Fox News Anchor Heather Nauert Named State Department Spokeswoman

Confirming a Bloomberg report from early March, on Monday the State Department issued a statement that Former Fox News anchor and correspondent Heather Nauert will be the new U.S. State Department spokeswoman.

"The Department of State is pleased to welcome Heather Nauert as the new State Department spokesperson," the announcement said.

"Nauert comes to the department with more than 15 years of experience as an anchor and correspondent covering both foreign and domestic news and events, including the 9/11 terror attacks, the war in Iraq, and the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Heather"s media experience and long interest in international affairs will be invaluable as she conveys the administration"s foreign policy priorities to the American people and the world."

Taking the job that CNBC"s John Harwood would have been delighted to land had Hillary Clinton won, Nauert reportedly accepted the job last month although it was not confirmed until now.

Nauert has been a news anchor on "Fox & Friends" since 2012 and has been with the Fox News and local New York Fox affiliate Fox-5 for most of the past 20 years, save for a two-year stint at ABC News from 2005-2007. Before announcing his candidacy, President Trump had appeared on the Fox morning show as a weekly guest over the course of several years. 

During a recent press conference, Trump specifically praised "Fox & Friends" for having "very honorable people."

Nauert"s hiring would represent the second Fox journalist to jump to the State Department recently. Jonathan Wachtel, who served as the network"s United Nations correspondent, was named spokesman for the U.S. mission to the U.N. on Feb. 25.

Nauert graduated from Mt. Vernon College for Women and earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In Blistering Interview, Conway Tells Chuck Todd "We Are Going To Have To Rethink Our Relationship With The Press"

To members of the mainstream media, it would appears "size matters", as the Inauguration crowd-gate debacle continues following Sean Spicer"s unusual press conference yesterday. During a combative interview this morning with NBC"s Chuck Todd, Trump top advisor Kellyanne Conway blasted media "falsehoods," crushing Todd"s "size" issues by noting that "Presidents aren"t judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration, they"re judged by their accomplishments."

But Conway was not done with the "Meet The Press" anchor yet, as she cornered him, noting this was just more evidence of the unfair and biased treatment of the Trump administration by the media:

"We"re going to have to rethink our relationship with the press...

Yesterday, we allowed the press into the Oval Office to witness the signing of executive orders and what happens almost immediately - a falsehood is told about removing the bust of Martin Luther King Jr - that"s just flat-out false."

"I"m thrilled that all of a sudden NBC News and Chuck Todd is so focused on covering crowd control, because we were mocked daily for talking about the historic significance of the size of the crowds at our rallies during the campaign... on great days were ignored, and on most days we were mocked."

"You want the American people to think they can"t trust The White House press secretary, that"s a very dangerous statement to make. Your job is to report the news, not to give your opinion, you"re not an opinion columnist."

...you"ve got a 14% approval rating, that you"ve earned..."

And Todd"s response...

"...you attack us [the media] with some weird Twitter feed that you guys are obsessed with."

See the full bloodbath interview below...