Kristin Anne Fisher (born July 29, 1983) is an American journalist. She was a
television news
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presenter and
White House
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correspondent for
Fox News
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from 2015 to 2020, and in 2021 joined
CNN
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as its Space & Defense correspondent.
Early life
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Kristin Fisher was raised in
Houston
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, Texas, the daughter of Dr.
Anna Lee Fisher
Anna Lee Fisher ( née Sims; born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984, she became the first mother ...
and Dr.
William Frederick Fisher
William Frederick Fisher (born April 1, 1946) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 and returned to the full-time practice of medicine. His ...
. Both her parents were
astronauts
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and physicians who practice
emergency medicine
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.
She graduated from
Boston University
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’s College of Communication with a
BA degree in
broadcast journalism
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.
[McCarthy, Ellen (April 22, 2011)]
"Weddings: Walker Forehand marries Kristin Fisher"
''The Washington Post
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Career
After school, Fisher worked for
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
-affiliate
KJCT-LP
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in
Grand Junction, Colorado
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and then ABC-affiliate
KATV
KATV (channel 7) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The station's studios are located at the former Worthen Bank Building on East 4th and Main Streets in ...
in
Little Rock
( The "Little Rock")
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,
Arkansas
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. In 2009, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked as a freelance correspondent for
ABC News
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/NewsOne and then for four years at
CBS
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-affiliate
WUSA-TV
WUSA (channel 9) is a television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with CBS. It is the flagship property of Tegna Inc. (based in the nearby Virginia suburb of McLean). WUSA's studios and transmitter are located at Broadcast House on ...
.
Fisher worked as a freelance reporter for
ABC NewsOne
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and
WUSA-TV
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. She covered the
2008 presidential campaigns of both
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
and
Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is an American politician, Baptist minister, and political commentator who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomina ...
.
In 2015, she joined
Fox News
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as a general assignment reporter
in its DC bureau, replacing
Molly Henneberg
Mary Janne "Molly" Henneberg (born August 13, 1973) is an American former news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She had joined the network in 2001 and was based at the network's Washington, D.C. bureau. Henneberg left Fox News in December 2014 ...
.
A few days before Thanksgiving 2019, Fisher's bureau chief offered her the position of White House correspondent, though he could not inform her what the position was at the time as he was only permitted to say that it was a position she would want. Fisher had been planning to host a holiday celebration for guests, including family members in town for a visit, but was intrigued by the secrecy, and trusting her chief, accepted the assignment. The day before Thanksgiving, she was instructed to pack warm clothes, and meet a man in a
Washington, D.C.
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parking garage, whom she took to be a
Secret Service
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agent. From there, she traveled to
Joint Base Andrews
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, where she was required to have all of her electronic devices temporarily confiscated, before being flown to
West Palm Beach, Florida
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. There,
President Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
boarded the plane back to Andrews, with Fisher the sole journalist on the plane. Back at Andrews, she and Trump boarded
Air Force One
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, and flew to Afghanistan, where Trump would meet with U.S. troops and that nation's president,
Ashraf Ghani
Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.
Born in L ...
, to discuss restarting negotiations with the Taliban.
[
In November 2020, Fisher pointed out inconsistencies and lack of evidence regarding Trump's attorneys' allegations of massive election fraud. She noted about ]Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (, ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 198 ...
"What he is saying in public — not under oath — is different from what he said in court." She also underlined Giuliani's false claims about the vote certification controversy in Michigan, as well as his refusal to produce any of his supposed evidence to the public. She did the same with President Trump's statements in December, when several Republican judges, as well as several Trump-nominated public servants, had rejected claims of election fraud. In early 2021 it was announced that Fisher would be leaving Fox News. After leaving Fox, Fisher joined CNN
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in July 2021, where she serves as its Space & Defense correspondent.
In 2010, Fisher won an Emmy Award
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for her bi-weekly segments on heroes in the greater Washington community. Fisher also founded a documentary film company, Field Mouse Films, which makes films for both news outlets and corporate clients.[
]
Personal life
In 2011, Fisher married Walker Harrison Forehand at the Church of the Holy City in Washington, D.C. She met her husband in Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
, Greece
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in 2003 while studying abroad.[ They have one child.][Katz, A.J. (December 21, 2017)]
"Two Fox Newsers Give Birth on Same Day"
''Adweek
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''.
References
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1983 births
Fox News people
CNN people
Living people
Journalists from Houston
American women journalists
Boston University College of Communication alumni
St. John's School (Texas) alumni
21st-century American women