Staffers complained that the hiring tarnishes the NBC News brand.

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NBC News journalists vexed by MSNBC's move to hire White House press secretary Jen Psaki

NBC News journalists are troubled by and have expressed dismay to network executives about MSNBC's intention to hire White House press secretary Jen Psaki when she exits the Biden administration, people familiar with the matter told CNN.

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Noah Oppenheim, the NBC News president, even held an impromptu phone call Friday so that he could address the matter with vexed staffers from the Washington bureau, some of whom have complained to their superiors that the tentative hiring tarnishes the NBC News brand.

So, in the end, it appears that Oppenheim, and Lester Holt was probably in on the decision-making, and they realized that MSNBC is biased, and they want to keep NBC less biased.