Anderson Cooper 360

Flights canceled.  Will there be airport chaos? How the government shutdown could leave travelers grounded starting tomorrow, and for days to come. Plus, a mind-blowing conversation with mentalist Oz Pearlman. How does he get inside peoples' heads? Anderson puts him to the test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a Democratic sweep last night says about President Trump, the midterms next year, and maybe the general election in 2028. Anderson talks with one of the big winners, New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill.  Plus, piecing together the first, and the last, fiery seconds of that UPS cargo jet crash in Louisville, as the death toll climbs, and the search for victims continues.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper anchor Election Day coverage as voters across the country head to the polls in the first major elections of President Trump's second term. We bring you all the latest exit polls, analysis, and up to date results.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The final hours before Americans vote. State and local races, with big national implications, and a president facing new and dismal job approval numbers, now weighing in on some of them. Plus, the president pardoned a "crypto king" who reportedly helped make his family’s company billions. So why is Trump now claiming he doesn't know the guy? We’re Keeping Them Honest.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the eve of nearly 42 million Americans losing food assistance payments, starting tomorrow, President Trump has just weighed in and suddenly seems to be trying to find a way to keep those food payments coming. Plus, what could have been a true Halloween terror. The FBI says it stopped an ISIS-inspired attack. CNN’s John Miller has details of what authorities say the plan entailed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Britain's Prince Andrew is soon-to-be evicted from his royal home and stripped of his title by his brother King Charles, in the most dramatic attempt yet to quell the scandal over the disgraced prince’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Plus, he is on the cusp of becoming the first Muslim, and one of first Democratic socialist mayors of America's largest city. Anderson talks with New York mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two federal prosecutors who described the people who attacked the Capitol on January 6th as a "mob" are suddenly suspended, and their court document is replaced. Plus, new images of the enormous destruction Hurricane Melissa did to Jamaica, when it came through as a Category 5 storm. And, Anderson's interview with legendary music journalist and filmmaker Cameron Crowe, who first made a name for himself interviewing rock and roll royalty in the 1970s when he was just a teenager. He talks about his new memoir "The Uncool”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Punishing winds, torrential rains, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded comes ashore, hitting Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. Plus, a deeply moving conversation with country music superstar Luke Bryan, about grief and loss. He's the first guest in the new season of Anderson's podcast, "All There Is.” The audio and video podcast is available right on our grief community page at CNN.com/AllThereIs or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest hurricanes ever measured with sustained winds of 175 mph, heading straight at Jamaica. CNN Meteorologist Derek Van Dam joins us live from Kingston and Anderson speaks to the prime minister of Jamaica about how the country is preparing. Plus, the president again does not rule out seeking a third term, just days after his former top strategist says there’s a “plan" and he’s going to get one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a major escalation, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sends the country's newest, biggest aircraft carrier toward Latin America, while the president considers targeting cocaine facilities inside Venezuela. Plus, if you thought TikTok was soul sucking for your kids, wait till you see what this new avalanche of online "AI slop" is capable of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The East Wing of the White House, and the 123 years of American history it embodied, is now reduced to rubble. This comes as the cost of the ballroom, and with it opportunities for donors to curry favor with the President rise. Perspective from former Trump campaign adviser David Urban, former senior adviser to President Obama David Axelrod, and CNN Presidential Historian Tim Naftali.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is defending the demolition of the White House’s East Wing. Months ago, he said the construction "won’t interfere with the current building." We're Keeping Them Honest. Plus, presidential historian and Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley gives his take on the extensive project to build a ballroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New reporting that the President is asking the Justice Department to pay him $230 million in taxpayer money for prosecuting him.  With one catch, top Justice officials have to sign off on it. The good news for the president: he appointed them, and one's his former defense attorney in the case. Plus, the co-author of Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir, on their collaboration, and the chilling revelations in the book.