Kasie Hunt

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Kasie Hunt
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Hunt in July 2017
Born
Kasie Sue Hunt [1]

(1985-05-24) May 24, 1985 (age 39)
Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.
Education Conestoga High School
Alma mater George Washington University (BA)
St John's College, Cambridge (MA)
Occupation(s)Political reporter and anchor for CNN
Years active2007–present
Spouse
Matt Rivera
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(m. 2017)​
Children2

Kasie Sue Hunt (born May 24, 1985) [1] is an American political correspondent for CNN, and host of CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt . From 2013 to 2021, she was NBC News' Capitol Hill correspondent, covering Congress across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, and was the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt and Kasie DC . [2]

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Early life and education

Hunt was born in Dearborn, Michigan, and was raised in Wayne, Pennsylvania. [3] She is the daughter of Bruce and Krista Hunt, and has a younger sister named Carly Hunt. Her father manages real estate design and construction for Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, while her mother is a yoga teacher in Easton. [1] Her sister is a former golfer for both the Georgetown Hoyas and Maryland Terrapins women's golf teams. [4] [5]

Hunt graduated from Conestoga High School in 2003. She attended George Washington University and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in international affairs in 2006. [6] She went on to earn her master's degree in sociology from St John's College, Cambridge, [7] [8] UK.

Career

Hunt interviewing Michael Bennet in 2020 for Kasie DC Kacie Hunt and Michael Bennet.jpg
Hunt interviewing Michael Bennet in 2020 for Kasie DC

Hunt started her career in journalism as an intern in the political unit of NBC News. [9] She was a health policy reporter for the National Journal's CongressDaily, writing about the 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, Hunt joined NBC News as an off-air reporter and producer covering Congress and politics. She started appearing regularly on MSNBC as a political reporter and in November 2014 became a political 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 aired in two separate segments on Sundays at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET [12] The final episode of Kasie DC aired on Sunday, September 13, 2020. In November 2017, Hunt stated that an attack on senator Rand Paul by his neighbor was her 'favorite story'. Paul's wife criticized the comment and Hunt later apologized. [13] [14]

On September 21, 2020, Hunt began anchoring a restart of the MSNBC talk show Way Too Early under the new name Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt. The program aired on weekday mornings from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. ET. On July 16, 2021, Hunt announced that it was her last day with the network. [15]

On August 10, 2021, CNN announced via Twitter that Hunt would be its first hire of its new streaming service CNN+, on which she would anchor a new show, The Source with Kasie Hunt. [16] [17] Additionally, it was announced that Hunt would serve as chief national affairs analyst. [18] Hunt's new program debuted on CNN+ on March 29, 2022. [19] It 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 anchor of its Early Start morning show. [21] She made her debut the following month. Since September 2023, Hunt has been hosting State of the Race, a weekday political show on CNN International. [22] The two hour program, which has aired from 5:00 to 7:00 am, [23] was later renamed CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt.

In April 2024, a segment on CNN discussed the renaming of Hamilton Hall, on the Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus in New York City by student protesters. Protesters participating in the ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests had unfurled a large banner renaming the building as "Hind's Hall" in honor of the young child, Hind Rajab, [24] who was killed by the Israeli forces. [25] During the segment, Hunt referred to the 6 year-old victim as "a woman who was killed in Gaza". This description has been criticized as an example of the adultification of Palestinian children and a pro-Israel bias on CNN, as well as other Western mainstream media. [26]

On June 24, 2024, Hunt removed President Trump's spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt from her CNN This Morning program after Leavitt attempted to quote CNN's Jake Tapper's comparison of Trump to Hitler in response to questions about the preparedness of the candidates in the upcoming Presidential debate between the incumbent, Biden, and challenger, Trump. [27] [28]

On January 23, 2025, it was announced that Hunt would leave her CNN morning show in March 2025 and host a new hour long weekday program for the network from 4:00 to 5:00 pm titled "The Arena;" [29] [30] the morning show will also be divided into two seperate programs hosted by Rahel Solomon and Audie Cornish. [29]

Personal life

Kasie Hunt married NBC News producer Matt Rivera on May 6, 2017. [31] In September 2019, she gave birth to her first child, a boy. [32] In March 2023, she gave birth to her second child, a girl. [33]

In October 2021, Hunt underwent a four-hour surgery for the successful removal of a benign brain tumor. [34] [35]

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