1. Kaitlan Collins was born on April 7,1992 and is an American journalist who is a news anchor on CNN.
19 Facts About Kaitlan Collins
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Kaitlan Collins is the former co-anchor of CNN This Morning.
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Kaitlan Collins has hosted The Source at 9 pm since July 2023.
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Kaitlan Collins served as the network's chief White House correspondent from January 2021 until November 2022.
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Kaitlan Collins resumed her role as CNN's chief White House correspondent for the second Trump presidency.
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Kaitlan Collins grew up with four siblings: Annalise, Kelsey, Brayden, and Cole.
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Kaitlan Collins says that her parents taught her that "the political system in the US is a failed one" and that she does not recall them voting or expressing strong opinions about political candidates.
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Kaitlan Collins initially chose to major in chemistry, before majoring in journalism.
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Kaitlan Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and journalism in May 2014.
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Kaitlan Collins was involved in an incident with the Trump administration on July 25,2018, when she attended a photo op in the Oval Office as the day's pool reporter.
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Kaitlan Collins was barred from a Trump administration press conference in the White House Rose Garden that afternoon and was told by senior White House officials that such questions were "inappropriate for that venue".
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Trump's press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Kaitlan Collins had "shouted questions and refused to leave"; Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway said that the action was about "being polite".
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CNN stated that Kaitlan Collins' ban was "retaliatory" and "not indicative of an open and free press".
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Kaitlan Collins was the CNN White House correspondent for a large part of the written and televised live coverage of the 2020 election, and was promoted to chief White House correspondent for the incoming Biden administration on January 11,2021.
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At a briefing that took place a few weeks after the election, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to take a question from Kaitlan Collins and called her an "activist".
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On September 15,2022, CNN announced that Kaitlan Collins would move to co-anchoring a revamped CNN morning show with Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow, ending her tenure as chief White House correspondent.
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On May 17,2023, Kaitlan Collins was named CNN's new 9 pm ET host, and her program was scheduled to begin in June.
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Kaitlan Collins left CNN This Morning on May 25,2023; her place there was taken by a rotation of CNN anchors.
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Kaitlan Collins was included on Forbes's "30 Under 30: Media" list in 2019.