CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

President Donald Trump's decision to open a two-week negotiating window before deciding on striking Iran sets off an urgent effort to restart talks that had been deadlocked when Israel began its bombing campaign last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As President Donald Trump weighs whether to join Israel's strikes on Iran — including using bunker-busting bombs to target nuclear facilities deep underground — a discussion is underway among his top officials over how the US can strike those targets without becoming embroiled in a full-scale war, sources familiar with the matter said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two US officials told CNN that Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump is leaving the G7 summit early after suggesting that he could soon strike a deal with Iran to end the current conflict. Trump has proposed a ceasefire deal, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. But Trump also warned Iranians to evacuate Tehran, underscoring the danger to its 10 million residents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There have been more explosions tonight in Tehran and Tel Aviv as the conflict between the Middle East foes escalates following Israel's unprecedented attack early Friday on Iranian nuclear and military targets, which killed some of the country's most senior leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California's National Guard and must return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled. The ruling is a significant win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sued Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this week after the president called the troops into federal service in the wake of protests in the Los Angeles area over Trump's hardline immigration policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A curfew will soon begin for a second night in parts of downtown Los Angeles as the city is reeling from a sixth straight day of clashes over President Trump's ICE raids. Moments ago, the LAPD declared an unlawful protest outside of city hall. We are seeing similar protests across the United States.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Los Angeles enters its fifth day of unrest, a curfew has been declared from 8pm to 6am local time and will cover one square mile of the entire Los Angeles area. President Trump has mobilized 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the city to quell the demonstrations against his immigration raids.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A fourth night of protests is unfolding right now in Los Angeles as President Trump deploys the United States military on American soil.  It is an extraordinary show of his executive power, triggered by days of unrest over his administration's immigration raids.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges. For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an intense standoff with the federal judiciary over court orders for the government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, where he was mistakenly deported in mid-March.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An intense public feud erupted on Thursday between President Donald Trump and his one-time ally, billionaire Elon Musk, with an argument about Trump's massive tax and domestic policy bill raging across social media and in the Oval Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Travel ban 2.0. The President goes bigger in the sequel and bans travelers from twelve countries after an antisemitic attack. Plus, which side will Republicans choose in Elon Musk's war against Trump's spending agenda?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mr. Mars goes scorched earth. The man who Trump considers a genius calls the “big, beautiful bill” disgusting. Plus, at the start of Pride Month, Pete Hegseth erases a gay rights icon from a ship and considers throwing more of history's heroes overboard.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 A 45-year-old Egyptian national left an iPhone with messages to his wife and five children in his house, drove to downtown Boulder with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails and attacked demonstrators at a peaceful Jewish event to support hostages in Gaza, according to federal hate crime charging documents. Plus, policing in secret. A look at the growing trend of masking up when cracking down. Also, if big brands are supporting Pride Month, it's somewhere over, under, and around the rainbow due to the right's ridicule.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Elon Musk bids adieu to his DOGE rollercoaster, an explosive new report suggests he's been on a ride of his own. Plus, a fiery GOP senator confronts a fiery town hall and may have inadvertently cut a new ad for Democrats.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Questions emerge of justice or judicial tyranny as a lot of what Donald Trump does gets undone. Plus, do foreigners have a right to free speech in America? A move in the administration gives Cold War flashbacks. Also, FBI rookies get on the wrong side of MAGA as they find government jobs aren't that easy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal court on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have raised the cost of imports for everyone from giant businesses to everyday Americans. But the administration immediately appealed the decision on Wednesday night, leaving the situation uncertain for consumers and companies and potentially prolonging the battle over whether Trump's import duties will stand – and possibly reshape the global economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why the butterfly effect of Donald Trump's war on colleges may bring America backwards. Plus, as the White House insists power is not for sale, the President pardons a tax cheat after his mother attends a million dollar dinner. Also, lost liberals are spending big bucks to figure out a culture dominated by dudes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union, citing a lack of progress in current trade negotiations. Trump's comments came after another trade-related post on Truth Social that threatened a 25% tariff on Apple if it continues to make the iPhone overseas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The most transparent president in history goes behind closed doors to line his pockets. Plus, the most pro free speech president in history is now banning all international students at Harvard in an unprecedented escalation. Also, the most fiscally responsible president in history unleashes a bill that many Republicans liken to an iceberg of bankruptcy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump met his South African counterpart in the Oval Office on Wednesday where he ordered the lights dimmed and launched into what amounted to an ambush of his visitor, screening a video he claimed was evidence for his false suggestion that White South Africans are being subjected to persecution and “genocide.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The big squeeze. Donald Trump hits the Hill, drops the f-bomb, and threatens Republicans who don't think his big bill is all that beautiful. Plus, Elon Musk is now considering spending less money in politics.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A humbling cancer diagnosis becomes a political football. Plus, Donald Trump makes an admission about his tariffs while threatening companies that dare tell the truth. Also, she lost her life storming the Capitol on January 6th, now the Trump administration is paying her family millions.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joe Biden's decline on tape. We are now hearing the recordings of the infamous interview with Robert Hur who called Biden an elderly man with a poor memory. Plus, is the outrage over James Comey's instagram post warranted or is it just theatre?