Karoline Leavitt Gives CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Sharp Rebuke in Testy Exchange

Kaitlan Collins Draws Sharp Rebuke From Karoline Leavitt in Testy Exchange Over Portland National Guard Deployment

Isaac Schorr Oct 6th, 2025, 2:05 pm

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt got short with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a testy exchange at Monday afternoon’s briefing over whether President Donald Trump has the authority to deploy National Guard troops from Texas to Portland, Oregon.

The sparring session began with Collins observing that “A federal judge over the weekend that the president had appointed to the bench in his first term in office basically argued that he could not deploy other states’ National Guards to Portland, basically said that it was untethered, his argument, to what was actually happening on the ground,” before asking, “Which local offi