Brian Bennett

Brian Bennett is MS NOW’s national security director, overseeing national security reporting at the White House and across the Trump administration. He has covered the White House since 2017, first for the Los Angeles Times and later as TIME’s Senior White House Correspondent. In more than two decades in journalism, 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. In the Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau, he covered intelligence, immigration and the presidency. 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.