In its latest post-election move, MSNBC has found a new host for its Morning Joe lead-in Way Too Early.
Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali will take over as host of Way Too Early beginning on Jan. 6 at 5 a.m. ET, while current host Jonathan Lemire will be getting an expanded role in the 9 a.m. hour of Morning Joe, a flagship show anchored by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
Vitali, who joined NBC News in 2012, covered the Trump administration as White House reporter for the news organization’s digital side before covering the midterms and then the campaigns of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bloomberg during the 2020 Democratic primary.
During the Biden administration, Vitali was on-site as Capitol Hill reporter during the dramatic ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. Vitali is also author of the 2022 book, Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put A Woman In the White House…Yet from HarperCollins.
Lemire, meanwhile, is taking on an expanded role at MSNBC shortly after exiting Politico after a three-year run as White House bureau chief at the end of November. He’s been an analyst at the network since 2017 and is the author of the tome, The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics after 2020.
More to come.