in 2020 for
Kasie DC 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,
MTP Daily,
Hardball with Chris Matthews, and
With All Due Respect. In October 2017, Hunt began anchoring a weekend show on MSNBC,
Kasie DC, which aired on Sundays at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET 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. On September 10, 2020, it was announced that
Kasie DC would end on September 13, and that Hunt would move to a revived version of MSNBC's early-morning show
Way Too Early beginning September 21. On July 16, 2021, Hunt announced her departure from NBC News and MSNBC, with CNN subsequently hiring her for its upcoming streaming service
CNN+. After the closure of CNN+ the following month, Hunt largely served as a contributor and fill-in anchor. In September 2023, Hunt also began hosting the daily political program
State of the Race for
CNN International. In April 2024, a segment on CNN discussed the renaming of
Hamilton Hall to "Hind's Hall" and the unfurling of a large banner in honor of the young child
Hind Rajab on the
Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus in
New York City during
college protests against the Gaza war. During the segment, Hunt referred to the five-year-old girl who was killed by the
Israeli forces as "a woman who was killed in Gaza". This description was criticized as an example of the
adultification of Palestinian children and a pro-Israel bias on CNN, as well as other Western mainstream media. A few minutes after the incident, Hunt admitted that she had misspoken and corrected herself, saying that Hind was a girl. On June 24, 2024, Hunt cut short an interview with Donald Trump's spokeswoman
Karoline Leavitt, with Hunt stating that she would not conduct the interview if Leavitt was going to attack Hunt's CNN colleagues during her answers. Leavitt had 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. On January 23, 2025, CNN announced that Hunt would move to a new one hour afternoon show,
The Arena with Kasie Hunt, which premiered on March 3, 2025. == Personal life ==