Ep. 595 — Kasie Hunt

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

News

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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As a child, journalist Kasie Hunt eagerly awaited the arrival of “Time” magazine each week. She loved current events, which eventually piqued her interest in national security and journalism. She joined David to talk about growing up in a post-war period and watching 9/11 puncture that feeling of safety, covering Jan. 6 as a Capitol Hill reporter, what advice she would give a young campaign journalist, starting a new job at CNN while learning she had a brain tumor, and what she learned from that life-altering experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.3	GB only subject to availability ends 9th of October terms apply. And now from the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and CNN audio,
0:31.4	the Axx Wiles.
0:33.0	With your host, David Axelrod.
0:36.2	Casey Hunt is one of the great young political journalists in America.
0:40.0	She brings to her shows on CNN and CNN International, the savvy of a veteran who spent years covering Capitol Hill.
0:48.0	She knows the players and she knows the country.
0:50.7	I wanted to talk about that, but I wanted to sit down with her for another reason as well
0:54.6	to talk about a medical crisis she endured that caused her to reorder her
0:59.5	priorities. Here's that conversation. Casey Hunt, it's good to see you.
1:05.0	Wonderful to see you, David.
1:10.0	Thank you for doing this.
1:12.0	I'm a big admirer of yours as a journalist
1:16.0	and as a, particularly as a political observer,
1:19.5	you're a hack at heart, an enthusiast, which I...
1:23.6	I'm so touched and kind of a lot, you would say that.
1:25.7	I don't bestow that on everyone, you know.
1:29.7	It means the world actually.
1:31.0	Truly, you are one of the greats and I can't imagine you
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