Anderson Cooper 360

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's very public breakup has gotten loud and full of threats and allegations.  How it happened, and what the fallout could be. Few journalists have as much insight into Musk as CNN Contributor Kara Swisher, who predicted that the Trump-Musk alliance would not end well. Swisher shares her reaction to today's drama. Plus, a live report on what could be Russia's answer to Ukraine's drone strikes over the weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking news on a travel ban proclamation that President Trump has signed regarding a number of countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. CNN's Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins has the new reporting.  Plus, as new video emerges of Ukraine's drone strike on Russia, President Trump talks to Putin. But it's unknown if the President said anything to try and stop the Russian leader from launching a counterstrike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just days after leaving the administration, Elon Musk lays into President Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill” calling it a "disgusting abomination.” Anderson looks at how the White House and Congress are reacting. Plus, Kara Swisher and Anthony Scaramucci weigh-in on Musk's message. And, is the President turning on the Supreme Court justices he nominated? Trump's new war of words on the court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Colorado, a peaceful march is targeted in what authorities are calling an antisemitic terror attack. We have the latest on the investigation and hear from a witness. Plus, Ukraine's stunning drone strikes on Russia's strategic bomber fleet. How they did it and how it could usher in a new era in warfare all around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Covid confusion as Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says "no" to those shots for kids, but the CDC says otherwise. Plus, how Taylor Swift won the fight to take back control of the best-selling songs she created. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A day after one court put President Trump's tariffs on hold, a higher court lets them go forward, for now. Just one of three rulings today, in more than 200 legal challenges that this second Trump administration is facing. Plus, Anderson's conversation with the CEO of leading AI company Anthropic, and his warning that the technology could have a sudden and devastating impact on American jobs in the next few years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are out of prison after their presidential pardon. Anderson speaks with their attorney Alex Little. Plus, a U.S. federal court has just blocked the bulk of President Trump's tariffs. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig and CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Obama, discuss the new development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're covering breaking news on presidential pardons. Reality television couple Todd and Julie Chrisley are getting out of federal prison. Plus, SpaceX lost contact with its Starship megarocket while conducting its ninth uncrewed test flight. The spacecraft likely broke apart over the Indian Ocean after losing control upon reentry to Earth. CNN Aerospace Analyst Miles O'Brien and CNN Space Analyst Kristin Fisher join our live coverage.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have breaking news in the Trump administration's battle with Harvard University. Details on what a federal judge said about the case and what happens next. Plus, tech journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher on the president's push to have iPhones and others built in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New details on what investigators and witnesses are revealing about the suspected gunman arrested for the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers. Plus, San Diego officials are looking into what caused a private jet to crash into a neighborhood in the middle of the night killing people on board and leaving a trail of destruction.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another Oval Office ambush. First it was Zelensky and now President Trump confronts South Africa's president. His facts, however, don't add up. Plus, it turns out Newark Airport isn't alone with trouble in their skies. New reporting shows what appears to be a nationwide problem with old technology, stressed out controllers, and close calls in the air. Also, we check in with the guy who hated his job, quit, and is now sailing the high seas by himself.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking news, a judge reportedly tells the Trump administration to find the plane they placed deported migrants on and see if it can be turned around. Attorneys for Vietnamese and Burmese migrants alleged in a new emergency motion Tuesday that the Trump administration deported their clients to South Sudan in violation of a previous court order. Plus, former FBI Director James Comey speaks to AC360, just days after the Secret Service called him in for questioning about what some administration officials say was a call for President Trump's assassination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump's phone calls with Putin and Zelensky were supposed to jumpstart the peace process and ultimately end the war, but now the president is signaling he could completely back away. Plus, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, on former President Biden's shocking cancer diagnosis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New video released tonight of a daring jail break in New Orleans. Authorities say the inmates should be considered "armed and dangerous," and that they might have had help from a guard or someone in law enforcement.  Plus, a photo of the numbers "86 47", in seashells, and why President Trump is saying they add up to a call for his assassination by former FBI Director James Comey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean “Diddy” Combs's attorneys' question his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura under oath. A look at what his legal team wanted to accomplish and what she actually said. Plus, if you've ever dreamed of quitting your job and taking off on an adventure you'll want to hear from Oliver Widger. He didn't know much about sailing but he cashed in his 401K, got a boat, and is now sailing the seas. He talks to Anderson from his boat somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, with his rescue cat companion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump meets with Qatar's emir who's giving him a 747 and talks at length about why he needs it now. John Bolton, his former national security adviser has some thoughts on that and joins 360° tonight. Plus, Sean “Diddy” Combs's ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, back on the stand in his federal trial, delivering explicit testimony. CNN anchor and chief legal analyst Laura Coates was there and joins us with details from inside the court, along with criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking news on that free plane from Qatar. It may cost three-quarters of a billion dollars or more, to retrofit it for the President. Plus, what a Los Angeles judge ruled in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are seeking freedom decades after they were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Edan Alexander, the last known living American hostage in Gaza, was released by Hamas and reunited with his family on Monday, ending a 19-month ordeal that began with the militant group's October 7 attack. Plus, a group of White South Africans are the first people granted refugee status since President Trump signed an executive order effectively stopping any refugees from being allowed to come and resettle in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Video of the Tufts University student's arrest by masked men outside her home drew global attention. Today, a judge freed the Turkish exchange student, saying the government showed no evidence to support its case. Plus, the Trump administration fires the Librarian of Congress, the first women and first black person to hold the job. Hear the justification offered for it and how it fits into the administration's larger campaign of erasing important parts of this country's history from view. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In one of the oldest of old-world ceremonies still in practice, 133 cardinals chose the next leader of the Catholic church. And though he is said to be, in many ways, a natural successor to Pope Francis, Vatican-watchers have long doubted the chances that an American would be elevated to the papacy. But for the first time in history there is an American pope. CNN Correspondents Christopher Lamb, David Culver and Brynn Gingras bring us the latest and reactions from both Rome and America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The administration appears ready to transport migrants they've arrested in the U.S. and send them to Libya. A federal judge said that deporting migrants to Libya or Saudi Arabia would violate his previous order if they were not provided written notice and an opportunity to contest ahead of time, according to a new filing. Plus, Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports from Milwaukee on the lead contamination crisis impacting kids in several public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two nuclear-armed powers are on the brink of war as India strikes Pakistan and Pakistan promises retaliation. CNN's Nic Robertson is just back from Kashmir. He joins 360° from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Plus, we're just hours away from the start of the conclave at the Vatican. Anderson has details on some of the potential papal front-runners who could be elected to succeed Pope Francis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight's Keeping Them Honest segment looks at President Trump's new foray into cryptocurrency, and the door it opens, critics say, to corruption on a massive scale. Plus, the start of jury selection in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial. What jurors were asked, and what kind of evidence, some of it graphic, they could be expected to see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After weeks of President Trump threatening and intimidating big law firms into bowing down and giving him hundreds of millions of dollars in free services, one federal judge has said enough. Plus, the President tries to starve public broadcasting of money. Why and how he's doing it. Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and the CEO of PBS, Paula Kerger, join AC360° to talk about what is at stake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump had four national security advisors in his first term, now he's on his second this time around. President Trump announced today that he's nominating Mike Waltz to serve as UN ambassador, shifting from his role as national security adviser. This comes weeks after Waltz added a journalist to a group chat discussing military strikes. Plus, the Trump-appointed judge who just ruled against the President on a pillar of his deportation policy. What the judge said and the impact it could have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says he could obey the courts and help bring back a wrongly deported man from El Salvador, but he won't. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggests that he would defy the courts completely. Plus, 11 high school lacrosse players turn themselves in after being accused of victimizing five younger players in what law enforcement said was "way beyond hazing." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump takes a victory lap on his first 100 days in office, as the consequences of those hundred days add up. Tonight's guests include Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Plus, a storied and deeply significant ally of the civil rights movement is gutted, as the Justice Department lawyers who work there who have led that fight depart en mass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the eve of 100 days in office, Anderson speaks to Sen. Amy Klobuchar about President Trump's agenda and the Democrats' response or lack thereof, so far. Plus, Russia announces they'll have a brief ceasefire in Ukraine, but it's not quite what it sounds. CNN's Matthew Chance has the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Pope Francis' funeral just hours away, the Vatican says about 250,000 paid their respects to the pontiff in St. Peter's Basilica. Francis was known for his love of those on the margins - immigrants, the poor, those too often shunted aside. CNN's Clarissa Ward talks with a female inmate who met the pope last year, when he came to her prison. She remembers him as a “Pope of the people.” And perspective on this moment from Andrew Sullivan, who has written often, and eloquently about the pontiff, the church, and his own Catholic faith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 90,000 people have filed into St. Peter's Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis as he lies in state. His coffin will be closed on Friday evening ahead of his funeral on Saturday morning. John Studzinski, a friend of the pontiff, shares memories and what his hopes are for when he will pay his respects to the pontiff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thousands of people waited in line in on Wednesday to pay their final respects to the late Pope Francis, who is lying in state inside the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Plus, Anderson interviews Robert Harris, whose bestselling book "Conclave" led to the Oscar-winning movie. Harris shares the inspiration for his novel and why people are so fascinated with the process of selecting a new pope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tributes continue to pour in after Pope Francis died on Easter Monday. The 88-year-old Argentinian died of a stroke and heart failure at his Vatican residence. In the preface of a book set to come out later this week, the pontiff described death as “a new beginning.” Plus, what we're learning about his funeral now set for Saturday and the possible top contenders to become the pope's successor at the upcoming conclave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Across the world, people are mourning the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88. Anderson Cooper is live from Saint George's Cathedral in London, en route to Rome. Plus, the fallout and denials after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed military plans in a second Signal chat, which included his wife and brother. Anderson gets reaction from Democratic congressman Adam Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking news on multiple legal fronts. Deportation cases pit the White House against a string of judges, including one who says he's got reason to find the administration in contempt.  Plus, is there a ceiling to the amount of weight popular medications for obesity and diabetes can help someone lose? CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All we're learning about the deadly mass shooting at Florida State University, committed by a son of a law enforcement officer, according to police. Nick Valencia is in Tallahassee, FL with the latest. Plus, young children being left to face immigration courts alone, advocates say they may be hardest hit by the Trump administration's crackdown. CNN's Priscilla Alvarez has the story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump promised to let RFK Jr. go "wild" on health, now CNN has learned how wild the White House is planning to go when it comes to cutting billions of dollars from his cabinet department. Plus, a live report from a factory in China that is already feeling the brunt of the brewing trade war, CNN's Marc Stewart has the story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A judge tells the Trump administration to produce documents and answer questions about the man they mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador, and refuse to bring back.  Plus, Mark Zuckerberg on the witness stand, in a case that could reshape WhatsApp and Instagram, and how Zuckerberg's newfound friendship with the President could reshape the case, Kara Swisher joins AC360°. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The leader of the free world and the President of El Salvador both say they won't return a man deported to El Salvador's notorious prison by mistake. And now, President Trump is talking about sending U.S. citizens there. Plus, breaking news on the Trump administration's funding fight against elite universities. Late tonight, the administration froze more than two billion dollars in federal funding for Harvard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even as markets pick up, the U-S China trade war deepens, and confidence in the economy takes its worst hit since Covid. New York Democratic congressman Ritchie Torres, who sits on the House Financial Services Committee, joins AC360°. Plus, first the Pentagon erased black heroes from its websites, now the Naval Academy is banning hundreds of books. Maya Angelou's autobiography is out, but a book by Hitler is still available.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking news tonight: The Supreme Court orders the Trump administration to help get back the man they deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, by mistake. Plus, all we're learning about the helicopter sightseeing trip that ended in New York's Hudson River with six lives lost, including the pilot and a family of five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Investors brace for impact, again, with huge new tariffs on China just hours away, and higher prices soon to follow. At midnight, the tariff on goods imported from China will rise another 50%, to a staggering 104%. Also, at midnight, Canada's 25% tariff on American-made cars begins, which is retaliation for the President's corresponding 25% levy on Canada imposed last week. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who sits on the Finance Committee and is the ranking member on the Banking Committee, talks to Anderson about the state of the economy. Plus, Dr. Sanjay Gupta shares the findings of a new study on Alzheimer's that he's a part of. The results are startling, and good news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More tariff turbulence today, as rumors President Trump would change his mind shook financial markets. Then he sent it reeling when he tripled down on the tariffs instead. Plus, the Supreme Court hands the administration a big victory on its deportation efforts under an obscure law that's only been used a few times since it was enacted in 1798. Also, Anderson speaks to the lawyer for a man who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices