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The Hill
an hour ago
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- The Hill
Meghan McCain urges White House to pull credential of CNN's Kaitlan Collins
Conservative pundit Meghan McCain attacked CNN anchor and reporter Kaitlan Collins, suggesting she be barred from covering the White House after she aggressively questioned press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday about President Trump's view on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. 'Kaitlan Collins is an absolute imbecile and a pure partisan hack,' McCain wrote Wednesday on the social media platform X. 'Have some respect for the two women standing in front of you who are exposing lies, deep corruption and keeping the country safe. The White House should pull her credentials.' McCain was responding to Collins' questioning of Gabbard, who during a briefing earlier in the day alleged that former President Obama and his allies worked to undermine President Trump ahead of the 2016 election. 'What would you say to people who believe that you're only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong,' Collins asked, in reference to conflicting intelligence within the administration relating to Iran's nuclear program. Collins has made a name for herself in the media with direct questioning of top Republican lawmakers on her nightly prime time show and repeated follow ups directed at Trump during gaggles with members of the press. There is precedent for Trump's White House pulling credentials of reporters they feel are overly combative. During his first term, the president yanked the credential of former CNN reporter Jim Acosta before eventually reinstating his hard pass. This year, The White House took control of the press pool covering the president daily and sought to elevate right-wing and 'new media' voices in media briefings and interactions with reporters. Trump has sued a number of leading news outlets in recent months and on Monday, Leavitt announced the Wall Street Journal would be banned from covering Trump's upcoming trip to Scotland over its reporting on his alleged ties to Jeffery Epstein.
Time of India
an hour ago
- Politics
- Time of India
karoline leavit: 'Who has said that?': Leavitt snaps at CNN's Kaitlan Collins over whether Trump ‘undermined' Gabbard - The Economic Times Video
CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday about comments President Trump made last month that Collins said 'undermined' Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard joined Leavitt for the White House press briefing on Wednesday and spoke to reporters about her office's latest document drop alleging Obama administration officials misled the public about intelligence surrounding Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Yahoo
14 hours ago
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- Yahoo
The CNN reporter accused Gabbard of 'only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president.'
CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on her claims of a Barack Obama-led plot conspiracy against Donald Trump, questioning if Gabbard merely sought to get back in Trump's good graces. 'What would you say to people who believe you're only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?' Collins asked. Speculation emerged that Trump had lost faith in Gabbard after he publicly dismissed Gabbard's assertion that Iran was not trying to build a nuclear weapon. 'I don't care what she said,' he told reporters last month as the U.S. considered whether to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.
Yahoo
17 hours ago
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- Yahoo
CNN's Kaitlan Collins Gets Into Heated Press Room Debate With Tulsi Gabbard: ‘The President Has Publicly Undermined Her'
"He told me that she didn't know what she was talking about," Collins adds CNN's Kaitlan Collins sparred with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the latter's latest info dump, asking whether it was a play to get back in Trump's good graces. Collins fired off her questions in the White House press room days after Gabbard accused former president Barack Obama and other officials of 'manufacturing intelligence' to suggest Russia attempted to influence the results of the 2016 election. The CNN reporter asked if the intelligence director made these claims to improve her standing with Trump. More from TheWrap CNN's Kaitlan Collins Gets Into Heated Press Room Debate With Tulsi Gabbard: 'The President Has Publicly Undermined Her' Catherine Rampell Becomes Latest Washington Post Writer to Exit Paper Trump White House Says 'The View' Is 'Next to Be Pulled Off the Air' After Hosts Say Trump Is Jealous of Obama Candace Owens Sued for Defamation by French First Lady Brigitte Macron Over 'Knowingly False' Claims She's Transgender 'You referenced the past intelligence reports and assessments on this, including that 2017 one that was signed off, as Ed noted, by every Republican on the Senate Intelligence Community, including the acting chair of the time, now Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said in a statement that they did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, but what they did find, however, is very troubling and they found irrefutable evidence of Russia meddling,' Collins began. She continued: 'Secondly, what would you say to people who believe that you're only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?' Gabbard tried to correct the way Collins framed her question rather than answering the more biting second statement. 'I want to correct something that you stated, which was citing the Senate Intelligence Committee's report as being one and the same,' Gabbard said. 'I think you said the intelligence community. The Senate Intelligence Committee has a very different function than the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The evidence and the intelligence that has been declassified and released is irrefutable.' She then passed the mic back to Leavitt who was 'saying that she would release this to try to boost her standing with the president?' 'Well, the president has publicly undermined her when it came to Iran,' Collins retorted. 'He said she was wrong. He told me that she didn't know what she was talking about. That was on Air Force One, on camera.' Leavitt refuted Collins' evidence and said she had a better idea about Trump's thinking because of the time she spends with him. 'I am with the President of the United States every day,' she said. 'He has the utmost confidence in Director Gabbard. He always has. He continues to, and that is true of his entire cabinet, who is all working as one team to deliver on the promises this president made.' Watch video of the full exchange above. The post CNN's Kaitlan Collins Gets Into Heated Press Room Debate With Tulsi Gabbard: 'The President Has Publicly Undermined Her' appeared first on TheWrap.
CNN
2 days ago
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- CNN
Trump Struggles To Divert Attention From Epstein Story - The Source with Kaitlan Collins - Podcast on CNN Podcasts
Trump Struggles To Divert Attention From Epstein Story The Source with Kaitlan Collins 47 mins Newly discovered pictures and video of Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein in the 1990's as lawmakers head home early to completely avoid the topic.
