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We begin this morning with two potential breakthroughs in the ongoing DHS funding saga. First, President Trump said he will sign an emergency order to immediately pay TSA agents. Then the Senate voted to fund DHS except for ICE and border patrol. Does this mean those long security lines at airports will finally ease?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt points to President Donald Trump's strikes on Iran as the most significant evidence yet that he “does not bluff," adding, "he is prepared to unleash hell." So, is all the talk about negotiations just a distraction from a coming invasion?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is President Trump ready to escalate the war with Iran or end it all with peace talks? It's a good question after news the US is sending 1,500 paratroopers to the Middle East. More questions: Why is Tehran reportedly asking for JD Vance at the table? What is the "very big present" Trump says Iran gave the US? Meanwhile, as the partial government shutdown continues, lawmakers face a tight deadline before they end up at the airport trying to get home for a two-week Easter break. How can both sides cut a deal and save face?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some top Republicans think they have a plan to end long lines at the airport, the only wrench in the plan is President Trump . Some passengers are speaking out after surviving that deadly plane crash at LaGuardia. Were there warning signs that were missed? President Trump says there are points of agreement after talks with Iran, but Tehran says they're not even negotiating. Who exactly is the US talking to?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An Air Canada jet hit a fire truck on the runway at New York's LaGuardia airport last night. Two pilots were killed and dozens of other people were injured. Our extensive coverage of this disaster begins with CNN correspondent Gloria Pazmino.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House wants $200 billion for the war with Iran. Why? “It takes money to kill bad guys,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explains. But will that convince the leaders you elected in Washington to pony up the cash? Even some Republicans aren't sure.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran retaliates for Israel's attack on its natural gas facility by targeting the gas and oil of its Middle East neighbors ... New claims from a former Trump spy boss prompt more questions about who had the president's ear in the lead up to the war ... Stunning testimony from the US director on national intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A top US spy appointed by President Trump resigns, claiming "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation" and asserting that Israel misled the president. His defiant exit further divides MAGA. Does the split now run deeper and closer to the president?     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump promises to name a coalition of countries that will help the US in its war against Iran. Meanwhile, American assets continue to come under fire from Iran, including a US embassy overnight. Trump says "nobody expected Iran to go after all these other countries. We talk to a former ambassador from a Gulf state about that.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said the war with Iran is already won. So why does he need foreign ships to come finish the job? Regardless, no country has committed warships to the Strait of Hormuz. Will the UK or maybe China step up? Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth issues a new war pledge: "No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." Does that threat violate international law?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As today's show begins, the US military has just confirmed four more deaths in the war with Iran. They were crew members of a refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq. Six people were on board at the time of the crash, and rescue efforts continue, along with an investigation into what exactly happened.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran hits two foreign oil tankers in Iraqi waters, plus at least three others near the Strait of Hormuz. The attacks prompt the G7 to discuss escorting ships "when security conditions allow." Oil prices rocket past $100 a barrel, prompting the International Energy Agency to order the largest-ever release of emergency oil. President Trump says he will tap US reserves as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Citing its most intense strikes of the war, Iran's military unleashes an unrelenting bombardment overnight, targeting Israeli and US assets. CNN teams in Doha reported booms loud enough to shake buildings as Qatar fought off waves of missiles and drones. Meanwhile, the US vows not to allow Iran to hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage and says it has destroyed multiple Iranian mine-laying vessels. We begin our extensive coverage with CNN's Oren Liebermann in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While President Trump is talking pretty much like the war is over, the Iranians are talking like they're in it for the long haul. Regardless, the fighting over the past few hours has not slowed down. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to speaking to reporters later this morning.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iran has a new supreme leader: Mojtaba Khamenei will succeed his father who was killed in a strike at the start of the war. Video from Iran's state media just a short time ago shows people celebrating in the streets. Israel met the announcement with increased firepower, targeting a rocket engine factory and several missile launch sites.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The three-man council running Iran is getting ready to introduce a new supreme leader. We don't know who that is nor exactly when this will be revealed but President Trump says that he needs to be involved in that. CNN's Nic Robertson joins us live from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with the latest.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We start today with explosions in Tehran as another wave of Israeli strikes is underway. Israel is saying that they've taken out dozens of Iranian missile arrays. Meanwhile, the IDF says Iran launched missiles towards Israel. Iran also targeted three Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Here at home, the US enate rejected a resolution to force the president to end the Iran strikes.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

srael unleashes another wave of attacks on Tehran and also targets in Lebanon., prompting retaliatory strikes from both countries on Israeli and American assets. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to speak to reporters later this morning. Our extensive coverage of the war begins with CNN's Nik Robertson in Saudi Arabia, where CIA station has been hit.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Israel carries out simultaneous strikes in Tehran and Beirut as the US promises to hit Iran even harder. The US State Department is warning Americans to leave the Middle East immediately. Meanwhile, Iran continues to target US allies across the Gulf. CNN has reporters throughout the region and we begin our coverage with our Chief International Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh in Haifa, Israel.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our coverage of the war against Iran, which President Trump now says could last "four weeks," continues, starting with CNN Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A former president of the US will be questioned under oath today about Jeffrey Epstein just hours after his wife did the same. Could this set a dangerous precedent for Republicans and Donald Trump? ... Despite positive nuclear talks with Iran, is a US strike now all but inevitable? ... Why did Netflix walk away and let Paramount grab Warner Brothers?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Does yesterday's gunfight between Cuban forces and a Florida speedboat put the US on the brink of a new crisis? Havana says it killed four people trying to infiltrate the island ... Bill and Hillary Clinton begin their closed-door testimony today on the Epstein saga. Will they say anything of substance? ... Nuclear talks with Iran resume. Is this the last chance for diplomacy of a prelude to a US military strike?