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More than 30 former Trump officials and advisors are speaking out against his leadership and character, yet former President Donald Trump's supporters seem to ignore the warnings. CNN political commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Communications Director, tells Reality Check's John Avlon what the dangers of a second Trump presidency could be. #CNN #News
Ivanka Trump told the January 6 Select Committee that she accepted former Attorney General Bill Barr's assessment that there was no evidence to back then-President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud. #CNN #january6 #ivankatrump
Following the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, CNN's Melissa Bell takes a closer look at life in Poland - where abortion has been restricted for 30 years. #CNN #News
The FBI seized the phone of former President Trump's election attorney John Eastman. Former FBI Deputy Director and CNN Senior Law Enforcement Analyst Andrew McCabe explains why federal agents took the extraordinary step of grabbing Eastman's phone as he left a restaurant.
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CNN's chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains why he wasn't surprised at the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and explains the pivotal role Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) played in that ruling.
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A 70-year-old man who shot dead three senior citizens at an Alabama church group’s meeting Thursday evening was subdued by someone else at the event until police arrived, authorities said Friday.
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In a new post, online conspiracy theorist QAnon targets former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan explains what it means now that the account is back active.
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CNN's Ben Wedeman gets a look at US weaponry on the front lines of Ukraine's fight against Russia. #CNN #News
Constitutional lawyer Page Pate says that former President Trump could face charges after the Department of Justice obtained a search warrant for the home of Jeffrey Clark, a top DOJ official in Trump's administration. #CNN #News
CNN's Jim Acosta talks to "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" contributor Jordan Klepper about the MAGA rally he attended in Mississippi where Klepper talked to Trump supporters about Jan. 6 and the Congressional hearing. #CNN #News
Former GOP congressman Joe Walsh reacts to Fox host Sean Hannity's criticism of the recent January 6th hearing. #CNN #News
In this week's episode of "Unfiltered," SE Cupp argues that the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has brought out the hypocrisy and cruelty of some right-wing political leaders. #CNN #News
In documentary footage from filmmaker Alex Holder, former presidential adviser Ivanka Trump says she supported the count of every vote in the 2020 election despite former President Donald Trump's attempt to stop the vote count. CNN's Jake Tapper and Pamela Brown break down how her comments differ from her interview with the January 6 committee. #January6 #CNN #News
Ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen joins CNN's Alisyn Camerota to discuss former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's shocking testimony before the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot, and what her testimony revealed about how former President Donald Trump tries to avoid accountability. #CNN #News
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the Jan. 6 committee that she overheard former President Donald Trump saying that he did not care if his supporters had weapons — and suggested he had no issue with them marching to the Capitol armed. #CNN #News
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who earned Trump's endorsement in 2020, now says that former President Trump was wrong to pressure election officials to overturn the 2020 election and that he will not support him in the 2024 primary if Trump enters the race. #cnn #News
Alex Holder, a British documentary filmmaker who had access to Trump and his family in the days after the 2020 election and provided evidence to the January 6 select committee, discusses a conversation he had with then President Trump. Discovery+, which shares a corporate parent with CNN, purchased Holder's documentary. #CNN #News
Former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham discusses a text exchange between her and former first lady Melania Trump asking to release a statement condemning any violence on January 6. The former first lady replied "No." Grisham shares more on New Day about how she felt about the conversation. #CNN #News
CNN political commentator Alice Stewart questioned Ana Navarro's stance on abortion, prompting an emotional reply from Navarro. #CNN #News
Watergate journalist Bob Woodward tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he thinks testimony during the January 6 committee's investigation is enough to end former President Donald Trump's political career.
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Newly released audio reveals how House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) felt about the January 6 riot at the Capitol just days after the insurrection took place. New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns say McCarthy has since backtracked on his view for seemingly political reasons.
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Kimberly Rubio, the mother of school shooting victim Alexandria "Lexi" Rubio, gives an emotional plea about gun reform to Congress. #CNN #News
CNN's Donie O'Sullivan spoke with three long-shot Republican House candidates about references they've made to the QAnon conspiracy theory online.
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Legendary journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein join Reliable Sources to discuss the need for Americans to go back down the 'painful road of introspection' ahead of the January 6 hearing to disclose what was known and unknown about the insurrection. #CNN #News
Actor Matthew McConaughey spoke at the White House press briefing after meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill about gun reform legislation.
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CNN's Jim Sciutto asks Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) to weigh in on Fox's decision not to air the January 6 hearings, which committee members have teased could be focused on former President Donald Trump's role in undermining the 2020 presidential election results. #CNN #News
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who served in former President Trump's administration, criticized Trump's endorsed Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, Mehmet Oz.
