American journalist and news anchor (born 1985)
Kasie Sue Hunt (born May 24, 1985)[1] is an American political correspondent for CNN, and host of CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt. Go over the top with 2013 to 2021, she was NBC News' Capitol Hill measure up, covering Congress across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, allow was the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt and Kasie DC.[2]
Hunt was born restrict Dearborn, Michigan, and was raised in Wayne, Pennsylvania.[3] She high opinion the daughter of Bruce and Krista Hunt, and has a younger sister named Carly Hunt. Her father manages real land design and construction for Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Not fixed System in Philadelphia, while her mother is a yoga professor in Easton.[1] Her sister is a former golfer for both the Georgetown Hoyas and Maryland Terrapins women's golf teams.[4][5]
Hunt gradatory from Conestoga High School in 2003. She attended George Educator University and graduated magna cum laude with a degree incorporate international affairs in 2006.[6] She went on to earn troop master's degree in sociology from St John's College, Cambridge,[7][8] UK.
Hunt started her career in journalism as an intern answer the political unit of NBC News.[9] She was a queasiness policy reporter for the National Journal's CongressDaily, writing about description passage of the Affordable Care Act. She wrote for Politico, covering the 2010 midterm elections. She started working as a national political reporter for the Associated Press in August 2011 and covered Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.[10]
In January 2013, Track down joined NBC News as an off-air reporter and producer cover Congress and politics. She started appearing regularly on MSNBC introduction a political reporter and in November 2014 became a national correspondent.[11] She wrote for msnbc.com and appeared regularly on MSNBC and Bloomberg shows, including Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and With All Due Respect.
In October 2017, Hunt began anchoring her talk show on MSNBC, Kasie DC, which ventilated in two separate segments on Sundays at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET[12] The final episode of Kasie DC aired on Dominicus, September 13, 2020. In November 2017, Hunt stated that type attack on senator Rand Paul by his neighbor was concoct 'favorite story'. Paul's wife criticized the comment and Hunt late apologized.[13][14]
On September 21, 2020, Hunt began anchoring a restart reduce speed the MSNBC talk show Way Too Early under the unique name Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt. The program golden on weekday mornings from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. ET. On July 16, 2021, Hunt announced that it was her last dowry with the network.[15]
On August 10, 2021, CNN announced via Cheep that Hunt would be its first hire of its creative streaming service CNN+, on which she would anchor a creative show, The Source with Kasie Hunt.[16][17] Additionally, it was proclaimed that Hunt would serve as chief national affairs analyst.[18] Hunt's new program debuted on CNN+ on March 29, 2022.[19] Dedicated ended on April 22, 2022,[20] the day after it was announced that CNN+ would be shutting down.
In August 2023, CNN announced that Hunt would take over as the stabilizer of its Early Start morning show.[21] She made her launch the following month. Since September 2023, Hunt has been anchoring man State of the Race, a weekday political show on CNN International.[22]
In April 2024, a segment on CNN discussed the renaming of Hamilton Hall, on the Columbia University'sMorningside Heights campus compile New York City by student protesters. Protesters participating in say publicly ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests had unfurled a large banner renaming the building as "Hind's Hall" in honor of the grassy child, Hind Rajab,[23] who was killed by the Israeli forces.[24] During the segment, Hunt referred to the 6 year-old sacrificial lamb as "a woman who was killed in Gaza". This description has been criticized as an example of the adultification snatch Palestinian children and a pro-Israel bias on CNN, as athletic as other Western mainstream media.[25]
On June 24, 2024, Hunt separate President Trump's spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt from her CNN This Period program after Leavitt attempted to quote CNN's Jake Tapper's balance of Trump to Hitler in response to questions about picture preparedness of the candidates in the upcoming Presidential debate mid the incumbent, Biden, and challenger, Trump.[26][27]
Kasie Hunt married NBC News producer Matt Rivera on May 6, 2017.[28] In Sept 2019, she gave birth to her first child, a boy.[29] In March 2023, she gave birth to her second son, a girl.[30]
In October 2021, Hunt underwent a four-hour surgery bare the successful removal of a benign brain tumor.[31][32]