{"id":1932811,"date":"2023-05-17T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-journo-who-sparred-with-trump-at-town-hall-nabs-chris-cuomos-old-prime-time-slot\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:25:35","slug":"cnn-journo-who-sparred-with-trump-at-town-hall-nabs-chris-cuomos-old-prime-time-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-journo-who-sparred-with-trump-at-town-hall-nabs-chris-cuomos-old-prime-time-slot\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Journo Who Sparred With Trump At Town Hall Nabs Chris Cuomo\u2019s Old Prime Time Slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-journo-who-sparred-with-trump-at-town-hall-nabs-chris-cuomos-old-prime-time-slot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932811&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins will take over the prime time slot vacated by recently-ousted anchor Chris Cuomo, the network announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Network CEO Chris Licht announced that Collins, 31, would host the 9 p.m. ET slot on weeknights beginning sometime in June \u2014 the highest-rated hour on CNN prior to Cuomo\u2019s departure in late 2021 \u2014 but the title of her show has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKaitlan will showcase why she\u2019s one of the top reporters and interviewers in the game. She is a smart and gifted journalist who we\u2019ve all seen hold lawmakers and newsmakers accountable. She pushes politicians off their talking points, gets real answers \u2013 and as everyone who\u2019s worked with her knows \u2013 breaks a lot of news. Kaitlan will expose uncovered angles and challenge conventional wisdom to make sure viewers are seeing a story from every side,\u201d Licht told CNN staffers in an internal memo.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes just a week after Collins served as the solo host for an often contentious CNN town hall event with former President Donald Trump, drawing both criticism and praise for her handling of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Peacock host Mehdi Hasan (\u201cThe Mehdi Hasan Show\u201d) wrote an op-ed claiming that CNN had \u201cset Collins up to fail\u201d when she was named to host the town hall, saying, \u201cThe network put its star anchor and interviewer Kaitlan Collins in a room full of Trump supporters, who laughed at their cult leader\u2019s crass jokes and applauded his cheap insults \u2014 including jabs at Collins herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a panel of commentators at CNN disagreed, referring to Collins as a \u201cmatador against a bull\u201d and praising her for holding her ground against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Like a Matador Against a Bull!&#8217; Kaitlan Collins Guests Heap Praise on Her Night After Trump Town Hall Fracas https:\/\/t.co\/mGHOkT1nO2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 12, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Collins previously served as a reporter for The Daily Caller and as CNN\u2019s White House correspondent \u2014 and has since worked alongside anchor Poppy Harlow and Don Lemon before his recent and abrupt exit\u00a0on \u201cCNN This Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/p>\n<p>Harlow will continue to host \u201cThis Morning,\u201d and for the time being, she will be joined by a rotating series of co-anchors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins will take over the prime time slot vacated by recently-ousted anchor Chris Cuomo, the network announced on Wednesday. Network CEO Chris Licht announced that Collins, 31, would host the 9 p.m. ET slot on weeknights beginning sometime in June \u2014 the highest-rated hour on CNN prior to Cuomo\u2019s departure in late<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1932812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4270,9373,6512,9165,10089,21426,8522,25101,27002,5073,9167,3634],"class_list":["post-1932811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-chris","tag-cnn","tag-cuomos","tag-hall","tag-journo","tag-nabs","tag-prime","tag-slot","tag-sparred","tag-time","tag-town","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}