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He's up for a big job in the Trump administration but perhaps not for long: a new report of deeply disturbing text messages allegedly sent by Paul Ingrassia to a group of fellow Republicans. The Senate's top republican, Majority Leader John Thune, has just weighed in. Plus, with French authorities racing to find several priceless treasures before they are broken up and fenced, all we are learning about how four daring thieves broke into the Louvre and made off with them, including video of them in the act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Expelled from the House, convicted of fraud, sentenced to prison, and now George Santos is getting sprung by a president who says he was "somewhat of a rogue." Plus, after meeting with Ukraine's president, and talking by phone with Putin, President Trump now says that both sides should claim victory and stop the fighting where they are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton was indicted today on charges of mishandling classified information, the third critic of the President to be federally charged in less than a month. Plus, Chef José Andrés on the lifesaving work his group is doing in Gaza, with Hamas gunmen seeking retribution against Palestinians they accuse of collaboration, and hunger a daily reality.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After the U.S. conducted yet another strike on a boat alleged to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, the President confirms he authorized a CIA action inside Venezuela, and now he says he'll stop drugs from there by sea and by the land. Plus, a new report on racist texts by members of Young Republican groups , and the Vice President's claim that it's just, "what kids do." Turns out they're not kids--and they are texting about loving Hitler and calling other Americans "the watermelon people." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An ultimatum from Defense Secretary Hegseth to reporters: sign this pledge or lose access to the Pentagon. Find out which news organizations refused to sign and why. Plus, CNN investigates how scammers are stealing millions of dollars from victims using crypto ATMs and see how the companies who own those machines are fighting as they try to claw back what police seize in those transactions.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A historic day, more than two years in the making as hostage families are reunited with their loved ones. In Gaza, more than 1,700 held without charges by Israel, were released. Families are now reunited in the hopes that the war is now truly over. Plus, former President Obama sounds off on President Trump's second term, and how he says the guardrails of our democracy have been deliberately damaged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest on a massive blast at a military explosives plant in Tennessee that officials say has left 19 dead or missing, and law enforcement is treating it as a crime scene.Plus, the Trump administration following through on its threat to lay off federal employees during the shutdown. Tonight, the President saying he's targeting people who are "Democrat-oriented." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Letitia James, a longtime foe of President Trump, has been indicted by the same DOJ prosecutor targeting James Comey. Plus, celebrations in Gaza and Israel, and now we've learned 200 U.S. troops will be sent to help oversee the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire resolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, President Trump announced a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, at least what he calls the "first phase" of one.  The President says it will bring about a ceasefire in Gaza, and the release of the hostages held by Hamas. Plus, an arrest in connection with the Palisades Fire that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and killed 12 people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As former FBI Director James Comey prepares for his arraignment tomorrow, we have the latest on Attorney General Bondi dodging questions about what led to his indictment, and a whole lot more. Plus, the air traffic controller shortage is spreading across the country. Now, Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Newark, Nashville, and other cities are affected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump's battle to send the National Guard into blue states has him hinting at a new threat, invoking the Insurrection Act. Plus, it just got even harder to tell what is real and what is not. OpenAI's new video generator Sora 2 has some cheering at the possibilities and others bracing for a firehose of misinformation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the shutdown heading into next week, and the President posting bizarre meme videos, new reporting on concerns within the President's orbit about how it's all going politically. Plus, Sean "Diddy" Combs pleads for mercy at his sentencing. Details from CNN's Kara Scannell who was in the courtroom.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President admits his budget chief's mission is cutting politically blue priorities, with announcements of program cuts and job cuts coming as soon as tomorrow. Plus, House Speaker Mike Johnson's surprising answer when Democratic congresswoman Madeleine Dean calls the president unwell, and unhinged. Rep. Dean speaks to John Berman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shutdown hardball, neither side budging on what divides them. The White House raising the stakes with blue state spending cuts and federal layoffs now billed as imminent. Plus, new reporting on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new plan to strap top officials to lie detectors to crack down on leaks. We'll have the details, now that they've leaked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A government shutdown is now all but certain and the President says a lot of good can come of it. Plus, what President Trump said to the country's top military commanders about (among other things) their role in what he called "a war from within." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With just hours until the government shuts down, the ones who could stop it, didn't. Instead, they're starting to point fingers.  Tonight, John Berman speaks to House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. Plus, all missing individuals have been accounted for, police said Monday, a day after a gunman drove a truck into a Michigan Latter-day Saints chapel, opened fire, and set a fire that destroyed the building. CNN's Leigh Waldman has the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As new video of James Comey surfaces, and new details surrounding his indictment emerge, the President is asked, who's next? His answer and more with bestselling New York Times Trump biographer Maggie Haberman. Plus, tense moments in a New York City courthouse, caught on tape.  An ICE officer seen shoving a mother into a wall and then pushing her to the floor, all in front of her young children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The former director of the FBI has been indicted by the Department of Justice, whose leader, Attorney General Pam Bondi, was just days ago publicly urged by the President to indict James Comey. Comey said in a defiant video response that his “heart is broken for the Department of Justice” and wants to see this go to trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are just learning that President Trump could be close to getting both his wish and his repeated command: the prosecution of former FBI director, and longtime target, James Comey. Plus, the deadly sniper shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas that killed a detainee and gravely wounded two others. The FBI director posts alleged evidence on social media, what appears to be an anti-ICE message scrawled on a bullet allegedly found at the scene.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump at the UN, the speech that seemed to stun the gathering of world leaders, and his remarks about Ukraine, which may or may not mean he's rethinking the war there. Plus, new fallout from President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks on autism and Tylenol.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jimmy Kimmel is going back on the air. What went into Disney's decision and what his show's revival means in the President's running battle with late-night mockery. Plus, President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. roll out new recommendations on Tylenol, vaccines, and autism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President of the United States says since he won the election, media coverage of him is too critical, and he think it's "really illegal." Plus, with Charlie Kirk's funeral this weekend, we'll look at what's planned, and CNN's Van Jones joins us to talk about Kirk's personal outreach to him the day before he was assassinated.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New reporting on why ABC pulled the plug on Jimmy Kimmel, as the President's top regulator says he doesn't think this is "the last shoe to drop." Plus, democracy activist and former chess world champion Gary Kasparov joins with a sobering warning on what he saw happen in Russia when Vladimir Putin began targeting dissenting voices in the media.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show from the air, a network spokesperson saying simply, "Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely." The word came after at least one major affiliate group said it would not broadcast the show quote, "for the foreseeable future." The group saying it quote “strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk." Plus, three police officers killed in rural central Pennsylvania while attempting to make an arrest. We'll have all the latest details coming up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charlie Kirk's alleged killer appears in court as prosecutors lay out new details about the evidence against him and decide to seek the death penalty. Plus, a champion for free expression dies. We'll remember actor, director and environmentalist Robert Redford, with Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the reporters he made larger-than-life in "All The President's Men." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New evidence in the murder of Charlie Kirk, and new reporting that his alleged killer may have confessed online. Plus, Anderson's conversation with a very brave 13-year-old , who was badly wounded in the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, but still managed to save another student. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A suspect for the murder of Charlie Kirk is in custody. 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is charged with three felonies including aggravated murder, and is being held without bail. Kirk's wife Erika speaks publicly for the first time since the assassination. Anderson speaks to Utah Governor Spencer Cox, who is calling on the country to turn down the temperature after Kirk's killing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The manhunt for Charlie Kirk's killer grows. New evidence emerges as to what happened before, during, and immediately after a single rifle-shot fatally wounded Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The killer of Trump ally Charlie Kirk is still on the loose and a manhunt is currently underway.  Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot at an event at Utah Valley University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Israel goes after Hamas leaders in Qatar. What this means for the war in Gaza, the civilians being told to evacuate, and the hostages being held. Plus, the parents of Linnie McCown, killed in the Camp Mystic floods, speak out about the daughter they lost. They speak to Anderson about what they and other grieving parents have done to make sure this never happens again to other kids in Texas camps.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Congress released a birthday tribute to Jeffrey Epstein, bearing a signature the White House insists is not the President’s. Plus, federal immigration enforcement agents streaming into Chicago, the President pines for sending in troops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss is sounding the alarm on how tech companies and corporations are spending billions of dollars to essentially reach inside our kids' brains and give them dopamine hits that keep them glued to their screens. He also warns it's about to get much worse with artificial intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Under bipartisan fire on vaccines, billions in cuts for critical medical research, rural healthcare and more, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr goes before lawmakers, and gets an earful. Plus, a gathering at the White House tonight of tech CEOs. The guest list includes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to a White House official. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A bipartisan group of lawmakers joined Epstein survivors to pressure the White House for greater disclosure in the case. The President responded by saying again that it was all "a Democratic hoax." Tonight, Anderson speaks to Lisa Phillips, who says that she was 21 when she first met Epstein, and that she endured his sexual abuse for years. Plus, with kids back to school, Florida plans to eliminate vaccine mandates. We look at what it could mean for students there, and the precedent this could set for kids around the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This evening, under bipartisan pressure, the House Oversight Committee published thousands of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. Randi Kaye speaks to some survivors of Epstein's abuse. They share what they say Epstein put them through and  what they  want to see from the government. Plus, 80 years ago today Japan officially surrendered ending World War II. Tonight, meet one of the last Americans alive to know the terror of naval combat in the Pacific, including the sight of a Japanese kamikaze coming straight at his ship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said he had the emergency power to impose tariffs by executive order. But now, a federal appeals court says no. Plus, what the CDC chief's firing, and RFK Jr.'s oversight, mean for the agency and the health of every American. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight we learned the identities of the two children who were murdered Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. CNN's Shimon Prokupecz speaks to a fellow student, 11-year-old Chloe Francoual, who shares her experience as the shooting unfolded. Shimon got permission from Chloe’s father to speak with her. Plus, stunning developments at the CDC. President Trump's pick to run the agency has now been fired, and four top officials, some of the most senior and experienced public servants at the agency, quit in protest. Also, sources say HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is expected to name his deputy as the acting CDC director. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What should have been the happiness and excitement of their first week back at school turned into terror and heartbreak. An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed and 17 people were injured during a shooting today at a Mass for students at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Plus, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf region, we take you back to the floodwaters, and one of the most powerful moments we reported on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump tries to reshape the Federal Reserve by firing a member and pressuring its chairman. What it could mean to the economy if he gets what he wants. Plus, a story almost Taylor-made for anyone with a song in their heart, or a rooting interest in the Kansas City Chiefs: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

National Guard troops in Washington now carry weapons as the president orders a major expansion of the National Guard's role and talks about sending troops to Chicago next. Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson, joins Anderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The transcripts are out. Hear what Ghislaine Maxwell told the Department of Justice about the President and Jeffrey Epstein. And, Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, who serves on the House Oversight Committee, weighs in on the release and the first batch of Epstein files they received today from the DOJ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

American journalist Alec Luhn talks with Anderson about how he survived six days in the Norwegian wilderness with no water and barely any food after getting badly injured in a hiking incident. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge calls out the Justice Department for requesting the release of a few dozen pages of Jeffrey Epstein material when it has 100,000 pages of files but won't release them. Anderson speaks with Sky and Amanda Roberts, the brother and sister-in-law of the late Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump calls the Smithsonian museum "out of control," in part, he says, because of its focus on "how bad slavery was." Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University talks with Anderson about the President's latest comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said he’s begun arranging a meeting between Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin after a summit today with Zelensky and European leaders. The Ukrainian president, at a news conference, said he's ready for a meeting in "any format.” Anderson talks about all this with former U.S. ambassador to the UN and former national security advisor Susan Rice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump and Russian President Putin will meet in Alaska in a historic summit on the war in Ukraine. Former Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, discusses summit strategy with Anderson.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump warned Russia will face “very severe consequences” if President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to end the war in Ukraine during their meeting Friday in Alaska. Plus, the Nobel Prize winner known as the "Godfather of AI” thinks there's a 10-20% chance artificial intelligence will wipe out humans. His solution? Program AI with motherly instincts. He joins Anderson tonight. Plus, reaction from CNN contributor Kara Swisher.