Anderson Cooper 360

Just a few hours from now, millions of Americans will go to the polls, in what could be the most dramatic and consequential midterm elections in a generation. More than 56 million Americans have already cast early ballots over the last several weeks. We're checking in with CNN reporters on the ground in Texas, Alaska, Michigan, and Ohio as candidates make their final pitch. Plus, Kara Sw...

With just two days to go, and control of the Senate at stake, former Democratic Senate hopeful Haley Stevens endorsed the Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, over disagreements she has with Democratic candidate Abdul el-Sayed. Anderson speaks to Rep. Haley Stevens tonight, and congresswoman Debbie Dingell. Plus, the president is in Kansas stumping for Republican Senate incumbent Roger Marshall. The...

With the president on the road in Florida right now, and new signs of trouble for Republican House candidates across the board, two big stories are rocking the campaign, both involving Democrats. One in Alaska, over ballot shenanigans, the other in Michigan, over a controversial ad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president was scheduled to be in Kansas on Saturday, and Iowa on Sunday. Now, both trips are off, replaced by a series of televised remote appearances instead. Anderson speaks to CNN Chief White House Correspondent and The Source anchor Kaitlan Collins about what's behind the White House's decision to cancel. Plus, a look at the Michigan Senate race and the factors behind new polling ther...

Just six days left unit the midterm elections and already 38 million votes have already been cast. This as President Trump and former President Barrack Obama are back on the campaign trail this evening.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With just a week to go until the midterms, the president says he'll respect the results, but only, he says, “if they're honest elections.”  Plus, RFK Jr.'s verbal attack about Arabs' contributions to science and literature—and the anti-Muslim rhetoric surrounding Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With just eight days until the midterms, President Trump is in Mississippi, a ruby red state that he won by 23 points in 2024. But even there, a key U.S. Senate race is inching bluer, according to The Cook Political Report. All week the president will be visiting one red state after the next.  Plus, the Trump DOJ has criminally charged former FBI Director James Comey for a third time. Learn m...

The Justice Department has made an extraordinary move to intervene in a race that could decide the balance of power in the Senate, a legal maneuver that President Trump says he ordered. In a lawsuit filed today in Alaska, the DOJ preemptively asked the state not to certify the results if the incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan loses. Plus, for the first time, we're hearing from the hero O...

The continuing fallout in the Ohio governor’s race from the ad Republican nominee Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign made using the estranged mother of his opponent Democrat Dr. Amy Acton.  President Trump went all in on it today, posting on social media, "I only wish the mothers of my opponents would be so brave as to come forward and explain that their son or daughter is a liar, and much worse.” Pl...

President Trump is in South Carolina tonight, a state he won by 18 points in 2024. And new polling from CNN shows 32% of voters approve of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president. That's his lowest approval rating ever while in office, including just after January 6, 2021. Plus, what the president's former personal attorney, Alina Habba, is saying in response to a New York Times report, that says...

Trump continues to campaign in red states that voted for him by double digits in 2024 as he tries to stave off GOP losses in the midterms. Tonight the president is in Greenville, North Carolina to rally for Michael Whatley, another Republican in a tight race. Plus, who slowed down the Starlink used by Ukraine's military to defend itself: Elon Musk or President Trump? There’s new reporting from the...

We are almost two weeks away from the midterm elections and President Trump is in Kansas tonight, a deep-red state he won by 16 points two years ago and one that has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.  Plus, how far will the president go as he increasingly turns his back on Ukraine, slams its President Zelensky, all while giving Russia a pass?      Learn more about your ad choices....

Tonight, White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia is out of the job she held for just five days. Plus, President Trump visits a deep red corner of Georgia, as new signs point to the electorate possibly trending bluer in a number of districts around the country.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three children, aged 5, 8, and 11, and one teacher were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to Police Chief Mike Krantz. A community member who saw the teen shooter entering Silver Rail Elementary School followed him in before engaging him in gunfire, killing him before responding officers arrived, Krantz said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Just days before early voting begins in Texas, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico will appear on CNN tonight at 8pm ET for a town hall moderated by Erin Burnett. Talarico now stands an essentially even chance of becoming the state's first Democratic senator since 1993, and whose victory could hand control of the Senate to Democrats for the last two years of the Trump administration. Plus, mo...

With just three weeks left in the campaign, President Trump spent nearly 8 hours on a plane to a state that should have been safely red in the first place, while his handpicked new press secretary is being panned for her debut performance. Plus, more on Kimberly Guilfoyle's departure, and the cold shoulder she got from the president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...

With the midterms just three weeks from tomorrow, the president rolls into Ohio carrying a ton of new political baggage, on top of the kind that has been weighing Republicans down the entire campaign. Plus, all we are learning about why federal agents searched the D.C. home of a Democratic congresswoman, whom the president now calls "crooked," and once called "garbage." Learn more about your ad ch...

We are tracking Hurricane Isaias, the larger-than-expected, fast-moving storm which has already begun coming ashore along the coastal Florida panhandle and Alabama Gulf coast. Plus, the latest in the wake of an ICE shooting in New York that wounded a man, with a five-year-old in the car with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to the Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, sought $100K to pay her American Express bill and offered access to top administration officials ahead of her confirmation. It is yet one more story about ethical questions and money-making efforts by members of the Trump Administration. Plus, a new report that the Trump Justice Department is targeting former...

Tonight the president is back in Texas for the third time in a month, which says a lot about the worries that Republicans have about their chances there, just 27 days from now. Plus, two of the president's top political advisors, and new reporting on the money they reportedly made helping a far-right, pro-Putin political party in Bosnia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...

Just four weeks out from the midterm elections with new signs of trouble for Republicans. Plus, Cornell University names a former top Justice Department official to review the school's response to Jane Doe's fraternity gang rape allegations. A new report emerges about what happened after the alleged incident, including a purported phone conversation between Doe and one of the men allegedly involve...

Republicans are defending territory they never expected to be at risk four weeks before Election Day. Tonight, President Trump is in Nebraska, a deep-red state he won by 20 points, and where he is campaigning says a lot about how he sees his party's chances next month. Plus, a Russian lab worker's death, and the fear it's unleashed one of humankind's worst infectious diseases - the plague. Learn m...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is appointing New York State Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the alleged sexual assault case at Cornell University and says she supports closing a “loophole” in state law that can make it nearly impossible for survivors to seek justice if they voluntarily consumed alcohol or drugs before an assault. Plus, sources tell CNN the pilot suspected o...

The family of Renee Good, an American woman shot and killed during an ICE operation in Minneapolis in January, has filed two civil lawsuits against the Trump administration, alleging she posed no threat to federal agents when she was shot. The lawsuits seek damages for wrongful death, battery, assault, and other charges. The White House calls the suits “baseless.” Good’s brother, Brent Ganger, spo...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to cut senior officer ranks by 20% in a speech to service members. Democratic Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, weighs in on the cuts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices