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Jackie Alemany is an MS NOW Washington Reporter and co-anchor of “The Weekend.” An award-winning journalist, she previously covered Washington for The Washington Post, where she broke several of the biggest stories and scoops of the past two administrations. She earned the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for her and her colleagues at the Post’s work covering the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Eugene Daniels is an MS NOW Senior Washington Reporter and co-anchor of MS NOW’s “The Weekend.” He is also the co-host of the MS NOW original podcast, “Clock It with Symone & Eugene.” Daniels was also the Chief Playbook Correspondent and White House Correspondent for POLITICO. Daniels is the former president of the White House Correspondents Association. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is the co-anchor of “The Weekend.” He also serves as a political analyst on “PBS NewsHour” and is featured on the popular Friday segment, “Brooks and Capehart.” In 1999, his editorial campaign to save the Apollo Theater earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.