Anderson Cooper 360

Anderson Cooper 360 episodes:

• 04.24.2024

  David Pecker details how AMI helped Trump in 2016 campaign

  Day 6 of the former president's criminal hush money trial began with a hearing on how Trump allegedly violated the court-ordered gag order. Former American Media Inc. chief David Pecker also continued his testimony today, talking about how he vetted...

  
• 04.23.2024

  Trump's Hush Money Criminal Trial Continued Monday, with Opening Statements and the First Witness Taking the Stand

  The former President's historic criminal trial began in earnest today, with both sides delivering opening statements and the first witness, David Pecker, taking the stand. Pecker, who is the former publisher of the National Enquirer, is expected to testify about the...

  
• 04.20.2024

  All jurors and alternates have been selected for Trump's historic New York criminal trial

  "We have our full panel," declared Judge Juan Merchan on the fourth day of jury selection in the former president's criminal hush money trial. All 18 jurors and alternates have been seated and sworn in. Opening statements are set for Monday. Former Chief Judge for the U.S. Middle...

  
• 04.19.2024

  Jury is set for Trump's New York hush money case

  A full 12-person jury has been selected for the former president's criminal hush money trial, despite the day starting off with two previously seated jurors being dismissed. Judge Juan Merchan said court will resume Thursday morning, and jury selection will continue...

  
• 04.18.2024

  If Trump testifies at NY criminal trial, prosecutors want to use his legal history to discredit him to the jury

  If the former president chooses to testify in his New York criminal hush money trial, prosecutors want to use his recent legal run-ins against him to discredit him to the jury. CNN's Kara Scannell, former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin and jury consultant...

  
• 04.17.2024

  7 jurors selected after day 2 of Trump hush money trial

  The second day of the former president’s criminal hush money trial ended with the selection of seven jurors. Five more are needed, plus alternates. While he left court, he was asked if he believed that the jury could be fair. "I’ll let you know after- after...

  
• 04.16.2024

  Jury selection begins in the New York hush money criminal trial of the former president

  Former President Donald Trump sat in a New York courtroom today as jury selection began in his hush money case. 96 prospective jurors were questioned, and at least 50 were excused because they told the judge they couldn't be fair...

  
• 04.13.2024

  Trump says he would testify in his New York criminal hush money trial

  Judge Juan Merchan has rejected yet another attempt by former President Trump to delay his criminal hush money trial, with jury selection is set to begin on Monday. Also, at a press conference Friday, the former president said he would testify in the upcoming...

  
• 04.12.2024

  O.J. Simpson, football star whose murder trial captivated the country, dies at 76

  O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star whose career was overshadowed by his 1995 double-murder trial, died of cancer at the age of 76, his family announced. Simpson was a household name, when he was charged with the brutal killings of his ex-wife Nicole...

  
• 04.11.2024

  NY appeals court judge denies Donald Trump's latest attempt to delay his hush money trial

  A New York appeals court has denied Trump's request for emergency relief to stop the criminal trial that's scheduled to begin Monday from going ahead, so he could appeal a lower court's ruling on presidential immunity. This is the third...

  
• 04.10.2024

  Arizona Supreme Court rules state must adhere to Civil War-era law, banning nearly all abortions

  Arizona's Supreme Court ruled the state must adhere to a more than century-old law, that bans all abortions except in cases when "it is necessary to save" a pregnant person's life. The law carries a prison sentence of two to...

  
• 04.09.2024

  Total solar eclipse sweeps across North America

  People all over the country stepped outside and put on their cardboard glasses to view an historic total solar eclipse that swept across Mexico, the United States and Canada. An estimated 32 million people who live within the path of totality were able to...

  
• 04.06.2024

  Rare 4.8 magnitude quake rattles Northeast

  Just after 10:20am ET Friday morning, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled buildings and created tremors that were felt from Washington DC, all the way up to Maine. While it was the third-largest earthquake recorded in the area in the last 50...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Judge Cannon rejects a bid by Trump to dismiss criminal charges in classified documents case

  U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will not dismiss the former president's classified documents case based on his claim he had the authority to take classified or sensitive documents under The Presidential Records Act. But in the same order, Judge Cannon also pushed back against special counsel Jack Smith's request that...

  
• 04.04.2024

  Judge denies Trump’s motion to delay NY hush money trial

  Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Donald Trump’s upcoming New York hush money criminal trial, denied the former president’s motion to delay the start date until after the Supreme Court rules on his presidential immunity claim, calling it untimely...

  
• 04.03.2024

  Trump attorneys renew request for Juge Merchan to recuse himself in hush money trial

  Donald Trump's attorneys are again trying to get Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the former President’s upcoming hush money trial in New York, citing his daughter's political work. Several months ago, the judge declined a similar request. A CNN review of the...

