The Source with Kaitlan Collins

Two Republican senators are a 'no' on Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon as CNN is learning Pete Hegseth privately told Congress how much he paid the woman accusing him of sexual assault. Plus, as President Trump terminates Mike Pompeo’s security detail, both Pompeo and John Bolton are facing threats from Iran without protection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A leader of the January 6th attack set free by Donald Trump returns to the scene of the crime as federal judges who locked up convicted rioters issue a blistering takedown of Trump’s pardon. Also, Elon Musk is undercutting a big announcement that Trump touted on his first day in office. Plus, a major new fire is exploding in California.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joins to discus President Trump’s agenda for his next term and what it was like to see tech billionaires sitting next to Trump’s cabinet at the inauguration. Plus, President Trump defended pardoning virtually every January 6th rioter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump signed executive actions at the White House today including ending all January 6th cases with pardons, commutations, and dismissals. Among the executive actions was an action that declared two major drug cartels as terrorist organizations – an act that could preface the use of American military force on Mexican soil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New details on Trump’s inaugural plans which are being moved indoors due to frigid temperatures expected in Washington DC on Monday. Plus, TikTok says it is going to go dark 48 hours from now unless the Biden administration steps in and gives more clarity on the ban set to go into effect on Sunday.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Within hours we could hear from the Supreme Court on the fate of TikTok as the company is facing a ban in the United States on national security grounds. Plus, last minute drama in Israel on the ceasefire deal that will free dozens of hostages, including Americans. We speak with an inside source on the status of those negotiations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi...

President Biden’s parting message to the nation after half a century in public service and just five days left as president. His warning to Americans tonight about what he calls an oligarchy taking shape in America. Plus, new details about the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) reveals her vote on Pete Hegseth’s confirmation as President-elect Trump appears to have won the battle for his pick to lead the Department of Defense. Democratic Sen. Elizebeth Warren (D-Mass.) joins to discuss her clash with Hegseth over women in combat during the confirmation hearing. Plus, the death toll in the Los Angeles fires has risen to 25 people.  Learn more a...

The National Weather Service is issuing the most extreme fire warning it can as hurricane-force-winds powerful enough to trigger explosive fire growth hit Los Angeles. Plus, Democrats are up in arms about what’s not in President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s FBI file.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four days into the fight, six wildfires are still burning across Los Angeles. Firefighters have made a bit of progress as ferocious winds are easing up. As of tonight, the Palisades Fire, the biggest one that we have been tracking over the last several days, so far remains only 8% contained. More than 21,000 acres have been destroyed by just that fire alone.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

A new fire broke out late today in California, which officials are calling the Kenneth Fire. The California governor just announced that they are deploying 900 more firefighters to address the fire. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Trump can be sentenced in the hush money case tomorrow.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump wrapped up a critical meeting behind closed doors with Senate Republicans, attempting to hash out a plan that could make or break his agenda once he retakes office in a matter of days. Plus, six wildfires are now raging in Los Angeles. Four out of six of those fires are still 0% contained this evening.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...

Wildfires are raging in Los Angeles tonight. At least thirty thousand people have been ordered to evacuate. The largest fire is now engulfing the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, swallowing up homes in the coastal community.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump's victory now official here in Washington, as Vice President Harris oversees the certification of her own loss. The striking scenes of January 6, four years apart. A former member of the January 6 congressional committee will join. After Canada's Prime Minister announced plans to step down, President-elect Trump needled the neighbor to the north - make Canada the 51st state? Learn mor...

Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Donald Trump will be sentenced for his hush money conviction just 10 days before he takes the oath of office as a convicted felon. Also, Mike Johnson wins in the batter to remain speaker, but only after fending off some last-minute drama that could spell trouble ahead. And some new details tonight, inside the attack in New Orleans, including chilling recordings that a...

Heightened security as Bourbon Street reopens and we are learning more about the driver who killed or maimed dozens in New Orleans. Authorities say the US Army veteran was 100% inspired by ISIS and posted videos in the hours before the attack. Plus, new details about the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

Brand new details on how America will remember former president Jimmy Carter including a eulogy written about Jimmy Carter written by another former president who died before he did. We look at the stories that fill out his legacy including installing solar panels on the White House to choosing a wrongly convicted felon as his nanny.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...

Elon Musk says parts of the MAGA movement are contemptible fools while his far-right critics are saying that he is censoring them on his own platform. Whose side is Donald Trump on? Plus, we speak with a House Republican on the critical election for Mike Johnson that is now just days away.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy don’t often find themselves facing backlash from the MAGA universe. But, tonight there is a major divide between Trump’s advisers and the MAGA base. Plus, a second blackbox was just recovered that could provide new clues about what caused a passenger jet to crash in Kazakhstan killing dozens.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The House Ethics Committee lays out what it calls substantial evidence that former Congressman Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars for sex with multiple women, including a minor. Gaetz has denied the accusations repeatedly and he is pushing back again tonight. Plus, the alleged CEO killer is back in court. Luigi Mangione’s lawyer is tearing into authorities for treating her client like a...

We are awaiting a vote from the Senate to avert a government shutdown. Democrats are declaring victory, Speaker Mike Johnson is declaring victory, even Elon Musk is declaring victory. Plus, CNN is live on the ground in Germany where a driver plowed through a Christmas market in what authorities suspect was a deliberate attack.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Capitol Hill is in total chaos as the United States is one day away from a government shutdown. Not only is there no deal, nobody seems to know who is in charge. 38 Republicans just bucked Donald Trump by voting against a spending deal that Republicans cut not with Democrats but among themselves.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Conservatives on Capitol Hill suddenly revolted against a bipartisan bill House Speaker Mike Johnson had struck with Democrats to keep the lights on and the government funded. The pressure really started to build when one person started to blast the bill — Elon Musk.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We provide an update on RFK Jr.’s effort to be confirmed by the Senate. Plus, in New York, murder charges were brought against the accused CEO killer now being branded by prosecutors as a terrorist.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A shooter has killed a teacher and a teenage student at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin and injured six others, including two students who are in life-threatening condition. A law enforcement source says the 17-year-old shooter apparently planned the attack in advance. We hear a live briefing from officials this hour.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...