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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Fred And Newt

By Marc Ambinder
Jul 23 2007, 8:32 AM ET Comment

Rich Galen confirms to readers of his Mullings column that he's signed on to be an adviser to Fred Thompson's presidential bid.

This probably means that Newt Gingrich won't run for president this year. Galen is one of Newt's top (informal) advisers, and it's hard to imagine that Galen wouldn't seek and obtain Newt's blessing before joining Thompson.

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