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@NBCNews White House Correspondent. @USC/@columbiajourn/@NBCinvestigates alum. [email protected]
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Joined September 2009
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Scoop: CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and other senior leaders at CBP were kept out of meetings discussing the White House's decision to use their funding for Trump's ad campaign. https://t.co/6XWTZwxPuO
AI DAY in DC: Trump to host WH summit with Amodei, Zuckerberg & other top AI leaders amid existential warnings
But the president has been skeptical of guardrails on artificial intelligence, wanting to stay ahead of China. He’ll also launch an AI-powered website to help Americans navigate government services
w/@albamonica & assists from @_perloj @brennanleach https://t.co/atPl1EqZAX
On #SundayTODAY: @albamonica has our Sunday Focus on a judge’s ruling that the Trump administration cannot restrict press access to the White House, along with a look at the longstanding, often-contentious relationship between American presidents and the media. https://t.co/HZtnFtmfmP
While a federal judge has ordered the White House to immediately restore press credentials for CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, it’s unclear if TV networks will resume pool coverage of Trump.
The WH has not said whether CNN is back in the pool—a separate issue from the credentials.
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Kristen Welker 
@kwelkernbc
Moderator of @meetthepress. Links and retweets aren't endorsements. Opinions are my own.
Carol Leonnig
@CarolLeonnig
@MSNOWNews ex @washingtonpost Finder of fact, best-selling author. Order my book INJUSTICE: https://t.co/WYpQ22mqlf
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Jonathan Karl
@jonkarl
ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent. Author of "RETRIBUTION: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America" - Order here: https://t.co/DiZn2KJ2Na
If a news outlet shoots and plays out its content online or through a channel, that is called "unilateral" coverage. A "pool" requires an organized system of member
outlets, a secure distribution
system, cost sharing and defined duties.
The print and radio pool also distribute their information to other outlets. Stills use their respective wire services to distribute images. WH has invited secondary and new media outlets into pool that do not have any responsibility to provide content beyond their own viewers/readers. Those outlets do not provide a collective product.
The 5 networks expend considerable resources for staff, equipment, travel costs to provide coverage of the president anywhere in the world and have an established infrastructure for how the images, audio and editorial information is distributed for use by other outlets. That is how the public receives this coverage.
"The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.” — White House television pool members: ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Media, NBC News
Former White House AI czar David Sacks will be one of the guests at the high-powered state dinner that President Trump is holding for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according a person familiar with the plans. https://t.co/aUFt374J9C
President Trump has repeatedly promised to share the names of the private donors funding his massive ballroom. But nearly a year after initial construction, only a partial list of contributors has been made public. https://t.co/RDx1D6Ws2F
A particularly great Early Brief from @merica, about how voters feel as if they've lost control over their own lives, from cost of living to AI & special interest influence in Washington.
A defining 2026, and beyond, political issue.
https://t.co/Lnl6oaTr5T
Asked @FLOTUS what her message is to kids who might be worried about what tech leaders are saying on AI as she visits an elementary school in NC today.
“I think they need to learn” but “need to be vigilant as well,” she said, while stressing U.S. should “lead.”
Full answer:
New: President Trump vowed to identify more of the donors to his ballroom project. That hasn’t happened yet.
The White House released a partial list in October but hasn’t elaborated in nearly a year as the cost of the project has ballooned.
https://t.co/LDOc026kjR
Great story from @KosnarMichael @albamonica on this day of remembrance of heroes.
FBI agent died of cancer after 9/11 Pentagon response. His widow tells his story.
https://t.co/InjTzkyJxG via @nbcnews
When American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon’s western facade at 9:37 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, FBI agent Jack Hess rushed to the scene.
He died of cancer in 2023 at 64 years old. His widow, Sandy Hess, tells his story. https://t.co/ghJiP70wYX
The WH is considering at least four candidates to succeed (now former) Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in that job, at a critical time: Marc Andersen, Derrick Anderson, Brian Mast and Sean Parnell. May be others. My piece with @ryanobles and @albamonica https://t.co/YSJdGORIgf
Best job there is for any aspiring political reporter, no contest. And probably the most fun you’ll ever have at work.
@NBCNews is hiring its 2028 campaign embeds! Details here:
https://t.co/I3DwnUY2wx
House GOP conference chair acknowledges ‘gas prices are not where we want them to be’ https://t.co/7LbYH29YkX
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with White House ballroom construction. https://t.co/otSgaEnpjm
We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.
But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.
A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.
We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.
Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.
#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow
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