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump delivers the longest State of the Union address in history. But did he say what Americans needed to hear? We talk to a Republican and a Democrat in Congress about what he accomplished. Also: His 108-minute speech contained not a single reference to the ongoing Epstein controversy. We speak with an Epstein survivor for her reaction.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump Skeptical About SOTU  "If I came up with a cure for cancer, they would say he should have done it years ago," complained President Trump just hours before the second State of the Union address of his second term, adding, "There is not a thing I can do where these people are going to give me credit." Regardless of whether that's true, tonight's speech is a test run for the GOP message as midterms approach.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A powerful winter storm intensifies, slamming the Northeast with heavy snow and whiteout conditions. More than 40 million people across 11 states are under blizzard warnings, with some areas expected to get more than two feet of snow. More than 10,000 flights are canceled, and officials are urging everyone in the storm's path to take it very seriously.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the former Prince Andrew arrested the question becomes: Will that same kind of accountability come to the US? We bring you the White House reaction amid calls for justice.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As today's show begins we have major breaking news out of the UK, where Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. British police confirm the former royal was taken into custody earlier this morning. They have previously said they were assessing evidence related to the Epstein files. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz in London kicks off our coverage of this extraordinary development.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert engages in a very public fight with his soon-to-be ex-employer CBS over an interview with a Democratic candidate ... President Trump weighs his options on Iran, saying "all" are on the table ... A new clue emerges 18 days into the desperate search for Nancy Guthrie.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, whose towering presence and vision reshaped the Democratic party and the country, has died at the age of 84. We begin today's show by taking a look at Jackson's life and legacy.  Also: Actor Robert Duvall dead at 95.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The search for Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy enters its third week marked by new evidence and a new family plea ... The congressional stalemate over DHS funding continues. Who will be the first to blink? Is the Trump Administration trying to make it harder for you to vote? ... The Olympics feature thrilling moments, cheating allegations and judging controversies.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

That's the message from Nancy Guthrie's family this morning as investigators release new information about who they think abducted the 84 year old. Meanwhile, agents make a new appeal to neighbors as one of them spots a mysterious white van.  Also on today's show: Saying "Democrats will not support a blank check for chaos," lawmakers refuse to fund the DHS. They say they are doing what the people want. But what if that leads to airport delays?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Law enforcement officials say they've received thousands of calls in recent days regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie after the FBI released footage of an armed person on her front-door camera taken the morning she disappeared. During a search near the Tucson home yesterday, a black glove was seen being taken into evidence, though it's unclear whether authorities believe it was worn by the person in the doorbell footage. Meanwhile, Savannah Guthrie shared a home video with her mother, saying the family “will never give up on her.”    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The search for Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mom Nancy intensifies after authorities release a video of a masked, armed person at her door the night she vanished. Police detained a person for questioning in connection to the case but subsequently released them. Plus, a house and car about 60 miles from Guthrie's house were searched.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two lawmakers who have seen the raw Epstein files say redactions are protecting powerful men. "There are clearly coconspirators in here that they here that they can name," says one. But we won't be getting any insight from Ghislaine Maxwell, who says she won't talk without a pardon. Audie speaks with an Epstein survivor about all this.  Plus: Savannah Guthrie begs for the public's help as the FBI expands its search for her mom.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny leans into joy and reminds everyone that America is more than the United States ... President trump shifts blame and refuses to apologize after posting a racist video of the Obamas ... Where are the rest of the documents? Why did they release victims' names? Those are some of the questions Congress will try to answer this week in the Epstein scandal.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The family of Nancy Guthrie makes another direct appeal to their mother's kidnapers as the first deadline in an apparent ransom note passes ... Someone sent Tulsi Gabbard to Georgia to look for 2020 ballots. How come no one in the White House wants to take credit for it? ... Plus, a boss at a big-time law firm quits after his name turns up in the Epstein files ... Bad Bunny says he'll bring his culture to the Super Bowl halftime show. The big question: will he bring his politics?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We begin with the search for Nancy Guthrie and daughter Savannah's tearful video plea begging the person who took her mother to bring her back home. Then we ask the question: Where's the big reckoning over the Epstein files? There's outrage in the UK, but here not so much. And the Supreme Court just handed Gavin Newsom a big win. Could it help Democrats in this year's midterms?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the desperate search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie continues, TMZ and a local news station in Tucson say what appears to be a ransom note has surfaced ... President Trump defends his call to nationalize elections, but are other Republicans on board? ... Is Tulsi Gabbard the target of a secret whistleblower complaint?     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify before lawmakers ... What lawmakers are saying now about the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother ... President Trump says Republicans should take over and nationalize voting ... Prosecutors raid Elon Musk's X office in Paris.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First it was the Oval Office, then the East Wing, and now Donald Trump wants to remodel the Kennedy Center ... A five-year-old boy detained by ICE is now back home as Congress fights over reforms to immigration enforcement ... Is the stunning flip by Democrats in a deep red seat a bellwether for the midterms?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A government shutdown is looking more and more likely as more Americans are in favor of abolishing ICE. According to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, "Until ICE is properly reined in and overhauled, the DHS funding bill doesn't have the votes to pass.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new video shows Alex Pretti, the man shot and killed by federal agents over the weekend, in another encounter with ICE more than a week before he was gunned down. It appears to show Pretti kicking out the tail light of an SUV. Agents then get out of their car and tackle him to the ground. The encounter lasts a few seconds before Pretti is let go. At one point, a gun is seen in his waistband, but it's unclear if agents saw it.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices