President Biden slammed the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity, which ruled that presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts. The president's comments come as he faces increasing turmoil about his health and fitness for office. Plus, Steven Bannon reports to prison, but not before delivering a message to supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 02, 2024•49 min
More than 51 million people watched last night's historic presidential debate, and today Team Biden is trying to subdue any panic after the President's performance. CNN’s Arlette Saenz has new reporting from inside the Biden campaign. Plus, what voters in the host state and swing state of Georgia took from the debate and whether it changed how they plan to vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 29, 2024•47 min
Counting down to the CNN Presidential Debate, Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett anchor with a panel of CNN experts including: John King, David Axelrod, Abby Phillip, David Urban, Van Jones, Kate Bedingfield, Scott Jennings, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Audie Cornish, Chris Wallace, Kaitlan Collins and Kasie Hunt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 28, 2024•2 hr 44 min
In 24 hours, President Biden and former President Donald Trump will square off on the CNN debate stage, and the list of superlatives attached to the event is long: the earliest general election debate ever, the first debate between a president and former president and the first with a convicted felon, to name a few. Kristen Holmes and MJ Lee tell us how each side is preparing. Plus, John Berman and Mark Preston have details on the debate format and venue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Jun 27, 2024•47 min
It's crunch time ahead of Thursday's CNN presidential debate and preparations by both campaigns are in full swing. We have details on the debate rules, including how long the candidates get to answer the questions. Plus, inside the U.S. Department of Justice deal that allowed Julian Assange to be a free man after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 26, 2024•47 min
With just three days until the first 2024 presidential debate, both the Biden and Trump campaigns are strategizing and preparing in different ways. Plus, in a 360° exclusive, Anderson speaks with California Democratic congresswoman and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi about what she expects to see on the CNN debate stage Thursday night and the issues she feels will motivate voters on election day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 25, 2024•47 min
New reporting tonight on who Donald Trump might be considering as his running mate. Three different names are being touted by some of his key allies. Plus, two NASA astronauts are currently stuck at the International Space Station as engineers look over issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 22, 2024•47 min
Former President Trump is talking plenty about revenge lately. Now he’s taking it one step further by amplifying calls for chasing down perceived opponents. So are some of his allies. And, for the first time, one of his most prominent targets is responding on 360. Plus, the remarkable rescue of two beluga whales from war-torn Kharkiv, Ukraine to another aquarium in Spain. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz has the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 21, 2024•46 min
A second person has died as a result of the fast-spreading wildfires in New Mexico. The flames are tearing through tribal land and villages, with the South Fork Fire forcing at least 8,000 people to evacuate their homes. Plus, CNN’s Ryan Young looks back at the legendary life and career of baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays who has died at the age 93. His passing has created new significance around a series of games Major League Baseball will hold at Alabama’s historic Rickwood Field, where June...
Jun 20, 2024•46 min
It's primary night in three states, including Virginia where one race is getting national attention. GOP Rep. Bob Good, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is hoping to fend off an opponent backed by the former President. Plus, Russian President Vladimir Putin sets foot on North Korean soil for the first time in 24 years for two days of talks with Kim Jong Un. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 19, 2024•47 min
With 10 days until the first 2024 presidential debate, airing on CNN, the Biden and Trump teams are ramping up their attacks. Biden's campaign released a new ad slamming the former president as a "convicted criminal." Meanwhile, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon spoke to supporters in Detroit, and said "November 5th is Judgment Day, January 20, 2025 is Accountability Day." Plus, two major wildfires are scorching parts of California and a dangerous heat wave is building up over the Midwest and No...
Jun 18, 2024•47 min
On Saturday, Catherine, Princess of Wales, is set to make her first public appearance in months following the announcement of her cancer diagnosis in March. She will be attending King Charles' official birthday celebration. The Princess also gave an update on her cancer battle on Friday, saying her treatment is ongoing and will be for a few months. CNN's Max Foster reports from London and our chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta reacts to the Princess of Wales saying she is quote "not out of...
Jun 15, 2024•47 min
Former President Donald Trump vented about his legal troubles to House Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill today, the first time Trump has returned to the Capitol campus since leaving office after the January 6, 2021 riot. Trump aired his grievances regarding his legal and electoral challenges, attacked his critics in the room, and only briefly addressed policy matters like abortion and taxes, according to multiple GOP lawmakers who were in attendance. He also met with Senate Re...
Jun 14, 2024•47 min
The New York Police Department said they arrested a 27-year-old man early Wednesday morning with a cache of weapons. According to the NYPD Chief of Department, officers searched his SUV and found a gun, large amount of ammunition, handcuffs, multiple knives, two axes and other items. Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism John Miller and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe discuss the case. Plus, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting survivors, who lost 20 fi...
Jun 13, 2024•46 min
A federal jury convicted Hunter Biden guilty on all three felony gun charges he faced, concluding that he violated laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms. The conviction marks the first time a president’s immediate family member has been found guilty of a crime during their father’s term in office, though his crimes predate Joe Biden’s tenure as president. After the verdict, Hunter Biden said he was disappointed by the outcome but was "more grateful for the love and support" of ...
Jun 12, 2024•52 min
Hunter Biden’s fate in the federal gun trial is now the in the hands of a Delaware jury. A look at how the prosecution and defense did in making their case. Then, the latest in a string of CNN exclusives on decades of sexual abuse at the United States Coast Guard Academy. Also, four Israeli hostages were freed in a special operation in central Gaza according to the IDF. Plus, Donald Trump is calling the inmates connected to the events of January 6th victims. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Jun 11, 2024•46 min
President Biden gave a speech at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy on Friday, warning about the dangers of isolationism. Historian Garrett Graff and Protect Democracy editor Amanda Carpenter join Anderson to discuss. And New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni joins Anderson to discuss the 2024 presidential election and why he says it's a mistake to think Donald Trump can't win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 08, 2024•47 min
Does former President Trump mean what he says when he keeps suggesting he'll use the justice system for payback if he's elected again? We're Keeping Them Honest. Speaking in Phoenix, at an event put on by conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Trump confined the bulk of his remarks to immigration and the economy, but also railed against his criminal prosecutions saying "We're in more danger from the enemy from within. With these lunatics, these fascists, these communists, and we're going to stop th...
Jun 07, 2024•47 min
A Georgia appeals court has halted the election subversion conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants until a panel of judges rules on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified, the latest indication this trial won't occur before election day in November. Also, Judge Eileen Cannon, who’s overseeing his classified documents trial, revamped the timetable, pushing several pre-trial hearings later. Former federal judge Nanc...
Jun 06, 2024•45 min
The former president's legal team asked Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal hush money trial case to lift the gag order, now that a jury has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, and the trial is over. When asked about the status of the gag order, a court spokesman said, “the order is part of the court record that has been made publicly available and it speaks for itself.” Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin, and retired New York judge Jill Konviser - a lon...
Jun 05, 2024•48 min
The leader of the Republican party faces a sentencing date for 34 felony convictions, and former president Trump's supporters are rallying around him. In a new letter CNN obtained today, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is proposing to defund federal and state prosecutions targeting what he called, quote, “political opponents.” Separately, Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called the USA a "banana republic." Anderson speaks to former Arkansas Governor and former Republic...
Jun 04, 2024•46 min
This morning, at Trump Tower, Donald Trump denounced the historic guilty verdict in his criminal hush money trial. He also vowed to appeal his conviction in remarks that were filled with false claims about Judge Juan Merchan, President Biden, New York City's crime rates and other topics. New York criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala and former Manhattan Chief Assistant District Attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo share what might be next for the now-convicted former president. Plus, today Presid...
Jun 01, 2024•47 min
Former President Donald Trump is now a convicted felon after a jury of 12 found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his hush money criminal trial. Anderson gets reaction to the historic verdict from presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, journalist Ronan Farrow, who is the author of the 2019 best-selling book "Catch and Kill," and New York Times senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman who was in the courtroom when the verdict was read. Also joining A...
May 31, 2024•54 min
Jury deliberations have begun in the former president's criminal hush money trial and the jurors have some questions. The jury sent two notes to Judge Juan Merchan this afternoon. In one, they asked to rehear testimony from David Pecker and Michael Cohen. In the other, they asked to rehear the judge's jury instructions. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump, who served as a juror in the high-profile 2009 New York trial of socialite Brook Astor's son, who was convicted of bilking her out of millions ...
May 30, 2024•45 min
Closing arguments in the former president's historic criminal hush money trial wrapped up in a lower Manhattan courtroom tonight. The prosecution told jurors they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story involving an alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels at the end of the 2016 election. On the other side, Trump's team told the jury that this whole case relies on the testimony of his former fixer Mich...
May 29, 2024•47 min
The judge in the former president's criminal hush money trial case has issued the final jury instructions to the prosecution and defense teams. The instructions are not expected to be released publicly before closing arguments, which are scheduled for Tuesday. Former federal prosecutor Temidayo Aganga-Williams and former New York state supreme court justice Jill Konviser discuss what might be included in the jury instructions. Plus, today marks two years since 19 students were killed in the shoo...
May 25, 2024•45 min
Tonight former President Trump held a campaign rally in the Bronx, a largely Hispanic and Black area of New York City. President Biden won the county, a Democratic stronghold, by about 68 points four years ago. But as Mr. Trump seeks reelection in November, he’s trying to reach out to those voters. Anderson talks about the campaign’s efforts with former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton. Plus, it's been nearly 19 years since Hurricane Katrin...
May 24, 2024•46 min
A shouting match broke out today between attorneys during pre-trial proceedings in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. The disagreement was over a long-disputed 2022 meeting between a prosecutor and an attorney for former President Trump’s personal aide Walt Nauta. Plus, Judge Aileen Cannon seemed skeptical of arguments to dismiss charges against Trump and his co-defendants. But, she has yet to rule on the motions she considered on Wednesday. Former Trump White House communications directo...
May 23, 2024•46 min
The Trump defense rested today in the criminal hush money trial without calling the former president to the witness stand after he said at one point that he'd testify. The trial is adjourned until next Tuesday when closing arguments are expected. CNN legal commentator Robert Ray, counsel to former President Trump in his first impeachment trial, and former New York Supreme Court judge Diane Kiesel break down what happens next. Plus, a video was posted on the former president’s Truth Social accoun...
May 22, 2024•47 min
There was high drama and tension in the former president's hush money trial on Monday. At one point, Judge Juan Merchan admonished defense witness Robert Costello. According to the court transcript, the judge told Costello “if you try to stare me down one more time, I will remove you from the stand." New York Times' senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman and former chief judge of the U.S. Middle District Court of Pennsylvania John E. Jones III join AC360 to break down today’s proceedings...
May 21, 2024•47 min