President Donald Trump is in Los Angeles to see the damage from the areas devastating wildfires, after saying earlier that he would condition aid to California on political demands. Trump also visited hurricane-ravaged North Carolina earlier today, where he threatened to eliminate FEMA. CNN anchor and Chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins joins Anderson, along with CNN’s Nick Watt in L.A. Plus, the Senate vote on Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth is tonight, and there's new uncert...
Jan 25, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Despite opposition from Democrats as well as Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, it is looking almost certain that by tomorrow night that former Fox Weekend Morning host Pete Hegseth will be running the Defense Department. Today, CNN learned that Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he paid $50,000 as part of a confidentiality agreement to a woman who alleged he sexually assaulted her back in 2017. Manu Raju has the latest from Capitol Hill. Plus, President Tru...
Jan 24, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Thousands of Southern California residents are under evacuation orders Wednesday as fire crews battle the out-of-control Hughes Fire near the town of Castaic, a suburb in the foothills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County. Within five hours, the fire grew to more than 8,000 acres, according to officials. Veronica Miracle is on the ground, and Cal Fire Battalion Chief Brent Pascua joins from the frontlines of firefighting efforts. Plus, the rewriting of the January 6 attack on Capitol Hil...
Jan 23, 2025•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast President Donald Trump defends his blanket pardons of January 6 rioters, even the violent individuals he once suggested would not go free. Donie O'Sullivan, who was outside the Washington, DC jail last night when this all went down, spoke today with some of the pardoned inmates, and New York Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman joins 360° with his reaction to the President's pardons and defenses. Plus, Ed Lavandera visits the small Texas panhandle city of Cactus, where a sense of fear and uncertainty ...
Jan 22, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast President Trump signed a batch of executive orders while talking to reporters. One of the orders granted executive clemency pardons and sentence commutations for January 6th rioters. Other orders included declaring an emergency at the southern border and pulling out of the Paris Agreement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 21, 2025•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast President-elect Trump has announced that his inauguration will be moved indoors citing dangerously cold temperatures forecast for Washington, DC, Monday. The inaugural address will be delivered from the Capitol Rotunda for the first time since Ronald Reagan's second term began in 1985. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe breaks down the security concerns around moving the festivities indoors with only three days' notice, scrapping months of planning. And later, Forbes Magazine investigative...
Jan 18, 2025•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal hits a snag, a look at where the holdup was and the effect it’s having on both the timetable and the hostage families. Plus, as President Biden warns about the United States becoming an oligarchy, we tell you which tech billionaires will be on the dais for Trump’s inaugural. Also, Rudy Giuliani reaches an agreement with the women he defamed to settle the $150 million judgement against him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 17, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast President Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation, after announcing Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that includes a ceasefire and a phased release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports from Tel Aviv. CNN Political and Foreign Policy Analyst Barak Ravid, along with and a panel of political experts, join Jake Tapper and Anderson to discuss the deal and Biden's speech. Plus, Anderson returns to an Altadena neighborhood ravaged by the California wildfi...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anderson and his team spent the day with search and rescue crews as they looked for remains of anyone who may have died in the Eaton Fire. The death toll has risen to 25 people in Los Angeles County, and the fire danger is not over. Powerful winds are forecasted overnight into Wednesday afternoon and could spark a new inferno. Anderson speaks to Ian McFeat, the executive director of a charter school in Altadena. Last week's fire there destroyed one of the school's two campuses, the homes of 13 t...
Jan 15, 2025•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast At least 24 people have died in the wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles County, and officials are warning that the danger is not over yet. Wind speeds are expected to strengthen tonight into Wednesday. The National Weather Service has issued an expanded red flag warning for Southern California, which could see winds up to 70mph, and has told residents the “setup is about as bad as it gets.” Anderson and his team spent the day with fire crews racing the coming winds as they work to keep hotsp...
Jan 14, 2025•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast At least 11 people are now confirmed dead due to the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area. More than 10,000 structures are destroyed and 100,000 people are under evacuation orders, the sheriff’s department said Friday, with tens of thousands more under warnings. California Governor Gavin Newsom is now calling for an independent investigation into what caused some hydrants to lose water pressure during the height of this week’s firefights. CNN's Nick Watt has more on the reports of water short...
Jan 11, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Several major wildfires are burning, mostly still uncontained, in Los Angeles County. Officials have confirmed at least seven deaths, but warn the actual toll will remain unclear until it’s safe for investigators to access neighborhoods. Nearly 180,000 people have been impacted by evacuation orders since Tuesday. According to authorities, more than 10,000 structures have burned in the Palisades and Eaton fires. Anderson speaks to Aaron Samson, who evacuated with his elderly father-in-law thanks ...
Jan 10, 2025•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anderson is on the scene as at least six fires tear across Los Angeles County forcing the evacuations of residents. Anderson shows how the flames destroyed homes and vehicles in one neighborhood of Altadena, California. At least five people are dead. California Governor Gavin Newsom tells Anderson the death toll is "likely" to rise. Anderson also talks with a mother and her son who lost their home in Pacific Palisades, other survivors and fire officials working to put out the flames. Learn more ...
Jan 09, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast CNN's Nick Watt and Natasha Chen are in the Los Angeles community of Pacific Palisades, where more than 30,000 people have been asked to evacuate as a fast-moving wildfire spreads. The city of Los Angeles has declared a state of emergency and will have all resources on deck, said the president of the city council. Plus, President-elect Donald Trump spoke to reporters today and covered a wide range of subjects, including his frustration over the legal cases brought against him and the Biden admin...
