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A behind the scenes look at Anderson Cooper 360°. Watch AC360° M-F at 8pm/ET on @CNN and follow Anderson on twitter: @AndersonCooper .
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"Let me be clear.... the people of Haiti have been through more, withstood more, fought back against more injustice... than our President ever has" Anderson Cooper choked back tears as he reflected on his relationship with Haiti, and its people
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You said "what punishment of gods are not gifts. Do you really believe that?"
@andersoncooper
, choking back tears, asks Stephen Colbert, as they discuss grief.
"Yes," replies the comedian. "It's a gift to exist and with existence comes suffering. There's no escaping that."
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"The idea I am kneeling in water to make it look deep is idiotic."
@AndersonCooper
debunks the lies being spread by Donald Trump Jr., and others who falsely claimed he and his team exaggerated the severity of Hurricane Florence.
#KeepingThemHonest
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CNN's
@AndersonCooper
is a dad.
"On Monday I became a father. I've never said that out loud and it astonishes me," he said Thursday at the end of the
#CNNTownHall
.
"I have a son."
Wyatt Morgan Cooper was born on Monday weighing 7 pounds 2 ounces.
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"I was personally shattered, and then you kind of reform yourself in this quiet, grieving world that was created in the house."
Comedian Stephen Colbert opens up to
@andersoncooper
about grief and the death of his dad and brothers in a plane crash when he was 10 years old.
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Poet Amanda Gorman tells CNN's
@AndersonCooper
that the Capitol riot inspired her to write a "message of hope, ingenuity and healing"
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"Your message is excluding people. You're excluding me. You're excluding people that look like me. You're excluding people of color. You're excluding... Americans that maybe support you."
US Women’s National Team co-captain Megan Rapinoe's message to Pres. Trump.
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Gloria Vanderbilt dies at the age of 95.
The American artist, fashion designer, and heiress was the mother to
@CNN
's
@AndersonCooper
.
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"They are more than a list of names. They are people who loved and who were loved." -
@andersoncooper
#Orlando
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Anderson Cooper: "Not racial. Not racially charged. Racist ... The sentiment the President expressed today is a racist sentiment"
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Former President Obama: “Don’t tell me your vote doesn’t matter… and if you thought elections don’t matter, I hope these last two years have corrected that impression.”
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"Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms," said
@AndersonCooper
on his mother who died this morning at 95. "She was a painter, a writer, and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend."
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Anderson Cooper announces the birth of his second son, Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper, with Benjamin Maisani.
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"The President just used a bible...and one of the churches of my diocese without permission as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for...I am outraged"
- Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Diocese of Washington
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Sen. Angus King says his staffers read aloud the transcript released by the WH of the conversation between Trump & Ukraine’s president and it lasted 10min. 40sec. but the call lasted 30min.
“If there was no translator…what’s in the other 20min. of that discussion?” he asked.
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“Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar,” says GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, defiant on the eve of a vote that may determine her political future.
“I will not sit back and watch in silence while others...join the former President’s campaign to undermine our democracy."
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"Ya know what? It doesn't matter," says
@AndersonCooper
.
"I was about to start off tonight telling you about you-know-who and what outrage he's done today, not accepting the results, blah blah blah...it doesn't matter. It's done. He is done. He is the past."
#KeepingThemHonest
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@AndersonCooper
: "Terror only works when it produces fear.
We are not afraid. We are here and we will be here tomorrow and we'll be here the day after and we'll be here the day after that.
We have a job to do. [This] only makes our resolve that much stronger."
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"We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment," says Dr.
@CornelWest
. "…Its capitalist economy could not… deliver, in such a way that people could live lives of decency. The nation state, it's criminal justice system…could not generate protection of rights."
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"He speaks from such a place of deep ignorance, and it's not just ignorance. It's ignorance that's hurting people."
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas's GOP Gov. Abbott for defending the state's abortion law by saying he's working to "eliminate all rapists."
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Things got a little heated during the final moments of
@andersoncooper
's interview with former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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Lev Parnas’s attorney, Joseph Bondy, tells
@andersoncooper
that his client is in possession of more recordings of President Trump, some of which they’ve sent to the House Intelligence Committee, and which they may release to the public.
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"Zero. I get zero dollars from consulting companies that deal with U.S. government. Are we clear?" Counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd takes exception to commentator Paris Dennard's suggestion that he benefits financially from his security clearance
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“I don’t care if you like John McCain or couldn’t stand [him.] [Trump] is attacking a dead national hero and that's plain disgusting,” says
@ananavarro
on Trump’s remarks on the late Sen McCain. “[I]t is abominable...inhumane...indecent...immoral and everybody should condemn it.”
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"I never knew we had the same giggle."
