Brian Bennett

Brian Bennett is TIME’s Senior White House Correspondent. He has covered the White House since 2017. In 25 years as a reporter, Bennett has reported from 19 countries, interviewed world leaders and covered the fallout of major disasters. He started as a reporter for TIME in Hong Kong in 2000, reported from Pakistan and Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and covered the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. He was TIME’s Baghdad bureau chief in 2003 and 2004 and continued to return to report on Iraq until 2008. Bennett has also worked for the Los Angeles Times, covering national security and immigration for the paper’s Washington bureau. Bennett grew up in Riverside, California. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature and lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and son.