CNN’s primetime ratings on Wednesday dipped below 500,000 viewers, with less than 100,000 of those coming from the 25-54-year-old demographic.
CNN’s ratings dipped below 500,000 after 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday evening during “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” according to <a href="https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/wednesday-april-23-2025-evening-cable-news-ratings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AdWeek</a>. Collins pulled 464,000 total viewers while “NewsNight with Abby Phillip” in the 10 p.m. hour followed with 459,000. &#8220;Laura Coates Live&#8221; finished off primetime’s 11 p.m. hour for CNN with 269,000.
&#8220;Anderson Cooper 360&#8221; was the only primetime CNN performance with over half-a-million viewers, pulling in 535,000.
All the network’s primetime shows failed to break 100,000 viewers for the coveted 25-54 demographic. Cooper had the best showing with 93,000, then Phillip with 90,000, then Collins with 76,000, and Coates ended the night with just 46,000 viewers in the age group.
 The new numbers are a troubling sign for the network.
“CNN&#8217;s full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable new low led by @kaitlancollins and @abbydphillip: fewer than 500,000 viewers total in prime-time! That&#8217;s almost impossible to do even if you wanted it,” independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noted. “Also, they&#8217;re well below 100k for viewers under 55.”
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CNN&#39;s full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable new low led by <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/abbydphillip?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abbydphillip</a>: fewer than 500,000 viewers total in prime-time! That&#39;s almost impossible to do even if you wanted it.
Also, they&#39;re well below 100k for viewers under 55. <a href="https://t.co/4gG4jMWBTH">pic.twitter.com/4gG4jMWBTH</a>
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The best hour on CNN was still behind MSNBC’s worst hour and far below the worst hour on Fox News. “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” at 11 p.m. on MSNBC brought in 799,000 total viewers with 99,000 in the 25-54 demographic. Fox News’ “FOX News @ Night” with Trace Gallagher brought in over 1.5 million total viewers with 194,000 in the key demographic.
CNN has struggled with ratings for years. One week in November <a href="https://www.outkick.com/analysis/msnbc-cnn-setting-20-30-year-ratings-lows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saw</a> the network mark its lowest-rated week since June 2001, bringing in an average of just 268,000 viewers. During the same week, Fox News averaged 1.4 million viewers.
In 2022, the failure of CNN+, the network’s shot at an online streaming service, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/business/media/cnn-plus-discovery-warner.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rocked</a> the outlet. Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, invested roughly $300 million into launching the online platform and brought on big names such as Chris Wallace to sustain it, only for it to collapse shortly after launch.
Several years before that collapse of CNN+, the outlet <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cnn-settles-lawsuit-brought-by-covington-catholic-student-nicholas-sandmann/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled</a> a $275 million lawsuit brought against it by Nicholas Sandmann, who was maligned by many in the media as a student of Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky when he was filmed in an incident with a Native American activist.

