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Caitlin Collins

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369 total appearances

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The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

I'm still a human, obviously, like I have lived experiences and thoughts and views on things. But I don't think that I have strong ideological opinions when I go into a briefing or a press conference on certain things. And what I want to do is here's the reporting. Here it is.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

I'm still a human, obviously, like I have lived experiences and thoughts and views on things. But I don't think that I have strong ideological opinions when I go into a briefing or a press conference on certain things. And what I want to do is here's the reporting. Here it is.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

And this is, you know, by apolitical and not biased, that doesn't mean that you're just saying it very mundane and straightforward. I'm saying here's the context and here's, you know, if you're being bullshitted, here's the answer to that. And you take with that what you will. You form your own opinion off of that.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

And this is, you know, by apolitical and not biased, that doesn't mean that you're just saying it very mundane and straightforward. I'm saying here's the context and here's, you know, if you're being bullshitted, here's the answer to that. And you take with that what you will. You form your own opinion off of that.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

And this is, you know, by apolitical and not biased, that doesn't mean that you're just saying it very mundane and straightforward. I'm saying here's the context and here's, you know, if you're being bullshitted, here's the answer to that. And you take with that what you will. You form your own opinion off of that.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Certainly, it's a very different operating environment than I think covering Biden or covering any other president, because they're much more in your face and will publicly say whatever. But I think, you know, as you're approaching that, you know, when you have these personal relationships with people, and a lot of them, again, I've known and reported on for eight years now, my...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Certainly, it's a very different operating environment than I think covering Biden or covering any other president, because they're much more in your face and will publicly say whatever. But I think, you know, as you're approaching that, you know, when you have these personal relationships with people, and a lot of them, again, I've known and reported on for eight years now, my...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Certainly, it's a very different operating environment than I think covering Biden or covering any other president, because they're much more in your face and will publicly say whatever. But I think, you know, as you're approaching that, you know, when you have these personal relationships with people, and a lot of them, again, I've known and reported on for eight years now, my...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

perception, is they're much more hostile publicly than they are privately. And I think that speaks to Trump himself. I mean, he is that way as well. He's very critical publicly, but if he's doing it off the record or he'll come back to talk to the media, his view is different and his attitude is different. Now, does that mean they love us and they're telling us everything behind the scenes? No.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

perception, is they're much more hostile publicly than they are privately. And I think that speaks to Trump himself. I mean, he is that way as well. He's very critical publicly, but if he's doing it off the record or he'll come back to talk to the media, his view is different and his attitude is different. Now, does that mean they love us and they're telling us everything behind the scenes? No.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

perception, is they're much more hostile publicly than they are privately. And I think that speaks to Trump himself. I mean, he is that way as well. He's very critical publicly, but if he's doing it off the record or he'll come back to talk to the media, his view is different and his attitude is different. Now, does that mean they love us and they're telling us everything behind the scenes? No.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

A lot of what you're doing as a reporter is trying to discern what's real, what's someone trying to knife somebody else, and what's the most accurate version of events that happened behind closed doors.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

A lot of what you're doing as a reporter is trying to discern what's real, what's someone trying to knife somebody else, and what's the most accurate version of events that happened behind closed doors.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

A lot of what you're doing as a reporter is trying to discern what's real, what's someone trying to knife somebody else, and what's the most accurate version of events that happened behind closed doors.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now?

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now?

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now?

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

That collision happened right before my show. And so we were the first show to cover it, really getting an understanding. That was when we found out that there were a lot of humans on board and probably none of them were alive. And we stayed on air till 2 a.m. that morning covering it. I got home, I woke up, and Trump was calling a press conference.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

That collision happened right before my show. And so we were the first show to cover it, really getting an understanding. That was when we found out that there were a lot of humans on board and probably none of them were alive. And we stayed on air till 2 a.m. that morning covering it. I got home, I woke up, and Trump was calling a press conference.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

That collision happened right before my show. And so we were the first show to cover it, really getting an understanding. That was when we found out that there were a lot of humans on board and probably none of them were alive. And we stayed on air till 2 a.m. that morning covering it. I got home, I woke up, and Trump was calling a press conference.