The Arena with Kasie Hunt
Kasie Hunt brings key players into the arena for sharp analysis and panel discussion on the latest news in politics and culture.
Episodes
June 3, 2025 • 46 mins
The clock is ticking as Senate Republicans try to pass a bill to advance Trump’s agenda. Can a tweet from Elon Musk kill the so called “big, beautiful bill”? Plus, the White House says it takes hurricane season very seriously after the acting head of FEMA seemed to say he didn’t know it existed. Was it just a joke?
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June 2, 2025 • 31 mins
The suspect in Sunday’s antisemitic attack will soon make his first appearance in court. Boulder Police say he used a makeshift flamethrower to set multiple people on fire. He has been charged with a federal hate crime and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terror.
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May 30, 2025 • 46 mins
Elon Musk says he is not going to totally disappear as he exits the White House. Musk addressed his time at DOGE and his criticisms of the so called big, beautiful bill. Plus, former President Biden speaks with CNN and opens up about his recent cancer diagnosis.
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May 29, 2025 • 46 mins
Multiple judges rule against Trump’s reciprocal tariffs but the White House just got a big boost from an appeals court. Plus, a federal judge hands Harvard University a major, if temporary, victory as commencement speeches take a defiant tone.
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May 28, 2025 • 46 mins
President Trump pardons a former congressman who pleaded guilty to tax evasion. This as we await the release of reality TV stars who also received a pardon. Plus, new peace talks are expected between Ukraine and Russia but can President Trump get Vladimir Putin to stop the killing?
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May 27, 2025 • 46 mins
The State Department is pressing pause on all new student visa interviews as the White House prepares to cut the very last of Harvard’s federal funding. Plus, President Trump escalates his public frustration with Vladimir Putin.
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May 26, 2025 • 46 mins
Police say a car plowed into a crowd of people during a parade for Liverpool’s football club. Plus, new evidence that peace is even further away in one of the world’s biggest wars as Russia launches new strikes in Ukraine. The attacks are prompting rare public backlash from President Trump against Vladimir Putin.
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May 23, 2025 • 46 mins
President Trump is weighing in on his fight with the nation’s oldest university, warning he may take action against other schools after a federal judge temporarily blocks a ban on foreign students at Harvard. Plus, stocks dip on Wall Street after new tariff threats from the President after he says he doesn’t want a new trade deal with the European Union.
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May 22, 2025 • 53 mins
A big win appears temporary as the Senate majority leader is telling CNN that senators are going to write their own bill after the House narrowly passed the president’s tax plan. Plus, a new escalation in the White House’s fight with Harvard is directly impacting students.
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May 21, 2025 • 46 mins
The President is meeting with Republican hardliners at the White House, pressing them to get on board with passing his spending bill as soon as tonight. Stocks are tumbling on fears the bill will hurt the deficit. Plus, President Trump welcomes the leader of South Africa at the White House and then launches into unsubstantiated claims of White genocide.
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May 20, 2025 • 51 mins
Right now Republicans are preparing for a critical vote on a mega bill to advance Donald Trump’s agenda but holdouts remain despite a personal visit by the President to the Capitol. Also, Elon Musk claims he is going spend a lot less money on politics.
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May 19, 2025 • 46 mins
President Trump fails to establish a ceasefire and pause the fighting after a round of high stakes calls with Vladimir Putin. Also, the latest on the cancer diagnosis for former President Biden. We look at the reaction coming in as he weighs treatment options.
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May 16, 2025 • 45 mins
In a loss for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump from moving forward with deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for a group of immigrants in northern Texas, siding with Venezuelans who feared they were poised for imminent removal under the sweeping wartime authority.
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May 15, 2025 • 46 mins
A look inside today’s explosive arguments which has the Supreme Court divided over Trump’s battle to end birthright citizenship. Plus, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer addresses 2028 rumors as well as the new book about former President Biden.
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May 14, 2025 • 46 mins
President Trump is in the Middle East juggling Iran, Syria, Ukraine, Russia and waiting in the wings is the jumbo sized jumbo jet controversy. Plus, Gavin Newsom’s announcement today is irking the progressive left.
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May 13, 2025 • 46 mins
New controversies hang over President Trump’s extravagant trip to the Middle East. We look at his new announcement on Syria as Democrats put up a Senate roadblock over the free jet offered by Qatar. Chuck Schumer joins to discuss.
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May 12, 2025 • 45 mins
Wall Street surges on another tariff pause as stocks close significantly higher now that the United States and China dramatically dial back the trade war for 90 days. Plus, President Trump is getting hit from both sides of the aisle over his plan to accept a free jumbo jet and use it as Air Force One. The country giving it to him is not exactly an American ally.
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May 9, 2025 • 46 mins
The President raises the possibility of raising taxes on some Americans and offers a new concession today ahead of United States talks with China tomorrow. Plus, a judge has ordered the release of a Tufts University student who was taken off the street by immigration officials back in March.
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May 8, 2025 • 46 mins
A 69-year-old man from Chicago becomes the first American to lead the world’s more than 1 billion Catholics. CNN is covering this across the country and around the world as Americans react to the election of the first American pope.
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May 7, 2025 • 46 mins
Stark new warnings just in on the state of the United States economy. We look at what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is saying about Trump’s tariffs as the White House prepares for key talks with the world’s second biggest economy. Plus, the search for the next pope continues.
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