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A Trump border policy expires tonight as migrants line up and officials brace for a crisis they may not be able to contain. Plus, E. Jean Carroll's attorney says she may sue Trump again after comments he made about her at last night's town hall. Then, Putin's spokesperson claims that Russia is not waging a war and denying that some Ukrainian towns have been destroyed.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges, including allegations of fraud related to Covid-19 unemployment benefits, misusing campaign funds, and lying about his personal finances on House disclosure reports. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he would wait before calling on Santos to resign but would not support Santos' reelection. Plus, we are moments away from a town hall with Donald Trump one day after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
A jury has found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll. The witness who testified in the case joins OutFront. Plus, embattled congressman Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) lied about his resume, is now facing charges from the DOJ, and can be arrested in only hours. Also, Putin is mocked after one single tank was on display for Russia's victory day parade.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
CNN is learning the gunman who killed eight people at a Texas mall was obsessed with Nazis and mass shootings. He also appears to have scoped out that mall before the massacre and the waited for the biggest crowds. A witness who was there during the gunfire is OutFront. Plus, the jury is about to begin deliberations in the E. Jean Carroll civil rape trial against Donald Trump. Also, as a Trump-era policy which allowed the government to quickly turn away certain migrants at the border, originally with the aim of stopping the spread of Covid-19, is set to expire soon, border cities are seeing a spike in migration.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Fake electors for Trump cut a deal in Georgia. So what does this mean for the Fulton County District Attorney's case? Plus, Trump's deposition in the E. Jean Carroll rape case is released. Will he end up taking the stand? Also, the head of Russia's private army is now vowing to pull his fighters from the front lines as he tears into the Kremlin all on the eve of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Air sirens in Ukraine as Russia vows revenge for what they say was an assassination attempt on Putin. A former Russian lawmaker who says it was Russians, not Ukrainians, behind the attack is OutFront. Plus, Democrat turned Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) is working on immigration legislation as she calls out the Biden administration on border security. Also, an up and coming star in the Republican Party called survivors of a deadly school shooting spoiled, angry, and stupid.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The special counsel is investigating the handling of Mar-a-Lago's surveillance footage by Trump employees. Did someone tamper with the tapes? Plus, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joins to answer if he will support Joe Biden's reelection bid, if a debt limit deal can be reached, and why he is focused on energy infrastructure. Also, a manhunt is underway after a mass shooting at an Atlanta medical building.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
OutFront provides a report from the U.S. Mexico border as Biden plans to send about 1,500 armed troops in response to a mass influx of migrants. Plus, new details on the manhunt for the Texas suspect who is accused of killing five people. The suspect's neighbor shares with CNN where his clothes and cell phone were found. Also, inside an artificial intelligence operation that is meant to deceive, depicting Putin as a hippie, DeSantis visiting Disney, and Reagan surrendering to the Soviets.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issues a stark warning that the United States could run out of money as early as June 1st. Plus, a bold attack inside Russia after a freight train carrying supplies is blown off of its tracks. Is this the beginning of the Ukrainian counteroffensive? Also, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins to discuss the health crisis of isolation.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The head of the Russian private military Wagner Group is claiming his forces are teetering on extinction. Is it true or just a trap for Ukrainians? Plus, the head of a software company hired by Trump to investigate voter fraud tell us he found nothing and now the DOJ is taking to him. Also, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose own family members won't vote for him for president because of his anti-vaccine views, is polling at nearly 20%. What's behind the surge?To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
New footage appears to show Russian officers dragging a lone man into the back of a car, forcing him to fight in Putin's war. This comes as we learn just how many more troops Putin thinks he needs on the battlefield now. Plus, former Vice President Mike Pence wraps up his testimony before the grand jury investigating Trump. What we are learning about his time behind closed doors today. Also, a look at Tucker Carlson's pattern of offensive and sexist comments about women. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Putin's prized supersonic jet goes down in flames days after the Russians bombed their own city. So, what's going on? A Ukrainian fighter on the front lines is OutFront. Plus, Montana House Republicans kick out Zooey Zephyr, a transgender lawmaker from the House chamber after the lawmaker accused them of having blood on their hands. Also, Disney is suing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis accusing the Republican 2024 presidential prospect of weaponizing his political power to punish the company.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Russia is seizing on Tucker Carlson's exit from Fox. Why this obsession? It comes as a top Putin official tonight tells our Matthew Chance about the possibility of a prisoner swap for Americans detained in Russia. Plus, Biden's message today for reelection is eerily similar to what he said on this very day exactly four years ago. Will it work a second time? Also, outrage over white conservative lawmakers making major decisions for a city that's overwhelming black and Democratic.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
