CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Her Career & Trump II

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🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We are joined by CNN Anchor and Chief National Affairs Analyst Kasie Hunt for her first time on the podcast! It's a very fun conversation covering her work and what inspired her to follow her passion for journalism.

She discusses the early days of her career covering Obama, Congress, and the passage of the Affordable Care Act. We also talk about how much Congress and the information ecosystem has changed over the years. And Kasie shares her thoughts about watching Donald Trump pardon the rioters on his first day back in office after being present in the Capitol that day.

Plus, immigration raids, tariffs and the Big, Beautiful, Bill. Trump and the Republicans might actually pass the BBB, but at what cost to working Americans?

WATCH Kasie on CNN, weekdays at 4pm ET: https://www.cnn.com/profiles/kasie-hunt

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0:36.0	We got a great one today, you know, for a change. And this time, this time I really mean it. CNN's Casey Hunt joins us today for the first time. I was on Casey's 4 o'clock show, the arena, back in March. And I had a good time. so I thought to myself, huh, wouldn't it be great
0:56.6	to bring Casey on my show? So I'm doing exactly that. But first, I want to say a few words about,
1:05.4	oh, geez, what was, I can't remember what I, what was I wanted to talk about. Peter, you got any ideas?
1:14.0	Iran?
1:15.2	No.
1:17.9	What about all those Supreme Court rulings?
1:20.8	Oh, no, but I'm worried about those.
1:22.8	You know what?
1:23.6	Let's have Dahlia Lithwick back in a couple weeks, okay?
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