Ashleigh Banfield joined HLN as host of Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield in October, 2016. The two hour, live, Monday-Thursday program covers the day's most pressing legal and social issues, trials and hot topic debates with the host's own passionate point of view.

Just prior to hosting this program on HLN, she anchored Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield on sister network CNN. Banfield joined CNN in 2011 as co-anchor of the morning news show Early Start. Over the course of her career, she has covered breaking news from across the country and around the globe.

Banfield has reported from the scenes of the bombing at the Boston Marathon in Massachusetts and the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Banfield also reported live from the trials of George Zimmerman, Jodi Arias and Casey Anthony, bringing to light the complicated courtroom proceedings of each case, including the death penalty.