Anderson Cooper 360

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

Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt laughed off the exchange earlier today where he mixed up basketball games in his interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith. Schmitt wouldn't say if he regretted his handling of the moment, which saw him repeatedly try to cast Smith as a perjurer. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar reacts to the the mishap and the hearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod...

Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell joins Anderson to talk about his new book, "The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic”. It's a fascinating dissection of gun violence in the US and how many aspects are largely misunderstood.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 40 million people could be impacted by an early-season nor'easter that is threatening the East Coast this weekend. There will be stretches of strong wind and coastal flooding from Boston to New York City and New Jersey. CNN teams are along the expected path with reports.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This evening the White House denied two CNN reporters and MS NOW journalists from covering Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s arrival back at the White House for a state dinner. President Xi is being honored by President Trump and many of the nation's financial and technology giants, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang whose chips are the de facto linchpin of AI around the world. Anderson sat down with Hua...

A DC federal judge could weigh in anytime now, on whether the President of the United States can bar members of the press, including CNN, from the White House. District Judge Timothy Kelly promised to respond, quote, "as soon as possible," after listening to arguments this afternoon from both sides in the case, which pits CNN, MS NOW and Politico against the president, who kicked all three organiz...

The Justice Department is facing a deadline tonight to answer CNN, MS NOW and Politico's lawsuit against the president, ahead of a hearing tomorrow regarding his media ban. President Trump said that while he believes his ban is warranted, the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit “probably will” rule in the media’s favor. Plus, with all this playing out, the president was on the world stage wi...

Today, for the first time in modern memory, the one camera that's at the White House or that travels with a president almost always, was not there. The major television networks are standing with CNN by declining to replace its White House pool crew after the Trump administration barred CNN from fulfilling its assigned duties today. “The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independe...

The President of the United States announced today, with no warning, that he has banned CNN from the White House along with MS NOW and Politico. President Trump was questioned by a group of White House reporters about how he would justify banning the news organizations. “Because they’re fake news,” he said. Plus, a live report from the Kennedy Center where a protest was underway over the actions b...

Is President Trump about to tear down the Kennedy Center because he cannot get his name on the building? Plus, OpenAI is revealing more AI models have gone rogue, and Anthropic's chatbot Claude is taking over the work of building its own successor. Anderson speaks to one of AI's godfathers, Yoshua Bengio.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate as expected on Wednesday, marking a sharp policy turnaround for an economy increasingly shaped by the war in the Middle East. Plus, a new report on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s long-standing fixation on what the troops at his speeches look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new chapter in the debate over how to make AI safe played out today between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chips power just about everything to do with artificial intelligence. Plus, all we're learning about the shadowy Russian billionaire who bankrolled part of Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding celebration, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Learn more abou...