Kasie Hunt is a CNN anchor and chief national affairs analyst based in CNN's Washington, D.C. Bureau. She appears on and reports for CNN US, covering national and breaking news.
Hunt joined CNN after more than eight years at NBC News, where she was most recently anchor of Way Too Early and a regular contributor to Morning Joe after anchoring Kasie DC on Sunday nights. Hunt also served as NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent and played a lead role in 2020 election night coverage for the network. She joined NBC News as an off-air reporter and producer covering Congress and politics and started appearing regularly on MSNBC as a political reporter and later a political correspondent before becoming an anchor. At NBC News, Hunt covered insurgent and establishment candidates on both sides of the aisle in 2016 and 2020. She sat down with Donald Trump in Iowa back in 2013 — and was the first correspondent to interview him after he announced his presidential bid in 2015, where she pressed him in his Trump Tower office about his incendiary claims about Mexican immigrants bringing drugs and crime across the border. In 2020, she interviewed now-President Joe Biden live on the air from South Carolina at a critical moment in his bid to regain momentum and come back from behind to win the 2020 nomination.
In 2018, Hunt led the NBC News investigative team that was awarded the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for its reporting on sexual harassment allegations on Capitol Hill.
Prior to NBC, she was the lead Associated Press reporter aboard Mitt Romney's campaign plane in 2012 and was a health policy reporter for National Journal's CongressDaily, writing about the passage of the Affordable Care Act. She also wrote for Politico, covering the 2010 midterm elections. Hunt started her career in journalism as an intern in the political unit of NBC News.
Kasie Hunt, born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, also is an actress and producer known for House of Cards (2013), Kasie DC (2017), and The Source with Kasie Hunt (2022). Hunt holds a bachelor's degree in international affairs from George Washington University and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Cambridge, where she was a member of St John's College. She married fellow journalist Matthew Rivera on May 6, 2017. They have a son Mars Hunt Rivera (born in 2019) and live in the D.C. area.
