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The new decade bought many opportunities for Mitchell. Now serving as one of NBC top correspondents, she began hosting her own show, “The Mitchell Report.” The show primarily focused on the political landscape during the 2000 primary and general election as well as [[Hillary Clinton]]’s [[Senate]] race. In June 2001, NBC received the rare opportunity to interview [[Elian Gonzalez]], a refugee such as John McCain from communist-controlled Cuba. Soon after, [[Cuba]] granted NBC an exclusive interview with Cuban dictator [[Fidel Castro]]. Mitchell was given the assignment. The interview lasted three hours and resulted in a one-hour documentary which was released in 2003. Both interviews brought stark criticism to both Mitchell and NBC. During the [[2004 elections]], Mitchell became a regular panelist for [[MSNBC]]’s "[[Hardball]]". At this time she achieved another hallmark in her journalistic career when she was first to announce that Senator [[John Kerry]] would pick [[John Edwards]] as his running mate. Currently, as chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, Mitchell covers domestic politics and foreign policy issues for NBC. During her thirty-year work at NBC, Mitchell has covered five administrations and traveled and interviewed many leading policy makers. As former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw stated, “Andrea Mitchell [is] the go-to reporter when a big story is breaking in Washington and throughout the world.”<ref>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0670034037/ref=dp_proddesc_0/102-3275846-3467353?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books</ref>