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Ronna McDaniel is expecting to be fully paid out for her contract with NBC News despite being dropped just four days after it was announced she was joining the network as a political contributor.
The ex-RNC chair's contract was for $300,000 a year for two years, Politico reported.
With her lone appearance on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that lasted less than 20 minutes, that amounts to more than $30,000 a minute or $500 a second.
McDaniel has not spoken publicly about her short-lived tenure since the announcement on Tuesday evening from NBC that she was being dropped.
But Politico reports that she is lawyering up and spoke with Bryan Freedman on Tuesday about her legal options even beyond recouping the money from her original contract.
He is the lawyer who represented Megyn Kelly in her split with the network as well as other anchors who have been axed including Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson.
Ronna McDaniel appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday after it was announced she had been hired by NBC as a political contributor. She was dropped by the network just days after joining is after her hiring outraged employees
NBC officially dropped McDaniel on Tuesday only four days after announcing she was joining the network as a political contributor. The announcement of her hiring on Friday sparked immediate backlash from on-air talent across the network.
In a statement Tuesday evening, NBCUniversal chairman Cesar Conde said: 'After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not
