William Ruto is the declared winner of Kenya’s presidential election, after edging out opposition leader Raila Odinga by an extremely narrow margin. Odinga is rejecting the results and will challenge them in court, something he’s done in the past – this is his fifth time running. Chaos erupted at the election center and in Odinga strongholds, and four of the seven electoral officials disowned the results. For more on this, Sara Sidner speaks with CNN's Larry Madowo in Kisumu. Also on today's sho...
Aug 16, 2022•52 min
Today, the Taliban announced a public holiday to mark the first anniversary since their return to power in Afghanistan. As they congratulate themselves, the Afghan people may find little to rejoice, however. The Taliban is yet to run a fully functioning government, women’s rights are evaporating, and the economy took another blow today as the Biden administration announced it won’t be releasing billions of dollars of frozen Afghan assets any time soon. It’s a life or death situation for many Afg...
Aug 15, 2022•52 min
It’s nearly one year since the Taliban took returned to power in Afghanistan and the US withdrew. Since then, a devastating earthquake and ongoing economic crisis have crippled the country. Elliot Ackerman knows Afghanistan well, have served five tours there and in Iraq while in the Marines. Last August, he found himself pulled right back in, trying from afar to help Afghans desperate to flee the country. He details it all in his new book, The Fifth Act , and he speaks with Bianna about why he b...
Aug 12, 2022•57 min
After months of pain, it looks like light could be emerging at the end of the tunnel for American consumers: the price of gas has fallen beneath $4 per gallon for the first time since March, and there are signs inflation is easing. For Democrats, the news caps off a hat trick of legislative achievements: President Biden has signed the PACT Act and the CHIPS Act, all ahead of the long-awaited passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, expected to make its way through the House on Friday. To discuss,...
Aug 11, 2022•56 min
Ukraine’s President Zelensky has a message for Putin: not only will you not take any new Ukrainian land, we will claw back what you stole nearly a decade ago. He’s talking about Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. Zelensky made the comments after the Russian air base in Crimea was hit by several explosions, though Ukraine has not said whether its forces were behind it. Correspondent David McKenzie brings us the latest. Also in today's show: journalist and author Dana Mil...
Aug 10, 2022•57 min
The news came from former President Trump himself: the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home, the first time ever that federal agents have searched the residence of a former American leader. It took place under utmost secrecy and there are still many unanswered questions, but what we do know is that the search was related to the handling – or alleged mishandling – of classified documents. To explain the legal implications, former top lawyer at the Justice Department Neal Katyal joins the show. Also o...
Aug 09, 2022•56 min
President Biden has emerged from his Covid isolation and traveled to Kentucky today to visit families hit by catastrophic flooding. This isn’t the first time he’s traveled to sites hit by extreme weather, but it is the first time he’ll be able to tell the people that Washington is about to make its biggest investment ever to tackle rising temperatures. The senate this weekend passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which tackles everything from healthcare to climate, and if it passes the House, it c...
Aug 08, 2022•57 min
China’s live fire drills in the Taiwan strait have provided an explosive finale to a dizzying week in global politics. Beijing is making good on its promise that Taipei would pay the price for hosting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this week, a visit that came just after the White House announced the killing of the leader of Al-Qaeda in Kabul. Domestically, the US has undergone several political earthquakes, with the potential revival of President Biden’s climate agenda and the landslide vic...
Aug 05, 2022•56 min
Democrats are on the brink of an agreement over a substantial climate, healthcare and tax package – without a single Republican vote. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has lambasted the bill, calling it “a terrible deal,” and its fate now comes down to just one senator: Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. Will President Biden finally get this key piece of his agenda passed? Colorado Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper is a staunch advocate of the bill and joins the show from DC. Also on today...
Aug 04, 2022•57 min
The message sent by Kansas voters last night was as surprising as it was clear: keep abortion legal in our state. By a large margin, traditionally conservative Kansas rejected an amendment that would have taken away women’s right to abortion. It was the first time Americans were called to weigh in on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. That’s despite polls showing broad public support for abortion rights. President Biden has now called on Congress to pass a law to r...
