Anderson Cooper 360

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate as expected on Wednesday, marking a sharp policy turnaround for an economy increasingly shaped by the war in the Middle East. Plus, a new report on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s long-standing fixation on what the troops at his speeches look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new chapter in the debate over how to make AI safe played out today between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chips power just about everything to do with artificial intelligence. Plus, all we're learning about the shadowy Russian billionaire who bankrolled part of Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding celebration, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Could artificial intelligence kill us all by the end of the decade? That was the question raised last week by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, who said many at the company believe that it's possible. Then this weekend, the company's CEO Dario Amodei posted an essay in which he acknowledged that people may lose control of AI and called on industry leaders to “slow the pace” at improving the technology to avoid the wrong paths and the possibility of AI harming humanity. Tonight, we have Anderson’s interview with Dario Amodei, and reaction from his former employee Jacob Coxon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Anderson reports from ground zero and speaks with those who were on the scene, including Thomas von Essen, the New York City fire commissioner, and first responder John Feal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, says in a new paper that it blocked multiple attempts to use its AI models in ways that could potentially lead to the development of biological weapons. This comes as some industry insiders are loudly warning the technology could wipe out humanity within the decade. NYU professor and podcast host Scott Galloway joins Anderson to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the first time ever, the Republican Party is holding a national convention outside of a presidential election year. It's a gamble that President Trump, who will take the stage tonight, can rally otherwise unenthusiastic Republicans for the midterms. Plus, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial are speaking out about the one holdout who caused the deadlock, and Anderson's conversation with the now nationally famous defense attorney Kevin Reddington, about the strategy ahead and what sort of deal he might agree to with state prosecutors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Keeping Them Honest with what appears to be another instance of the Trump administration promoting its own sanitized version of American history instead of the real thing. It centers on new reporting in The Washington Post, that the administration has removed language, on signage and a web page, criticizing a memorial to the Confederacy formerly located in Arlington National Cemetery. A memorial they intend to restore and put back.  Plus, nearly 25 years after the day, new documents confirming what many suspected, the air near Ground Zero was less safe to breathe than officials let on; vital information the public simply was not told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look at what comes next after a murder trial that drew national attention, divided public opinion and left 12 men and women unable to reach a verdict. A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial today in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the former nurse accused of murdering her three children. Plus, after being trapped nine days underground by the flooding in Nepal, two survivors were found alive, with thousands more still unaccounted for.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stunning new developments in what began as a profound human tragedy, and has become a riveting courtroom drama that could come down to one single juror. A deadlocked jury has been sent home after a sixth day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy trial, the Massachusetts mother accused of murder after strangling her three young children in 2023. Plus, Vice President Vance tells reporters “I wouldn’t call Iran a war right now.” Anderson talks about that with Republican Rep. Pat Harrigan, a retired Army special forces officer who served in Afghanistan and earned two bronze stars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president says he's prepared to strike Iran again, in his words, "anytime we want." Even as he makes that threat, there is growing controversy surrounding the man in charge of prosecuting the war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and a new call for President Trump to fire him. Plus, after five days of deliberation, jurors are deadlocked over Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of strangling her three children. What the judge said today, and whether one more day could bring a verdict.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At least 1,050 people are dead and nearly 4,000 remain missing after Nepal's floods. A good deal of the search effort is focused on hydropower projects along the river, where authorities believe at least 900 workers are unaccounted for in tunnels in the mountainsides. Anderson speaks to a school bus driver who managed to save dozens of children, by speeding to higher ground as the flood was bearing down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to Nepali authorities, at least 900 workers at hydropower projects all along the river are unaccounted for,  and there is a belief some number of them might be trapped inside tunnels connected to the facilities. Anderson visits two different sites where those rescue operations are underway, and he speaks to Nepal's first female helicopter captain, Priya Adhikari, who has already flown around 100 rescue missions in the last few days since the flood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rescues, reunions, remarkable survival stories, but also the sad reality they might be the exceptions not the rule in the wake of Nepal’s increasingly deadly flood.