Erin speaks with a former Navy Admiral running to flip Nancy Mace’s house seat after she was abruptly fired by Pete Hegseth: “He’s focused on the wrong things… he’s removing names from promotion lists, and he spends his time working out with the troops instead of focusing on the strategy that we need in the Middle East.”
How much would Elon Musk have to spend every day for the next 100 years to use his $1 trillion fortune? @ForecasterEnten tells us something we don’t know.
Both the Trump Administration and Iran say they’re close to a deal. But are they talking about the same deal? Erin breaks down the conflicting messages from both sides.
"What are you thinking?": @secupp reacts to a breaking story from the WSJ that Trump is pushing for his impeachments to be voided: “He’s not thinking ahead… all the reasons he was impeached get dredged up again, and we’re all talking about it around a midterm election."
Trump veers from threatening an invasion of Iran, to claiming a “great” deal is close. All in the same day. Erin asks a reporter deeply sourced inside Iran: How do Iranians view Trump’s wild swings?
“My house was shot”: CNN travels across the country to investigate the fierce battle unfolding over AI data centers. Shimon Prokupecz’s report tonight:
Rep. Robert Garcia reacts to NYT reporting that WH officials held a situation room meeting on the Epstein files without Trump: “No question there are bombshells still in the Epstein files.”
John Sipher, who served 28 years in the CIA’s clandestine service, says Trump is sending a “disastrous message” by defending Bill Pulte as Acting DNI: “This guy is wholly unqualified… this is weakening national security.”
Rep. Jim Himes, the top Dem on House Intel, reacts to new U.S. strikes on Iran: “Very dangerous game… [Iran] has thousands of missiles, thousands of drones.”
Admiral McRaven says he is “worried” about America’s future: “If we’re going to keep American democracy moving for another 250 years, then we have to expect better from our leaders.”
Admiral McRaven speaks to Erin as the U.S. and Iran trade new strikes after the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter: “[Trump] has got to provide some sort of inventive that opens the straits and brings the Iranians to the negotiating table.”
David Axelrod says Republican Steve Hilton is trying to distance himself from Trump as CNN projects Hilton will advance in the CA Gov’s race: “To dispute the president’s interpretation of the count as being a rigged election… that was a declaration of independence.”
Republican Steve Hilton breaks with Trump’s baseless claims of a “rigged” election in California: “We’ve been very vigilant… we’ve seen nothing that would give us cause to intervene.”
CNN’s @FareedZakaria on Trump reportedly urging Netanyahu to “be careful, or you will be on your own”: “Trump is furious… Netanyahu sold him a bill of goods that turned out to be phony.”
“I would vote for a doorknob over Susan Collins”: Do voters care about the controversies facing Graham Platner? CNN speaks with people across Maine just hours away from election day in the key Senate race.
The mother of the 20-year-old Alabama college student, who went missing on a family vacation in Japan, speaks to OutFront: “I know he’s in those woods, and I know he’s alive.”