The Source with Kaitlan Collins

Tempers are flaring tonight at several critical Senate debates that are playing out in Michigan, Maine, and Georgia. Sen. Bernie Sanders joins live to discuss.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is choosing Texas for the third time in less than a month but will voters choose the candidate that he’s trying to save?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Republican Senator Thom Tillis joins to warn there could be an electoral bloodbath for the GOP next month.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump campaigns in a state that he won three times as a Republican member of Congress tells CNN this is a “five-alarm fire.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New reporting on the pro-Trump ads that taxpayers are funding including one that depicts the president as a gift from god.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is kicking off a 33-day blitz heading into the midterm elections. Plus, the governor of New York has appointed the state’s attorney general to be the special prosecutor into the alleged 2024 gang rape of a former Cornell University student.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

California gubernatorial candidates Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton debated on CNN where they discussed the cost of living and housing prices, rampant homelessness, natural disasters, the rise of artificial intelligence, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump wants to change what you call it, just not how it’s regulated, which is not at all.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What CNN is learning tonight about how President Trump was personally involved in using taxpayer dollars for political ads.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House has just barred CNN from covering President Trump on behalf of major television networks as he travels to Tennessee.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the President hosts a state dinner for the leader of China, CNN is back on the White House grounds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump rolls out the red carpet for China’s leader but a lot of the cameras weren’t rolling.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More Americans say President Trump doesn’t have a clear plan in Iran and Trump dodges Kaitlan’s questions about when the war is going to come to an end.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN is live from the United Nations where Trump is set to hold major meetings with world leaders as he wages his own battle against the free press.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN goes live to the White House hours after President Trump said he will ban CNN teams from there.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is the president planning to tear down the Kennedy Center? The picture that suggests yes and the legal battle that is now underway.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President’s handpicked Federal Reserve chair just did the exact opposite of what the president wanted him to do.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the Supreme Court to the Kennedy Center, President Trump seems to be realizing that even if his hand-picked people are there, that doesn’t mean he always gets what he wants.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Supreme Court has just rejected Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the Americans who lived through it, it’s hard to believe its been 25 years since the day that changed everything.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is about to take the stage in Dallas but there are still major questions about last night’s new big promise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An employee who just quit Anthropic is now warning that artificial intelligence could soon lead to the extinction of humanity.  Sen. Bernie Sanders joins to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says everyone wants to be at tomorrow’s midterm convention in Dallas. But, will they?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When the vice president says a war isn’t a war and why that matters.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What Donald Trump told multiple Republicans about his plans for the upcoming midterm elections.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A whistleblower is warning that the president’s plan for mail-in ballots could derail the upcoming midterm elections.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michigan’s Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed joins live as the vice president calls him “evil” and their feud gets personal.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Real wars and trade wars. The headwinds Republicans are facing ahead of the midterms and how the president may be making them stronger.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Gulf of Mexico, the Kennedy Center, and now Lake Ontario. President Trump’s latest rebrand that’s facing blowback tonight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Construction projects, trade wars, and actual wars. Trump’s priorities as the midterms fast approach.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Country music star Dolly Parton died at age 80 today after what her publicist described as a brief battle with cancer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The  Supreme Court just handed President Trump a big win when it comes to his mail-in voting restriction push. But, what does it mean for the midterm elections and is it final?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A stop work order is averted. At least, for now. The Supreme Court throws Trump’s ballroom a temporary lifeline.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 40-minute interview that is unlike any President Trump has done in politics. It’s not because of what he said, but who he did the interview with.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President takes us inside the construction zone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to show us his vision for the White House.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is election night in America and voters are casting their ballots in four states today: Alaska, California, Wyoming, and Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest deal to end the Iran war has expired. So, why has President Trump launched verbal attacks on American allies?  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

No apologies. President Trump shrugs off the higher gas prices sparked by his war with Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A US Navy ship pushed to the limit with reports of sailors going overboard and worsening conditions. A look at what Defense Secretary Hegseth is saying about it all.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He pulled off a huge upset that few saw coming. David Crowley joins live to discuss.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN special coverage of Election Night in America. We are following key races in South Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Vermont and Alabama.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An Iranian assassination threat, a decoy plane, and an airport catering truck. Extraordinary new reporting on how President Trump actually got back from Turkey last month.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President and his party are 87 days out from the elections and he is being clear about who he believes Republicans should blame if voters don’t turn out.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before the Justice Department abruptly dropped that case against him joins.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A seismic win in Michigan after a tough campaign. But, what is going to happen next with the election still ahead?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN’s special breaking news coverage of Election Night in America with primaries in Michigan, Virginia, Washington state, Missouri, and Kansas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look at what happened when President Trump met with Jeanine Pirro behind closed doors hours after he said she folded like an umbrella over claims of a botched installation at the Reflecting Pool.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States is planning new strikes on Iran as the president says “all they do is make me angry.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president is facing a Republican revolt of his own making. So, who is going to blink first?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A major blow for Trump as Republicans are forced to delay a vote on his pick for attorney general hours before it was set to happen. Sen. Bernie Sanders joins to weigh in on that and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran launches a surprise attack on United States forces as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Washington.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump defends his war and his economy as he tests out a new line of attack against Democrats.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States and Iran trade escalating threats as a new report says Iran rejected a ceasefire proposal from President Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, President Trump threatens bridges and power plants in Iran as one of Tehran’s proxies widens the war.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the United States strikes Iran for the eleventh night in a row, the president says Pickaxe Mountain may be next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says Iran will pay for killing more U.S. troops over the weekend. So, is diplomacy with Iran over?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the heels of the President’s speech on election fraud, the Department of Homeland Security is now threatening election officials.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump will deliver a primetime address from the White House on election security with less than four months to go until the midterm elections.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2026 midterm elections are in less than four months, so why was the 2020 election at the center of battles on Capitol Hill today?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After two fatal shootings by ICE in the span of two weeks, there are key questions still unanswered tonight including why none of the ICE agents were wearing body cameras.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What President Trump told Kaitlan Collins in the Oval Office about new strikes in Iran and whether this is now the new normal.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, Republicans and Democrats will deliver the largest housing affordability bill in a generation to the American people. But, the president wants no part of it. New video shows Senator Mitch McConnell being loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher. President Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is "over," but insists talks will continue. Plus, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushes for action after sailors appear to flout his beard policy and celebrating three years of The Source. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" as tensions rise between the US and Iran with reports of a new plot to assassinate President Trump. Get all the details, expert analysis, and exclusive insights tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Graham Platner has officially dropped out of the high stakes Senate race in Maine. Plus, the United States is launching new strikes against Iran for the second night in a row.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Graham Platner hangs on even while he hemorrhages support and Democrats scramble to find a replacement.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Democrats are pulling their money and endorsements from Graham Platner after an accuser speaks with CNN about a disturbing allegation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jack Smith has a new warning ahead of the midterm elections.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Democratic socialists have just notched another win, America has a new Air Force One, and President Trump’s unforgettable birthday party for the country might need to send out some more invites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Could tonight be another test for the future of the Democratic Party as progressives are once again targeting a House veteran in another election?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump’s voting loss at the Supreme Court fuels his fixation on his election bill, setting up a potentially major clash with Republicans in Congress.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House drama unfolds: Speaker Johnson tries to convince President Trump to sign a critical bipartisan housing bill. Catch all the latest updates and analysis tonight with Kaitlan Collins on TheSource. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Was more than three hours at the White House enough time for House Speaker Mike Johnson to convince President Trump to sign that bipartisan bill he is refusing to put his name on?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, refusing to sign a popular and bipartisan bill at the last minute and then getting into a shouting match with a Republican senator.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN’s special coverage of election night in America. All eyes are on New York where polls just closed in several marquee primary races that pit the progressive movement against the Democratic establishment.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump’s acting director of national intelligence has been on the job for less than a week and one source is telling CNN the deep state firings have already begun.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is dispatching his top envoys to try to get the Iran peace talks back on track as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is threatening to derail phase two.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two starkly different visions from two United States presidents as former President Obama returns to the stage and President Trump makes clear how he sees the limits of his power.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is in the air on his way back to the United States with what sources say is a gentleman’s agreement with Iran.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Source is live from Geneva, Switzerland where Trump is gathering with world leaders just over the border in France. Sources are telling CNN more about what is in the agreement between the United States and Iran that was signed about 48 hours ago.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kaitlan Collins is live from Geneva, Switzerland as President Trump is gathering leaders from the world’s biggest democracies and economies just over the border in France. The President kicked things off with a big announcement that sources say raise more questions than answers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The UFC has landed at the Lincoln Memorial and the president’s name is about to be removed from the Kennedy Center any minute. Also, the world has its first trillionaire.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From threatening a potential ground invasion in Iran to claiming the war has ended all in a matter of hours. What changed, if anything?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marjorie Taylor Greene joins The Source as the United States has resumed strikes on multiple targets in Iran.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Results are coming in from Maine in a race that could end up deciding control of the Senate in Washington, DC.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says it’s rigged, Speaker Johnson says it’s diabolical, and Democrats say they’re delusional as the count is continuing nearly a week later in California.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump reveals why he’s installing a staunch loyalist with no intel experience to be the nation’s acting intelligence chief.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN takes you inside the battle taking place right now on Capitol Hill to kill Trump’s $1.8 billion DOJ fund and whether or not those efforts will succeed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look at what President Trump told Kaitlan Collins at the White House today about the “anti-weaponization” fund.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN’s special coverage of primary election night in America. CNN is tracking key races across California, Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, New Jersey, and New Mexico.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is the Trump administration waiving the white flag on the massive settlement fund that even Republicans think is a bad idea?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump has been hit with three major setbacks in court. The latest ordered him to address the claims that he committed fraud in creating the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States and Iran just reached a tentative deal but will President Trump sign off? His vice president just answered that question with a three-letter word.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department is now investigating the woman who successfully sued Donald Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN’s special election coverage of perhaps the biggest primary election of the year.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president is at the White House where a source tells CNN that he met with top national security officials about a path forward with Iran.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An empty Capitol and cancelled votes. Are Republicans sending a message to the president and is this what finally pushed them over the edge?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN presses acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on why the administration won’t rule out taxpayer funded payouts for those who assaulted cops on January 6.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN’s breaking news coverage as election results are rolling in tonight across six states holding midterm primaries.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices