Kristen Welker
Kristen Welker is an American television journalist working for NBC News. She serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C., and served as co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today, alongside Peter Alexander from 2020 to 2023. She took over hosting duties for the longest-running program in American television history, Meet the Press, on September 17, 2023.
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Jun 9, 2026
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NBC anchor Kristen Welker clashed repeatedly with President Trump during an interview that ended abruptly, with Trump calling the network crooked.
Welker is viewed as a representative of legacy media's adversarial posture toward Trump, and the 60 Minutes scandal context running alongside this story reinforces the narrative that NBC and CBS operate as political opposition, not journalism.