  
• 04.02.2024

  Judge expands gag order in Trump hush money case

  The judge overseeing the former president's criminal hush money trial expanded a recently imposed gag order to include family members of both the court and the Manhattan district attorney's office. Kara Scannell joins AC360 with details from the judge's ruling. Plus, it...

  
• 03.30.2024

  Potential VP pick once attacked Trump, CNN's KFILE finds

  Florida Congressman Byron Donalds is a Trump surrogate and widely seen to be on the short list of vice-presidential contenders. But CNN's KFILE has uncovered numerous examples of Donalds attacking Trump in social media posts from 2011. Andrew Kaczynski reports. And, the sister of...

  
• 03.29.2024

  How the Baltimore bridge disaster unfolded, minute-by-minute

  CNN's Pete Muntean provides a look at the final moments before the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Plus, retired FBI Special Agent and former leader of the bureau’s New York dive team Bobby Chacon weighs in on the...

  
• 03.27.2024

  6 people presumed dead, after cargo ship lost power and collided with Baltimore bridge

  At 1:28am early Tuesday morning, a cargo ship collided into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the bridge to collapse. Two people who were part of a construction crew working on the bridge were rescued, but six others are...

  
• 03.26.2024

  Trump says he would have "no problem" testifying in NY hush money trial

  In twin rulings Monday, a trial date was set for Trump's historic criminal trial in the hush money case against him, and an appeals court allowed the former president to reduce his bond from $464 million to $175 million in the...

  
• 03.23.2024

  “A huge shock”: Catherine, Princess of Wales, announces she has cancer

  In a video statement released by Kensington Palace, the Princess of Wales announced she has been diagnosed with cancer and is in the "early stages" of chemotherapy treatment. CNN learned that Prince William and Princess Catherine wanted to wait for their...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Report: Pres. Trump warned Vice President Pence that refusing to overturn the 2020 election results would be a "career killer”

  The New York Times is reporting that on the morning of January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump warned Vice President Mike Pence by phone that it would be a "career killer" if Pence defied him and certified the 2020 election results. According...

  
• 03.21.2024

  “Not nearly as valuable as defendants claim”

  Former President Trump is said to be in panic mode with his half-billion dollar civil fraud deadline just five days away and no sign yet that he can find anyone to foot the bill. Also, catching up with the Republican...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Trump asks Supreme Court for absolute immunity on election charges

  Former President Trump has urged the Supreme Court to rule that he has absolute immunity from prosecution in the special counsel’s 2020 election subversion case. Trump’s legal team said in a brief, that future presidents could be vulnerable to "de facto blackmail and extortion while in...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Trump's lawyers tell NY appeals court that the former president is unable to make bond

  Trump's attorneys said despite having reached out to 30 underwriters, the former president cannot find an insurance company who will back his $464 million judgment against him in the New York attorney general's civil fraud case. Trump’s lawyers wrote in a...

  
• 03.16.2024

  Haiti extends curfew until Sunday amid rising gang violence

  A look at what CNN is seeing on the ground in Haiti with armed gangs controlling the capitol and the World Food Program saying a third of the population is experiencing acute hunger. Plus, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis...

  
• 03.15.2024

  Verdict in the James Crumbley case

  A jury found James Crumbley, the father of the teenager who killed four students at a Michigan high school in 2021, guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter. The trial comes a month after the shooter’s mother was convicted of the...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Is TikTok about to be banned?

  A bill to ban TikTok passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday. This comes as U.S. lawmakers renew efforts to crack down on the popular social media app over national security concerns related to its Chinese parent company ByteDance. The bill would...

  
• 03.13.2024

  Biden clinches 2024 Democratic nomination; Trump closes in on sealing GOP’s

  It’s Super Tuesday part two and President Biden has clinched the 2024 Democratic nomination by winning the Georgia primary. And former President Trump is expected to clinch his party’s nomination tonight. Anderson and Kaitlan Collins break down the significance of the night...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Exclusive: “Trump Employee 5,” who unknowingly helped move classified documents, speaks out

  Former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler is the central witness in the investigation into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents after he unknowingly helped moved the material. Butler is referenced as “Trump Employee 5” in the indictment brought by special...

  
• 03.09.2024

  Trump posts nearly $92 million bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

  Former President Trump posted a nearly $92 million bond after a federal judge ordered him to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages for his defamatory statements. The bond size is greater than the judgment because the district court generally requires...

  
• 03.07.2024

  What comes next after Biden and Trump dominate on Super Tuesday

  After last night's Super Tuesday results all but guaranteed a Biden-Trump rematch, many Republicans are falling in line to endorse the former president. In President Biden's case, a decent number of uncommitted voters in Colorado and Minnesota signifies portions of an unhappy...

