Former Obama aide signed, dropped by NBC/MSNBC the same day

Published March 18, 2016 6:26pm ET



A former aide to President Obama has been dropped as a political analyst at MSNBC and NBC News over a conflict of interests, just hours after it was announced she had signed with both news networks.

Stephanie Cutter, who served in the Obama administration and worked on the president’s 2012 re-election campaign, was slated to join both MSNBC and NBC News as a hard news political analyst, Politico Playbook reported early Friday morning.

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