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A frantic search is underway for more than 1,300 people missing after catastrophic flooding swamped a China-Nepal border region Wednesday, dozens of Americans are among the at least 700 foreigners unaccounted for. Anderson talks with an American doctor, whose parents had traveled to the region for a Hindu pilgrimage and are now unaccounted for, along with their entire tour group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Catastrophic flash flooding hit China and Nepal on Wednesday, with more than 150 people confirmed killed and the toll is likely to rise as hundreds remain missing. They are missing after a landslide sent a wall of water and mud several stories high, sweeping through towns. Plus, Anderson's exclusive conversation with Bill Gates, who is sounding the alarm on AI, warning about its potentially dire consequences and saying it should be "the world's top priority" to address them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, we remember the remarkable life of Dolly Parton, who died at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer after seven remarkable decades on stage, on screens, and in recording studios. Parton captured the American experience, penning more than 3,000 songs, and her bubbly, quick-witted personality and signature Tennessee twang captured the hearts of millions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Supreme Court ruling that could inject turmoil into the midterm elections, just over two months from now. Today's emergency ruling says President Trump can go forward with his recent executive order directing the Postal Service and Department of Homeland Security to take part in deciding who can or cannot vote by mail. Plus, the president's latest argument that he needs the ballroom for the new bunker that will go beneath it, and some new reporting from The Washington Post about a bunker that already exists under the White House.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, the latest test of the president's political clout. He is in Myrtle Beach, SC campaigning for Darline Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who is trying to turn her caretaker role in his former seat into a full-time job. Senator Graham faces a primary runoff next Tuesday. Plus, the is Navy considering taking the name of a decorated black WWII hero off one of upcoming new supercarriers, and possibly replacing it with the President's name. Is this another case of the administration whitewashing history?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, whose testimony helped make his old boss a convicted felon, is now doing all he can to win back the President. This evening, Cohen released a portion of a radio interview he did with the President, the man Cohen not too long ago called a racist and a con man. Plus, what awaits the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, when they return to the U.K., from the press and public alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, a complete change of course for Britain's most famous royal exiles. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex-- Prince Harry and Meghan-- and their two young children, are ending six years of self-imposed exile from the U.K. and their royal duties, announcing they are planning to move back to Britain. Plus, what appears to be some of the most promising news in a long time in the war on cancer. A new vaccine that can be tailor-made to fight an especially aggressive, and deadly form of skin cancer.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is election night in America once again, and there are key primaries and special elections in four states tonight: Alaska, California, Wyoming, and Florida, the one state where polls are now closed, and the votes are counted fast. Plus, breaking news on the war in Iran, and what President Trump is telling his envoys about negotiations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President taking aim, on several fronts, at friends of the United States, and cozying up to longstanding adversaries. Plus, the feud between the President and Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff. What Ossoff said about the president's priorities including, he says, the ballroom and traveling with a close female aide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a Russian-born American citizen named Ilya Beloozerov is gunned down by the FBI in 2024, the authorities refuse to say why they’d killed him. CNN’s Isabelle Chapman embarks on a sprawling investigation that takes her from the Mississippi parking lot where he died to Washington, D.C. to unravel the mystery: Why did Ilya abruptly leave his family and his job and head for the border with laptops and cash? Why is there still no official explanation of his death? And maybe most importantly: Was Ilya a spy?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, the man accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk, admitted he did it, and described the crime in chilling detail. Plus, the president dismisses concerns about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose sailors and Marines are enduring a record-long stretch at sea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two months ago, a judge said only Congress could change the name of the Kennedy Center and ordered President Trump's name removed. But today, The Kennedy Center's board, which the president handpicked and chairs, voted to put his name back up, though in a different form. Plus, food shortages, contaminated water, and living conditions reportedly so grim aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Iran war zone that mental health is suffering and sailors have been trying to jump overboard. What the Defense Secretary is saying about the reports, what the Navy is doing about the problem and the answers that lawmakers are demanding from both. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, an encounter, just outside Washington, which saw a U.S. citizen and mother of two looking down the barrel of an angry ICE officer's gun. Plus, the new challenge to the plan to charge early access to the president's social media feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's primary night in America, and once again the Democratic Party's progressive wing could score significant gains. There are key races in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and a crowded primary in South Carolina for the state's next full Senate term featuring Sen. Darline Graham, the late Senator Lindsay Graham's sister.  Plus, all we've been learning since news broke last night about the president's airplane switch up in the face of Iranian threats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to the Washington Post, amid a threat from Iran, President Trump secretly switched planes using an airport catering truck and left the NATO summit in Turkey last month aboard a military aircraft. Plus, what it's like on the still-unsteady ground in Colombia, after the worst earthquake to hit the country in a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal appeals has ruled that President Trump’s  controversial White House construction project is illegal without congressional approval. The president says he will take his fight to the Supreme Court. Today’s ruling is the latest chapter in a saga that started last October when the Trump administration began demolishing the East Wing of the White House. Plus, after weeks of uncertainty the Senate is poised to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, perhaps as early as tonight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to a source, Republican party officials are engaged in an intense effort to push Ohio Rep. Max Miller to drop out of his race in the face of abuse allegations. Allegations he denies. Plus, AI has created 16 new viruses. Some scientists herald it as a major medical breakthrough, while others worry it could eventually pave the way for a computer-generated pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rep. Max Miller remains defiant in the face of a growing chorus of calls for him to step down amid abuse allegations, which he denies. And he is not the only Republican congressman facing allegations and an investigation. All of it has anxiety spiking in the GOP for fears they could lose seats because of mounting scandals and potentially, control of the House. Plus, new details on a man arrested outside a Trump golf course in California. Authorities say he was armed, days before the president was set to arrive there.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Election Night in America with primaries in Michigan, Virginia, Washington state, Missouri, and Kansas. Plus, Jake Tapper joins on his exclusive interview with embattled Republican Congressman Max Miller. The congressman is facing allegations of spousal abuse and calls by some in his own party to step down. He is denying the allegations and vowing to stay in the race.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New reporting that President Trump is furious with the US Attorney for Washington, DC Jeanine Pirro, who also happens to be a longtime friend and former Fox personality, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN. Plus, tens of thousands of people evacuated as wildfires burn across Washington state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department is admitting that President Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was “botched,” and it is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of vandalizing the pool, according to a new court filing from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Plus, the White House says the president held the first-ever live, televised cabinet meeting at Camp David today. We look at the key moments over the years at the presidential retreat.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, two Republican senators holding up Todd Blanche's confirmation as full-fledged attorney general are still at it, even after a late-day meeting with him aimed at settling their differences. Plus, what the father of one of the Idaho college murder victims has to say about the convicted killer now wanting to pull his guilty plea and face trial.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US military has launched more strikes against Iran tonight. In a post on social media, US Central Command described the attacks as “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks” on US forces. Plus, what new court filings reveal about the government's case against former FBI Director James Comey.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US military intercepted multiple ballistic missiles fired by Iran in an attempted “surprise attack” on US forces in the Middle East, US Central Command said this evening. The attack came roughly a day after President Trump said the US had halted strikes on Iran. Plus, the president's meeting today with Israel's prime minister, especially given their lingering differences over the war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, President Trump wants the Supreme Court to take emergency action to let him restrict mail-in voting. Plus, after two weeks of strikes and threats of far worse from the president, it's all on hold tonight with Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to a new report, the president is weighing a massive new attack in Iran. Meanwhile, two sources say U.S. intelligence assesses the current bombing campaign is unlikely to get Iran to give in. Plus, what the Trump administration is doing in response to a report that Vice President Vance’s Secret Service detail is "fed up" with being used for personal and family travel.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, the part of the job President Trump says is the hardest: being on hand to welcome home America's war dead. But hours later at a political rally, the president suggests his fight with Iran isn't really big enough to be called a war.  Plus, Jake Tapper's new exclusive CNN investigation - 18 Days in Minnesota: The Killings of two Americans, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, new U.S. airstrikes on Iran. This comes after America’s top defense official was asked to explain how the Iranian military he said was "destroyed and made combat ineffective" just days into the war is still a deadly threat now. Plus, it was the crash of a Pan Am flight nearly 75 years ago that led to the mandatory safety briefings we get before every takeoff. Now, that long-lost wreckage has been found.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pentagon now says that nearly 100 troops have been hurt in just the last two weeks of war with Iran. That is on top of the at least three service members killed over the weekend, and new strikes and counterstrikes are underway tonight. Plus, what authorities in New York have revealed about the Army veteran they say lit a fire, set off fireworks, and brandished a rifle outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration is now turning the president's words on election security into concrete action, and threatening prison time for officials who resist. Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the chief election officer of a state President Trump singled out in his speech last night, joins.  Plus, new details on the moments leading up to last week's fatal ICE shooting in Houston. An attorney for victim’s brother, who witnessed the shooting, talks about the case.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

White House aides tell CNN that the speech will be forward looking and that the presentation will include newly declassified documents the president will say proves more has to be done to protect American elections. Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is from Georgia, where the president famously called up the secretary of state and demanded he "find” him 11,780 more votes. The senator joins to talk about what is expected in the speech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jay Clayton, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, avoided a clear answer on who won the 2020 presidential election during a confirmation hearing Wednesday. One of the lawmakers who questioned him, Democratic Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona, joins to talk about the hearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been directed to largely suspend vehicle stops until further notice, marking a major reversal in recent tactics. Trump's border czar Tom Homan says it is just a pause in policy. John Sandweg, the former acting director of ICE,  joins to talk about the updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Department of Homeland Security breaks nearly 12 hours of silence on a deadly ICE shooting in Maine, saying the officer was "fearing for public safety.” However, the statement did not explain why that ICE officer thought the driver was a threat. Maine Independent Senator Angus King joins to talk about what he knows about the shooting and what he hopes to see with the investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to new reporting by the New York Times, the new Air Force One does not have the same defensive countermeasures as the old one, including its advanced antimissile capabilities. Anderson gets perspective from former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Israel shared intelligence with the United States that Iran had recently devised a new plan to assassinate President Trump, two sources familiar with matter told CNN, adding another layer of tension as a ceasefire deal between the countries comes under strain. Plus, FBI Director Kash Patel is now at the center of a congressional investigation into his alleged abuse of FBI airplanes and other perks of the office. Air date: July 9, 2026 Guests: Pamela Brown Jonathan Wackrow Andrew McCabe Rep. Jamie Raskin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner said in a video statement Wednesday he was suspending his campaign, taking aim at the Democratic establishment while clearing the way for the party to select a new candidate to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most important contests of November’s midterm elections. “It’s not the false allegations though that have brought us to where we are. It’s the fact that they are being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure on us,” Platner said. Plus, growing questions about the new Air Force One, which the President Trump flew to Turkey on, but did not leave there on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A second woman goes on camera with her allegations against Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, as his staunchest supporters tell him to leave the race. Platner calls the allegations "categorically false" and says they come “from a person with a well-documented political agenda.”  Plus, new American airstrikes on Iran. “This is punishment,” a US official told CNN. “It won’t be over for a bit.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman said Monday that Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, entered her home without permission and raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship, an allegation Platner denies. The woman, Jenny Racicot, spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper and said the attack occurred in 2021, two years after she and Platner began casually dating. Jake joins Anderson with the exclusive conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We begin tonight, Keeping Them Honest, with the billion-plus dollars the president made, while many investors lost nearly everything from something he himself once called a scam. Plus, the wedding festivities for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have begun. According to sources, a rehearsal dinner is happening tonight inside Madison Square Garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, on Keeping Them Honest, the president's maiden flight on his new Qatari-gifted Air Force One plane. The new jet, an unconditional gift estimated to be worth about $400 million, has generated legal, ethical and national security questions.Plus, two climbers scaled the Empire State building, why they did it and what they're charged with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight we learned President Donald Trump collected billions of dollars through an array of cryptocurrency holdings, royalty payments and property investments last year, according to his latest annual financial disclosure released on Tuesday. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled on blockbuster cases on its final day of the term: birthright citizenship, transgender athletes, and campaign finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Supreme Court handed President Trump a significant win Monday by allowing him to remove the leaders of once-independent federal agencies at will. In another ruling, the court made it harder for Trump or future presidents to remove members of the Federal Reserve — temporarily blocking him from firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook over unsubstantiated allegations of mortgage fraud. Former federal prosecutor Berit Berger joins Anderson. Plus, New York Times investigative reporter Eric Lipton discusses how the president's family could stand to profit from a billion-dollar mining deal with Kazakhstan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran's state media claims their forces targeted several American army deployments in the region, although there is no indication yet that anything has been hit. Plus, Vice President Vance at the Nixon Library said Watergate wouldn't be as big of a story in today's world, suggesting Richard Nixon, just like Trump, was a victim. Air date: June 26, 2026 Guests: Lt. Gen. Karen Gibson (Ret.) Beth Sanner Timothy Naftali Jeff Toobin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At least 188 people have died and more than 1,500 are injured after a devastating pair of earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday, according to the country’s National Assembly president. Anderson speaks to César Jiménez, a resident of Caracas who survived the earthquakes, along with his family and pet dog. He also works with the aid group Project Hope in Venezuela and toured some of the hardest-hit areas today. Plus, a year-and-a-half after fire devastated the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, jurors have deadlocked on charges against the alleged arsonist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, the President threw down the political gauntlet with his own party. He was set to sign a landmark bipartisan housing bill that Republicans hoped to run on this fall. However, less than two hours before the planned signing, President Trump announced he was canceling the signing until he gets action on his controversial elections overhaul legislation. Plus, the latest on the deadly heatwave hitting France and other parts of Europe.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a primary night in America once again, for South Carolina, New York, Maryland, and Utah. In New York, two-term Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman is facing former city official Brad Lander, who is one of three Democratic House candidates running tonight with the endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. And South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson will win the state’s Republican gubernatorial runoff, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Plus, two reporters whose access inside the Trump White House has now gone into the remarkable and incredibly revealing book "Regime Change." The authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan speak to Anderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to a source familiar with the matter, Bill Pulte, the acting director of the Office of National Intelligence, the intelligence agency set up to help prevent another 9/11, has begun mass firings.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New diplomatic fallout from the president's longstanding habit of claiming people begged him for something. He told a TV outlet that Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni begged him for a picture with her at the G7 summit. The Prime Minister said that's "completely fabricated." Plus, a new report from the New York Times on just how far Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is going in his campaign against diversity in the military. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president defends his agreement with Iran and now suggests Tehran has made an "unconditional surrender." The agreement he signed contains 14 conditions.  In other words, 14 ways that this is not "unconditional." Plus, scenes from the ticker-tape parade and all-around jubilation for the NBA champion Knicks, and Anderson's conversation with actor and Knicks superfan Edie Falco, who was part of the celebration.