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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

The alleged attacker at the White House Correspondents' Dinner is charged with attempted assassination of the president. Plus, CNN's investigative team takes a deep dive into the alleged gunman's social media accounts that show a turn from video gaming to political anger. And, Anderson speaks to mentalist Oz Pearlman about how he found himself face-to-face with the President on the ground after the gunshots rang out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking news tonight, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Pakistan tomorrow for talks with Iran, according to the White House. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is in Pakistan to meet with mediators, but his spokesman denied a direct meeting is planned with the U.S., marking the latest conflicting messages from Washington and Tehran. Plus, the far-reaching impact from not only the war in Iran but also fighting on the Israeli-Lebanon border. Vast amounts of food, oil, and supplies stuck on ships, and threatening the global supply chain.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says “don't rush me" when asked how long he'd wait for a "unified response" from the Iranians, and tells Americans to anticipate spending more money on gasoline “for a little while.”  Plus, a U.S. special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, winning him $400,000 in profits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House says President Trump has not set a “firm deadline to receive an Iranian proposal” to end the war. Plus, the New York Times is reporting tonight that the FBI began investigating one of their reporters last month after she wrote an article about Director Kash Patel's girlfriend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump extends the Iran ceasefire with the deadline looming. And Iran calls that a “ploy to buy time for a surprise strike.” Plus, Virginia voters will approve a map that gives Democrats the chance to net as many as four US House seats, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, in a major boost to the party’s effort to win House control in the midterms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tenuous ceasefire with a deadline pushed back by President Trump, planned peace talks on shaky ground and Iran vowing retaliation for what it calls "U.S. armed piracy." Plus, the community of Shreveport, Louisiana is grieving tonight after the unthinkable. A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iranian sources tell CNN a new round of peace talks with U.S. negotiators is expected to take place on Monday in Islamabad, Pakistan. We talk it over with U.S. Army Lieutenant General Karen Gibson, who previously served as director of intelligence for U.S. Central Command and Ryan Crocker, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Kuwait. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Earlier today, Defense Secretary Hegseth's warned Iran that the U.S. is "locked and loaded" to target "critical dual-use infrastructure," meaning equipment or buildings or technology that has both military and civilian applications. His message to Tehran: “Choose wisely” on the next step. John Bolton, who served as national security adviser in the first Trump administration and U.N. ambassador under President George W. Bush, joins Anderson to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump continues his AI relationship with Jesus and his critique of Pope Leo. The President re-posts an AI image of himself being embraced by the son of God. That’s after he claimed the Jesus-like AI image he posted earlier this week was meant to depict him as a doctor. We get reaction to all this from Andrew Sullivan, Catholic writer and editor of The Daily Dish.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said “something could be happening” over the next two days as the U.S. and Iran try to come back to the negotiating table. Anderson Cooper speaks to the New York Times' Maggie Haberman on what she's hearing from Trump world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump launches a feud with the Pope and posts a Jesus-like image of himself but says "I thought it was me as a doctor.” And with the president vowing to sink Iranian military ships in the Strait of Hormuz and talks with Iran ending in Islamabad over the weekend without an agreement, a group of Democratic senators are pushing to rein in his war powers. Anderson talks with one of them, Senator Cory Booker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Concluding a monumental and risky 10-day journey around the moon, the crew of Artemis II have successfully splashed down off the coast of San Diego. A special edition of AC360 brings you all the latest details of the mission that took astronauts farther from Earth than anyone in human history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Concluding a monumental and risky 10-day journey around the moon, the crew of Artemis II have successfully splashed down off the coast of San Diego. A special edition of AC360 brings you all the latest details of the mission that took astronauts farther from Earth than anyone in human history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, new strikes by Israel on Lebanon and a flurry of new threats from President Trump against Iran. Posting on Truth Social he wrote, "There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!" Plus, the surprising statement from First Lady Melania Trump talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There is a truce in the war with Iran that the public has yet to see in writing, the details of which both sides are disputing, right down to whether all the parties have to cease all their firing. Beirut suffered heavy damage today, as Israel launched what its military officials called the largest coordinated strike on Lebanon since the war began. Plus, Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, is declining to release its latest model to the general public out of concern over what it’s capable of doing in the wrong hands. Instead, it’s letting several top tech companies test it first. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman joins us to talk about what this new step in AI means for the world and the darker side of its new capabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After Trump’s bellicose threats, which rattled markets and shocked and consciences, a ceasefire has been announced with Iran. Trump said the ceasefire agreement was made on the condition that Iran agree to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz. Anderson talks with House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries about the ceasefire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump tells Iran to strike deal by 8pm ET Tuesday or bridges and power will be “decimated” and claims the country could be “taken out in one night.”  Plus, the crew of Artemis II has just traveled farther from Earth than any humans ever have, and they've seen places on the moon that no one has seen in person before. We'll check in on their historic mission.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran shoots down one U.S. Air Force jet, hits and damages another, and reportedly fires on an American rescue helicopter as well. An American airman is missing and being searched for by both sides. Plus, details on a picture-perfect day for the crew of Artemis II, the first humans speeding to the moon in more than 50 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general. The president announced it online posting "We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future." She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said. Plus, after completing the critical translunar injection burn, the Orion spacecraft and the Artemis II crew are officially on their way to the moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, President Trump addresses the nation on the Iran war, and he will repeat his intention to end the war within the next three weeks, according to a White House official. Plus, breaking news about another potential cabinet shakeup. The president has privately mused about firing Attorney General Pam Bondi and replacing her with EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. This is CNN's special coverage with John Berman and Kaitlan Collins.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said today the war with Iran could be done within two to three weeks, regardless of a deal. The president also said reopening the Strait of Hormuz should be other countries’ problem, saying it’ll be up to them to secure the critical waterway. Plus, the personal life of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's husband is now under scrutiny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iranian strikes hit a large Kuwaiti oil tanker anchored in a Dubai port, Kuwait’s state news agency KUNA reported on Tuesday. Markets are already responding; the price of oil futures are already rising.Plus, the FBI revealed new details about the attack on a Michigan synagogue earlier this month, confirming the assailant was inspired by Hezbollah, when he rammed a pickup into a building with more than a hundred children inside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Several US service members were injured by an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, a US official tells CNN. Earlier today, President Trump said the war with Iran is “not finished yet” and the US has “another 3,554” targets left to hit. Plus, golf legend Tiger Woods is arrested on suspicion of DUI after a rollover crash in Florida, and it’s not his first vehicle mishap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said the US will hold off on targeting Iranian energy sites another 10 days as “talks are ongoing” with Tehran. The pause on strikes had been set to expire Friday. Plus, the president once again turns dyslexia, a learning disability, into a weapon against Gavin Newsom and kids everywhere who struggle with it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

U.S. Central Command reports that American forces have now struck more than 10,000 military targets since the operation against Iran began. Soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division are heading to the region. Meanwhile, Iran has been fortifying Kharg Island against a potential ground assault, according to multiple sources familiar with U.S. intelligence. Plus, tech journalist Kara Swisher on a jury's landmark decision in a case against YouTube and Meta, which were accused of creating addictive social media products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More American ground forces are heading to the Mideast, even as the president talks about a peace deal, teases what he calls a "big present" from Iran and declares victory (again). Plus, Democrats have just flipped a deep-red Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago in a special election. CNN's John King has the latest.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two pilots were killed and 41 people were taken to hospitals after an Air Canada flight struck a Port Authority fire rescue vehicle on a runway at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, officials said. Plus, President Trump backs away from his threat to obliterate Iranian power plants, claiming there have been quote "major points of agreement" in new talks with Tehran. Tehran, however, says there are no talks.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thousands more US ground forces are heading to the Gulf as President Trump claims the fighting could soon be over. Sources inside the intelligence community and the administration tell CNN that unclogging the Strait of Hormuz is a problem without a clear solution.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump downplays Americans' growing pain at the pump and acknowledges that the Pentagon will be asking for an additional $200 billion to fight the war in Iran. The President called it, “a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top.” Plus, what we're learning about the drones that were spotted recently near the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New and rare Iranian strikes target the Saudi Arabia’s capital. According to CNN's Nic Robertson, some of the explosions occurred not far from where a high-level meeting of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers was taking place. Plus, Anderson speaks to the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, who questioned DNI Tulsi Gabbard about why she failed to read the part of her opening statement that cast doubt on the president's justification for going to war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight there are new strikes on the U.S. embassy in Iraq, and the U.S. military dropped 5,000-pound, GPS-guided bombs to blow up Iranian missile sites threatening ships in the Gulf. Back home, top national security official Joe Kent became the first senior administration member to quit over the war. Quoting now from his resignation letter to the president: "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says the fighting will be "wrapped up soon," even as the repercussions of it grow and strikes by Iran continue. One of the world's biggest gas fields in the United Arab Emirates was hit today, and Iranian drones also hit an oil tank farm near the Dubai airport this morning.  When the president was asked whether he was surprised he wasn’t briefed that Iran could strike neighboring countries, he told reporters, “No, the greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit.” Plus, Anderson speaks to a friend and mentor of U.S. Air Force Captain Ariana Savino, one of the six crew members killed when their refueling plane went down in Iraq.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, a serious escalation in the war with President Trump on social media posting,  "Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island." Plus, inside Jeffrey Epstein's Little Saint James Island, where he wooed the wealthy and authorities say he abused girls and young women. What's revealed about the Caribbean location in the DOJ's files.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A suspect is dead after ramming a vehicle into a Detroit-area synagogue. Law enforcement sources tell CNN the vehicle is registered to a man originally from Lebanon, and authorities are investigating reports that he had family members who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in recent days. And, in Virginia, a fatal shooting at Old Dominion University is being investigated by the FBI as an act of terrorism. The attacker has been identified as a veteran who has served prison time for trying to aid ISIS. Also, Iran threatened to set the region's oil and gas infrastructure “on fire” if Iranian energy sites are attacked. Plus, the U.S. military says that a refueling aircraft was lost over western Iraq. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, our global war coverage begins with a declaration of victory from President Trump, saying “Let me say we’ve won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won, in the first hour it was over, but we won.” Plus, Anderson talks with the NYPD chief who leapt over a barrier to chase down one of two allegedly ISIS-inspired, suspected would-be bombers near the NYC mayor's home.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pentagon announced this would be the most intense day of strikes Iran, despite the President's announcement last night that the war could "end soon.” Iran has reportedly begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the matter. CENTOM released new video of what it says are strikes on multiple Iranian naval vessels, including 16 mine-layers near the critical waterway. Back in Washington, Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee emerged from a classified briefing today sounding alarm bells about the administration's potential plan for putting U.S. troops on the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump held his first formal press conference ten days into this war, covering a lot of ground including suggesting the war, which he called an excursion, might be nearing its end. Meanwhile, Iranians filled a central square in Tehran today, a very public show of support for the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Supreme Leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

American forces have now hit more than 3,000 targets across Iran, according to U.S. Central Command in an update seven days into the fighting. President Trump spoke by phone with CNN's Dana Bash today, telling her that he must be involved in picking a new leader for Iran, and saying  "It’s gonna work very easily. It’s going to work like it did in Venezuela." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signaled that the war with Iran will soon escalate, saying quote "we have just begun." For its part, Israel said it is moving into the “next phase” of its joint offensive with the U.S., while Iran continues to strike at countries in the region. Plus, the firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and everything that may have brought her down, including her own ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a new wave of attacks, Israel says it’s hitting targets in Tehran as well as against what it claims is Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut. And, according to state-affiliated media, Iran launched a drone attack on an Amazon data center in Bahrain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two big stories tonight: war and politics. A fourth consequential night in the war with Iran, and we have seen a new Iranian drone strike on another American diplomatic outpost, the second in the last two days.  And here at home, polls have started closing in Texas where a U.S. Senate primary race, in that ordinarily deep-red state, is getting a lot of attention from Democrats looking to turn the Senate blue in November. Air date: March 3, 2026 Guests: Rep. Adam Smith Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.)John King  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A senior U.S. official has told CNN's Jim Sciutto that American forces are preparing for a quote “major uptick” in attacks on Iran over the next 24 hours. Also, a strike on the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia by two suspected Iranian drones, the latest in a wave of reprisals across the region. Analysts and correspondents from around the Middle East join Anderson with the latest in CNN's Global Report War with Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today Bill Clinton told lawmakers, under oath, about what he saw, and did, during his time with Jeffrey Epstein. It is the first time ever, a former president has been compelled to testify under oath to Congress. In his historic deposition he denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. Also, fact-checking the claim made by President Trump and by Republicans on the House Oversight committee that Trump has been exonerated.  And President Trump tries to pull the plug on Anthropic, telling all federal agencies to stop using its artificial intelligence after Anthropic's CEO stands up to pressure from the Pentagon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices