During Monday night’s broadcast of her weekly primetime show—MSNBC’s top-rated—Maddow first called out McDaniel’s history of election denialism saying the former RNC chair has been “pitching in” and falsely implying the 2020 election “wasn’t right…that vote wasn’t real.”

The host then said she wanted to join her colleagues at both MSNBC and NBC News, who have objected to the network’s decision to hire McDaniel.

Maddow said she has been informed McDaniel will not appear on the cable network, adding that while MSNBC’s leadership “did not object” to the controversial hiring by their sister network, other staffers “unanimously and instantly expressed outrage.”

Maddow said she hopes the network’s leadership will “reverse their decision.”

On his show, The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell called McDaniel a “Trump liar” and said if she ever decides to appear on his show, he would ask her about her decision to drop Romney from her name: “How does that feel, to change her name to curry favor with the madman because he doesn’t like your uncle (Mitt Romney)?”

The primetime host added that there was an “easy way” to avoid the controversy NBC News has found itself in—“don’t hire anyone close to the crimes,” adding “that’s what happened to the Nixon gang, the only comparable predecessors to the Trump gang.”