Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.
The Justice Department launched a grand jury investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James. NPR speaks to James' lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who calls it a "dangerous escalation."
How does Russian President Vladimir Putin view his upcoming meeting in Alaska with President Trump? NPR's A Martinez asks Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov.
This week's inflation report showed core inflation remains stubbornly high. But the stock market rallied Tuesday on hopes the Federal Reserve will be able to cut interest rates in September.