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'It's difficult to get up every day. To function, to be a parent knowing that your child's never coming home... No parent should have to live what we're living.' Susan Pretti, mother of Alex Pretti, talks with @jaketapper about her struggles in the nine months since immigration agents killed her son in Minneapolis.

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Why the Ramaswamy campaign released the controversial attack ad featuring Amy Acton's mother

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New book project, a graphic novel based on the true story of Klaus Barbie.

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Multiple people injured and shooter is killed in active shooter scene at Oregon elementary school, police say

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'It's been a lot. But I was focused on doing my job and asking my questions that I wanted answers to.' Student journalist Cat Murphy joins @jaketapper to respond after GOP Rep. Andy Harris threatened to have her prosecuted for recording his answers during a news conference.

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'I think that is absolutely the worst thing you can do. I think this has nothing to do with justice. This is becoming a tragedy turning into entertainment.' Keely Cahill Vanacker, daughter of Fort Hood shooting victim Michael Cahill, joins @jaketapper to explain why she opposes a plan to livestream the execution of the gunman.

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'There was no question it was a quid pro quo. She knew she was nominated. She tried to cover it up.' MAGA Donor Eric Deters talks with @jaketapper about Amb. Kim Guilfoyle asking him for $100K.

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'Writing down nice words on pieces of paper doesn't change the fact that we have these massive data centers training massive A.I. models that are basically going rogue.' Tech Ethicist Tristan Harris talks with @jaketapper about President Trump signing an executive order changing the name of A.I. to ‘super intelligence.’

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Lot of depressing news out there so we have a treat for you on @TheLeadCNN today

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'She's not even in college anymore. She is barely hanging on. She wants these people to be held accountable.' Thomas Giuffra, Attorney for Jane Doe in the Cornell Univ. rape case talks with @jaketapper about the investigation being reopened.

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President Trump just said this ban was not triggered by one particular story, it's just "cumulative" because CNN doesn't cover the news to his liking. Wants more coverage of the positive, he said. We don't cover the lower drug prices, he says.

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I’m not sure which of these news stories so distressed the president.

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“Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say”

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'I think we have a mentally unstable president who is a narcissist, who just, apparently, refuses to even grapple with this issue. And it is very, very dangerous, I think, for the country.' Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing for new guardrails on AI - and joins @jaketapper to react to President Trump calling the concerns a 'hoax.'

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'The big companies are racing to make it more and more intelligent and that makes agents more and more powerful with no idea of how they can control these agents.' Nobel Prize-Winning Computer Scientist Geoffrey Hinton talks with @jaketapper about the new dire warning from a top AI researcher that the technology could 'kill us all' by the end of the decade.

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'Complying with a congressional subpoena is not optional. The lawsuit, I think, is laughable.' Rep. James Walkinshaw joins @Phil_Mattingly to react to billionaire Leon Black suing and declining to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation.

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'Maternal mental illness is real, and people recognize that, particularly women.' Dr. Catherine Birndorf talks with @Phil_Mattingly about postpartum psychosis, the illness at the center of the defense's argument in the Lindsay Clancy trial.

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Penn Holderness is best known for winning The Amazing Race and making viral videos with his family. Now he's hoping his mother's Alzheimer's fight can help end the disease forever. Penn joins @Phil_Mattingly to share her story.

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'She really cared about all the crew members, and getting to know intimately every person that she spent time with; knowing everyone’s names, their dogs’ names, their kids’ names and just getting to know people… she was also really wise. She could size you up pretty immediately and get right to the core of what you were thinking. She was really special.' CNN producer Wendy Brokaw describes working as Dolly Parton’s former personal assistant.

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‘We’re talking to the voters… and we’re going to continue to do that through the general election process. It’s really about how are you going to address the issues facing the people of our state,’ Rep. Byron Donalds tells @jaketapper one day after securing the Republican nomination in the race for Florida governor.

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'If the election were tonight, we'd win the general election because voters are demanding change.' Democratic candidate for Florida governor David Jolly tells @jaketapper he's confident he will beat GOP Rep. Byron Donalds in November.