New details emerge of Tucker Carlson's sudden exit from Fox, reportedly being given a ten-minute notice. What was the rush? Also, the Georgia district attorney investigating Trump reveals her timeline for possible criminal indictments against Trump and his allies. The reporter who broke that story joins OutFront. Plus, diamonds, furs, luxurious vacations are all apart of an exclusive look at the life of the wife of one of the men behind Putin's deadly invasion.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The Supreme Court makes a major ruling that a widely used abortion drug mifepristone will remain available for now. Two weeks ago a Trump appointed federal judge suspended the medication's approval by the FDA. Then, an appeals court decided to impose restrictions on the drug. Now, the Supreme Court has stopped the lower court rulings from taking place until the appeals process works its way through the system. Plus, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) joins to discuss calls for Sen. Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has been ordered to pay $5 million to a data expert who debunked his election conspiracies. That expert joins OutFront. Plus, Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-N.C.) joins to discuss why he believes some of his colleagues in Congress are faking their anger. Also, Russia is desperately trying to recruit fighters as one top Kremlin ally talks publicly about obliterating Paris, London, and New York.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
New footage into OutFront shows Ukrainians fighting Russians just 30 feet apart. A shocking moment caught on tape when a Russian soldier lobs a grenade and we show you what happens next. Plus, CNN exclusive reporting inside the epic settlement between Fox News and Dominion shows the last minute scramble to keep Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson from taking the witness stand. This as Fox braces for the next and even bigger trial.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Fox settles for $787.5 million, making it the largest known defamation settlement involving a U.S. media company. Fox is now facing an ever bigger lawsuit from another voting company. Plus, Putin's crackdown continues as Vladimir Kara-Murza has just been sentenced to 25 years in a Russian prison for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. Kara-Murza's wife is OutFront tonight. Also, a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed for pulling into the wrong driveway. The police chief says the gunman showed zero remorse. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
A top Putin critic has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for criticizing Putin's war. The person who has already survived two poisoning attempts. Plus, a grand jury in Ohio has decided not to charge eight officers who shot a black man nearly four dozen times after a chase. Also, Gov. Ron DeSantis is threatening to build a competing theme park or a state prison next to Disney. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The suspect accused of leaking classified documents makes his first court appearance as we are learning details about how Jack Teixeira was able to access such crucial information. Plus, the Supreme Court weighs in on the fight to essentially ban an abortion drug by temporarily restoring full access to that widely used pill. But, for how long? Also, a possible motive in the murder of a top tech executive as prosecutors reveal the stabbing came after an argument over a personal relationship.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
A 21-year-old suspected of being behind the classified documents leak is arrested and taken into FBI custody. This as we learn details about who he was sharing those documents with online. Plus, Trump finishes nearly seven hours of questions under oath in another high-stakes case. Also, new secret recordings from inside Fox News reveal what Rudy Giuliani really thought about Dominion Voting Systems.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The Ukrainian president is calling Putin's forces "beasts" after horrific video appears to show them beheading Ukrainian prisoners. Plus, the dramatic new 911 calls from the bank shooting in Louisville are released as we learn new details about the shooter's past. Also, the U.S. could be dragged into a war with China as Beijing says its military is ready to fight.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Police have just released the body camera video from the deadly mass shooting at a Louisville bank, including the moment officers are ambushed by the gunman. Plus, the New York prosecutor who indicted former President Trump is now taking on a top House Republican. We examine the details of the just filed lawsuit. Also, jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's health is quickly deteriorating and his team is raising concerns he may have been poisoned again. The investigative journalist featured in the documentary Navalny joins.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
A dramatic return and reinstatement of one of the Tennessee Democrats expelled for protesting gun violence. Plus, Louisville, Kentucky is left reeling after another mass shooting. Four have been killed with more injured after a gunman walked into a bank and opened fire. A friend of one of the victims joins OutFront. Also, a look inside the high-stakes U.S. mission to stop North Korea from stealing crypto in order to fund its dangerous nuclear program.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
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A ProPublica report finds that Justice Clarence Thomas accepted several luxury trips paid for by a GOP megadonor. Plus, Republicans in Tennessee have voted to expel one Democrat in the state legislature and right now they are about to vote on expelling another. Several Democrats are accused of violating House rules after they took the House floor to demand action on gun violence in the wake of the Nashville school shooting. Plus, more rockets are fired into and from Gaza amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Former Vice President Mike Pence heads to the witness stand in the DOJ's January 6th investigation. Trump's former White House lawyer Ty Cobb joins to discuss why he believes Trump could be charged and convicted by the next election. Also, an OutFront exclusive, inside one of America's most advanced nuclear submarines able to descend hundreds of feet in seconds and alert for threats from China.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
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Former President Donald Trump arrived in New York today before he is expected to turn himself in to law enforcement and make history as the first president to be formally charged with a crime. The judge in the case is expected to rule on two important motions: whether to allow cameras in the courtroom and whether the indictment will be unsealed before tomorrow's arraignment. CNN Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny reports that Trump is not planning to speak publicly in New York on Tuesday if he follows advice from members of his legal team, according to aides.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