Aug 03, 2022•56 min
New details are emerging about the U.S. attack that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. According to a senior administration official, the drone strike took President Biden and his inner circle months to secretly plan, with staffers building a small scale model of Zawahiri’s Kabul safehouse to help the president decide when to give the order. One of the masterminds behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Zawahiri emerged from the Egyptian middle class to become one of America’s most wanted terr...
Aug 02, 2022•57 min
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan this week, according to senior Taiwanese and US officials. The precise date of her arrival is not yet known, but it’s already riling tensions in the region. China has repeated warnings that their military won’t “sit idly by” if it feels threatened by the visit. CNN Senior International Correspondent Will Ripley has the latest. Following his report we speak with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, author of the new book Avoida...
Aug 01, 2022•56 min
The war rages on in Ukraine, and exclusive new reporting reveals some of the ways Russia’s war is being funded. A new Yale study concludes that Russia’s economy has been “catastrophically crippled” by western sanctions – so how is President Putin fueling his war machine? Partly thanks to his meddling in Africa. In an exclusive report, Nima Elbagir reveals how Moscow stopped democratic change over 6,000 miles away in Sudan, just as its people had successfully toppled one of the longest standing A...
Jul 29, 2022•57 min
It is felt all around the world, from grocery baskets to pumps at gas stations, from electric bills to clothing: inflation like rarely seen before. Amid a collision of crises, from the war in Ukraine to a slowdown of the Chinese economy, the ripple effects are being felt keenly in the United States, where the Bureau of Economic Analysis just announced the economy has shrunk again for the second quarter in a row. The International Monetary Fund called it earlier this week: a global recession coul...
Jul 28, 2022•57 min
Extreme weather made worse by the climate crisis continues to ravage our world. In St. Louis, Missouri, record-breaking rainfall is causing widespread flash flooding, while Europe is still in the grip of wildfires devouring acres of land and wreaking havoc on people’s lives. And California has seen unprecedented wildfires in scale and spread with the Oak Fire near Yosemite National Park, forcing Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency. His senior climate adviser Lauren Sanchez join...
Jul 27, 2022•57 min
To prevent a severe supply shock, EU ministers have agreed to reduce natural gas consumption by 15% between August and next March. Ukraine’s neighbor Poland was initially opposed to the deal, though has now approved it, and its deputy foreign minister joins the program from Warsaw. Also on today's show: former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor; author Lindsey Fitzharris; contributing writer for the The Atlantic Tom Nichols. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.c...
Jul 26, 2022•57 min
The World Health Organization says monkeypox is now a global health emergency. The new declaration comes as infections surge in 75 countries, with 5 deaths and more than 16,000 cases reported so far. It’s one of three health emergencies the world is facing right now, along with the coronavirus pandemic and polio – with the US reporting its first new case of polio in almost a decade. To discuss the state of global public health, how concerned we should be, and who is most vulnerable, epidemiologi...
Jul 25, 2022•57 min
President Trump chose not to act – that's the number one takeaway of the latest congressional hearing into the January 6 insurrection. It demonstrated that Donald Trump not only ignored repeated calls to stop the riot, but he also failed to reach out a single time to law enforcement and national security officials. Paul Rosenzweig is a former federal prosecutor and served in the Department of Homeland Security, and he joins the program to discuss. Also on today's show: author Aaron Stark ( I Wou...
Jul 25, 2022•56 min
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion is already having a real impact across the country. Millions of women in red states are contending with new restrictions. Confusion surrounding new laws has led to some patients being denied much needed healthcare, including Marleena Stell. She suffered a miscarriage late last year but was denied the abortion she needed to remove the fetus because she lives in Texas, with doctors pointing her to the state's six-week ba...
Jul 21, 2022•56 min
Record-breaking temperatures are serving as yet another wake-up call for the people of this planet, as Europe bakes under intense heat. Thousands have died and firefighters are battling flames from France to Greece. We're joined by Bob Ward from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, and the climate-focused mayor of Bristol England, Marvin Rees. Also on today's show: Simon Munday, author of Race for Tomorrow , who traveled to 26 countries to discover how those on the frontlines are a...
Jul 20, 2022•56 min
Brand new CNN polling reveals US voters are evenly split between the two major parties. Our CNN political director David Chalian breaks it all down for us. Plus, we bring you new and important reporting on the January 6 panel's primetime witness list. And, Democrats push the MAGA candidate in a Trump v. establishment battle in Maryland. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jul 19, 2022•57 min
The British government has some advice today, which could equally apply to many parts of Europe and the world: don’t go anywhere and don’t do anything. The unusual advice is because, for the first time ever, the UK is under a red alert warning for extreme heat. Temperatures could reach a record 105 degrees Fahrenheit this week in the country. Experts say climate change is making heatwaves like this one more frequent and more intense, and the UN Secretary General says humanity is facing “collecti...
Jul 19, 2022•57 min
The evidence against Donald Trump simply keeps mounting, as his multi-pronged efforts to overturn the will of the people in the 2020 election continue to be exposed in the January 6 hearings. While some have since changed their tune, what is clear is that the former president was surrounded by a group of enablers and – in some cases – sycophants. They are the focus of Mark Leibovich’s new book, Thank You For Your Servitude , in which he profiles Republicans such as Lindsey Graham and Rick Perry,...
Jul 15, 2022•57 min
President Biden says his ongoing visit to the Middle East is an opportunity to fix the “mistake” of walking away from America’s influence in the region. But after visiting Israel, the next leg of his trip brings him to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Critics fear the visit could end in compromises on human rights and democratic values that could further damage America’s global reputation. Correspondent Nic Robertson brings us his report from Saudi Arabia, ...
Jul 14, 2022•56 min
President Biden is in Israel, the 10th trip of his lifetime but his first as America’s commander in chief. Israel’s new interim prime minister Yair Lapid welcomed Biden warmly, calling him one of the best friends Israel has ever known. But the lovefest between leaders surely won’t continue on Friday when Biden heads to Saudi Arabia for his controversial meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Biden has previously called the country a “pariah” for its killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi ...
Jul 13, 2022•57 min
President Biden and the Democratic Party are lauding the passage of the first major gun rights legislation in decades. It’s a small victory after the Supreme Court ruled to expand gun rights, and Chicago could be the measure of its success. The city is struggling with high levels of gun violence and lethal crime: in 2021, it experienced one of its deadliest years in recent memory, with almost 800 homicides. The state of Illinois is also bracing for the impact of the Supreme Court’s overturning o...
Jul 12, 2022•57 min
America’s best days lie ahead – that’s the message President Biden has tried to relay in recent days. But many Americans don’t agree: a staggering 85% say the country is headed in the wrong direction, amid constant mass shootings, a cost-of-living crisis, the erosion of rights, and ongoing threats to democracy. Abroad, its key ally Britain is in turmoil, while China is growing ever more ambitious, and Ukraine depends on the US to help defend the liberal world order. President Zelensky is praisin...
Jul 11, 2022•57 min
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Jul 08, 2022•2 min
In the end, it took nearly 60 government resignations, more personal scandals than one can count, and a painful amount of drama and dysfunction. But the moment finally came today when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced he would step down – except he wants to stay on until his successor is chosen, which could be months from now. He painted his legacy in terms of getting Brexit done, the Covid vaccine rollout, and Britain’s support for Ukraine. But Johnson’s time in office will surely ...
Jul 07, 2022•57 min
A major political crisis is underway in the United Kingdom. “Keep Calm and Carry On” seems to be Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s continuing motto, despite yet another scandal, top ministerial resignations, losing recent local elections, and plunging popularity. One snap poll conducted today found that seven out of 10 adults want Johnson to resign. And yet again, the familiar question: how long can he cling on? It’s a playbook Americans know well; just like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson has stepped ...
Jul 06, 2022•57 min