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House lays out plans for getting involved in what's on display at the Smithsonian museums, with an eye toward enforcing its view of American history. Plus, with troops arriving tonight for police duty in Washington D.C., my conversation with Maryland’s Governor  Wes Moore, home to Baltimore, where the President is also talking about taking over law enforcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Citing a crime emergency, President Trump says he's taking over the DC police, sending in the National Guard and is ready to do the same in other big cities. Overall crime numbers in DC are lower this year than in 2024. Plus, one of the most well-known Palestinian journalists, Anas Al-Sharif, is dead after being targeted in an Israeli strike. Four of his colleagues were also killed.  Clarissa Ward has details on the attack and the widespread condemnation that Israel is now facing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shots fired in Atlanta, and police believe the gunman was targeting the Centers for Disease Control.  A police officer was killed during the incident on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, authorities said tonight. Plus, the President names a date and place for his summit with Putin.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After weeks of tough talk, and a day before new sanctions are supposed to hit, President Trump eases up on Vladimir Putin. The question is why? Plus, he's now a Justice Department official, but on January 6th he was one of the mob at the Capitol. And video has surfaced of him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President calls the Epstein story a hoax, and “bullsh*t” and the Vice President says a dinner meeting on the subject is not happening. Plus, all we're learning about the Army sergeant accused of opening fire and wounding fellow troops today at Fort Stewart in Georgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The talks were taped. What Ghislaine Maxwell told a top Trump administration lawyer in her quest for clemency, and the possibility that they could be made public. Plus, the report is in on what doomed the OceanGate Titan sub on its trip to the Titanic wreckage. CNN's Jason Carroll has the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders arrest warrants for missing Democratic lawmakers, in a redistricting fight that could undermine who controls half of Congress next year. Plus, the Trump DOJ  launches a grand jury criminal probe of the Obama administration's handling of 2016 Russian election interference. This less than two weeks after the current President accused the former President of treason and said "it's time to go after people."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump deals with unwelcome facts on the economy by firing the official in charge of gathering the facts. The markets are not fooled and we're keeping him honest. Plus, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice in sex trafficking minors as young as 14 years old, is transferred to one of the cushiest spots in the federal prison system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, with his advisers trying to change the President's verbiage on Jeffrey Epstein, the family of one Epstein accuser is demanding answers about what then-citizen Trump knew, about what Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were doing. Plus, the hard lessons now coming to light in the Texas flood zone, where so many died, just a few weeks ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration says it wants transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, but a new court filing reveals how narrow they want our view to be. Plus, what happened at sea and on shore after one of the most powerful earthquakes ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City's worst mass shooting in a generation. All we are learning more about the investigation, the killer, and the lives he took, including two men who died trying to protect others. Also tonight, the president’s new explanation for his break with Jeffrey Epstein, his fixation with Epstein’s spa, and his lack of outward focus on Epstein’s victims. We will speak with the therapist who counsels some of them about how they are taking it. And the latest from Gaza on the mass starvation unfolding there and the growing pressure on Israel to do more to stop it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four people, including an off-duty New York Police Department officer, were killed in today’s shooting in Midtown Manhattan, a law enforcement official told CNN. The suspected gunman was tentatively identified as a 27-year-old from Las Vegas and police believe he died of a self-inflicted gunshot.  CNN has the latest from the scene.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aid workers in Gaza are sounding the alarm on what they are calling mass starvation.  Plus, Ghislaine Maxwell is given limited immunity in her meetings with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and President Trump does not rule out a pardon for her. Also, this week in Idaho, Steve Goncalves faced down his daughter Kaylee's killer in court and delivered a message: "you failed." Jim Sciutto speaks to him tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An extraordinary meeting today between jailed Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as the Trump administration tries to quell weeks of backlash over its handling of information on the case. In a post on X, Blanche said the interview with Maxwell will continue tomorrow and “The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.” Plus, President Trump's feud with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bursts into the open at the bank's headquarters, with a twist the President might not have anticipated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump was told last month by his Attorney General Pam Bondi that his name was is in the Jeffery Epstein files, sources familiar with the discussion told CNN. Republicans are making moves to subpoena those files from the Department of Justice.  