We are standing by for an important court ruling in Trump's hush money case as we are getting new footage of the former president arriving at Trump Tower tonight, hours before his arrest. The lawyer for key witness Michael Cohen joins to discuss the trial. Plus, another Trump investigation is heating up as the special counsel in the Mar-a-Lago classified document case is combing through notes, texts, emails, and even photographs. How significant is the new evidence?To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
New details into OutFront on Trump's arrest and arraignment. Sources are telling CNN what the Secret Service is planning right now as Trump rips into the judge who will oversee his case. Plus, Stormy Daniels is speaking out tonight for the first time since Trump's indictment. Also, the Kremlin says the American reporter who has been arrested on espionage charges was caught red handed. A lawyer with detailed knowledge of the case warns us that there's virtually no chance of him prevailing in court.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury investigating hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. It is the first time in American history that a current or former president is facing criminal charges, and CNN is learning that Trump is expected to be arraigned early next week. Trump released a statement calling the indictment "Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history." Erin speaks with CNN correspondents and analysts about the details of the indictment and when the former president is expected to appear for his arraignment. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The man who lead active shooter drills at Covenant School in Nashville just walked through the school today for the first time since the horrific attack joins OutFront as we're learning more about the shooter's mysterious past. Plus, we are live in Moscow where the head of Wagner Group is publicly breaking with Putin over a 13-year-old girl and her father. Also, one Republican Senator is holding up 158 military jobs. Is he putting America's national security at risk?To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
New messages into OutFront from the Nashville shooter to a friend just moments before the rampage, including why the shooter was reaching out to her specifically. That friend joins OutFront. Plus, his 12-year-old daughter was put on notice by police for anti-war drawings and now he has been sentenced to a Russian penal colony for calling the war an occupation. Also, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham all could be taking the witness stand as Fox News starts to cozy up to Trump again.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Detectives found written material in the car of the 28-year-old shooter who killed three 9-year-old children and three adults in a shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter may have resented having to attend the school in the past, according to Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake. And, a key witness appeared before the Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump's alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to an adult film star.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Police say the Nashville shooter resented having to go to the private Christian school. The 28-year-old killed six people including three nine-year-olds. Plus, David Pecker, the former head of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, appeared before the federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump's alleged role in hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Also, how TikTok is keeping much needed ammunition from Ukraine.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
A Russian politician and Putin critic tells OutFront that she's been poisoned for opposing the war. Plus, a threatening letter with white powder has been sent to the Manhattan district attorney investigating Donald Trump. This as the former President warns of death and destruction, his words, if he's indicted. Also, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's office says he will be out of the hospital soon following his hospitalization for depression.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The Trump witness who testified in the hush money case is speaking out to CNN. This as we have new details about what's happening behind closed doors in the Manhattan district attorney's case. Plus, new evidence of just how much TikTok is helping the Wagner Group recruit fighters in the war in Ukraine. Also, the Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife makes his first court appearance today.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
The Manhattan district attorney may be calling back key witness Michael Cohen in the Trump hush money investigation. This would be Cohen's third appearance before the grand jury. So, what does this say about the case? Plus, the threat of nuclear war is the highest it's been in decades according to a top Russian official. Also, a look at how Asian American voters in San Francisco are responding to progressive city policies.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warns that arresting Trump would “blow up our country.” This as an OutFront legal expert joins to outline why the district attorney must indict. Plus, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis calls Trump's attacks background noise and predicts that he can beat Biden. Also, a judge tears into Fox News, accusing the network of knowingly providing false information as Trucker Carlson's private texts were shown in court.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis broke his silence on Donald Trump's legal troubles and alleged involvement in a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Though he criticized the Manhattan D.A. who is pursuing charges and vowed his office would not be involved if the matter trickles into Florida, he came short of offering support for the former president. This as a last-minute witness in the investigation testified today. And, why Buster Murdaugh put out a statement denying he had anything to do with the mysterious death of a former classmate.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Could an 11th hour witness save the former president from an indictment in the hush money case as House GOP members seek to discredit the investigation into Trump? Plus, China's Xi Jinping meets with Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian ambassador to the United States joins to raise questions about whether it was staged. Also, reports suggest the U.S. government is launching a probe into the parent company of TikTok for allegedly spying on American journalists. What could this mean for the 100 million Americans on TikTok?To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy