Lawrence on NBC News hiring Ronna McDaniel and ‘the Nixon rule’

Well there was a time when Sunday morning television belonged to my friend Tim Russer, if it's Sunday it's Meet the Press, the line between the press and political operatives has been crossed countless times in both directions Lewis, how was an Albany reporter a chain smoker who believed freshman state senator Franklin Delano Roosevelt was destined for bigger things Lewis how he became not only Senator Roosevelt's re-election campaign manager but also the race manager politics of Franklin Roosevelt there would have been no Governor Roosevelt there would have been no President Roosevelt without Lewis how Tim Russer got his start in politics the same way I did working for Senator Daniel Patrick Mahan and with us he is now a man on the Senate staff where I served for a decade and a half.

Wow, groans Daniel Patrick, New York's senior senator. Senator, welcome, I am now. biased, but I think Tim was the best moderator on Meet the Press or any Sunday show. No one questioned Tim Russert's impartiality and objectivity, even when he was interviewing his former boss and I have a feeling that Tim Russer would have been encouraging his former protégé. and friend Chuck your yesterday after the Meet the Press Meet the Press interview of former Republican Party Chairman Ron McDaniel, who was hired as a paid contributor to NBC News last week. I think our bosses owe her an apology for putting him in this situation because I don't know what to believe, she's now a paid contributor for NBC News, so I have no idea if any response she gave him was because she didn't want to ruin her contract.

He wants us to believe that he was speaking on her behalf. the RNC when the RNC was paying for her, so he has credibility issues that he still has to deal with. Yes, is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who pays her? There's a reason there are a lot of journalists at NBC. News is uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the past six years have been met with criticism, met with slander. She called me a propagandist, but they called me worse. She was not hired by MSNBC.

I heard. about this on Friday when she announced herself publicly. I stopped inviting Trump Liars like her on this show in 2016 because she had never seen a successful, satisfying interview with a lying Trump and I never thought I could crack the code on how to interview on my own. a Trump liar, they are fast and furious liars and I doubt I can keep up. I would never interview Ron McDaniel as an expert on Republican campaigns the way I frequently interview my old friend Steuart Stevens, who ran his uncle Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. MSNBC won't do it.

I use Ron McDaniel as a political analyst, but I have a few questions for her whenever she wants to be on this show and I'll make it easy for her. I will tell you the questions in advance. My first question would be why. Did you change your name to Donald Trump before Trump ran for president? His name was R Romney McDaniel. How does it feel to change your name to Curry? Favor from a madman because he doesn't like your uncle. How did you explain that to your children? lesson, her children learned from that and I mention her children because she always mentions her children and that she is a mother every time she speaks in public and then I would ask her about everything she did to try to help Donald Trump overthrow the election that Did yesterday. decided to say for the first time, four years later, that Joe Biden won fair and square, there is an easy way to avoid the controversy that NBC News has run into, don't hire anyone close to crimes, that's what It happened to the Nixon gang. only predecessors comparable to the Trump gang only Nixon's speechwriters, who literally worked in a different building from the White House, far from the crimes, were welcomed across the line in the media William Sapphire became a serious conservative colonist at the New York Times in 1973, the year before Nixon's crimes were fully exposed, a decade later David Gurgen went to US News and World Report and John McLaughlin started a syndicated political chat show where he He was joined by fellow Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan, and many years later he is now joined by me.

Those guys knew Nixon was a criminal and they never defended him to me in private for even a minute. John Dean, who was deeply involved in Nixon's crimes and served time in prison, emerged 35 years later as an unpaid television commentator on the Clinton impeachment trial. Any network CNN gave John Dean a paid position during the Trump presidency, 45 years after the Nixon crimes for which he was convicted. None of the people involved in R Romney McDaniel's

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the very few people who were hired from Nixon's world no one close to crime Ron roming McDaniel was on the phone with Donald Trump while trying to illegally void the presidential election in michigan which is close to crimes which is too close to crimes Hello everyone, MSNBC has a new and improved app, you will receive real-time alerts and analysis, live blogs, in-depth essays, video highlights and what best of 2024. election coverage download the new MSNBC app, here's how to do it, tap the App Store on your phone, press search in the bottom right corner, type MSNBC, click the MSNBC app, click get or click the cloud icon and enjoy it.