Norah O'Donnell and husband Geoff Tracy at Chef Geoff's Tysons Premier Party

CBS announced that Norah O’Donnell is leaving her post as a bureau reporter for NBC to take on CBS’s chief White House correspondent position.  Additionally, O’Donnell will become the principal substitute anchor for Face the Nation.  Chip Reid, who currently holds the position of chief White House corresponent for CBS, will see his role shift to that of national correspondent “with greater editorial range,” according to CBS.

Norah O’Donnell is an Emmy award winning reporter who joined NBC News in 1999 after a stint as a reporter for Roll Call and serving as a contributor and analyst for MSNBC.

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“President Obama hasn’t held a full-scale news conference since July. Instead, he answered a dozen people’s questions last week on YouTube, most of the easily finessed and — extra bonus! — no annoying follow-ups of the kind posed by real, live journalists.”

Watch the president’s YouTube interview below:

“It’s a source of great frustration here … It’s important for us to hold the president’s feet to the fire,” CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid told Kurtz.

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Helen Thomas and Chip Reid argued with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday about the administration’s efforts to control the press.

Thomas didn’t let it rest there, she told CNS news that the Obama administration has passed Nixon’s in those efforts, “What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business.”

Read the rest of the CNS news article and the transcript of her exchange with Robert Gibbs here.

At issue: the Obama press office arranged to have a Huffington Post reporter submit a question to the President based on questions sent to the President from people in Iran.

April 21 — Press secretary Robert Gibbs faced persistent questioning from the White House press corps, which focused primarily on whether President Obama is now open to possibly holding former Bush administration officials — including the former president — accountable for CIA interrogation methods of suspected terrorists.

In response to reporters after his meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah earlier in the day, Obama said, “If and when there needs to be a further accounting of what took place during this period, I think for Congress to examine ways that it can be done in a bipartisan fashion, outside of the typical hearing process that can sometimes break down and break it entirely along party lines, to the extent that there are independent participants who are above reproach and have credibility, that would probably be a more sensible approach to take.”

Later, at the daily briefing, White House correspondents — mainly Chip Reid of CBS, Chuck Todd of NBC and Jake Tapper of ABC — pressed Gibbs on whether this signaled “a change of policy” by Obama, who had previously said CIA officers should not be held accountable for what they did.

Gibbs said, no, it was not a change of policy — Obama still believes CIA personnel should not be held accountable. Rather, the president was allowing for the possibility that laws may have been broken in deeming the interrogation methods legal. In other words, Bush administration lawyers who wrote the opinions that became the legal basis for the methods might be on the hook.

Todd and others asked if Obama might be making “an exception” for CIA officers. Gibbs again said no, that people acting “in good faith” of what they were told was legal and people potentially declaring illegal acts legal are different matters.

The second most-popular subject was the substance of Obama’s meeting with Abdullah and to what extent the administration is committed to a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

While the pace of the briefing held steady and the questions kept coming, both Gibbs and many reporters shared momentary laughs at times. But when Gibbs left the podium, the question was still hanging: Exactly what did the president mean about who should be held accountable and who should investigate?