CNN Ratings Disaster: Primetime Audience Tumbles Below 500,000

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Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins made it clear that he was not going to play along when CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins tried to make his Wednesday evening interview all about the Signal chat between Trump officials that inadvertently included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Secretary Collins attempted to steer the conversation back to the VA and to issues impacting veterans, but the CNN anchor quickly made it obvious that she was not going to let go of the Signal story — so the former Georgia Congressman flipped the interview on its head and questioned her instead.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SecVetAffairs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecVetAffairs</a> torches Fake News CNN&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a>: &quot;Since you undoubtedly don&#39;t want to talk about the VA &#8230; I would like to know why CNN is hostile to veterans — especially one in Florida, where you just had a $5 million defamation suit&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fwnkeg10Zn">pic.twitter.com/fwnkeg10Zn</a>
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&#8220;Do you believe that a mistake was made here, though, to have this conversation, to add a reporter, and to have it on an unsupported, unclassified group setting?&#8221; the anchor asked.
&#8220;Kaitlan, as I&#8217;ve just told you, I just answered the question,&#8221; Secretary Collins replied. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t part of it and I&#8217;m not going to speculate more than what the president has already talked about or those who have been involved have talked about — but I&#8217;d love to talk about the veterans.&#8221;
The CNN anchor would not let it go, however, and tried again: &#8220;And I do have questions about the veterans, but given what we saw with the group chat and how this was used. You are a member of the cabinet, you obviously know these other members, several of them who were in there. Is this typical for the cabinet to have conversations over Signal? Is this something that you use?&#8221;
&#8220;All right, well, Kaitlan, since you undoubtedly don&#8217;t want to talk about the VA, I have a question as VA Secretary,&#8221; Secretary Collins said. &#8220;I want to ask you, because I&#8217;ve been curious about this because my job is to take care of veterans, and I would like to know why CNN is hostile to veterans — especially one in Florida, where you just had a $5 million defamation suit taking offense at a veteran who was trying to help people. In fact, one of your employees actually said, &#8216;We&#8217;re gonna nail him.'&#8221;
&#8220;I have a question for you, Kaitlan,&#8221; Secretary Collins continued. &#8220;Is that employee still employed? Are you really concerned about veterans? So if we don&#8217;t want to talk about veterans now, you want to talk about everything else, I&#8217;d like to hear from CNN as the veterans&#8217; cabinet secretary, why CNN seems to have a problem with veterans.&#8221;
The CNN anchor would not answer his question. Instead, she tried to go back to the Signal chat again: &#8220;My question was about whether or not you, as a member of the cabinet, use this —&#8221;
She went on to claim that she did have questions regarding veterans, but Secretary Collins wasn&#8217;t buying it.
&#8220;No, Kaitlan, what you want to do is talk about a subject that I&#8217;ve already answered,&#8221; he shot back. &#8220;And if you want to continue this, like this, that&#8217;s fine, but there are VA employees that are working very hard. There are veterans who get their care from the VA and they get their benefits from the VA, and it does me no good to speculate on something that I&#8217;ve already asked and answered. So I&#8217;ve answered your question, why don&#8217;t you answer mine?&#8221;

Senate Nomination Hearing Held For Doug Collins To Be Veterans Affairs Secretary

Doug Collins Eats Kaitlan Collins’ Lunch Over Signal Chat SNAFU

Doug Collins Eats Kaitlan Collins' Lunch Over Signal Chat SNAFU

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins during Wednesday&#8217;s press briefing as she aggressively tried to ask a follow up question.
The exchange happened as Collins asked about the story The Atlantic published this week — about a Signal chat group where top Trump administration officials discussed a forthcoming strike on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
&#8220;Since we have these messages released, and you said that the President has now personally reviewed them, in the chat at one point, Pete Hegseth said wrote &#8216;1415, strike drones on target,&#8217; and in all caps, he said, &#8216;this is when the first bombs will definitely drop,&#8217; does the President feel that he was misled by his national security advisors, whoever it was that told him there was no classified information in there now that he&#8217;s seen these messages?&#8221; Collins asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve now been asked and answered this question three times by the both of you, and I&#8217;ve given you my answer,&#8221; Leavitt responded. &#8220;The President feels the same today as he did yesterday.&#8221;
&#8220;Sorry, my follow up on what you had just said,&#8221; Collins interjected as Leavitt moved to call on another reporter.
&#8220;Kaitlin, I&#8217;m not taking your follow up,&#8221; Leavitt fired back.
Collins interrupted: &#8220;I have a follow up on something you just said though, Karoline, that&#8217;s regarding&#8211;.&#8221;
&#8220;Kaitlin I&#8217;m not taking your follow up,&#8221; Leavitt responded. &#8220;Philip, go ahead. I have called on you.&#8221;
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Karoline Leavitt Shuts Down CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: ‘I’m Not Taking Your Follow Up’

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt threw a barb at CNN White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins during Monday&#8217;s press briefing over her question relating to pardons issued by President Joe Biden.
The subject came up following President Donald Trump&#8217;s declaration that he has voided pardons Biden issued during his final days in office that were allegedly signed by an autopen, and not by Biden himself.
Leavitt said that everyone was finally able to agree that Biden was &#8220;cognitively impaired.&#8221;
&#8220;I know it took people some time to finally admit that, but we all know that to be true, as evidenced by his disastrous debate performance against President Trump during the campaign,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I digress on that, but the president was raising the point that, did the president even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?&#8221;
She noted that some Biden officials had expressed concern over the issue in a report from the New York Post.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a question that everybody in this room should be looking into, because certainly that would [be] perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff members were signing the President of the United States&#8217; autograph without his consent,&#8221; she said.
After a brief exchange between the two, Collins asked if there was going to be evidence that Biden was not aware that his signature was used on the pardons.
Leavitt fired back: &#8220;You&#8217;re a reporter, you should find out.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> on Biden&#39;s autopen pre-emptive pardons: &quot;Did the President even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?&#8230; I think it&#39;s a question that everybody in this room should be looking into.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/sH5XLhng9I">pic.twitter.com/sH5XLhng9I</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1901688738620559695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds Media Briefing