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Michael Fanone, a former DC Metropolitan Police officer who was attacked by rioters on January 6th, talks to CNN's Jim Acosta about what he expects will happen to former President Donald Trump after the January 6th committee presents all their evidence. #CNN #News
A commentator on Russian state TV called for the bombing of Kyiv after the sinking of the Moskva, a major Russian warship.
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In this week's episode of "Unfiltered," SE Cupp argues that it's up to law-abiding gun owners like her, not Congress, to stop mass shootings. #CNN #News
Video posted on social media by Iowa Starting Line shows Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) in a tough exchange with constituents over gun control legislation around AR-15s. #CNN #News
Conservative lawyer George Conway tells CNN’s John Berman what he is looking forward to in the January 6th hearings. #CNN #News
Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling says the successful US test of a hypersonic missile serves as a counter to Russia's hypersonic missile program. #CNN #News
House Democrats are investigating former President Donald Trump's "apparent failure to account for gifts from foreign government officials while in office" after learning there may be thousands of dollars-worth of items that are either missing or were not tracked properly, according to a new letter sent to the National Archives by the House Oversight and Reform Committee chairwoman and first obtained by CNN. #CNN #News
A federal grand jury has indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate in the House January 6 committee's investigation. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig breaks down the significance of the indictment. #CNN #News
Special counsel John Durham’s efforts to find wrongdoing in the Donald Trump-Russia investigation recently suffered a major defeat, as Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI.
In today’s episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza breaks down what’s next for the Durham probe.
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After Sussmann trial defeat, what's next for the John Durham probe?
Analysis by Marshall Cohen
Special counsel John Durham, the Donald Trump-era prosecutor hunting for wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia investigations, came up empty Tuesday after a federal jury returned a not guilty verdict in his first major case against a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer.
The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, was acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI at a fall 2016 meeting where he passed along a tip about Trump's ties to Russia. In many ways, the trial was a proxy battleground to relitigate the most heated moments of the 2016 election, and was a crucial test of Durham's theory that Clinton allies broke the law with their anti-Trump opposition research.
Here's a breakdown of what this means for Durham, and where the investigation is headed:
What's the impact of the verdict?
The verdict is a significant blow to the Durham probe. After more than three years, Durham has racked up one guilty plea, one acquittal at trial and has one more trial scheduled for this fall.
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31..../politics/durham-wha
Former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman tells CNN's Jake Tapper why he doesn't consider himself a Republican.
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Author Ryan Busse, who used to work in the firearms industry, says that the gun industry has managed to control the politics of the Republican party by creating a culture of fear among gun owners.
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CNN's Selina Wang takes a closer look as China begins easing Covid restrictions in some Shanghai neighborhoods that endured brutal months of lockdown. #CNN #News
Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is leaning into Trump's big lie about the 2020 election in his pursuit of the statehouse. When Mastriano decided to prohibit news outlets from attending one of his campaign rallies, CNN's Kyung Lah and her team had to get creative.
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Former White House photographer Shealah Craighead planned to write a book featuring her photos, but President Trump asked for a portion of the profits in exchange for writing the forward, according to the New York Times.
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CNN's Carl Bernstein and John Dean discuss what evidence the January 6th committee may have to link former President Donald Trump to a coup attempt on January 6th and why Americans should keep their on on Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).
#donlemontonight #carlbernstein #johndean #cnn
It should be easy to elect a Republican in Missouri, but former governor and now Senate candidate Eric Greitens is throwing a wrench in things. In today’s episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains why Greitens’ controversial past may help a Democrat win.
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Ukrainian troops say weapons provided by the US are giving them an advantage because they are lighter and more precise than the ones used by Russia. CNN's Matthew Chance reports from the front lines.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with the father of Amerie Jo Garza, one of the victims in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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CNN's Don Lemon reports from the scene of an airstrike near Lviv, Ukraine, as fires burn in the aftermath of what Ukrainian officials say was a Russian attack.
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CNN's Jake Tapper reviews the violent events that have occurred throughout Trump's presidency, saying Trump's language and lies led to those attacks and culminated in the mob that stormed the US Capitol.
Comedian Chris Rock spoke for the first time since he was slapped by Will Smith during the Academy Awards while performing on his "Ego Death Tour" in Boston. #CNN #News
CNN's Elie Honig explains why remarks by a federal judge who said that former President Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election are unprecedented, but ultimately won't mean much if the Department of Justice doesn't act.
#eliehonig #CNN #TheLead
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains why Ginni Thomas' involvement with the events of January 6 complicates matters for her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. #CNN #News
