The Situation Room

Kamala Harris is defending Liz Cheney after Donald Trump takes his violent rhetoric to a new extreme suggesting the former Republican congresswoman should be fired upon. We are also taking a closer look at the massive gender gap in this year’s presidential campaign. Plus, we check in with CNN’s John King on the fifth and final leg of his battleground tour.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The Harris campaign is seizing on Trump’s vow to protect women whether they like it or not. The vice president is blasting the remark as offensive while her allies suggest it could expand her already wide advantage with female voters. Plus, John King is covering new ground on his tour of swing states. After talking with voters in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin, Michigan is his stop tonight as he v...

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will soon be holding dueling events in Wisconsin as President Biden denies that he labeled all Trump supporters as garbage. Harris is on damage control as Trump is seizing on the president’s remark despite his own repeated references to the United States as a garbage can. Also, CNN’s new battleground poll show Harris has a slim lead in Wisconsin and Michigan and is t...

Vice President Kamala Harris is about to deliver her closing argument to voters with one week away from Election Day. Plus, former President Trump is getting ready to rally voters in a Pennsylvania city with a very large Latino population just hours after defending his Madison Square Garden rally that was filled with racist and hateful rhetoric.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi...

Donald Trump is campaigning in Georgia a day after his inflammatory and divisive rally where speakers unleashed vulgar and racist remarks. Plus, Kamala Harris is condemning Trump for spreading hate and division. Also, federal authorities are investigating how and why fires erupted in ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kamala Harris slams Donald Trump for likening the United States to a garbage can for the world. Plus, the far-Right House Freedom Caucus chair suggests North Carolina could assign electors to Trump before votes are even counted.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kamala Harris is about to hold a star-studded campaign event in Georgia. This will be the first one featuring both her on stage with former President Barack Obama. Superstar Beyonce will hit the trail with the vice president tomorrow. Plus, a former swimsuit model is talking with CNN about her claim of being groped by Trump in the nineties in an alleged attempt to show off in front of Jeffrey Epst...

Vice President Kamala Harris is preparing to field questions in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania at a CNN presidential town hall. This as Harris is speaking out on a bombshell report for Trump’s apparent fondness for authoritarian leaders. We break down the state of the race for the White House with our team of experts and key politicians from both sides of the aisle.  Learn more about you...

Kamala Harris is declining to say whether she would pardon Donald Trump if she wins the presidency in a new interview just two weeks out from Election Day. Plus, The Atlantic is now reporting that then-president Donald Trump privately told at least two people in the White House that he needed the kind of generals that Hitler had.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice...

Kamala Harris will soon hold her third event of the day as she barnstorms across 'blue wall' battleground states that could make or break her presidential bid. Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney is with the vice president the Harris camp’s closing argument is increasingly about Donald Trump. Also, Trump is capping a day of campaigning focused on North Carolina. The former president is laci...

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are holding dueling events in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump is now lashing out at Harris as she seizes on a report that he’s exhausted by the campaign. Also, sources say the Trump team is in talks with Nikki Haley for her to appear with the former president. Plus, we are learning the Israeli’s may use Yahya Sinwar's body as a bargaining chip to persuade H...

Israel confirms its forces have killed the Hamas leader accused of masterminding the October 7th terror attack. Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu is declaring a victory over evil while warning that the war against Hamas will continue until all hostages are released. Plus, Kamala Harris is campaigning in battleground state of Wisconsin and is blasting Donald Trump for calling January 6th a day of lo...

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance just weighed in on whether Trump lost the last presidential election, embracing false claims about the 2020 presidential results. Plus, Kamala Harris is ramping up her warning that Trump is a danger to democracy, backed up by dozens of Republicans in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...

Donald Trump is getting ready to hold an event in the battleground state of Georgia with only three weeks to go until the election. The former president began the day on the defensive of his economic policy and a whole lot more. Plus, Vice President Kamala Harris wrapped up a town hall where she spent much of the hour directly reaching out to Black voters and harshly criticizing Donald Trump.   Le...

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding dueling campaign events in the battleground state of Pennsylvania tonight. New polling shows the 2024 presidential race remains close and may even be getting closer with just 22 days to go until Election Day. Plus, Vice President Harris is out with a new plan to create more economic opportunities for Black men.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod...

Donald Trump stokes anti-immigrant fears in Colorado while Kamala Harris courts Latinos and other voters in Arizona. Both sides are ramping up their appeals to voting groups as the presidential race remains neck-and-neck with 25 days to go. Plus, new reporting on Trump’s efforts to tighten his security ahead of the election.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The death toll is rising after Hurricane Milton’s destructive assault on Florida and the danger is ongoing from the menacing flooding to the wreckage the storm left behind. Plus, CNN is on the scene of a Florida community that was battered by at least 9 tornadoes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida’s Gulf Coast, threatening to be the storm of the century when it hits land with deadly force. A new forecast warns landfall may begin soon. Conditions in the hurricane strike zone are growing more dangerous by the minute as Hurricane Milton unleashes ferocious winds, torrential rains, and a slew of destructive tornadoes.  Learn more about your ad choices...

Hurricane Milton is back to powerful Category 5 strength and is expected to double in size as it gets closer and closer to Florida’s Gulf Coast. We break down a brand new forecast of Milton’s potentially catastrophic power and path. More than a million Floridians have now been ordered to evacuate. Plus, new revelations about Donald Trump’s secret talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin while Trump was...

A monster Category 5 hurricane just strengthened even more on its potentially devastating path towards Florida. Hurricane Milton is rapidly intensifying as officials are pleading with millions of residents in the Tampa area to get out and get out now. Also, Kamala Harris is warning Trump needs to stop playing politics with hurricanes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

Kamala Harris is hoping to get a boost from one of her party's biggest stars — Barack Obama. He is set to launch a 27 day campaign swing through battleground states. Plus, President Biden offers his thoughts on Israel’s expected retaliation against Iran.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge has just unsealed a huge trove of new evidence from Donald Trump’s federal election subversion case. Prosecutors outline in great detail Trump’s alleged crimes as he schemed to perpetuate himself in power. The special counsel’s filing is already becoming a major issue in the race for the White House as Trump’s team is claiming the Justice Department is trying to interfere in the el...

Israel is vowing to retaliate after Iran launches a major strike, firing about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel which Iran insists was only a portion of its power. The attack marks a sharp escalation between the two sides. One that could tip the region further into an all out war.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Water and widespread destruction after western North Carolina was hammered by Hurricane Helene. We speak with the FEMA administrator on the ground in Asheville amid apocalyptic conditions as the storm’s death toll across the southeast is rising. Also, Israel warns it is heading what it is calling the next stage of the war with Hezbollah as a limited ground invasion of Lebanon may be imminent.  Lea...

A major new escalation in the Middle East after Israel says it targeted the leader of Hezbollah when it attacked the group’s headquarters in Beirut. As fears of an all out war intensify, United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin joins to discuss. Plus, we track Hurricane Helene and its danger.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices