White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a press briefing on Wednesday after Collins challenged her over the latest attack on the media by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Earlier in the day, Hegseth accused the “fake news” media of trying to “make the president look bad” by covering the deaths of American service members killed in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Six have died so far.
Collins asked Leavitt, “Is it the position of this administration that the press should not prominently cover the deaths of US service members?”
Leavitt responded by attacking Collins, her network CNN and the media more broadly.
She said:
