Kasie Hunt Bio, Age, Family, Husband, kids, CNN +, Brain Tumor, Salary

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Kasie Hunt Biography

Kasie Hunt is a media personality serving as an anchor and chief national affairs analyst for CNN+. She is a former NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent, covering Congress across all NBC News and MSNBC. She hosted MSNBC’s  “Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt” on weekday mornings from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. ET.

Kasie Hunt Age

She was born on May 24, 1985 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kasie Hunt Height

She stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.

Kasie Hunt Education

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs from George Washington University in Washington D.C. She earned her Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Kasie Hunt Parents

She is the daughter of Krista and Bruce Hunt. Her mother is a yoga teacher while her father is a real estate design and construction manager working for Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia.

Kasie Hunt Sister

Kasie has a younger sister known as Carly, who is a former golf player famous for being a member of Georgetown University’s Hoyas and University of Maryland’s Terrapins athletic teams.

Kasie Hunt Husband

Hunt is married to Matthew Mario Rivera (Matt Rivera) since May 2017. The couple met in 2012 while working at ‘NBC News’ in Washington, and soon began dating. They got engaged on August 13, 2016.

Matt is a producer, reporter and adjunct professor at ‘New York University’ (NYU). He serves as the senior digital producer of ‘Meet the Press with Chuck Todd,’ an ‘NBC’ morning public affairs program. He joined NBC News in September 2010 where he served as the head of production of several ‘Original Video’ news series and established himself as a senior producer.

Kasie Hunt Baby

Kasie gave birth to her son Mars Hunt Rivera in September 2019.

 

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Kasie Hunt MSNBC

Hunt joined NBC News in January 2013 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.

As an NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent she covers Congress across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms including “Nightly News with Lester Holt,” “TODAY,” and NBCNews.com. She also hosts MSNBC’s “Kasie DC” at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sundays.

While working as a political correspondent for MSNBC she covered the 2016 election and reported on several candidates, including Donald Trump, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former State Sec. Hillary Clinton.

Prior to joining NBC News, she was a health policy reporter for National Journal’s CongressDaily, writing about the passage of the Affordable Care Act. She wrote for Politico, covering the 2010 midterm elections. She started working as a national political reporter for the Associated Press in August 2011 and covered Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

Kasie Hunt ‘Kasie DC’

Kasie began hosting Kasie DC on MSNBC in October 2017. The show aired its final episode on September 23, 2020. The show covered news and politics and offered viewers a chance to get a head start on the week’s headlines.

Kasie Hunt Way Too Early

Hunt hosts ‘Way Too Early’ since September 2020. It airs at 5 AM, as the lead-in program to Morning Joe. She said the goal of the show is to “make people smarter.”

“I think a lot of people who are decision-makers—lawmakers, people who are focused and at the top of their game—need a place to get the news at 5 AM because that’s when they’re starting their days. The goal is to be a place where they can get it in a quick, straightforward, and illuminating, smart way. That’s been my goal, to make people smarter, and bring what I can to bear in terms of what my understanding is from my sources and being a correspondent on the Hill. Bringing a perspective you won’t be able to get anywhere else.”

Kasie Hunt Leaving MSNBC

On July 16, 2021 Kasie announced that she was leaving NBC News and MSNBC. During her morning show “Way Too Early” she revealed she was doing her last broadcast of the show.

She also made the announcement on her Twitter page and said, “Some personal news, as they say — thank you to all of the viewers, reporters, lawmakers and everyone else who’s gotten up extra early to help make ⁦@WayTooEarly⁩ better. I loved doing this show. More soon! #WayTooEarly.”

“I’ll really miss our amazing viewers @KasieDC on Sunday nights — and I will especially miss working with a fantastic team that has put in so much work on weekends to put on a show that we could all be so proud of,” she tweeted.

Kasie Hunt CNN

Kasie is an anchor and chief national affairs analyst for CNN. She joined CNN in August 2021. She is set to host a daily show on CNN+ focused on politics. She is the first official anchor for CNN+, a streaming subscription service from CNN that will debut in Q1 2022. Her show will contribute to CNN+’s slate of original, live programming.

Kasie Hunt Eye Injury

Kasie has no history of eye injury. The rumors about her eye injury surfaced after she was caught on camera rolling her eyes and popping her tongue out while awaiting her on-air segment to start. She was waiting outside offices on Capitol Hill during “MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson”, Kasie Hunt bizarrely rolled her eyes when Jackson asked her a question.

Kasie Hunt Tumor

In October 2021 Kasie told PEOPLE she had gone through surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. She said while she was pregnant with her son she had headaches and she decided to get checked. In March 2021 the headaches started getting really bad and made an appointment with a neurologist. She added that she has a family history of migraines, so she assumed that was the cause.

“But the neurologist sent me for a routine MRI scan just as a new patient intake — and they saw something on the scan. They ordered a follow-up just to double-check and the follow-up showed something that was a little bit more clear.

No issues with skin or other things that might be more common in somebody that’s my age. So that was all really good news and my symptoms weren’t getting worse, so we thought, okay, this was likely migraines.”

She continued to treat her migraines with medication to help her get through the workday. “I was still struggling with headaches and things like that,” she says. But there wasn’t much more for doctors to do until they determined whether the growth was getting bigger. So she waited.

In August she began feeling worse and had another scan that showed a small rate of growth.

“Once we learned that, then we really had to take some action, because that was a really scary thing to learn. Once you see growth in the brain, that means that there is a tumor growing in the brain.”

The tumor was found to be small and benign. She underwent surgery which was performed by Daniel Yoshor, M.D. She added that her journey to recovery has been a challenge and that she is dealing with “a lot of pain management.”

Kasie Hunt Salary

Her annual salary is between $1 million and $1.5 million.

Kasie Hunt Net worth

She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.

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