Brianna Keilar

Brianna Keilar is CNN's senior political correspondent, responsible for covering important stories on politics and policy, while serving as the lead reporter covering Hillary Clinton and the Democratic field for the 2016 campaign season. She also serves as the network's primary fill-in anchor for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Keilar is based in the network's Washington bureau. Previously, Keilar served as senior White House correspondent for CNN, reporting on the Obama administration. Keilar first joined the network in 2006 as a correspondent for CNN Newsource, where she provided breaking news coverage and reported from the nation's capital for approximately 800 CNN Newsource partner stations. She joined Newsource from CBS News where she served as an anchor, reporter and producer for a CBS newscast that aired on mtvU, MTV's college network. She was also a fill-in anchor on CBS News' overnight newscast, Up to the Minute, and a freelance reporter for CBS Evening News Weekend Edition. Prior to working for CBS, Keilar was a general assignment reporter in Yakima, Wash., for the CNN and CBS affiliate, KIMA-TV. During that same time, she also worked in radio as a morning show personality and weekend news reader. Keilar began her journalism career as a production assistant and intern at KTVU-TV, a CNN and FOX affiliate in San Francisco. Keilar graduated Phi Beta Kappa with bachelor's degrees in mass communications and psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.