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Author and humorist David Sedaris sat down with Anderson to talk about his new book, getting married, and why he never takes selfies.
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UFC fighters will face off at the Lincoln Memorial ahead of Sunday's event at the White House. Presidential historian Doug Brinkley says "never in my wildest dreams could I imagine such a thing."
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Trump’s name must be removed from Kennedy Center tonight, appeals court rules. CNN's Sunlen Serfaty has the latest.
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"That's part of the point with Trump. He just doesn't care," says historian Leah Wright Rigueur about the precedent-breaking UFC cage match at the White House.
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Pres. Trump claimed that the U.S. "ended the war with Iran," despite the fact that the Iranian foreign ministry said no final decision had been reached. "There's a hell of a lot of work ahead," says former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.
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Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, of the House Oversight Committee, reacts to a NY Times report about White House crisis meetings over the Epstein files calling it "President Trump's Watergate moment" and claims this could be part of what "takes Donald Trump down."
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Independent journalist Tara Palmeri believes scandal-plagued Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has put Democrats in a pickle. "They have been the ones that have been running on the belief that character, accountability, standards matter," she says.
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The U.S. conducted strikes in Iran hours after President Trump said a peace deal was taking too long. "Probably a couple hours of military strikes aren't going to fundamentally change this situation," says former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Dana Stroul.
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Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates testifies on Capitol Hill about his history with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Randi Kaye has more.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper looks at how President Donald Trump and his family are promoting gold and silver coins commemorating the UFC fight set to take place at the White House.
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The Trump family is promoting "Trump coins" commemorating the White House UFC fight with the most expensive one costing almost $12,000. Van Jones, former special adviser to Pres. Obama, says, "this is so tacky... It's like kindergarten during Covid. No class."
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Anderson Cooper reports on the "We The People" medallion joining the laundry list of Trump-branded merchandise promoted by the president and his family.
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CENTCOM announced the U.S. has launched strikes against Iran in response to the downing of an Army Apache helicopter. "They're also preparing a defense to try and intercept any Iranian attack when it's launched," says Axios reporter Barak Ravid.
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Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, plan a luxury resort on a protected beach in Albania. Locals aren’t thrilled. CNN's Randi Kaye has the details.
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Sources tell CNN that Pres. Trump talked Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu out of a significant strike on Iran. "It's hard to know what message Trump is sending, and certainly it's harder to know how Netanyahu is responding to it," says Democratic Rep. Adam Smith.
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Former senior adviser to President Obama David Axelrod says "there are no guardrails" when President Trump claims voter fraud heading into the November midterm elections.
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Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Anxious Generation," shares why he's encouraging more techno-skepticism and warns of the detrimental impact technology can have on kids.
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Watchdog group Public Citizen found that White House ballroom donors won more than $50 billion in government contracts after giving to the project. One of the authors of the report says, "the donations from these companies... are no gift, they're a grift."
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"Either get it all out there or shut up. One of the two": Democratic voters in Maine weigh in on Senate candidate Graham Platner as he faces more controversies ahead of Tuesday's primary. CNN's Danny Freeman reports from Portland.
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Pres. Trump's so-called "anti-weaponization" fund was a key issue behind a GOP Senate rebellion against the president, and acting attorney general Todd Blanche was the public face of it. But some Republicans chose not to kill the fund with legislation. The question is why.
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