@andersoncooper
reminisces about the moments he shared with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
The iconic American artist, designer, and heiress has died at the age of 95.
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“Wow, that’s really ignorant.”
@AndersonCooper
clashes with Las Vegas Mayor Goodman after she justified her wish to quickly reopen casinos saying, “this isn’t China, this is Las Vegas,” after he showed her a graphic of how coronavirus could spread in a restaurant in China.
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"As Brett's roommate, I'm in a singular position ... to say, 'listen, I saw him do this stuff that he said, under oath, that he didn't do.'" Jamie Roche, Kavanaugh's freshman Yale roommate, explains his reasoning for coming forward at this time
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"She never let fear or pain or loss prevent her from forging ahead, from moving forward. She always believed the best was yet to come.”
@AndersonCooper
pays tribute to his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, who passed away at the age of 95.
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"Prosecutors didn't force the President to allegedly have extramarital affairs with a porn star ... deny it, then pay to keep them quiet ... then lie about knowing about that, then call it a simple private transaction that wasn't wrong ... are you following?"
@AndersonCooper
#KTH
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@JeffreyToobin
: "Today is actually a significant moment in American history. We've only had 45 presidents... now we know one of them was elected with the explicit and intentional help of a foreign power... with the aggressive and open support of the candidate"
#KeepingThemHonest
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Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling tells CNN's
@jimsciutto
that if President Trump continues to strip security clearances from those who speak out against his administration, then "take mine too," adding, "because we are speaking out in selfless service to our country."
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Anger boils over at town halls as constituents confront Republicans and vent their outrage over the GOP health bill
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@andersoncooper
: President Trump claims a lot of the wall has been built?
"
#KeepingThemHonest
, the wall has not been built. Not a lot of it, not tremendous amounts of it. None of it. The big beautiful border wall that Mexico was going to pay for, it does not exist."
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Ana Maria Archila, who confronted Sen. Flake in an elevator, says she had a message he needed to hear.
“I wanted him to really stay there and be present and think of the people he loves... And I wanted him to be a hero. To show up for his children. For my children. For myself."
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Anderson Cooper: "For the President… to tell people to stop believing what they see or what they read. It's what dictators, it's what authoritarian rulers say. It's unbelievable in the truest sense of the word”
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"The jacket was... a publicity stunt, and it was to garner the attention of the press, to make sure that everyone was aware that Melania was going to the border."
Melania Trump's former friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, on the infamous "I really don't care. Do U?" jacket.
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Sen. John McCain warns against turning away from international leadership for “the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism"
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Brett Kavanaugh's Yale roommate tells
@andersoncooper
that when he heard his Senate testimony he "knew he was lying."
"When Brett started saying things about his drinking and his use of certain words, sexually-oriented words, I knew he was lying because he was my roommate."
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“We’re there and we see you, and let’s hope the new year brings better things, and you’re not alone” —
@andersoncooper
’s message to all those feeling alone or going through a tough time on New Year’s.
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Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, claims GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham "was in the loop" about their efforts in Ukraine to uncover dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
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“I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group, and in his, shall we say, weight group: ‘Morbidly obese,’ they say,” says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Pres. Trump’s revelation he is taking hydroxychloroquine.
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“It says a lot about the President and less about the country,” George Conway says on Pres. Trump’s refusal to accept the election results. “It says three things about the President,” Conway says: that he’s delusional, running a scam on the American people and is malevolent.
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"Dumb as a rock. Lazy as hell. Happy holidays, everybody. May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be best."
Anderson Cooper turns Trump's harsh words for Rex Tillerson into a seasonal greeting.
"It's all in the delivery," laughs Chris Cuomo, approvingly.
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@andersoncooper
: Pres. Trump “has disrespected the dead of Puerto Rico today, and he disrespected the living who will live the rest of their lives with the pain of loss and the pain of knowing their President, in his heart, does not see their loss for what it truly, truly is."
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the Trump impeachment inquiry, said the President should be impeached again.
“It is essential that this crime perpetrated against the entire nation be addressed and there be accountability.”
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NYT's
@CharlesMBlow
says there's no longer a question on whether Pres. Trump is a racist:
"I'm vexed by the whole idea we keep coming back to this question about whether or not the man is a racist when it is clear his pattern of behavior over his entire life suggests that he is"
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"It is a lynching at the highest level. No one can deny that," Dr.
@CornelWest
tells
@andersoncooper
of the death of George Floyd. "I thank God that we have people in the streets."
"Could you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people were indifferent?" he asks.
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Ret. Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters calls Trump "an un-American American president"
"I want to take the President...seriously but he manages to be at once an embarrassing fool and an insidious menace. He is the anthesis of the America I and my military comrades meant to defend."
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Anderson Cooper: "Have you ever heard the President lie?"
Republican lawmaker Jim Jordan: “I have not.”
