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Brianna Keilar
Brianna Keilar is an Australian news correspondent, who currently works as a senior political correspondent and anchor for the Washington, D.C. bureau of 'CNN' network. She has been working for the channel since 2006, and is now a senior ‘White House and Congressional Correspondent.’ Brianna began her career with a 'CBS' affiliated channel. Apart from serving as a congressional correspondent for 'CNN,' Brianna has also covered the activities of the U.S. House and Senate, which earned her the 'National Press Foundation's 'Everett McKinley Dirksen Award.' Brianna is known for her bold interviews. Her unflinching style has got her several verbal spats with some of the biggest names.
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Born
September 21, 1980
Birth Place
Canberra, Australia
Nationality
Australian
Sun Sign
Virgo
Also Known As
Brianna Marie Keilar
Famous As
Journalist
Height
5'11" (180 cm)
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Father
Glenn Keilar
Mother
Miriam Allen Keilar
Spouse(s)
Fernando Lujan (m. 2016), Dave French (m. 2009 - div. 2011)
Children
Antonio Allen Martinez Lujan
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CNN’s Brianna Keilar: Being a Black Woman Has Been ‘Disqualifying’ for a Supreme Court Nominee Until Now

CNN New Day co-host Brianna Keilar claimed on Friday that being a Black woman has been “disqualifying” for a Supreme Court nominee until now. The White House announced on Friday that President Joe Biden would nominate U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. This would also fulfill Biden’s campaign promise to make such a selection were there to be a vacancy on the nation’s highest court.
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CNN’s Brianna Keilar Gets National Security Official to Say Russian Incursion Into Ukraine is an ‘Invasion’ After Relentless Grilling

CNN co-host Brianna Keilar pressed Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer on Tuesday on whether Russia’s incursion into Ukraine in the past 24 hours should be considered an invasion. The exchange comes a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the Donbas and Luhansk regions of Eastern Ukraine as...
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Oath Keepers Lawyer Defends Clients in Heated Clash With CNN’s Brianna Keilar: ‘It’s Not Illegal to Go Inside the Capitol’

CNN’s Brianna Keilar had a contentious interview with a lawyer for several members of the Oath Keepers — a far-right militia — who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs were among those recently arrested by the FBI and charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the storming of the Capitol. Attorney Jonathon Moseley, who is representing the pair, told Keilar on New Day that his clients are candidates for potential pardons from Donald Trump, which the former president just floated if he is elected to office again.
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‘Ultimate Moral Crime’: CNN’s Brianna Keilar Blasts Fox News for ‘Killing People’ with ‘Anti-Science BS’

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar absolutely torched Fox News for continuing to host a guest who spreads “B.S.” that is “killing people.”. On Wednesday morning’s edition of New Day, Keilar delivered a blistering commentary that was pegged to the viral conversation in which commentator Bari Weiss told HBO host Bill Maher that she was “done” with Covid, and called Covid restrictions a “catastrophic moral crime.”
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CNN’s Brianna Keilar Drops The Hammer On ‘Chief Propagandist’ Of Fox News

CNN “New Day” anchor Brianna Keilar on Tuesday tore into the “tsunami of disinformation jeopardizing American democracy” that’s peddled daily on Fox News. In particular, Keilar zoned in on prime-time personality Tucker Carlson — slamming him as the “chief propagandist” on the conservative network with his “gaslighting” of his massive audience.
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