Rachel Maddow Reacts To Ronna McDaniel’s NBC Ouster

“Acknowledging that you might have got something wrong is a real sign of strength,” the MSNBC host said.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow praised NBC News’ decision to axe Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor after uproar from staff on both channels.

Speaking to MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Tuesday, Maddow acknowledged that “it always feels wrong to talk about things, you know, in the company, as if it’s news.”

She said there was an “essentially unanimous feeling among all the journalists in the building, our senior staff, and all the producers” about the decision to hire the former Republican National Committee chair.

“But then to see the executives and the leadership hear that, respond to it, and be willing to change course based on their respect for us and hearing what we argued — I have deep respect for that,” she said.

Maddow was among an array of MSNBC and NBC stars publicly criticizing McDaniel’s hiring after it was announced over the weekend. In on-air rebukes, journalists pointed to McDaniel’s history of dishonesty and support of Donald Trump’s lies about election fraud.