Plus, heartbreaking testimony from the families and friends of Brian Kohberger's victims before he was sentenced to life in prison for the Idaho murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A CNN exclusive, newly unearthed videos and photos of then-citizen Donald Trump and Jeffey Epstein together. This, as some House Republicans defy Speaker Mike Johnson over the Epstein issue. Plus, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists that "no one has died" because the Trump administration dismantled USAID. CNN's Isobel Yeung traveled to Afghanistan to investigate. Plus, remembering Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary and often outrageous heavy metal singer turned reality TV star is dead at 76. Osbourne’s friend, former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins, shares fond memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House tries to deflect attention on the Jeffrey Epstein case as Republican Sen. Josh Hawley says releasing the grand jury testimony isn’t enough and calls for a hearing on Capitol Hill. We ask Anthony Scaramucci, Shelby Talcott, and David Urban where things go from here. Plus, what a federal judge did today at the sentencing for a former police officer involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid after the DOJ requested no prison time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking news in the Epstein saga on two fronts. First, the Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to release grand jury testimony from the case. Second, President Trump is now suing the Wall Street Journal. Plus, Anderson’s report on psychedelics to treat post traumatic stress disorder.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House is facing more questions on Jeffrey Epstein amid new reporting from the Wall Street Journal, which the president denies, that he sent Epstein a racy letter for Epstein's 50th birthday. Award-winning investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, of The Miami Herald, has been investigating the Jeffrey Epstein saga from the beginning. She's also the author of, "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump continues to face blowback from within his own base over the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Now he says questions about the case and all the action against him by Democrats over the years are “all the same hoax." Award-winning investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, of The Miami Herald, has been digging into the Epstein saga from the beginning. She's also the author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If President Trump trying to put the lid on the Jeffrey Epstein story, why does he keep talking about what’s in the pot? Plus, the President defends his decision to give Russia more than a month and a half to come to terms with Ukraine even as Moscow continues its attacks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Jeffrey Epstein case divides Trump world, with one staunch ally calling for a special counsel, and the #2 man at the FBI on very shaky ground. Plus, former President Obama's tough message for Democrats and who he thinks the party should focus on as they search for future leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Multiple sources say the FBI's number two was a no show at work today. Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Plus, a week after people in Texas Hill Country woke up to the worst of the flooding, President Trump tours the area and questions continue over FEMA's delayed response. Anderson speaks to Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who is calling for a formal investigation into FEMA's response to the flooding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hear what a firefighter told a dispatcher as floodwaters rose in central Texas, and what that says about the timeliness of the emergency response that followed. Plus, the broad-daylight assassination of a senior intelligence officer on a street in Ukraine. Was it payback for a string of daring Ukrainian operations inside Russia? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the death toll climbs in Texas, FEMA insiders tell us that internal red tape and cost-cutting slowed their response to the state's flooding, in some cases, by days. Plus, Vladimir Putin ramps up deadly strikes on Ukraine, and President Trump is asked again about those delayed shipments of weapons to Kyiv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Devastating news from Texas Governor Greg Abbott who announced that 161 people are missing in Kerr County alone after last week's flooding. That brings the total missing across the region to more than 170 people and at least 111 people are dead. CNN's Ed Lavandera and Shimon Prokupecz are on the ground in Texas with the latest. Plus, Anderson speaks to United Cajun Navy Chaplain Tony Dickey, who is providing emotional and spiritual support to families and first responders in the community. And a change in tone from President Trump when it comes to Vladimir Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Guadalupe River in Texas rose more than 20 feet in the predawn morning of Independence Day, killing over 100 people and leaving dozens more missing. Anderson speaks with one of the volunteer groups in Texas helping with search and rescue efforts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump takes a victory lap on his big bill. But will he still be celebrating when the political bill comes due and millions of Americans may be hurt by it? Plus, an alternate juror in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial speaks exclusively to CNN's Laura Coates on the prosecution evidence that landed, and more that didn't.