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The good news: Donald Trump's tariff drunk economy may be defying gravity. The bad news: what goes up doesn't always come down. Plus, the Supreme Court hears MAGA's case for erasing the 14th amendment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A victory at the border or a crisis? The White House tries to have it both ways. Plus, bipartisan backlash to MAGA's red pen to Medicaid. Also, when it comes to foreign money in politics, Trump 2025 meet Trump 2016.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Joe Biden did not recognize George Clooney when he arrived for a record-breaking June 2024 fundraiser the movie star was co-hosting, according to a forthcoming book from CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Donald Trump scores a string of wins, a debate emerges over whether the rollercoaster ride is just ending up where it began. Plus, gift or grift. A foreign nation donates a new Air Force One but even MAGA says it flies in the face of swamp-draining.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump has been personally involved in discussions inside the administration over potentially suspending habeas corpus, a legal procedure that allows people to challenge their detention in court, two people familiar with the consideration told CNN. One of Trump's top aides, Stephen Miller, confirmed publicly Friday that the administration was “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, adding that it “depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first American pope inherits a world skeptical of America and a legacy skeptical of MAGA. Plus, liberals have been chanting to tax the rich for years and now Donald Trump may agree. Also, after a US attorney nominee fails, the President heads to the Fox News greenroom again.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump's evolving view of the economy begs the question--is he a socialist? Plus, the world map becomes a deportation dart board. Also, Scranton Joe returns to the office.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the clock ticks, proof emerges there is more wheeling than dealing in the spin factory. Also, neighbors United States and Canada sit down for trade talks. Plus, the Supreme Court gives Trump the green light to ban transgender troops.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The backbone of American democracy takes a chill up the spine. Plus, another tariff, another topic, another target. Also, days of delays at one of America's busiest airports begs the question—who is at the controls?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House unveiled a budget blueprint Friday that would pump more money into defense and homeland security, while taking an ax to programs the Trump administration has already targeted, including education, foreign aid, environment, health and public assistance programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump drops Mike Waltz from the national security team but is this just the beginning? Also, a Texas judge tells the man who appointed him your deportation plan goes too far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The economy gets bad news and Trump says it is not his doing. Plus, did Trump blow the DOJ's argument on the man deported to El Salvador? Also, the FBI dives into the archives in its war on woke.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crossing the symbolic barrier between the first 100 days of his presidency and the 1,361 that remain, Trump basked in adulation from a supportive crowd and declared that he had just completed the “the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country.” He waxed nostalgic about his last act with familiar grievances and hyperbolic claims, and seized the moment to set a course for the next one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 59% majority of the public now says President Donald Trump's policies have worsened economic conditions in the country, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, up from 51% in March and on par with the worst numbers Joe Biden saw during his presidency. Americans remain broadly unhappy with the nation's economy, the survey finds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Wisconsin judge who was arrested by the FBI on Friday and accused of interfering in the arrest of an undocumented immigrant has a decadeslong history of advocating for the poor and vulnerable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump aired frustrations with China as the trade war he initiated continues between the world's two largest economies. The president said his administration had meetings with Chinese officials regarding trade this morning, while China has denied it is engaged in direct talks with the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump said his administration is actively speaking with China to get a “fair deal” on trade. Markets rallied after he signaled a potential cooling in the trade war, saying high tariffs on Chinese goods will “come down substantially, but it won't be zero.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As brand America bleeds value, Donald Trump and Elon Musk press rewind on their tough talk. Plus, the top 60 Minutes producer quits and accuses CBS corporate of telling CBS news on how to do its journalism.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president says he's happy with Pete Hegseth's performance as moral at the Pentagon craters and the defense secretary texts his way into another scandal. Plus, Harvard University sues the president over his campaign to commandeer its curriculum.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge in Washington, DC, told lawyers for migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations, even though he was concerned about the administration's actions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do as Donald Trump says, or else. The president who complained about the government being weaponized against him, turns the government into ammo. Plus, a judge accuses the Trump administration of lawlessness and warns of a virus spreading in American government.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump tries to win in the court of public opinion by changing the way America sees the fight over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and by signaling to schools that resistance is expensive. Plus, the Trump administration plans to cut $40 billion from the Health and Human Services budget.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A nation of laws or a nation of Donald Trump's desires? The White House substitutes its opinion for evidence and its policy preference for court orders. Plus, President Trump threatens to hit Harvard University with a tax bill if he doesn't get an apology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President's men aren't telling the truth and his aides are openly defying the courts to deliver Donald Trump's immigration agenda. Plus, while Americans get ready to pay more for everything, those cozy with Trump cash in.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the University of Michigan said in its latest survey released Friday, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April's reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump conceded that there may be “transition problems” with his trade policies but said his team is “working on deals” with countries. Stocks tumbled after the White House clarified its tariff on all Chinese goods is at least 145% — even higher than previously believed. And the market for US Treasuries is again showing signs of distress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We debate the Senator Bernie Sanders town hall takeaways as Americans grow more worried about their wallets. Plus, why the economic roller coaster ride is just getting started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices