Kasie Hunt
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Kasie Hunt is a seasoned journalist who has navigated the complexities of political reporting and personal experiences. This interview reveals her commitment to understanding and conveying the nuances of political life while fostering connections among varied viewpoints.
“He is also, of course, a journalist. He was like, You probably want to know what's going on in your head because the question then was should I have surgery to go in and remove this? Because again, it was a small, slow-growing thing.”
“Once I started doing television, it's like I'd be on the plane for stretches and then we'd drop off, we do our nightly live shot. I used to do what I call the Walmart parking lot test, right?”
“But I learned what I learned was news judgment because I was watching some of the best in the business. And this, again, obviously the internet has shown up by this point in my life, right? In all of our lives, this is 2006. But social media was not yet what it was.”
“The generation of people that fought those wars are very much people that are my contemporaries and who kind of wore the damage of that. So I wasn't sure what I wanted to do exactly. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to work for the State Department or what, but I knew that I wanted to study what was going on in the world beyond us.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 595 — Kasie Hunt
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