  
• 03.05.2024

  Supreme Court keeps Trump on Colorado ballot, rejecting 14th Amendment challenge

  The Supreme Court rejected a 14th amendment challenge and ruled former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado, a massive victory for the 2024 frontrunner for the GOP nomination. But, the high court’s opinion doesn’t directly address whether Trump’s actions on January 6...

  
• 03.02.2024

  Here come the judges

  First: The first day of March was a key one in Donald Trump's crowded legal calendar as his lawyers pressed one judge to delay the documents case and another to disqualify the Georgia DA.  Plus: President Biden says US forces are...

  
• 03.01.2024

  Biden, Trump run for the border

  First: The current president and his predecessor each visit the southern border and deliver two very different messages on the immigration crisis. What do people on the front lines really want?  Plus: The two sides request trial dates in the trump...

  
• 02.29.2024

  Supreme Court to decide Trump immunity claim, further delaying election subversion trial

  The Supreme Court agreed today to review whether the former president can claim immunity in special counsel Jack Smith's election subversion case. The justices agreed to expedite the case and will hear arguments the week of April 22. The decision is...

  
• 02.27.2024

  Manhattan DA seeks gag order on Trump in criminal hush money case

  Prosecutors are asking the judge to impose a gag order in the New York hush money case to stop the former president from publicly disparaging potential witnesses and individuals involved in his upcoming criminal trial. In a court filing on...

  
• 02.24.2024

  Trump expresses support for IVF and calls on Alabama to find solution

  Former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in South Carolina Friday said he supports women's access to in vitro fertilization. This comes after Alabama's Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are children under state law and that those who destroy...

  
• 02.23.2024

  American spacecraft has landed on the moon for the first time in 50+ years

  The lunar lander Odysseus, created by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, successfully landed on the moon's surface at 6:24p ET Thursday and has sent back its first images. The moment marks the first commercial spacecraft to soft-land on the moon, and...

  
• 02.22.2024

  Sources: Biden considering new executive action to restrict asylum at the border

  Sources tell CNN that the White House is considering executive action that would restrict migrants' ability to seek asylum if they crossed illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border. Border crossings have reached record levels and have resulted in thousands of migrants...

  
• 02.21.2024

  Indicted ex-FBI informant said he got Hunter Biden information from Russian intel officials

  The former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine told investigators after his arrest that Russian intelligence officials were involved in passing information to him about Hunter Biden, prosecutors said in a new court filing, noting...

  
• 02.20.2024

  Mystery and outrage surround Alexey Navalny’s death

  As the world continues to react to the death of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, some of the letters he wrote in prison are coming to light. Some of them were sent to Kerry Kennedy, daughter of slain 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy....

  
• 02.17.2024

  Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case

  "Art of the Deal" co-author Tony Schwartz joins Anderson to discuss the major ruling against former President Donald Trump and his companies today ordering them to pay $355 million. Trump's adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric have also been ordered...

  
• 02.16.2024

  Hearings on Trump's criminal cases in New York and Georgia

  Former President Trump's legal battles were on full display in dueling hearings Thursday as a judge in New York set a trial date for the first of his four criminal cases. Also, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought...

  
• 02.15.2024

  1 dead, more than 20 shot after Kansas City Super Bowl parade

  At least one person has died, and more than 20 others injured, including children, after a shooting at the end of the Super Bowl celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs. Police Chief Stacey Graves says three people have been detained...

  
• 02.13.2024

  Trump asks Supreme Court to weigh in on scathing immunity ruling

  Former President Trump asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a unanimous decision from the DC Circuit that rejects his immunity claims in the election subversion case that was brought by special counsel Jack Smith. Democratic Congresswoman and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

  
• 02.10.2024

  VP Harris forcefully defends Biden in wake of documents report

  Vice President Kamala Harris defended President Biden in the wake of the special counsel report that said he willingly retained and disclosed classified military and national security information. Special counsel Robert Hur mentioned the president’s apparent mental lapses, saying investigators...

  
• 02.09.2024

  Biden addresses special counsel’s findings in docs case

  Special counsel Robert Hur’s released a report outlining how President Joe Biden mishandled classified material. Hur elected not to criminally pursue Biden and made clear how the cases of mishandling classified material were different between Biden and Trump. During remarks at...

  
• 02.08.2024

  Major bipartisan border deal tanked by Senate Republicans

  Senate Republicans blocked a major bipartisan border deal and foreign aid package. Sen. James Lankford, one of the GOP’s most conservative members, helped craft the deal that would have established restrictive border measures, something Republicans have demanded be part of...