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The text of the preliminary agreement with Iran is out, and late today the president signed a hard copy of it. The agreement hits pause on hostilities for 60 days of further talks, reopens the Strait of Hormuz, reaffirms Iran's commitment not to develop nuclear weapons, commits the U.S. to lifting sanctions on Iran, and outlines a $300 billion plan for Iran's reconstruction. Plus, more workers at the reflecting pool, armed with skimmers, trying to scoop algae that simply will not go away despite the president's $14 million renovation project and a lot of blue paint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is primary night in America once again and CNN brings you the latest on the races and runoffs in Alabama, DC, California, Oklahoma, and Georgia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just hours after the U.S. and Iran electronically signed a memorandum of understanding to move further negotiations forward, there’s a new report that top administration officials already have doubts about those next steps. Plus, new reporting tonight on California Governor Gavin Newsom's claim that he and is wife are being targeted by the Justice Department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An appeals court has affirmed a federal judge’s ruling requiring the Kennedy Center to remove President Donald Trump’s name from its building by the end of Friday. Plus, after months of war, weeks of a shaky truce, and 40-odd unfulfilled presidential claims that a deal to end the conflict in Iran is near, both the White House and Tehran now appear optimistic about what comes next. Both sides are now indicating they are close to reaching some kind of memorandum of understanding ahead of further negotiations to settle the conflict for good.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Late today, just hours after promising heavy new airstrikes and threatening to take a piece of Iranian territory, President Trump said a deal to end the conflict was at hand. Despite the president's pronouncement, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson has said the country did not yet reach a final decision on any agreement, according to state media.Plus, fans are still celebrating the largest comeback in NBA finals history after the New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs in Wednesday's game 4. Harry Enten gives us the numbers behind the game.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, new U.S. strikes on Iran. President Trump, who had warned earlier that strikes would resume, said the bombing will stop shortly, according to a Fox News correspondent, and that top Iranian officials called to ask him to halt the latest attack. Still, the president warned attacks could continue tomorrow if a deal isn’t reached. Plus, what Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Congress today about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another primary night in America, once again with serious implications for November and beyond. Voters in Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Maine cast their ballots today. As polls close, the focus is on the marquee Maine Senate race in which U.S. Marine veteran Graham Platner is expected to win the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN can now project that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman will be on the runoff in November, after Raman, a progressive, defeated Trump-backed, former reality show star Spencer Pratt in the primary.  Also, a look at the president's meltdown where he claimed, yet again with no evidence, of "rigged elections” with the vote counting continuing in California.  Plus, tomorrow's likely Maine Democratic Senate primary winner Graham Platner and whether voters will look past his multiple controversies this November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reaction from Maine Democratic voters after their party’s  Senate hopeful Graham Platner faces a string of negative headlines. Plus, according to a new report, President Trump said he'd like his pick for acting Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte, who has zero experience in national security, to start the process of firing people at agencies charged with keeping America safe.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Senate Republicans rejected multiple efforts on Thursday to formally kill President Trump’s push for a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were victimized by the government. Plus, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark speaks to Anderson about the development of AI.  Hear why he’s warning the world to go a little slower on the technology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Primary votes are still being counted in California, in races with potentially significant national impact in November. CNN's John King and Elex Michaelson have the latest vote count in the Los Angeles mayor and governor's races. Plus, with the ceasefire strained to the breaking point, Congress issues a rare bipartisan rebuke to the president on the Iran war.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, big primaries in six states, some of them central to which party controls Congress next year. Californians are voting in a massive gubernatorial primary to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom and in several House races under a new congressional map that aims to help Democrats flip as many as five Republican seats. There is also a tight contest for mayor of Los Angeles. And in Iowa, voters are picking candidates for the House, Senate and governor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, after two courts ruled against it and some Republican lawmakers all-but-mutinied over it, the DOJ is hitting pause on the president’s so-called "anti-weaponization fund.” Plus, exclusive reporting from CNN's Clarissa Ward, who gained extraordinary access to the so-called "red zone" at a hospital in Bunia, the epicenter of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, a string of legal setbacks for the president on two things he holds dear: his name on buildings, and money. Plus, CNN's Will Ripley is exclusively reporting from the scene as the first man rescued from a flooded cave in Laos sees the light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US and Iran reached a tentative agreement to open the Strait of Hormuz and start nuclear talks, according to US officials,  though President Trump has not signed off on it yet. Vice President JD Vance said “a couple of language points” are still under discussion. Plus, all the details of the president's Ultimate Fighting Championship match at the White House as part of America's 250th celebration, as well as his own 80th birthday on June 14th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Exclusive CNN reporting that the Justice Department is now investigating former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The investigation is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury in testimony tied to her two civil lawsuits against the president. Plus, five out of seven people who've been stuck in a flooded Laos cave for more than a week are located alive. Now there’s the challenge of getting them out and finding the two missing people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is primary election night in America, and the focus is on Texas where the outcome of a single Republican runoff tonight could reshape the Senate this fall. Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn faces Trump-backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The winner will advance and take on Democratic nominee James Talarico in one of the country’s highest-profile Senate races. Plus, Iran is now threatening retaliation for American strikes and Israel is deepening its action in Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president is standing by his nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund," which even the administration admits could give money to violent January 6th offenders. Plus, more on the president's endorsement of Republican challenger Ken Paxton over the party’s incumbent Senator John Cornyn in Tuesday's Texas primary runoff. A move that some worry could backfire in November, perhaps even turning the seat and the Senate blue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Backlash is growing to President Trump's so-called "anti-weaponization" fund and a critical piece of it is coming from Republican lawmakers, one of whom today called it "stupid on stilts.” Plus, Stephen Colbert is signing off tonight after nearly 11 years as host of the CBS “Late Show.” Anderson looks back at some of their favorite conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first-known legal challenge to the president's so-called anti-weaponization fund. What many Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling a "slush fund". The challenge is being brought by two police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th, and one of those officers, Harry Dunn, speaks to Anderson. Plus, could central Africa's Ebola outbreak travel elsewhere? Dr. Sanjay Gupta on what makes this virus spread and kill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Americans in six states are voting today: Oregon, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Georgia, and all eyes are on Kentucky, where CNN projects that incumbent Republican Congressman Thomas Massie will lose to Trump-backed primary challenger, retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein. Plus, a new revelation about the already stunning agreement between the president and his IRS, which could send hundreds of millions of dollars to January 6th insurrectionists. Now, the deal includes potentially huge tax relief for the president and his family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three people, including a security guard, were killed in a shooting today at San Diego’s largest mosque, authorities said. Two teen suspects also were found dead in a car near the scene. One of the suspects took a firearm from their parents’ home and left a suicide note that contained writings about racial pride, law enforcement officials told CNN. Hate speech was also scrawled on one of the weapons, they said. Plus, a shocking settlement to the president's $10 billion lawsuit against the government he runs, the nearly $1.8 billion of your money the deal contains, and the January 6th insurrectionists who'll likely be getting it. We're Keeping Them Honest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump has returned after a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In a Fox interview, Trump said Taiwan was the “most important” issue for Xi during their talks. As for Iran, China's foreign minister today simply restated his country's desire to see the conflict ended through negotiations, and the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Plus, a new report on a plan the administration is considering to turn $1.7 billion of your money into a fund for paying the president's allies, including hundreds of people, whom the president pardoned, charged or were convicted in connection with the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are awaiting a second day of critical talks in Beijing between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. President Trump, speaking to Fox's Sean Hannity, said President Xi would like to see a deal made with Iran. Tump also said Xi told him "if he can be of any help at all" he would. China's foreign ministry did say that the Middle East was among the topics the two leaders discussed and that Beijing's policy on the Strait of Hormuz has been quote, "consistent and clear." However, there was no indication that Xi had made any commitments of the kind the president described. Also, tech titans, including Elon Musk, are traveling with the president. We look at the role they are playing and what they might hope to gain by their presence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is in China and will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a summit where he’s expected to discuss a range of issues, including Iran, tech and Taiwan. It was delayed by the war with Iran and now could end up dominated by it, with the political and economic consequences growing, for a president who cannot