The conservative commentator Katie Pavlich didn’t want to give anything away before her debut as a primetime host for NewsNation, a cable news channel that launched in 2020 with the goal of attracting politically independent viewers.

Sure, she told the Guardian, she would leverage her relationship the Trump administration to try to book key decision-makers on her new 10pm show, Katie Pavlich Tonight, which launched on Monday.

β€œI think we’ll be able to get some pretty significant administration officials, cabinet-level members,” Pavlich, 37, said. β€œWe’re going to shoot for the stars and see where they fall – kind of thing.”

It didn’t take long for her connections to come through. On Tuesday night, the show featured an interview with Donald Trump, who had previously called Pavlich’s work on Fox News β€œterrific”, β€œfantastic” and β€œgreat” in posts on social media.

Pavlich, who guest-hosted on Fox’s The Five and filled in f

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