Kaitlan Collins

Anchor and Chief White House Correspondent

Kaitlan Collins anchors The Source with Kaitlan Collins weeknights at 9pm ET.
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This September 2024 photo shows Laura Loomer in Philadelphia.
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White House fires multiple administration officials after president meets with far-right activist Laura Loomer
Apr 3, 2025
The White House has fired multiple administration officials, including at least three National Security Council staffers, three sources familiar with the move told CNN.
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Video Treasury Secretary urges other countries to ‘take a deep breath’ and not retaliate 1:00
Apr 2, 2025
In an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged other countries not to issue retaliatory tariffs against the US following Trump’s tariff announcement.
In this March 13 photo, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz listen to President Donald Trump, not pictured, in the Oval Office in Washington, DC.
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Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans
Mar 25, 2025
Former national security officials reacted with shock and horror to revelations in The Atlantic that top members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet sent detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about US military strikes on Yemen to a group thread on a messaging app to which a reporter had accidentally been added.
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Video Trump said he didn’t sign controversial proclamation. The Federal Register shows one with his signature 3:15
Mar 22, 2025
President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, but that he stood by his administration’s move. The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.
President Donald Trump, left, and Vice President JD Vance, second right, during a meeting with Micheal Martin, Ireland's prime minister, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 12.
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Flags, figurines and gold everywhere: Trump transforms the Oval Office into a gilded gallery
Mar 16, 2025
As President Donald Trump works to dramatically reshape the federal government, he is also in the middle of transforming another historic aspect of the presidency: the Oval Office.
<p>Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) shares with CNN's Kaitlan Collins what he thinks about Elon Musk calling him a "traitor" after Kelly posted about Ukraine after visiting the country. </p>
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Mar 12, 2025
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) shares with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins what he thinks about Elon Musk calling him a “traitor” after Kelly posted about Ukraine after visiting the country.
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
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Trump tells Cabinet members they’re in charge of staffing as business leaders and Republicans complain about Musk
Mar 7, 2025
One week after Elon Musk held court before the cameras during President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, many of the Senate-confirmed leaders of government departments and agencies reconvened in the Cabinet Room on Thursday for a different kind of discussion.
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Video 13-year-old honored by Trump ran into Elon Musk at the White House and made a request 0:48
Mar 6, 2025
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress.
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Trump says US has apprehended ‘top terrorist’ responsible for 2021 Kabul airport bombing
Mar 5, 2025
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that the US has apprehended a “top terrorist” involved in the 2021 bombing at Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate in Afghanistan where 13 US service members and at least 170 Afghan civilians were killed.
Doug Collins testifies during his Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2025.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins is the designated survivor for Trump’s address to Congress
Mar 5, 2025
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins is this year’s designated survivor, according to a White House official, retreating from Washington to an undisclosed location during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening.
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, from left, US President Donald Trump, and Vice President JD Vance during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025.
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Trump and Vance erupt at Zelensky in tense Oval Office meeting
Mar 1, 2025
A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval Office on Friday between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, an extraordinarily fractious display that only underscored the deeply uncertain future of American assistance to Kyiv.
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Video Hear what Trump told Graham after Oval Office meeting with Zelensky 2:28
Feb 28, 2025
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised President Donald Trump’s handling of a fiery Oval Office exchange with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Graham said what unfolded in the Oval Office was a “complete utter disaster” calling Zelensky “disrespectful” to Trump.
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Video What Kaitlan Collins saw during fiery Trump-Zelensky argument 1:55
Feb 28, 2025
A meeting between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky devolved into a shouting match at the Oval Office today, with the US president berating Ukraine’s leader and Vice President JD Vance questioning whether Zelensky had demonstrated enough gratitude for US support.
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White House reveals who DOGE acting administrator is
Feb 26, 2025
Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday.
US citizen, Kalob Wayne Byers, detained on suspicion of drug smuggling, appears on a screen in the courthouse during a video link to a court hearing in Moscow, Russia February 15, 2025, in this still image taken from video.
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American arrested in Moscow on drug smuggling charges is freed ahead of Russia-US talks
Feb 18, 2025
American Kalob Byers, 28, who was recently arrested in Russia, has been released after several days in detention, according to a senior Trump administration official.
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Feb 15, 2025
Donald Trump appeared on Fox News in a joint interview with Elon Musk. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.

About

Kaitlan Collins is the anchor of The Source with Kaitlan Collins weeknights at 9pm ET and Chief White House Correspondent.

On The Source, Collins chases the facts, asks the tough questions, and connects with her sources so viewers can get the very latest in primetime. She secures exclusive interviews with political power players, including her headline-worthy interviews with Secretary Hillary Clinton, Vice President-elect JD Vance, Attorney Marc Agnifilo, Former Attorney General William Barr, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Trump’s criminal defense attorneys, GOP presidential candidates and more. In May 2023, Collins also moderated CNN’s live Republican Presidential Town Hall with former President Donald Trump, which was his first town hall-style event of the 2024 presidential campaign.

Previously, Collins was the co-anchor and chief correspondent of CNN This Morning. Prior to the launch of the morning show in November 2022, she served as CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Since joining the network in 2017, Collins has broken several stories in her coverage of both the Biden and Trump administrations, including major staff departures and consequential policy decisions. In those years, she covered President Biden and President Trump abroad, and pushed both on the world stage.

Collins was named to 2024’s TIME100 Next List and been included in Mediaite’s annual list of the Most Influential People in News Media since 2018. She was also named to Crain’s NewsPro’s 12 to Watch in TV News in 2019, as well as one of Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30: Media in the same year. In 2023, she was named on Variety’s New Power of New York list.

Collins joined CNN from The Daily Caller, where she served as the White House Correspondent covering the first few months of the Trump administration and the 2016 election.

Collins is a graduate of the University of Alabama.