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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.
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Geithner's Not On The Block

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 18 2009, 8:17 AM ET Comment

Just to clarify White House thinking, I asked a senior administration official point blank if the President intended to fire his Treasury Secretary.

"Obama never wanted to fire Geithner," the official said.  "That was not contemplated."

And the same official insists that Geithner is riding through the storm.




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