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.[11] She wrote for msnbc.com and appeared regularly on MSNBC and Bloomberg shows, including Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and With All Due Respect.
In October 2017, Hunt began anchoring her talk show on MSNBC, Kasie DC, which aired in two separate segments on Sundays at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET[12] The final episode of Kasie DC aired on Sunday, September 13, 2020.
In November 2017, Hunt stated that the attack on senator Rand Paul by his neighbor was her 'favorite story'.
Paul's wife criticized the comment and Hunt later apologized.[13][14]
On September 21, 2020, Kasie Hunt began anchoring a restart of the MSNBC talk show Way Too Early under the new name Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt. That program aired on weekday mornings from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. ET.
On July 16, 2021, Hunt announced it was her last day with the network.[15]
On August 10, 2021, CNN announced via Twitter that Hunt would be its first hire of CNN+, a new streaming service the network would be launching. In that role, Hunt would serve as an anchor of a new show, The Source with Kasie Hunt.[16][17] Additionally, it was announced that Hunt would serve as chief national affairs analyst.[18] Kasie Hunt's new program debuted on CNN+ on March 29, 2022.[19] It ended on April 22, 2022,[20] the day after it was announced that CNN+ would be shutting down, which it did on April 28.
In August 2023, CNN announced that Hunt would take over as the anchor of its Early Start morning show.[21] She made her debut the following month.
Starting in September 2023, Hunt has been hosting State of the Race, a weekday political show on CNN International.[22]
In April 2024, pro-Palestinian student protesters participating in the ongoing campus occupation at Columbia UniversityinNew York City seized Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the university's Morningside Heights campus. The students unfurled a large banner renaming the building "Hind's Hall" in honor of the young child.[23] During a segment on CNN that discussed the renaming of Hamilton Hall, Hunt explained to viewers: "Hind is a reference to a woman who was killed in Gaza." The description has been criticized as an example of the adultification of Palestinian children and a pro-Israel bias on CNN.[24]
On June 24, 2024 Hunt created controversy (and trended on X) when she removed President Trump's spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt from her CNN This Morning program after Leavitt 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.[25][26]
Kasie Hunt married NBC News producer Matt Rivera on May 6, 2017.[27] In September 2019, she gave birth to her first child, a boy.[28] In March 2023, she gave birth to her second child, a girl.[29]
In October 2021, Hunt underwent a four-hour surgery for the successful removal of a benign brain tumor.[30]
