I did not expect to see this today! CNN’s Kaitlan Collins has been one of the nastiest, most outspoken critics of anything related to Donald Trump, but in a rare moment of shocking honestly, she actually defended and offered some rare praise for the Trump Administration, especially Katherine Leavitt. Watch here: WOW! CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reveals Karoline Leavitt DEFENDED her freedom of the press while on a trip with Trump “The Saudi Royal Guard freaked out and said I can’t come. Karoline said, ‘NO, she’s coming with the rest of the press!'” Imagine that. pic.twitter.com/KwWmlzNAVp — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 12, 2026 FULL TRANSCRIPT: When we were in Saudi Arabia and we were on a foreign trip with the president, and he came in with all the other leaders, including the Saudi Crown Prince. They famously do not like the media there. Right. Um, and, um, to put it lightly. And I asked a shouted question to President Trump, who had seen me when, when the US press came in. He didn’t answer, which is, I mean, that’s how it worked. You shout questions, they either answer or they don’t. Mm-hmm. It’s their prerogative. And then the world leaders left the room. The Saudi Royal Guard kind of freaked out because I dared to ask a question, and they’re not used to that there because they don’t have a free press. And so, they came up and they said, “Okay, well you can’t come into the next event.” Which was like 2 minutes later. And I was like, “That’s not how this works. I go in with the US press.” And they were like, “Well you’re not coming in.” And I could see them like whispering and pointing about me, and some of the younger White House staff that were with the press weren’t really sure what to do. And they went to Caroline. And to her credit, she said, “No, Kaitlin’s coming in with the rest of the US press.” Mm-hmm. And we went in. And so it didn’t become this huge issue because obviously if I had not been allowed in, you know, this is something that has happened with the North Koreans. When the President visited the DMZ and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the Press Secretary. And so to her credit, she without a doubt was like, “No, you’re coming in.” Right. Which I, I do think is important in that moment, especially when you’re kind of the US contingent abroad. And we don’t do things like they do in Saudi Arabia. Right.