Anderson Cooper: "Really?..."
#KeepingThemHonest
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"The President was busy basking in the warm glow he no doubt feels when the cameras are rolling, when he is center stage, and a famous person is praising him to his face." As Trump met w/ Kanye, Americans suffered following
#HurricaneMichael
.
@AndersonCooper
is
#KeepingThemHonest
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CNN Senior Legal Analyst
@JeffreyToobin
: "Today is the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office. I think this thing is enormous."
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"I certainly wouldn't recommend the internal ingestion of a disinfectant," says FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, responding to President Trump suggesting the use of a disinfectant that can kill a Covid-19 infection "by injection inside."
#CNNTownHall
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“I knew it from the moment I was born, and I’ll know it for the rest of my life. And in the end, what greater gift can a mother give to her son?”
@andersoncooper
on the love that his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, had for him.
She died this morning, aged 95.
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President Trump calls portrayals of families' grief over separations at the border as "phony"
"So two days ago, the stories were real enough to take executive action. Today, they are phony." CNN's Anderson Cooper is
#KeepingThemHonest
.
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15-month-old Harper was born prematurely and needs a breathing tube to live.
Her dad Chris isn't being paid amid the shutdown and tells
@RandiKayeCNN
voting for Trump is a choice he regrets "100%."
Chris' message: "Put us back to work, so we can get paid."
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"This is just ludicrous," says
@andersoncooper
, nearly speechless at Pres. Trump's Rose Garden performance today. "This is the President... More than 130,000 people dead in this country and he continues this ridiculous lie. It's nonsensical. It defies any belief."
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“Enough… I don’t get invited on here to be called out by you like this. This is inappropriate.”
Former Trump aide
@MichaelRCaputo
clashes with
@KirstenPowers
over her critique of his argument in favor of Brett Kavanaugh
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"Thumbs up. Orange. Grinning like he won a prize," says
@andersoncooper
on Pres. Trump's Goya photo.
"137,000 Americans dead and this is our self-proclaimed wartime President's answer to it."
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Mayor Buttigieg on dig from Trump official: I know bait when I see it
During a CNN town hall, Buttigieg refused to engage when asked about a Trump administration official who accused him of pushing a "hate hoax" during his back-and-forth with VP Mike Pence
#ButtigiegTownHall
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"It genuinely makes me sad to think people would believe that, and I've been kind of sad about it all day. That is not what I was doing. I wasn't dissing a restaurant. I was dissing criminality."
@AndersonCooper
responds to Fox News criticizing his reference to the Olive Garden
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"You can talk all you want and you can use bells and whistles but you just acknowledged your ad is false... it is incorrect to blame Democrats for this psycho killer."
@AndersonCooper
presses Sr. Trump advisor Katrina Pierson over the campaign's racially charged ad.
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"We are not to be bought by the NRA ... we are the ones who deserve to be kept safe because we were literally shot at" Children of Parkland shooting vow to take up the fight to end school shootings
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Billionaire Democratic donor
@TomSteyer
says he believes Trump's behavior is "lawless."
"He's corrupt, I believe he is criminal....his behavior...has ushered in an atmosphere of lawlessness and has given permission to people who feel as if there are no constraints...on decency."
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"Burned out church, a Bible in his hand, the country divided, and he couldn't think of anything to say except to ask a bunch of other white guys…to stand around him and just take a picture," says
@andersoncooper
, on the WH comparison of Pres. Trump to Winston Churchill.
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“This is in honor of Betty White. A life well lived.”
@AndersonCooper
and
@Andy
Cohen raise their first glass of the night in honor of the beloved and trailblazing actress, Betty White.
#CNNNYE
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"The President keeps begging her, tell us what you want. Put a proposal forward," says Rep. Ro Khanna of Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
"One Senator, Kyrsten Sinema, is holding up the will of the entire Democratic Party."
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Arizona voting system data has been taken by truck to a so-called "secure powerful laboratory" in rural Montana to be "forensically evaluated."
@GaryTuchmanCNN
visits the area to investigate.
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In today’s funeral for George Floyd there was "not one reference to hatred or revenge. It was all about love and justice," says Dr.
@CornelWest
.
"The Floyd family lifted up that spiritual moral banner in the midst of a moment in which we got all of the lies and crimes."
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"Every American should be embarrassed by the level of incompetence that is being revealed through this process," says CNN's
@ananavarro
on the Trump admin's inability to meet the court ordered deadline to reunite immigrant families
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As Twitter enables fact-checking on Trump's tweets,
@AndersonCooper
calls him "a little, little man."
He's "raising conspiracy theories...about a dead woman, though her family is begging Twitter to take them down...You start to think this is just normal...Man we are in trouble."