Jan 08, 2025•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast The difference four years can make and what the next four years might bring as the 2024 loser certifies the 2024 winner. Also, tonight, having spent a quarter billion dollars on the presidential race, the world's richest man now turns his attention to inflammatory allegations toward politics overseas. Kara Swisher, who knows Elon Musk, will join. And later, what Jimmy Carter, perhaps the most highly praised ex-president ever, was like as president. 60 Minutes Lesley Stahl joins tonight. Learn mo...
Jan 07, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the wake of the early New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, Bourbon Street's security vulnerabilities are coming under scrutiny. Anderson speaks to one security expert who called Bourbon Street the perfect target, five years after his firm warned officials the area was especially vulnerable to a vehicular ramming attack. Plus, a New York judge has upheld President-elect Donald Trump conviction in his hush money case rejecting his effort to throw out the jury’s verdict because of his reelectio...
Jan 04, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anderson is live from New Orleans tonight. Zion Parsons joins to discuss the terrorist attack in New Orleans where 14 people were killed, including his friend 18-year-old victim Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux. Anderson also spoke with Jeremi Sensky who was in his wheelchair when he was hit by the truck. He's now recovering from surgery and two broken legs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 03, 2025•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tributes continue to pour in after Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Sunday. Carter was the oldest living former U.S. president and the first to reach 100 years old. Anderson speaks to two people who were personal friends of the former President and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, superintendent of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Park Jill Stuckey and the Carters' personal pastor Tony Lowden. Anderson also talks with PBS senior correspondent Judy Woodruff, former Pres...
Dec 31, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rep. Jake Auchincloss, (D-MA), weighs in on President-elect Trump asking the Supreme Court to pause the upcoming TikTok ban. Plus, new signs of what may have downed a passenger jet, as one survivor speaks about what it was like when the plane was hit. CNN safety analyst and former FAA safety inspector David Soucie and William Taylor, former Ambassador to Ukraine, discuss the new developments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 28, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ret. Lt. General Mark Hertling and aviation analyst Miles O'Brien discuss the latest on the crash involving an Azerbaijan Airlines jet. Early indications suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system may have downed the plane, according to a U.S. official. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 27, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast The House Ethics Committee found evidence that former congressman Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex or drugs on at least 20 occasions, including paying a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a final draft of the panel’s report on the Florida Republican, obtained by CNN. Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s first choice to be attorney general, has denied all allegations. Plus, the latest on former President Bill Clinton, who is in the hospital where he is un...
Dec 24, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast After a frantic scramble by lawmakers, the House passed a last-minute stopgap funding bill just hours before tonight's midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown. Now, the bill heads to the Senate for approval. The latest plan would extend government funding into March and includes disaster relief and farming provisions, but does not include a suspension of the debt limit, which President-elect Donald Trump has been demanding that Republicans address. South Dakota Republican Rep. Dusty Joh...
Dec 21, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast House Republicans failed to pass legislation tonight that would keep the federal government running until March, intensifying the threat of a shutdown ahead of tomorrow night's deadline. The Trump-endorsed plan was opposed by almost all Democrats, who are frustrated and angry after Elon Musk and the President-elect tanked an earlier bipartisan deal, as well as dozens of Republicans. But GOP Rep. Don Bacon voted for it and joins AC360 to share why and what could happen next. Plus, how the suspect...
Dec 20, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast The clock is ticking on Capitol Hill. With the government about two days from a shutdown, President-elect Trump brought his own party to a halt with new demands on the spending bill, and only after a push from Elon Musk. Democratic congressman Dan Goldman from New York reacts to Trump and Musk's efforts to kill this bill. Plus, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting could soon be on his way to New York to face local charges. Could federal charges also happen? Learn more about your ad c...
Dec 19, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast A Manhattan grand jury on Tuesday indicted Luigi Mangione for murder as an act of terrorism in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to newly released court documents. Mangione faces 11 counts, including one of murder in the first-degree and two of murder in the second-degree in Thompson’s killing on December 4 in New York, along with other weapon and forgery charges, the indictment says. Why authorities decided to seek that rare-for-New York charge, and what they will need...
Dec 18, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast A shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, WI, Monday morning left one student and one teacher dead, and six others injured. According to a law enforcement official, the shooter was a 15-year-old female student at the school and is believed to have died from a self-inflicted wound. The latest details we're learning tonight, including new reporting from a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation that the shooter planned the attack in advance. Plus, Judge Juan Mer...
Dec 17, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast The highest-ranking government official yet, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN "we know of no threat" to the American public, in regard to the unidentified drone sightings over parts of the U.S. Federal agencies are facing intense pressure to give the public more details on the drone sightings going on for weeks over neighborhoods as well as restricted sites and critical infrastructure. Plus, President-elect Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a...
Dec 14, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sources are telling CNN that authorities have executed as many as three search warrants in New York as part of their investigation into the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. At least two of the warrants include the backpack found in Central Park and the burner phone found near where the shooting occurred, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation. Anderson shares what we have learned so far, and what we still don't know about the suspect. Plus, what ...
Dec 13, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast New York police now say the 3D-printed gun that CEO killing suspect Luigi Mangione had when he was arrested in Pennsylvania this week matches shell casings at the crime scene. Mangione’s fingerprints also match those investigators found on items near the scene, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Wednesday. Plus, a clearer timeline on when Mangione’s mother reported him missing and when at that time she said she last spoke with him. And, for weeks, mysterious drones have been flying low over...
Dec 12, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tonight, a source tells CNN's John Miller that the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter made a to-do list for a killing, as well as notes justifying those plans. Law enforcement also said Mangione had a three-page handwritten “claim of responsibility” as police characterized his manifesto. In one notebook passage, Mangione concludes that using a bomb against his intended victim “could kill innocents” but shooting would be more targeted, musing what could be better than “to kill the CEO at his ow...
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