Former top Barack Obama White House aide Ben Rhodes is joining MSNBC and NBC News as a political contributor. 
Conservative columnist George Will has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor. 
Former President Barack Obama said last year that well-qualified Supreme Court candidates should be able to join the bench regardless of disagreements on policy, and his own White House spokesman said Obama regretted voting to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito when he was a senator. 
Former President Barack Obama's final White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, was named an NBC News and MSNBC political analyst on Monday morning. 