Kasie Hunt

Kasie Sue Hunt (born May 24, 1985) 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.

Early life and education
Hunt was born in Dearborn, Michigan, and was raised in Wayne, Pennsylvania. 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. Her sister is a former golfer for both the Georgetown Hoyas and Maryland Terrapins women's golf teams.

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. She went on to earn her master's degree in sociology from St John's College, Cambridge, UK.

Career


Hunt started her career in journalism as an intern in the political unit of NBC News. 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.

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. 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 The final episode of Kasie DC aired on Sunday, September 13, 2020.

In November 2017, Hunt stated that the attack on senator Rand Paul by his neighbor was her 'favorite story'. Paul's wife criticized the comment and Hunt later apologized.

On September 21, 2020, Kasie Hunt began anchoring a restart of the MSNBC talk show Way Too Early under the new name Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt. That program aired on weekday mornings from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. ET.

On July 16, 2021, Hunt announced it was her last day with the network.

On August 10, 2021, CNN announced via Twitter that Hunt would be its first hire of CNN+, a new streaming service the network would be launching. In that role, Hunt would serve as an anchor of a new show, The Source with Kasie Hunt. Additionally, it was announced that Hunt would serve as chief national affairs analyst. Kasie Hunt's new program debuted on CNN+ on March 29, 2022. It ended on April 22, 2022, the day after it was announced that CNN+ would be shutting down, which it did on April 28.

In August 2023, CNN announced that Hunt would take over as the anchor of its Early Start morning show. She made her debut the following month.

Starting in September 2023, Hunt has been hosting State of the Race, a weekday political show on CNN International.

In April 2024, she sparked worldwide controversy during a segment on CNN discussing 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, who was brutally murdered by the Israeli forces. Hunt, during the segment, explained the 6 year-old victim to the viewers as "a woman who was killed in Gaza". This description has been criticized as an example of the vile adultification of Palestinian children and a pro-Israel bias on CNN, as well as other Western mainstream media.

On June 24, 2024 Hunt created controversy (and trended on X) when she 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.

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

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