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The Source with Kaitlan Collins

Kaitlan Collins goes straight to the source and chases the facts so you can get the very latest on The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
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Episodes

Trump Reigns In Musk After DOGE Chaos

Did President Trump just reign in Elon Musk? A look at what he told his cabinet behind closed doors today with his special government employee in the room about who has the final say when it comes to slashing the federal workforce. Plus, the reversal from the President that has the stock market not knowing what is up and what is down as he changes his mind again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 07, 202547 min

GOP Senators Push Musk To Let Congress Vote On DOGE Cuts

Elon Musk is on Capitol Hill, giving out his phone number to Republicans who have questions about his mass firings. We examine what they told him about Congress having a say on the matter. Plus, a surprise aftershock from President Trump’s trade war with Canada and Mexico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 06, 202549 min

Trump Pauses Military Aid To Ukraine After Zelensky Clash

As President Trump suspends all military aid to Ukraine effective immediately, we look at what the President wants from Zelensky after the historic clash at the Oval Office. Plus, shockwaves hit Wall Street as Trump’s new tariffs on Mexico, China, and Canada are set to take effect tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 04, 202547 min

Trump Accuses Zelensky Of “Gambling With World War III”

In an astonishing moment inside the Oval Office with ramifications far beyond Washington, a two-on-one shouting match emerged between President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Tonight, there are demands for an apology and even the suggestion of a resignation coming from Trump’s top allies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 01, 202549 min

Trump Says He Trusts Putin To “Keep His Word”

Another day another European leader imploring President Trump not to side with Russia. We examine why Trump says he trusts the Russian leader to abide by a deal as he’s just hours away from sitting down face-to-face with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 28, 202548 min

Elon Musk Holds Court At First Trump Cabinet Meeting

Speaking longer than anyone else at the table, including the vice president, Elon Musk holds court at the first Cabinet meeting of Trump’s second administration. Plus, Health Secretary RFK Jr. downplays the measles outbreak, misstates how many children have died in west Texas, and also was refuted by health officials on the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 27, 202549 min

White House & Trump Offer Conflicting Guidance On Musk Email

We now know who the White House says is actually running Elon Musk’s government overhaul. But, technically it’s not Elon Musk. We examine why it took the White House so long to reveal that as federal workers are still wondering tonight whom they should be listening to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 26, 202548 min

Trump Admin Backtracks, Musk Ultimatum Now Voluntary

Elon Musk now says federal workers will now get a second email to justify their jobs and failure to respond a second time will result in termination. Plus, more Republicans are now getting an earful from their constituents worried about how DOGE might affect them. Also, one of the nation’s most well known conspiracy theorists, who has never worked at the FBI but has spread false information about it, was just selected to be second in command. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice...

Feb 25, 202548 min

Trump Fires Top General In Major Shake-up At Pentagon

A major purge of the Pentagon is now underway as President Trump has just fired the highest ranking military officer in the country who still had years left on his term along with several other top military officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 22, 202548 min

Elon Musk Wields Chainsaw At CPAC To Tout DOGE Cuts

Elon Musk takes a wrecking ball to the federal government and a chainsaw to CPAC. We examine what he told the conservative gathering about slashing the federal government including thousands of jobs. Plus, President Trump and his top aides are ratcheting up the pressure on Zelensky to strike a deal to end the war that Trump claims baselessly that Zelensky started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 21, 202548 min

Zelensky Hits Back At Trump For “Disinformation”

President Trump didn’t say Vladimir Putin, the foreign leader who poisons dissidents, kills his opponents, and jails his critics, was a dictator. Rather, he said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a dictator. Plus, Trump is contradicting his own White House attorneys, saying that Elon Musk is in fact running DOGE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 20, 202549 min

WH Tries To Distance Musk From DOGE

The White House now says Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE and doesn’t even technically work there. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joins to discuss. Plus, an FAA employee who was just fired by DOGE joins to discuss what the impact of layoffs means for air safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 19, 202548 min

80 People Evacuate Crashed, Upside-down Plane In Toronto

A Delta Air Lines flight crash lands on the runway as passengers emerge alive from an upside-down burning aircraft. We have brand new details about what went wrong and new footage from the scene. Plus, Trump’s fight for more power now reaches the Supreme Court as he suggests he is not breaking any laws if he is saving the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 18, 202548 min

Turmoil At DOJ

Explosive allegations from the now former top federal prosecutor in New York who resigned after refusing to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. A look at what she’s calling a quid pro quo involving the top DOJ official who previously was Trump’s lawyer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 14, 202549 min

Bolton: Trump “Effectively Surrendered” To Putin

Trump and Putin vow to negotiate an end to the war that Putin started. A look at their 90 minute phone call today and the bargaining chips the White House may have given away and what we know about their plans to meet face-to-face. Plus, after getting stopped by the courts on several occasions, Trump got a green light on a key part of his plan to reduce the federal workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 13, 202548 min

Top Trump Officials On American Freed From Russia

Elon Musk taking questions for the first time since throwing the federal government into, as he puts it, a wood chipper. Musk defended DOGE and himself inside the Oval Office. Plus, an American teacher who was wrongfully detained in Russia for years is now free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 12, 202547 min

Musk & Vance Suggest Trump Ignore The Courts

A federal judge says the White House ignored his order and there are accusations that Trump has just defied another ruling. Warnings tonight of a constitutional crisis brewing as Trump, Musk, and Vance are all openly questioning the power of the courts. Plus, the President confirms he does want to eliminate the agency that protects Americans from being ripped off on everything from mortgages to credit cards to student loans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 11, 202548 min

Treasury Memo Warned DOGE Poses “Insider Threat Risk”

President Trump sets Elon Musk on a new target: the Pentagon. The young members of his team are facing new scrutiny as Elon Musk is rapidly expanding his scope while he seeks to slash the federal budget. Plus, President Trump confirms his plans to fire some FBI agents as quickly and surgically as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 08, 202548 min

Judge Pauses Trump Admin’s “Buyout” Offer To Federal Workers

The Trump, Musk midnight deadline for federal employees to chose whether to resign was just stoped by a federal judge amid an avalanche of lawsuits. Also, a look at what a source has uncovered about what Musk and his top lieutenants have tried to do with a critical Treasury payment system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 07, 202548 min

Elon Musk’s DOGE To Plug In To U.S. Aviation System

Days after the air disaster over the Potomac River, Elon Musk says President Trump has given him the authority to make rapid safety upgrades to the nation’s air traffic control system. What exactly does that entail? Plus, aides and allies are now attempting to explain what they say President Trump really meant about the United States taking over Gaza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 06, 202548 min

Trump: U.S. “Will Take Over” Gaza Strip And “Own It”

President Trump stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today at the White House and said all two million Palestinians should be moved from Gaza to other countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 05, 202549 min

WH: Elon Musk Serving Trump As “Special Government Employee”

New reporting on Elon Musk and his two week blitz across the federal government. New details on his role, his power, and his access to the Treasury’s checkbook. Plus, President Trump threatens United States neighbors with tariffs then backs off after getting Canada and Mexico on the phone. But, did he get anything in return? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 04, 202547 min

6 Aboard Crashed Medevac Jet In Philly Including Child Patient

Even as we are still searching for answers about the deadly plane crash over the Potomac in northern Virginia, a medevac jet with a child onboard crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia. The plane went down in the middle of a packed neighborhood with flaming debris hitting homes and businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 01, 202552 min

67 Presumed Dead In DC Plane-Chopper Collision

The deadliest commercial airliner crash in the United States in nearly 24 years after an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter collided. Nobody survived and so far 40 bodies have been pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River in Washington D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 31, 202550 min

RFK Jr. Faces Rocky First Confirmation Hearing

Democrats are unloading on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he fights to become the nation’s top public health official. Vaccines, chronic diseases, and conspiracies all came up. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins to discuss her explosive moment at the hearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 30, 202557 min

Sudden Stop On Federal Spending Triggers Chaos & Confusion

A federal funding freeze is causing chaos and confusion as a federal judge is slamming the breaks but only for now. We speak with a Senate Democrat who believes Trump’s latest move is illegal. Plus, inside the White House for the first briefing of Trump’s second term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 29, 202547 min

Trump DOJ Fires Officials Who Prosecuted Him

Trump’s new purge and the fallout tonight as the brand new president fires more than a dozen Justice Department officials who helped investigate him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 28, 202548 min

McConnell Votes Against Hegseth, VP Vance Needed To Break Tie

Senators have started the final confirmation vote on President Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon. Hegseth was confirmed after Vice President JD Vance casted the tie-breaking vote in favor of his confirmation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 25, 202553 min

GOP Senators Murkowski, Collins Say They’ll Vote Against Hegseth

Two Republican senators are a 'no' on Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon as CNN is learning Pete Hegseth privately told Congress how much he paid the woman accusing him of sexual assault. Plus, as President Trump terminates Mike Pompeo’s security detail, both Pompeo and John Bolton are facing threats from Iran without protection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 24, 202548 min
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