Jen Psaki, the White Home press secretary, is in superior talks with MSNBC to hitch the community after she leaves the Biden administration, in keeping with two folks acquainted with the negotiations.
Ms. Psaki might depart the White Home as quickly as subsequent month, one of many folks stated.
Whereas the main points of her position are nonetheless being mentioned, the negotiations have centered on an association through which she might host exhibits each for MSNBC and for Peacock, the streaming platform of MSNBC’s mother or father, NBCUniversal. Ms. Psaki might additionally make common appearances on different MSNBC exhibits in addition to on NBC Information, the folks stated.
Although a deal is just not but finalized and will nonetheless crumble, Ms. Psaki is now solely speaking with NBCUniversal officers, the 2 folks stated. CNN had additionally been pursuing bringing Ms. Psaki aboard, considered one of them stated.
Axios earlier reported the information of Ms. Psaki’s discussions with NBC.
In an announcement, the White Home stated, “We don’t have something to substantiate about Jen’s size of deliberate service or any consideration about future plans. Jen is right here and dealing laborious daily on behalf of the president to get you the solutions to the questions that you’ve, and that’s the place her focus is.”
Ms. Psaki joined the Biden administration because the president’s first press secretary. She had beforehand labored as White Home communications director throughout the Obama administration and had been the chief spokeswoman for John Kerry when he was secretary of state.
Ms. Psaki revived the every day White Home briefing, a convention that principally fell by the wayside within the Trump years, and has received reward for her adroit, if generally evasive, dealing with of reporters’ questions.
Her spiky exchanges with the Fox Information correspondent Peter Doocy are sometimes shared extensively on social media platforms. On TikTok, the phrase “Psaki Bomb” is invoked by liberals who get pleasure from seeing her rebukes to Mr. Doocy’s queries.
Earlier this yr, NBC additionally employed Kamala Harris’s former spokeswoman, Symone D. Sanders, to host a present for MSNBC and Peacock.
Michael D. Shear contributed reporting.
