Jacob Soboroff will be part of the MSNBC team as it splits from Comcast and sister network NBC News later this year.

Soboroff will serve as senior national and political correspondent for the network.

As NBC News political and national correspondent, Soboroff has covered presidential campaigns and elections, the family separation crisis of 2018, and appeared as a correspondent and fill-in anchor on Today . He covered the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year, with personal accounts of its impact on his hometown. The fires will be the subject of an upcoming book, Firestorm , to be published on Jan. 6.

Soboroff also has been reporting on the ICE raids in Los Angeles, building on his experience covering immigration. He wrote the book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy , and

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