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CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

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Abby Phillip delivers a smart, sharp approach to the day's biggest stories.

Episodes

Trump Doesn’t Rule Out Recession Amid Trade Wars

The markets take another wild swing as the president won’t predict whether the United States will slide into a recession. Plus, fights, outages, and setbacks. A closer look at how Musk’s world has turned since he has come to Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 11, 202547 min

NYT: Duffy Says Musk Wants To Cut Air Traffic Controllers

Donald Trump wants Biden to own all the bad about the economy. But, what happens when the data says things aren’t awful? Plus, the Pentagon scrubs so called DEI content from its archives stumbling into erasing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 08, 202547 min

Trump Walks Back Tariffs As More Chaos Hits Economy

Donald Trump postpones tariffs one more time as his promise to make America rich again clashes with job cuts mirroring the Great Recession. Plus, the President takes away Elon’s hatchet and replaces with a scalpel while promising his cabinet will get a say in what is surgically removed from the federal bureaucracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 07, 202547 min

Musk Gives GOP Senators His Phone Number Amid Concerns

Donald Trump takes the road many say he should not have traveled to begin with, undoing tariffs on allies as the courts put roadblocks in the way of his DOGE driven agenda. Plus, Democrats put themselves on display at Trump’s address to Congress. But, do Americans like what they see? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 06, 202547 min

Trump Pauses Military Aid To Ukraine

As President Trump stops all military aid to Ukraine, will Zelensky apologize or will the American president not give the Ukrainian president a shot at forgiveness? Plus, tariffs and trouble add new taxes on consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 04, 202547 min

Diplomatic “Disaster” After Trump & Zelensky Clash

A shouting match between Trump & Zelensky echoes across the globe. The president turns the Oval Office into The Apprentice to stage a reality TV spectacle to embarrass Ukraine’s president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 01, 202549 min

Judge: Trump’s Mass Firings Of Workers Likely Unlawful

A judge tells the Trump administration there is no universe where DOGE’s deep cuts are legal while conservative radio gets an earful from their own people. Plus, MAGA reportedly imports alleged criminals accused of heinous crimes against women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 28, 202548 min

Musk Moves From Villainizing Workers To Fictionalizing Them

In his first Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump cedes the floor to someone not in his Cabinet. Plus, federal workers are now being recast from villainized to fictionalized. Also, Amazon’s billionaire tells his paper how they’ll think and what they’ll think about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 27, 202548 min

Cabinet Officials Caught Off Guard, Frustrated By Musk

Elon Musk’s presence at President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday will solidify his power in the administration. But Musk’s attendance at the meeting comes as his attempts to gut the federal workforce and reshape it in Trump’s image, including giving sweeping orders to employees across the government, has begun to grate on Cabinet secretaries and members of Congress, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Feb 26, 202548 min

Trump Admin Contradicts Trump & Musk’s Threat Of Firing

Federal workers have less than two hours left to email Elon Musk to explain why they should still get paychecks as Trump’s cabinet says one thing while Trump says another. Plus, the new number two at the FBI is a podcast host who makes a living by promoting conspiracy theories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 25, 202547 min

Trump Fires Top U.S. General After Hegseth Called Him “Woke”

Were Donald Trump’s eyes bigger than America’s appetite for change? Polls warn the president that voters think he’s doing much too much as the courts tell Trump no. Also, President Trump fires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff months after his Pentagon chief said to do just that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 22, 202548 min

Trump Villainizes “Dictator” Zelensky, Warns Of Ukraine’s End

Donald Trump puts pettiness and Putin before all else. With a Truth Social smear, the American president turns his back on the West, turns Volodymyr Zelensky into a villain, and turns Ukraine’s existence into a question mark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 20, 202545 min

Airport CEO: No Critical Injuries In Delta Crash

Upside-down and burning marked the end of a terrifying trip for 80 passengers and crew on a Delta Air Lines flight after it crashed while landing in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 18, 202548 min

Trump Border Czar Warns Adams Not To Violate “Agreement”

The Trump administration brags about a deal as another prosecutor says to find a different fool to do their bidding. Plus, the Trump layoffs come for the men and women tasked with managing the nation’s nukes. Also, the White House shuts out the Associated Press from the briefing room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 15, 202548 min

Growing Resignations Over Orders To Drop Eric Adams Case

Manhattan’s top prosecutor quits, but not before writing out her reasons why and accusing Trump’s Justice Department of accepting a quid pro quo to go easy on New York City’s mayor. Plus, a photo opportunity between India’s prime minister and Elon Musk renews questions over if the billionaire is pulling the strings of President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 14, 202548 min

U.S. Distances Itself From Ukraine As Trump Invites Putin

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the war between Ukraine and Russia “must end,” that Kyiv joining NATO is unrealistic and that the US will no longer prioritize European and Ukrainian security as the Trump administration shifts its attention to securing the US’ own borders and deterring war with China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 13, 202548 min

Musk Defends DOGE Cuts Alongside Trump In Oval Office

Elon Musk brushed off questions about the authorities he is using to gut entire agencies, saying instead that Trump’s election last November amounted to license enough to carry out the will of voters. “The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get,” he said. “That’s what democracy is all about.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 12, 20251 hr

Trump: Judges “Shouldn’t Be Dictating” What Presidents Do

The President tip toes up to the line of daring to defy the courts and ushering in a constitutional cluster. Plus, the President gives advice to Israel on what to do next if Hamas misses a deadline to return the hostages. Also, Trump levies new tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 11, 202547 min

Musk Rehires DOGE Aide Who Resigned Over Racist Posts

The world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest are together gutting the United States government. Plus, a DOGE employee with a history of racism gets the backing of the White House and a second chance. Also, Donald Trump fires the Kennedy Center board to become king of culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 08, 202547 min

Musk Staffer Resigns Over Posts Pushing Racism, Eugenics

The judge standing in the way of Elon Musk’s great purge and the DOGE staffer who helped lead the charge is now out of a job after a disturbing revelation. Plus, the President polishes his scalpel to cut away thousand of health jobs as new bird flu infections put doctors on alert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 07, 202548 min

Musk & Mystery Team Intensify Dismantling Of Government

Judge, jury, and executioner. The White House says Elon Musk will police himself as he slices and dices his through the federal bureaucracy. Plus, protests without a plan. Democrats run back the resistance playbook. But, is there a better strategy for battling Trump? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 06, 202548 min

Trump Proposes U.S. “Take Over” Gaza To Be “Riveria”

Tonight, it appears President Trump is willing to use American soldiers as an occupying force in Gaza. His plan, according to the few concrete details he spelled out this evening while standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hinges on the United States seizing the Gaza Strip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 05, 202548 min

Dems Sound Alarm On Musk & Trump’s “Constitutional Crisis”

Elon Musk’s soldiers break down the digital doors to your data in the name of cleaning up the federal bureaucracy. Plus, in the tariff war, is Donald Trump really fighting to save American lives from foreign drugs or is he just trying to collect from the country’s closest allies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 04, 202548 min

Medevac Jet Crashes Near Philly Mall

Another plane has crashed inside another American city and this time it is Philadelphia. CNN is told a twin engine medevac jet took off from a local airport where it reached 16,000 feet after takeoff before plunging. Six people were on board including a child patient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 01, 202548 min

Probe Intensifies In Deadliest U.S. Plane Crash In 24 Years

Wind, ice, jet fuel, and debris are all hampering the search for the remains of the passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with the military helicopter. There are no survivors and the NTSB says 40 bodies so far have been recovered from the wreckage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 31, 202547 min

Trump’s Sudden Freeze On Federal Spending Triggers Chaos

Donald Trump orders a federal funding freeze forcing states to claw for cash that pays for Americans’ essentials. Plus, as coast-to-coast raids grab headlines, could signing checks undocumented migrants cashed put employers in the crosshairs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 29, 202548 min

Trump Fires Justice Dept Officials Who Prosecuted Him

More than a dozen officials who worked on the criminal investigations into Donald Trump have been fired, according to sources familiar with the matter. A letter from acting Attorney General James McHenry to the officials said they cannot be “trusted” to “faithfully” implement Trump’s agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 28, 202548 min

Hegseth Confirmed As Defense Secretary By One Vote

The US Senate narrowly voted to confirm embattled Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote — the second time in history a vice president has broken a tie for a Cabinet nominee. President Donald Trump has stood behind Hegseth since a slew of misconduct allegations against the nominee came to light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 25, 202547 min