Karoline Leavitt Torches CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: ‘You’re A Reporter, You Should Find Out’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), speaking of the need to cut the fraud, waste, and abuse out of Medicaid, made clear that people who took advantage of the system would be found.
Johnson spoke with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, who asked if people would lose their Medicaid coverage due to the Trump administration’s effort to cut spending from the federal government payroll.
&#8220;The White House has made a commitment,” Johnson stated. “The President said over and over and over we&#8217;re not going to touch Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. We&#8217;ve made the same commitment.”
“Now, that said, what we are going to do is go into those programs, and carve out the fraud, waste and abuse, and find efficiencies,” he continued. “Couple of examples. There&#8217;s about $50 billion estimated that are lost every year in Medicaid just in fraud alone. No one is for that. We&#8217;ve got to make sure we eliminate it. We have the algorithms now to do that. We have advanced technology to find it. We need to ID, provide identification for people who are Medicaid recipients, to make sure they are not illegal aliens. That&#8217;s another big carve-out that we will make, to save a lot of money.”
Johnson stated that Democrats were lying when they said the GOP was going to cut Medicaid, prompting Collins to ask, “You say Democrats are lying, when they say you&#8217;re going to cut Medicaid. The plan that you passed does instruct the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in cuts, right? And so how do they get $880 billion in cuts from that committee, without touching Medicaid?”
“Because E&amp;C actually has the broadest jurisdiction of any committee in Congress,” Johnson replied. “It covers everything. Energy and Commerce, the name indicates how broad the jurisdiction is. I challenge you, or anybody on your staff, do a word search for ‘Medicaid’ on the resolution that we passed last night. You will not find it. That is not part of this equation, OK? We&#8217;re talking about finding efficiencies in every program, but not cutting benefits for people who rightly deserve that.&#8221;
“Working requirements — work requirements for Medicaid, that is something that is public opinion polls almost 90 percent,” he asserted. “You don&#8217;t want able-bodied workers on a program that is intended, for example, for single mothers with two small children [who are] just trying to make it. That&#8217;s what Medicaid is for. Not for 29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.”
“We&#8217;re going to find those guys, and we&#8217;re going to send them back to work. That&#8217;s what everybody supports. That&#8217;s what the Republicans are for. And by the way, we find dignity in our work. That&#8217;s going to be good for everybody,” he concluded.
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Medicaid is for single mothers with small children who are just trying to make it.
It&#39;s not for 29-year-old males sitting on their couch playing video games. 
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&mdash; Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1894952400693207288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karoline-leavitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karoline Leavitt</a> got blunt with CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday over her advocacy for an AP reporter who was barred from the Oval Office last night because the organization refused to acknowledge the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; — despite it being officially renamed.
&#8220;Which White House official made the decision to bar the AP reporter from the Oval Office and the diplomatic reception room last night?&#8221; Collins asked.
Leavitt fired back: &#8220;Well, first of all, let me just set the record straight. It is a privilege to cover this White House. It&#8217;s a privilege to be the White House press secretary, and nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the President of the United States questions. That&#8217;s an invitation that is given.&#8221;
&#8220;And there are hundreds of outlets on this campus, many of you in this room who don&#8217;t have the privilege of being part of that pool every single day and getting to ask the president questions,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have credentials to be here, including the Associated Press who is in this briefing room today.&#8221;
Collins suggested that it was &#8220;retaliatory in nature&#8221; to bar the reporter over the organization refusing to acknowledge reality.
&#8220;Is this setting a precedent that this White House will retaliate against reporters who don&#8217;t use the language that you guys believe reporters should use, and how does that align with the First Amendment commitment that you were just talking about?&#8221; Collins asked.
&#8220;I was very upfront in my briefing on day one, that if we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable,&#8221; Leavitt responded. &#8220;And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, and I&#8217;m not sure why news outlets don&#8217;t want to call it that, but that is what it is.&#8221;
&#8220;The Secretary of Interior has made that the official designation in the geographical identification name server and Apple has recognized that, Google has recognized that, pretty much every other outlet in this room has recognized that body of water as the Gulf of America,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And it&#8217;s very important to this administration that we get that right, not just for people here at home, but also for the rest of the world.&#8221;
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CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins said that covering President Donald Trump&#8217;s second term was causing her to skip breakfast and work weekends because the news cycle, where he was concerned, was &#8220;essentially nonstop.&#8221;
Collins made the observation during a recent appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Late Night with Seth Meyers&#8221; after he asked what it was like covering a president who often made news at such a breakneck pace.
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Says the Trump Admin is Working 7 Days/Week
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&#8220;So, you&#8217;re doing this, every day, ah, you&#8217;re in D.C.,&#8221; Meyers began. &#8220;The pace of the Trump administration seems to be moving pretty quickly. How are you holding up?&#8221;
&#8220;It is insane,&#8221; Collins replied, adding, &#8220;And I think everyone is kind of like readjusting and re-remembering what it was like four years ago, pre-four years ago.&#8221;
She went on to compare the pace of the Trump administration to that of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden — and referenced a piece published shortly after Biden took office noting the differences between the two.
&#8220;I remember when — when Biden first took office in January, The New York Times wrote this story about how quiet the weekends were, because for reporters, every weekend had been just like another — it was like a seven-day work week. And now we&#8217;re back to basically where it&#8217;s just essentially nonstop every day.&#8221;
Collins then told a personal story about how she had gotten up one morning intending to stop for a &#8220;nice little breakfast&#8221; before she had to go to work covering Trump&#8217;s White House, but after walking halfway to her destination, she&#8217;d gotten word that the president was preparing to do an early press conference.
&#8220;Halfway there, they were like, Trump&#8217;s doing a press conference in an hour, and I physically ran back home so I could change and get ready,&#8221; she said.
Biden, by comparison, spent approximately 40% of his presidency on vacation, often leaving reporters with little to cover except what he was not doing.

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‘Essentially Nonstop’: CNN Correspondent Has To Skip Breakfast, Work Weekends Because Of Trump

'Essentially Nonstop': CNN Correspondent Has To Skip Breakfast, Work Weekends Because Of Trump

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) shut down CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins during an interview this week after she suggested that he was not qualified to make the judgment of whether transgender individuals are capable of serving in the U.S. military.
The exchange happened Monday night on &#8220;The Source&#8221; when Collins asked Crenshaw, who served in multiple combat deployments as a Navy SEAL: &#8220;Why would you be making that decision, and not a medical professional, or someone who makes those decisions about vision, or whatever issues they evaluate, before deploying somebody?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m saying, by definition, if you have transitioned into a different gender, you are not meeting our medical standards,&#8221; Crenshaw responded.
Collins responded, &#8220;But that&#8217;s your opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not an opinion,&#8221; Crenshaw fired back. &#8220;That is a pretty easy-to-prove fact. It makes it much harder on our units to deploy. Period. Like, full stop.&#8221;
When Collins asked how there were transgender soldiers in the U.S. military right now, Crenshaw responded: &#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between identifying — like, again, look, you could show up to your job, the next day, and say that your name is now, Ken. That&#8217;s different. You can identify that way. And that was Trump&#8217;s old policy, by the way. They would allow you to serve that way.&#8221;
&#8220;But there&#8217;s a very big difference between doing that, and actually undergoing medical procedures that take you out of service,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And yes, you call it medical leave. But that&#8217;s some pretty severe medical leave. So, why would we allow that? And then you say that you&#8217;re deployable to austere environments? No way. That&#8217;s just not true.&#8221;
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Kudos to <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanCrenshawTX</a> for the SERIOUS pushback on <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a> on the issues of transgender individuals serving in the military. <a href="https://t.co/UXCJ6Zfpyz">pic.twitter.com/UXCJ6Zfpyz</a>
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) <a href="https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1884268198796877987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Border Czar Tom Homan shut down CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins during an interview on Monday night about the Trump administration&#8217;s mass deportation operation.
Homan made the remarks during an appearance on &#8220;The Source&#8221; when asked by Collins about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) going after illegal aliens hiding out in schools, churches, and hospitals so they could avoid being deported.
&#8220;What is the standard, I guess, to go into an elementary school?&#8221; Collins asked. &#8220;Because what we had heard from immigration advocates is that this is going to provide a chilling effect to parents in the school drop-off line or something of that matter.&#8221;
&#8220;It shouldn&#8217;t be a chilling effect unless your child is a terrorist or a public safety threat,&#8221; Homan responded. &#8220;If they are a public safety threat, a national security threat, they should be chilled. They should be afraid, because we&#8217;re looking for them.&#8221;
Collins said that the concern was really about parents who are illegal aliens.
&#8220;They&#8217;re not off the table either. I mean, they&#8217;re in the country illegally, they have got a problem,&#8221; Collins said. &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s not OK &#8212; look, we &#8212; it&#8217;s not OK to enter this country illegally. It&#8217;s a crime. And that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s supposed to be. I wouldn&#8217;t feel comfortable if I&#8217;m in Switzerland illegally. So we&#8217;re going to enforce the laws of this country.&#8221;
&#8220;National security threats and public safety threats have no safe haven in this country, and we will go where we got to go,&#8221; he added.
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CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins tries to turn it into a scandal that ICE is entering schools. Tom Homan calmly dismantles her. <a href="https://t.co/yWpK5GWlXj">pic.twitter.com/yWpK5GWlXj</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1884098126631559583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> slammed CNN host Kaitlan Collins this week after she was confronted in two recent interviews about the network&#8217;s overt bias.
In one of the interviews, Collins claimed that because she was from Alabama, she had &#8220;authority&#8221; to say that she is an unbiased source of news.
&#8220;The fact that she has some roots in Alabama does not make her a fair and balanced reporter,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;I will submit to the record, her biggest sin is not that she is biased, though she is, it’s that she has a boring personality.&#8221;
&#8220;I have a pro-tip for her, smile. Try smiling,&#8221; Kelly continued. &#8220;Try not to be in your delivery like such a cold-hearted b**** all the time, because it gives people nothing to bond to.&#8221;
Kelly then played multiple clips showing CNN&#8217;s strong pro-Democrat/anti-Republican bias.
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Megyn Kelly slams CNN’s Kaitlan Collins:
“I have a pro tip for her: Smile. Try smiling. Try not to be in your delivery like such a cold-hearted b***h all the time, because it gives people nothing to bond to.” &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@megynkelly</a>
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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1828872706785456383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
Kelly&#8217;s remarks came in response to Collins&#8217; appearance on Bill Maher&#8217;s HBO show &#8220;Real Time&#8221; last week where she claimed that her network treated Republicans and Democrats equally.
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Maher <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-rips-kaitlan-collins-over-cnns-bias-network-has-token-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought up</a> another recent interview that Collins had with Stephen Colbert on CBS where she and her network were laughed at when Colbert said that they were a straight news organization.
“You made press because you were on Stephen Colbert’s show, and he said something like, ‘You guys at CNN just report the news straight.’ And the crowd burst into laughter,” Maher said. “I’m a big rooter for CNN, but that tells you a lot, doesn’t it?”
Maher asked Collins how she thinks her network is doing in this “terribly divided country” where both sides “just hate the other side.”
Collins claimed her show was “evidence” that CNN is a place where both sides can watch and be engaged.
Maher slammed the network for its obvious bias, including loading up political panels so they were completely one-sided with only a single conservative facing off against several leftists.

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HBO host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> ripped CNN host Kaitlan Collins during his show this week over the network&#8217;s left-wing bias, which he said is on constant display.
Maher made the remarks Friday night on &#8220;Real Time&#8221; while discussing an interview that Collins had with Stephen Colbert on CBS where she and her network were laughed at when Colbert said that they were a straight news organization.
&#8220;You made press because you were on Stephen Colbert&#8217;s show, and he said something like, &#8216;You guys at CNN just report the news straight.&#8217; And the crowd burst into laughter,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a big rooter for CNN, but that tells you a lot, doesn&#8217;t it?&#8221;
Maher asked Collins how she thinks her network is doing in this &#8220;terribly divided country&#8221; where both sides &#8220;just hate the other side.&#8221;
Collins claimed her show was &#8220;evidence&#8221; that CNN is a place where both sides can watch and be engaged.
&#8220;We&#8217;ll have Elizabeth Warren on one night, we&#8217;ll have Ted Cruz on another night,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think lawmakers from both parties should take questions, and you should push both of them.&#8221;
She said that CNN was &#8220;a place of credibility&#8221; because the network sent hundreds of people to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to give mostly fawning coverage of the event.
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Maher responded: &#8220;I&#8217;m talking about the people on CNN. And I know what the conservative side of America thinks, and I don&#8217;t blame them. I watched Kamala&#8217;s speech last night. It ended at 8:09, I guess 11:09 in the east.&#8221;
Maher said that CNN gave 15 straight minutes of glowing media coverage to Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris until &#8220;lonely Scott&#8221; Jennings, one of the only conservative voices on the network, chimed in and pushed back on what was being said.
&#8220;I watched from 8:09 to 8:23, they were just gushing about how great a speech it was,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think she did fine. I didn&#8217;t think it was as good as they were making it out to be. But if I&#8217;m a conservative in America and I&#8217;m watching CNN, just for the straight middle of the road, that&#8217;s what I hear for 15 minutes, is it&#8217;s great. And then lonely Scott. It does look, I mean, and when you see the panel, it does look like tokenism. It&#8217;s kind of like the same as &#8216;The View,&#8217; it&#8217;s like, it&#8217;s almost better to have nobody there, like MSNBC, than to have this.&#8221;
Collins claimed that people like Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, and Abby Phillip give &#8220;analysis&#8221; and that they were fair voices on the network, to which Maher responded that they &#8220;come across&#8221; like Democrat activists.
&#8220;They come across that way. In a moment like that, it was like five to one,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It always looks like five one.&#8221;
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Bill Maher asks CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins why CNN&#8217;s reputation is so poor that Colbert&#8217;s audience laughed at the idea of CNN being an impartial news source: 
Bill Maher: &#8220;You were on Colbert&#8217;s show, and he said &#8216;You guys at CNN just report the news straight&#8217; and the crowd burst into… <a href="https://t.co/2sE964CGvr">pic.twitter.com/2sE964CGvr</a>
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1827170936610517453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Bill Maher Rips Kaitlan Collins Over CNN’s Bias: Network Has ‘Token’ Conservatives

Bill Maher

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Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) slammed left-wing CNN host Kaitlan Collins this week after she provided political cover for the Biden-Harris administration over their disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan while attacking Republican presidential nominee with an unsubstantiated story that has received strong <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anonymous-sources-tell-mag-trump-called-dead-troops-losers-5-witnesses-go-on-record-to-dispute">pushback</a>.
Mast appeared on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Story&#8221; Friday night where Collins claimed that Trump denigrates U.S. service members.
&#8220;He does not denigrate our military. He loves our military,&#8221; Mast fired back. &#8220;President Trump is the candidate, J.D. Vance is the candidate that want to make sure our individuals, that their service is not squandered, like what happened with the withdrawal from Afghanistan.&#8221;
&#8220;Harris and Biden, they squandered the service, of every veteran that served in Afghanistan, because of that withdrawal, because they failed to talk about the failures that exists there,&#8221; Mast continued. &#8220;They look at us as disposables.&#8221;
Collins, immediately after relying on hearsay to attack Trump, defended the Biden-Harris administration over actions that they took that resulted in 13 U.S. service members getting killed during their disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan.
&#8220;They see us as disposable,&#8221; Mast said. &#8220;When President Biden goes out onto a tarmac, checks his watch, they&#8217;re seeing us as disposable individuals. They don&#8217;t calculate the cost of war, for when you come home. Right now, let&#8217;s talk about a factual thing. If you&#8217;re in the VA, right now, and you&#8217;re getting care for mental health counseling, in the community, the Harris-Biden administration is trying to strip you of your community care. They want you to come back into the VA, no matter the wait times.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s the population, most vulnerable, 22 veterans a day commit suicide,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s the Harris-Biden administration.&#8221;
Collins immediately jumped to the defense of the Biden-Harris administration saying that the notion that they don&#8217;t appreciate military service was &#8220;unfair.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about words of President Trump versus literal actions of the Biden administration,&#8221; Mast fired back. &#8220;Again, and I&#8217;ll use these words, they got out there, and they treat our service &#8230; [members] like we are disposable. And we are not. And that&#8217;s the way that his administration has treated service members, on the battlefield, and those that came home, as though we&#8217;re disposable items that you can get rid of.&#8221;
Mast blasted collins in a post on X, writing: &#8220;New low for @CNN . @kaitlancollins , you&#8217;re invalidating painful experiences of Afghanistan vets to cover for Biden. Letting him off the hook because &#8216;his son served in the military&#8217; is like letting an arsonist free because he&#8217;s related to a firefighter! We are not disposable!&#8221;
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New low for <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>.<a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a>, you&#39;re invalidating painful experiences of Afghanistan vets to cover for Biden.
Letting him off the hook because &quot;his son served in the military&quot; is like letting an arsonist free because he&#39;s related to a firefighter!
We are not disposable! <a href="https://t.co/po3o6AnHyu">pic.twitter.com/po3o6AnHyu</a>
&mdash; Brian Mast (@BrianMastFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianMastFL/status/1824808004442542393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Congressman Mast Accuses CNN Host Kaitlan Collins Of ‘Covering’ For Biden

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