seem to find a way out on his own. Plus, a stunning development in the Alex Murdaugh saga. Why a court threw out his murder convictions in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, Anderson's exclusive interview with former acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll. Driscoll had a front row seat to what happened inside the FBI when President Trump took office last January, and long-serving FBI agents and prosecutors at the Department of Justice began to get fired or forced into retirement. Driscoll himself was fired a little more than six months following the inauguration, after 21 years in public service, nearly 18 of them at the FBI. Now Brian Driscoll is speaking out, and along with two other former senior FBI officials is suing Director Patel, the FBI, Justice Department and the administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, there are two new confirmed cases of hantavirus and more expected, but top health officials say there's no indication that this outbreak, which has already taken three lives, will turn catastrophic. Plus, in the wake of a string of antisemitic attacks in Europe, CNN investigates possible links to Iran.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Six cases of hantavirus have now been confirmed and two more suspected, while the ship at the center of the deadly outbreak travels to Spain’s Canary Islands. Plus, we're learning about the cyberattack on a cloud-based digital hub used by millions of students around the world and just in time for finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have breaking news on the deadly hantavirus outbreak on board a cruise ship. Health officials now say they are working to track more than two dozen passengers who left the vessel almost two weeks ago.  Plus, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's meeting with Pope Leo, and the ongoing antagonism by his boss, the president, against the pontiff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran is expected to respond tomorrow regarding the U.S. proposal to end the war. The one-page memorandum would declare an end to the conflict and trigger a 30-day period resolving nuclear demands, unfreezing of Iranian assets and negotiating security in the Strait of Hormuz, one person familiar told CNN. We'll go live to Islamabad, Pakistan, where this could all come together, or fall apart, in the days ahead. Plus, remembering CNN founder Ted Turner, who died today at the age of 87.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just hours after his Secretary of State flat out said the initial mission against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, was over, President Trump said the operation that replaced it is on pause. The president said the US will pause “Project Freedom,” a naval effort aimed at guiding commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, to see whether a deal with Iran can be finalized.  Also, a major test tonight of the president's grip on his own party. We have results from Indiana where the president is seeking revenge on seven Republican state senators who defied him and helped defeat his redistricting effort there late last year. Plus, a look ahead at tonight's CNN debate between the seven top contenders in a crowded and consequential race to become California's next governor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, how to square the president's initiative for securing the Strait of Hormuz with how relatively easy it is to shut it down with mines. Plus, is Vladimir Putin bracing for a coup attempt? What a new intelligence report, obtained by CNN, says about that, and the steps he seems to be taking to reduce the risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump, late tonight, claiming those who say the United States is not winning the war with Iran, are guilty of treason, which is an offense that can be punishable by death. The president also said today he’s not satisfied with Iran’s latest peace proposal and cast doubt on the country’s ability to ever make a deal. Plus, Anderson's conversation today with the Artemis II crew back from their history-making mission around the moon that captured the world's attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New footage has been released, showing the moments before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that President Donald Trump and administration officials attended at the Washington Hilton hotel in DC on Saturday night. Prosecutors filed the video, along with other images of the alleged attacker, his hotel room, and the other weapons and gear the suspect allegedly had, including a pistol, knives and tape. Plus, a new report tonight on a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein that's been kept hidden for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran is expected to submit a revised peace proposal soon, sources say, and President Trump and Russian President Vladimir discussed the Iran ceasefire and other topics in a 90-minute phone call. The President told reporters Putin said he’d “like to be involved” in helping settle the issue of Iranian nuclear enrichment. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee in his first testimony since the war began, describing lawmakers who criticize the effort as “the biggest adversary.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Tuesday over a photo of seashells officials said threatened President Donald Trump, marking the administration’s second attempt to prosecute one of his biggest political opponents, three sources first told CNN. An arrest warrant has now been issued for Comey, but it’s unclear whether he will be taken into custody by law enforcement or turn himself in and tonight, Mr. Comey responded to the charges. Plus, an historic day in Washington, as King Charles becomes only the second British royal ever to address a joint meeting of Congress.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices