Seasoned NBC journalist Andrea Mitchell has signed off her daytime MSNBC present, Andrea Mitchell Experiences, for the ultimate time.

After saying in October that she could be leaving and revealing her actual date of departure simply this week, Mitchell spoke on air following a clip montage Friday. "Just some remaining ideas concerning the tales that we've shared over these 17 years, you and I, and the miles I've traveled to carry them to you," she mentioned. "I've anchored this program all around the world, as you simply noticed, from Moscow to Beijing, Nairobi to Ramallah, Havana, Islamabad, Kabul, Baghdad, sure, telling America's story, as nicely, all around the United States, beginning with Iowa and New Hampshire."

Andrea Mitchell to depart as MSNBC information anchor after 17 years on Friday

Mitchell reiterated that she wouldn't be disappearing from screens fully — removed from it. She’s going to stay at NBC Information within the function of chief Washington correspondent and chief overseas affairs correspondent.

"This hour has all the time been pushed by what I like most, deep reporting on politics and overseas coverage," Mitchell continued. "As I introduced final October, in these difficult occasions, I wish to get again to my roots and study extra about your lives, inform your tales as we face tectonic adjustments in our nation and our world, after additionally doing that for 17 years, internet hosting this each day present on MSNBC, I'll be doing that to any extent further full-time, the place this superb experience first began 47 years in the past, proper right here at NBC Information as chief Washington and chief overseas coverage correspondent, persevering with to cowl politics and overseas coverage."

With time dwindling, the journalist was stunned by dozens of colleagues she'd labored with on the information present, streaming into the studio to individually give her hugs and nicely needs. Mitchell was moved as all of them clapped for her, and her remaining phrases as anchor have been to tease that she could be on Friday's Nightly Information and Meet the Press on Sunday.

The announcement that Mitchell would leaving her program, the community's longest-running one in daytime, got here every week after NBC's longtime political director, Chuck Todd, left, citing the need to tackle new initiatives.

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Mitchell defined on her present within the days earlier than the presidential election that she was leaving as a result of she wished "to do extra of what I like probably the most: extra connecting, listening and reporting within the discipline," she mentioned. "Particularly as whoever is elected subsequent week goes to undertake the monumental activity of dealing with two overseas wars and the political divisions right here at house."

She wished to cowl information tales from a "completely different vantage level," she mentioned, and "not on a schedule of a each day present."

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