Dana Marie Perino is an American political commentator and author who served as the 26th White House Press Secretary, under President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007, to January 20, 2009. She was the second female White House Press Secretary, after Dee Dee Myers, who served during the Clinton Administration. She is currently a political commentator for Fox News, while also serving as a co-host of the network's talk show
The Five, and is a book publishing executive at Random House. On October 2, 2017, she began hosting
The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino on Fox News. In early 2021, Perino left
The Daily Briefing to co-anchor
America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer.