Major Fox News contributor just moved to CNN!

A major Fox News contributor who has been there for well over a decade has now left and is joining CNN, effective immediately:

Kirsten Powers, a regular on Fox News for the past decade, is switching channels.

Powers is joining CNN as a political analyst, effective immediately, CNN announced Monday morning. She will continue to write columns for USA Today.

Her first appearance will be on “Anderson Cooper 360” Monday night.

Powers is the fourth Fox personality hired by CNN in the past 18 months, joining co-host Alisyn Camerota, liberal commentator Bob Beckel and conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham.

The timing of her move is newsworthy because it comes one month after the founding CEO of Fox News, Roger Ailes, resigned under pressure amid a sexual harassment scandal.

As much as I’ve disagreed with Kirsten in the past, she has been many times very fair and I hope she continues that legacy at CNN.


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