MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell said Thursday that most of the NBC News staff would consider the network’s planned miniseries on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be “a really bad idea given the timing,” hours after her colleague Chuck Todd called the series a “nightmare” for the network.
Mitchell asked former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to weigh in on Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus’ demand that NBC and CNN drop their Clinton-centered film projects or lose the chance to partner with the RNC for 2016 primary debates.
She said Priebus was “understandably miffed” about the films, when Gibbs interjected that the film was a “bad idea.” Mitchell agreed.
“A lot of news people would say, including the MSNBC news people and Chuck Todd and all the rest of us, a really bad idea given the timing,” she said.
Todd had said the entire network would inevitably be conflated with the entertainment film in a negative way.
“This is why this miniseries is a total nightmare for NBC News because, you know, we know there’s this giant firewall, we know we have nothing to do with it, we know that we’d love probably to be as critical or whatever it is going to be, if it comes out,” Todd said.” But there’s nothing we can do about it.”
