NBC News is purportedly preparing to drop former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel less than a week after hiring her as a paid contributor.

The network is planning on axing McDaniel but has yet to work out the details, and McDaniel is seeking legal counsel, according to Puck News.

McDaniel’s hiring, announced last week in a memo, caused an uproar at the outlet, with several on-air personalities on NBC and MSNBC decrying the former RNC leader being brought on as a paid analyst.

MSNBC leadership reportedly assured staff that McDaniel would not appear on the left-leaning cable network despite initial reports that she would make appearances on the channel.

McDaniel made her first appearance on NBC since the news of her hiring on Sunday for Meet the Press, where she was interviewed by moderator Kristen Welker in McDaniel’s capacity as former RNC chairwoman rather than as paid NBC News contributor.

Later in the show on Sunday, NBC News’s Chuck Todd blasted the network for hiring McDaniel.

“There’s a reason why there’s a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination,” Todd said on NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “That’s where you begin here.”

After Todd’s on-air criticisms, several other personalities, including MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, and the hosts of Morning Joe, berated the network over hiring McDaniel.

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Other politicos whom NBC has hired as contributors include Marc Short, who served as Mike Pence’s chief of staff while he was vice president, and former Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill. MSNBC also has several former Biden administration officials working for the network, including Psaki, who was President Joe Biden’s press secretary from 2021 to 2022.

The Washington Examiner has attempted to reach out to McDaniel and NBC News for comment.