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Kristen Welker (Getty) *OK Kristen Welker, let us join the chorus of praise you are getting for your stellar job of moderating Thursday night’s presidential debate. In fact, one of the participants owes you an apology. We’ll get to that later. For those experiencing Welker for the first time and don’t anything about her, […]

Kristen Welker and husband John Hughes *NBC News chief White House correspondent Kristen Welker and her husband, John Hughes, announced on “Today” Friday that they’re expecting their first child together in June, following a long, emotional fertility journey that tested the couple’s resilience. “After years and years of trying, I’m having a baby girl […]

Kristen Welker with the Obamas/Twitter *The final 2020 presidential debate will go down Thursday, October 22 (9 pm ET) at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, and Trump has already fired shots at Kristen Welker, the moderator of the event.  Trump claims Welker is crazy and biased in favour of Biden, calling her “terrible and […]

Chuck Todd – Kristen Welker / Getty *New York (CNN) — Chuck Todd, the longtime host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” is stepping down from his role, he shared with the audience on Sunday. Colleague Kristen Welker, who is a regular fill-in on the Sunday broadcast, will take over the role. Welker, who has been […]

TODAY’s Kristen Welker with her newborn daughter Margot – NBC News *NBC News chief White House correspondent Kristen Welker and her husband, John Hughes, welcomed their first child, a girl, with the assist of a surrogate on June 12. Margot Lane Welker Hughes was born at 2:12 a.m. and weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces. […]

*NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker has been tapped to be the new weekend co-anchor of the “Today” program. Welker started her career at the network as a “Today” intern more than 20 years ago and now she’s replacing Sheinelle Jones as weekend co-anchor with fellow NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander. “To […]

[…] McDaniel was quickly met with alarm by the network’s journalists. The revolt spilled into public view on Sunday when McDaniel appeared on “Meet the Press” with moderator Kristen Welker in her first interview since she was hired by the network. Welker disclosed that the interview had been scheduled to take place prior to NBC announcing […]

[…] mockery from Democrats. “This is from my hometown. This is from Johnson County from the sheriff from Johnson County, which is a legit badge,” Walker told NBC’s Kristen Welker in a clip from the interview. A CNN fact check found Walker has never had a job in law enforcement. He has publicized a card showing […]

[…] the global pandemic, the social justice protests and unrest, Decision 2020, and the two most-viewed Democratic presidential debates in television history. She helped lead the preparation for Kristen Welker’s role as general election debate moderator. And she has steered many of our groundbreaking editorial series, including Justice for All and Climate in Crisis,” the memo […]

[…] attention to the insurmountable challenges of parenting Black children in America because of the requisite need to teach survivalist safety measures. During the 2020 presidential debate, moderator Kristen Welker asked both Donald Trump and now President-elect Joe Biden a pointed question about “The Talk”— raising national visibility of the necessity felt by parents in rearing […]

[…] accommodations.” Meanwhile, the Dem debate, hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post, will have all-female moderators, including Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC; Kristen Welker, NBC News’ White House correspondent; and Ashley Parker, White House reporter for The Washington Post.  The debate is scheduled to go down Nov. 20 from 9 […]

[…] the student panel started. CNN stuck with the forum until about 12:51 p.m. ET, and MSNBC moved to a split screen at around 12:54 p.m. ET, with Kristen Welker hosting the coverage and new MSNBC analyst (and former Obama press secretary) Josh Earnest serving as a notable participant in the conversation. Watch the event in […]