backlash over the hire. The network’s News chairman, Cesar Conde, is taking responsibility.

In a memo sent to employees Tuesday, Conde says he approved McDaniel’s hiring, and ultimately made the decision to remove her from the outlet’s list of contributors.

“After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor. No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned. Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal,” Conde wrote. “I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down. While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility for it.”

McDaniel — who has also been dropped by the CAA talent agency — has reportedly been seeking legal representation to explore potential breach of contract litigation with the network.

NBC News announced the hiring of the former Republican leader on Friday, which led to scrutiny from staffers angered by McDaniel’s previous comments about the press and her role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

However, in her first paid appearance for the network, she told Meet the Press‘ Kristen Welker that Donald Trump did not win the election in 2020, and that the process was not rigged against him. It was the first time she publicly admitted those sentiments. She inferred that she felt a duty to back the former President’s claims as RNC chair, and will have more freedom as a political analyst at NBC News.

“Now, I get to be a little bit more myself,” she told Welker, before being lambasted by former moderator Chuck Todd for her lack of credibility.

After the appearance, several MSNBC hosts — including Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Nicolle Wallace, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell — shared their extreme displeasure with the hiring, which ultimately led Cesar Conde to reverse course.

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NBC News to Drop Ronna McDaniel After Backlash From Network Staffers

Ronna McDaniel is reportedly “seeking legal representation” should NBC News attempt to exit its contract that reportedly was set to pay her $300,000.

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NBC News has made plans to sever its ties to political analyst Ronna McDaniel after near unanimous pushback from employees inside the outlet.

A report from Puck’s Dylan Byers claims the network is making preparations to end its short, but tumultuous, relationship with the former RNC chair.

On Friday, NBC News announced it had inked a deal for McDaniel to join the network as a political analyst.

Subsequently, MSNBC President Rashida Jones informed network staffers that the former Republican leader would not appear on the cable network after intense backlash from employees over past comments from McDaniel.

During her first appearance on Meet the Press Sunday, McDaniel admitted — for the first time — that the 2020 presidential election that was won by President Joe Biden was not “rigged” against former President Donald Trump, and shared her belief that Biden did in fact win the vote.

Former moderator Chuck Todd blasted the network for its decision to hire someone who had been involved in the “character assassination” of not only journalists and the media as a whole, but specific members of the staff at NBC News and MSNBC.

Todd’s comments were backed by those of Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell who all shared their opinions about the situation on-air Monday.

According to the report from Byers, Ronna McDaniel is “seeking legal representation” should NBC News attempt to exit its contract that reportedly was set to pay her $300,000.

McDaniel joined NBC News after resigning her position as RNC chair, which she had previously held since 2017.

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Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera Agree: MSNBC Hosts Out of Line for Criticism Of Ronna McDaniel Hire

“I hope she tells them all to screw it, she’s sticking around, forces them to fire her, and then sues them for millions because they have humiliated her in a very, very unjust way.”

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Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera often occupy different sides of the political aisle. However, the response by MSNBC hosts over the hiring of Ronna McDaniel has them unified.

Several prominent voices on the cable network have publically aired their displeasure with the network hiring the former RNC chair as a political analyst.

O’Reilly believes the situation is a difficult one for NBC.

“The corrupt media doesn’t really cover the news anymore. They do not tell you the truth. It’s ideological. It slants the news, it spins the news,” he said during his No Spin News program Monday.

“NBC is in serious trouble. When the inmates, to use a cliche, run the asylum, you’ve lost control,” stated O’Reilly. “You really have.”

Geraldo Rivera — who once famously had a shouting match with Bill O’Reilly on his Fox News program — agreed with those sentiments.

During an appearance on NewsNation’s Cuomo Modany, the correspondent-at-large lambasted the hosts on MSNBC for their stances.

“The whole idea is that they were hiring her to be the ultimate insider, and here she gets washed away, she gets drowned by this tsunami of pretentious bulls—! All of these people that have a stick up their behinds, how dare they?!,” Rivera said.

“(McDaniel) is the ultimate insider, and to say that they don’t want to hire her now because of election denialism, well then you don’t want half the country to watch your network because half the country is Republican, more or less, and they believe – a lot of them, or at least they’ve convinced themselves — about the election being fraudulent.

“I hope she tells them all to screw it, she’s sticking around, forces them to fire her, and then sues them for millions because they have humiliated her in a very, very unjust way.”

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