NBC is wrong to air the Hillary Clinton miniseries, say people at NBC

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last updated 8 January 2015

Earlier this week, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, threatened to ban NBC and CNN from the 2016 Republican primary debates.

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Because it doesn't, 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's going to be if it comes out. But there's nothing we can do about it, and we're going to only own the negative. Whether it's negative because the Clinton people are upset because it's too tough on them, or negative because the Republicans think it's this glorification of her. No matter what, only we are gonna own it because people are going to see the peacock, and they see NBC, and they see NBC News, and they think, "Well, they can't be that separate." [Morning Joe]

Keith Wagstaff is a staff writer at TheWeek.com covering politics and current events. He has previously written for such publications as TIME, Details, VICE, and the Village Voice.

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