Liz Landers

I am so incredibly excited and honored to be taking this next step in my career to join PBS News Hour as the White House correspondent, starting next month. deadline.com/2025/08/liz-...

Federal judge says Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keeper convicted of seditious conspiracy for Jan 6, cannot enter the US Capitol building or DC without permission from the judge. Rhodes had his sentence commuted on Monday by Pres Trump. Several others who also had sentences commuted have same restrictions.

Rolling through Constitution Avenue #Army250

“It's never happened before, and just the cost will be astronomical” to move 1500+ people. A USAID career foreign service officer and union rep for agency employees spoke with me for @scrippsnews about what evacuating employees abroad would entail. www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/logi...

I just asked @potus if he would send the National Guard or ICE to voting locations in November. He did not rule it out. The president: “Well you know what. I’d do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections. We have to have honest elections."

I asked the president how bombing Iranian energy infrastructure would help the people of Iran. He asked what news outlet I was with, then said PBS is “a radical left group of lunatics” but said it was a “very fair question” and answered it.

My question to the president in the Cabinet meeting a few moments ago, asking him about why he used a mail-in ballot when he has recently and repeatedly criticized that method of voting.

I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.

I just asked President Trump about whether he is considering declaring a national emergency around the elections and the proposed executive order about this - he said no, he’s never heard about it.

A source confirms to @pbsnews.org that DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin will be leaving the administration next week. This person says that McLaughlin’s departure had been planned since December but she stayed on in the wake of the shootings in Minneapolis.

I asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in today’s briefing about Steve Bannon’s comments that “we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November.”

The Dept of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, according to the Deputy Attorney General

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says Dept of Justice is releasing more Epstein files today: 3 million pages - 2,000 videos, 180k images. He says 3.5 million pages total