CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Goes Hard at Trump Talking Point in Dogged Grilling

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Goes Hard at Trump Talking Point in Dogged Grilling of Speaker Johnson

Tommy Christopher Oct 1st, 2025, 7:59 am

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins called BS on President Donald Trump’s talking point on the looming Government shutdown in a dogged grilling of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA).

As a government shutdown loomed this week, Trump and the Republicans assailed Democrats with the talking point that, as Trump put it in an AI-generated fake video featuring racist caricatures, Democrats want to “give all these illegal aliens free health care.”

But that claim has been ruled false by numerous fact-checkers .

On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins , Collins pushed back on Johnson for a solid four minutes-plus,