Kari Lake won awards for overseas reporting. Now she has the job of cutting it.
In 2007, long before she was a rising star in the Republican Party, Kari Lake flew to Cambodia. This wasn’t a typical assignment for a television anchor in Phoenix, but she had a local angle. Cindy McCain, the wife of then-Sen. John McCain and a first lady aspirant, was traveling to the Southeast Asian country to raise awareness for land mine removal efforts.
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