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean "Diddy" Combs is acquitted of the most serious charges against him, convicted of the rest, and denied bail by a judge who cited the defense's own admissions of Combs's violence. What that means for Combs's sentencing. Plus, President Trump's sprawling policy bill stalls for hours, as Republicans try to round up votes from within their own ranks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jurors agree on some, but not all, of the counts in the Sean Combs sex trafficking trial. The judge has asked jurors to continue deliberating after they said they are unable to reach a verdict on one of the five counts. What their partial verdict may say about what their final decision will be. Plus, inside President Trump's newest migrant detention center, who it will house, and the opposition to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A marathon Senate voting session is underway, known as a “vote-a-rama,” where lawmakers are offering changes to President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” before a final vote. Meanwhile, Elon Musk tells Republicans: vote yes and say goodbye to another term. Plus, the man accused of murdering four college students takes a plea deal. How it came about and where it leaves four families seeking justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Supreme Court ruled to limit the ability of lower courts to issue nationwide orders that temporarily stop the government from enforcing a policy, giving presidents more unchallenged power. President Trump says he'll use it. Plus, new satellite new photos show earth-moving equipment at the Fordow nuclear site in Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The ceasefire between Israel and Iran continues to hold, but many questions remain about exactly what the state of Iran's nuclear capabilities are, as well as what their intentions are, and what will happen next. Today, members of the Senate were briefed behind closed doors by the administration with many emerging from the meeting divided over what they heard. Anderson speaks to Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former senior operations manager with the CIA Norman Roule, and retired Air Force general and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Philip Breedlove. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says the U.S. will meet with Iran "next week" about a potential nuclear agreement and maintains the strikes against the country's nuclear facilities caused "total obliteration.” Meanwhile, CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday issued a statement saying the agency had obtained “a body of credible evidence (that) indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes.” He goes on to say, “This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years.” This comes after an early U.S. intelligence assessment found the U.S. strikes on three nuclear sites over the weekend did not destroy the core components of Iran’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to sources briefed on the report. Anderson speaks to Norman Roule, a former senior operations manager with the CIA, who is now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former U.N. Weapons Inspector David Albright. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.S. military’s strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend did not destroy the core components of its nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early U.S. intelligence assessment that was described by sources briefed on it. The White House acknowledged the existence of the assessment but said it disagreed with it. Plus, those concerned about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza for Palestinians and the health and safety of hostages being held by Hamas and others are hoping attention will return to negotiations for a deal on a ceasefire and hostage return. Anderson speaks to Rachel Golberg and Jon Polin, whose son Hersh was taken hostage during the October 7th attacks and executed by Hamas.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump has announced on social media an Israel-Iran ceasefire. The White House says Israel agreed to it on the condition Iran stops its strikes.  And Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran has “no intention to continue our response” if Israel stops attacks first.  Anderson has all the new developments from Tel Aviv.  Plus, he gets reaction from two lawmakers in Washington, Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Colorado Democratic Congressman Jason Crow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tensions continue to rise in the Middle East with Israel and Iran trading more missile fire. Anderson reports live from Tel Aviv. And, Brett McGurk, the former Middle East & North Africa Coordinator for the National Security Council, talks about how we got to this point. “Right now, this is blowback on decisions that Iran has made from October 7th on,” said McGurk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN's Fred Pleitgen is in Tehran, Iran where he and his team have been hearing an increase in aerial activity over the city. Plus, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi talks with Anderson about a key report from the agency that has fueled arguments on both sides of this fight about how close Iran is to a nuclear weapon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump held a Situation Room meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss U.S. options in the Israel-Iran conflict. A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the President has reviewed attack plans for Iran, but is holding off to see if Tehran steps back from its nuclear program.  Plus, how domestic politics and a political divide the President faces over deeper American involvement overseas, could shape the coming days. Anderson is live from Tel Aviv.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices