Eugene Daniels confirmed this morning that he will be departing Politico to take a full-time role as MSNBC‘s senior Washington correspondent.The announcement was made on Morning Joe this morning.Daniels also will be a co-host of The Weekend along with Jonathan Capehart, as the current hosts Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele move to the 7 p.m. primetime slot. Another host of the morning edition of The Weekend is expected to be named.Daniels first joined MSNBC as a contributor in 2021. He joined Politico in 2018, after serving as a political reporter for Newsy.He is MSNBC’s first correspondent hire as it prepares to build out a D.C. news operation in preparation for the network’s spinoff from Comcast later this year.Daniels is the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, a separate role with a term that runs through this summer. The WHCA has sharply criticized the Trump White House decision last week to take control of the press pool, after decades in which the non-profit association had handled logistics and selection of who got to ask the president questions at events in the Oval Office and elsewhere.MSNBC, with its progressive bent, has been a frequent target of Donald Trump in social media posts. The WHCA, though, is made up of members from mainstream outlets and those on the right and the left. When he was a correspondent for Fox News, Ed Henry served as WHCA president from 2013 to 2014.
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