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Jason Miller: Sessions knocked away "hysteria from Kamala Harris"
Kirsten Powers: “How was Sen. Harris hysterical?”
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“I am aware this was a huge win for us in many ways…I think we knew that this win…was going to be bigger than soccer,” US Women’s National Team co-captain Megan Rapinoe tells
@andersoncooper
, nodding to her feud with Pres. Trump, and her and her teammates’ fight for equal pay.
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"We actually gave this President close to $2 billion last year in terms of border money for border security and he has not used 96% of it. The idea that we're going to throw more money at a campaign promise ... is just not a proper use of government funds." - Rep. Ruben Gallego
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Jeffrey Toobin: Donald Trump should be "worshiping the ground that James Comey walked on" because he, more than anyone, made him POTUS
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Here's how a "dark money" campaign helped prop up phantom candidates in three Florida state Senate races
@DrewGriffinCNN
reports.
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"I’m not a crisis actor. I’m somebody that had to witness this and live through this and I continue to have to do that," says Florida student David Hogg in response to conspiracy theories being written about him
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Anderson Cooper: The "witch hunt," as the President called it, has now yielded 191 charges against 32 individuals and 3 companies and the President knew about it. It hasn't stopped him from talking or tweeting about the search for women wearing pointy hats and broomsticks.
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“Wow, that’s really ignorant.”
Anderson Cooper clashes with Las Vegas Mayor Goodman after she justified her wish to quickly reopen casinos, saying, “This isn’t China, this is Las Vegas,” after he showed her a graphic of how coronavirus could spread in a restaurant in China.
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“Mr. Giuliani is an absolute pig for making those comments.”
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti says Rudy Giuliani's derogatory remarks about his client today were “piggish… disgusting and an outrage”
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"What I think we're witnessing is a very public obstruction of justice. He, as I see it, has already exceeded everything that Nixon did. He's really much more intimately involved than Nixon ever was in the cover-up" - John Dean, former WH counsel on Trump's attacks on Mueller
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"You are now seeing more evidence than ever that Donald Trump was associated with a criminal campaign, a criminal transition, and presides today, very likely, over a criminal presidency." -
@RepSwalwell
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@RyanLizza
on Trump claiming Obama didn’t contact families of fallen troops: "With this President, on a daily basis he makes sh** up"
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Body cam footage shows officers tased, kicked and dragged Ronald Greene, a Black man who died on his way to the hospital after a high speed police pursuit.
Authorities reportedly told his family he'd been killed in an auto accident immediately after hitting a tree.
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg says Pres. Trump has “made it pretty clear that he deserves impeachment,” but adds he’ll leave it to Congress to figure it out because his role is to “relegate Trumpism to the dustbin of history” by giving him a “thumping at the ballot box”
#ButtigiegTownHall
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Tonight, we take the full hour to remember the life of our friend and colleague Anthony Bourdain.
Join us for a special tribute, 8p, ET on CNN and
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@andersoncooper
: “What happened today was an act of terror. Terror designed to kill or maim, to scare, or to silence.
[I]f the devices were designed to kill, they failed. They were designed to scare and to silence reporters or politicians. They failed at that as well.”
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@andersoncooper
: Of all the days we have seen, we have not seen a day quite like this.
The man who once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump today essentially called the President a crook.
Elsewhere a jury convicted Paul Manafort of 8 felony tax & bank fraud charges.
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NIH’s lead scientist for coronavirus vaccine research Kizzmekia Corbett lays out the government’s race to create a vaccine, saying they could be on track to have a vaccine from sequence to the general population within 8 months.
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13-year-old Brayden Harrington describes how Joe Biden allowed him to feel "more confident" about his stutter: "Kids like me are counting on you to elect someone we can all look up to"
#DemConvention
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"Prove it. Prove that you are not controlled by the NRA," says Stoneman Douglas shooting survivor
@davidhogg111
. "When you go back and forth and you get caught up in that debates, that shows how you think politics is a game, but when people think politics is a game, people die."
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@andersoncooper
speaks with Andrew Kaczynski of CNN's "
@KFile
" and his wife about the loss of their beloved daughter Francesca and their fight for funding for cancer research so that no other family will have to suffer the same fate.
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Megan Rapinoe says kneeling during the National Anthem was difficult, but not disrespectful, adding that she is hopeful there will be a day when she will not feel the need to kneel
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"We've gotten to a weird place where it really doesn't matter what the President of the United States says anymore, because it's so bizarre, strange, not true," says Rep. Jim Himes, reacting to Trump's tweet about "nuclear button" "bigger," "more powerful" than North Korea's
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"I'm honored to be on his enemies list," says former White House counsel John Dean of President Trump. "I was able to make Nixon's at the end, so I'm pleased that I'm on Trump's, given my feelings about the threat he is to this country."
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