Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
@CNN correspondent covering the Pentagon and national security. [email protected]. Signal: Natashabertrand.12
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Just awful, awful news, wrapped in a beautiful and deeply clear-eyed message of the hope Christ brings. Praying for the Sasse family.
Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.…
A Syrian expat was dining at Sixty, a restaurant at the top of a Moscow skyscraper, when waiters asked him not to take any photos. The diner looked around to see who the VIP was. It was Bashar al-Assad. Our story on the family’s life in exile: nyti.ms/45oxhML
Read about it here, from @Dahmancnn, me, Thomas and Dana Karni. cnn.com/2025/12/21/mid…
Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:
For those who missed it: US intel continues to indicate that Putin has not abandoned his territorial ambitions - something he has stated openly in recent days. Ambition is different than capability. But it matters in the context of deal making reuters.com/world/europe/u…
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.
Marco Rubio just spent more than 2 hours answering questions from the press.
And so concludes yet another week w/ no routine news briefing at the Pentagon. Previously: Dec. 2: Kingsley Wilson with a new right-wing press corps. The press spaces in the Pentagon remain mostly vacant since the traditional press corps departed in October.
Exclusive: Top lawyer for military joint chiefs told chairman that officers should retire if faced with an unlawful order. Latest from me and @ZcohenCNN cnn.com/2025/12/19/pol…
Kennedy Center board member says she was not allowed to speak during the decision to rename it>
For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda. This was not consensus. This is censorship.
Hegseth has had no problem releasing videos of strikes on boats -- except the one that shows the second strike that killed two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a smashed vessel. That one, he says, is too "top secret" to release. @SangerNYT nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/…
12:55 pm - Bongino to @MSNOWNews when I asked him for comment on story saying he was leaving his position in January. "Print whatever you’d like. No one believes you anyway." 5:16 pm - Bongino on X: "I will be leaving my position in January."
I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January. I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose. Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. God bless America, and…
Leavitt confirms this is something that Trump personally chose to spend his time on.
“The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.” - Karoline Leavitt h/t @AlejandraJMillo
Rep. Jason Crow says on CNN he asked US military commanders during today's classified briefing if there was any reason they could NOT release full video from Sept. 2 boat strike. "No," was their response, per Crow, who said lawmakers were told the video could easily be prepared…
Russian President Putin gave a clear indication Wednesday that he will not compromise on his demands for Ukraine to cede territory and said Russia would take territory by force if necessary. “If the opposing country and its foreign patrons refuse to engage in substantive…
Notable given the fact that, since the US began striking alleged drug trafficking boats in the Eastern Pacific on October 21, only four have been struck in the Caribbean. The other 18 have all been in the Eastern Pacific.
“Over lunch, Wiles told me about Trump’s Venezuela strategy: “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.” vanityfair.com/news/story/tru…
NEW: The Coast Guard quietly went ahead with policy Monday that downgrades nooses and swastikas -- that it previously ID'd as hate symbols -- to just ‘potentially divisive.' This despite the acting commandant's directive that those symbols would be prohibited.…
A @CNN investigation has uncovered horrific details about atrocities in Sudan, exposing ethnically targeted killings at the hands of the Sudanese Armed Forces and its allies. Worth reading in full: edition.cnn.com/interactive/20…
Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"
“Over lunch, Wiles told me about Trump’s Venezuela strategy: “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.” (Wiles’s statement appears to contradict the administration’s official stance that blowing up…
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles shares, um, surprisingly candid views of the Trump team nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/…
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