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Cuomo Prime Time
• Former Representative Walsh "Strongly Considering" Challenging Trump; Scaramucci: Trump "Has Gone Past The Bounds Of Normalcy"; Overstock CEO Resigns After Revealing His Romance With Accused Russian Agent Maria Butina. Aired 9-10p ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• White House Talking Again About Tax Cuts (After President Trump Says They're Not); President Trump Attacks Ford And California Over Deal On Stricter Fuel Economy Standards; Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) Is Interviewed About President Trump's Attacks To Ford; Trump Admin. Rolls Out Proposal Allowing Indefinite Detention Of Migrant Families; Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) Is Interviewed About Gun Laws; Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Burns At Record Rate. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• A Call to Big Titans to Ban the Use of Social Media as a Terrorist Weapon; Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Rallying the World; Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister, is Interviewed About Online and Violent Extremism and Gun Law; Masha Gessen, Staff Writer, "The New Yorker," is Interviewed About Her New Book and the Mueller Report; Masha Gessen, Staff Writer, "The New Yorker," is Interviewed About Her New Book and the Mueller Report; Production of Man of La Mancha. Aired 1-2p ET


At This Hour
• Manhunt Underway for Sniper Who Shot L.A. Sheriff's Deputy; Police: California Man Planned to "Shoot Up" Hotel; Trump's Shifting Comments on Background Checks Raise Doubts over White House Plan to Tackle Gun Violence; Trump Grows More Erratic Amid Economic Warnings; Trump Repeatedly Attacks Obama in Erratic Rant; Trump "Seriously" Considering Ending Birthright Citizenship Amid Push to Detain Immigrant Families Longer. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Pompeo Speaks with Danes after Trump Calls P.M. "Nasty"; Trump Defends Wanting to Have Russia in G-7; U.S. Steel to Temporarily Lay Off 200 Workers; Former Rep. Joe Walsh "Strongly Considering" Challenging Trump in Primary; Fires Raging at Record Rate in Amazon Rainforest. Aired 11:30a-12p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• Sniper on the Loose?; State of the Trump Economy?; Sanders Criticized After Changing "Medicare For All" Proposal; Police Searching for Sniper Who Shot Deputy in California. Aired 4-4:30p ET
• Police: Hotel Cook Stockpiled Guns, Was Planning Mass Shooting; Republicans Walsh, Sanford Considering Primary Against Trump, Former GOP Governor Weld Has Already Declared; Overstock CEO Resigns After Revealing Affair With Accused Russian Agent Maria Butina; World's Largest Rainforest Engulfed By Massive Wildfires; New Look At The Icon Who Changed The Fashion Game. Aired 4:30-5p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• If Economy Sinks, Trump Sinks; Jewish Community Reacts To Anti- Semitic Trope By President Trump; CEO Testimony Raises Some Eyebrows; Donald Trump Feuding With Denmark's Prime Minister; Wildfires In The Amazon In A Record Rate; Patrick Byrne Saying He Carried Out Political Espionage. Aired 10-11p ET
• People Ask What's Happening With President Trump; Overstock CEO Made People Scratch Their Heads; President Trump Faces Backlash After Calling Jewish Voters Who Support Dems 'Disloyal'; "The 1619 Project"; CNN Film "Halston." Aired 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• Trump Grows More Erratic Amid Economic Warnings; Police in California Embark on Massive Manhunt for a Gunman Who Shot a California Deputy; Police Thwart Possible Mass Shooting Targeting California Hotel; Trump Slams Danish Prime Minister's Comments as "Nasty" in Greenland Feud. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Trump Slams Danish Prime Minister; Trump Threatens to Release ISIS Prisoners; Steel Layoffs Counter Claims of Revival; Fires Burn in the Amazon Rainforest; Ten Uninjured from Plane Crash. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Trump Grows More Erratic Amid Economic Warnings; Gov. Jay Inslee (D) Washington Drops Out Of 2020 Race, Will Seek Third Term; Trump Seriously Ending U.S. Birthright Citizenship; Interview with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Interview with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Federal Regulation of PFAS Chemicals; New CNN Movie Profiles Halston. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• More Troubling Signs For The Economy; Multiple Correctional Officers At New York City Prison Were Epstein Committed Suicide Have Now Been Subpoenaed By A Grand Jury; Hotel Cook Plotted To Gun Down Co-Workers And Guests In California. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Trump's Former Rivals Predicted His Presidency; Ivanka & Kushner Missing in Action Amid Trump's "Disloyal" Trope; 1st Titanic Dive in 14 Years Reveals Ship is Disappearing; Fertility Doctors Used Own Sperm on Unwitting Women. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Feds Raise Concerns About White House Plan to Police Social Media; More Potential Mass Shootings Thwarted; Trump's Behavior Becoming More Erratic?. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Feds Raise Concerns About White House Plan to Police Social Media; Giuliani Says He Met With Ukrainians to Discuss Biden; Inslee Leaves Race, Vows to Continue Climate Change Crusade; The Risks And Rewards of Candidates Going on Big Single Issues; Amazon Fires Burning at Record Rates, Humans to Blame; Fisherman Says His Pitbull Saved Him from Shark. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Trump's Wild Rant on the White House Lawn; Merkel Gives Johnson 30 Days for Backstop Alternative; 29 Arrested for Planning Mass Shootings; Air Photo Shoot Becomes Crash-and-Rescue Drama. Aired 12- 1a ET
• Fires Burning at Record Rate in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest; Flight Shaming Movement is Taking Off; South Korean K-Pop Music Lures Defectors from North; "American Factory" Addresses Clash of Cultures; Trump: Danish PM's Response To Greenland Offer Nasty; 29 Arrested For Planning Mass Shootings; CNN Poll: 60 Percent Favor Stronger Gun Control Laws. Aired 1-2a ET
• Trump's Wild Rant on the White House Lawn; U.S. Proposes Rule Change for Detaining Migrant Children; Merkel Gives Johnson 30 Days for Backstop Alternative; British Consulate Employee Detained in China; Merkel Issues Brexit Challenge to Johnson; Trump May Propose Inviting Russia to G7 in 2020; Fires Burning at a Record Rate in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest; South Korean K-Pop Music Lures Defectors From North; Audio Glitch Makes De Blasio Sound Like Chipmunk. Aired 2- 3a ET
• President Trump Offended by Denmark's Prime Minister's Words; Boris Johnson on his Way to Selling an Agreement for Brexit; Silent Protest that Went Chaotic; Fires in Brazil Affects Global Warming; An Accident and Rescue on Tape. Aired 3-3:30a ET


CNN RIGHT NOW
• Concern over Trump's Behavior; Ivanka and Kushner Missing in Action; Possible Trump Challengers; Dozens of Arrests over Mass Shooting Threats; Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) is Interviewed about Ending Birthright Citizenship. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) Discusses Trump's Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship, Pushing to Hold Immigrant Families in Detention Longer, Giuliani Investigating Biden Ties to Ukraine, Trump Blaming Obama on a Variety of Topics; Fires Raging at Record Rate in Amazon Rainforest, Veering Toward Disaster; Uproar after Trump's Ex- Press Secretaries Get TV Jobs; White House Drops Attempt to Cancel Foreign Aid. Aired 1:30-2p ET


Connect the World
• A Week of Erratic Presidential Behavior; President Trump Slams Jewish Democrats as Disloyal; U.K. Prime Minister in France After Visiting Germany; Wildfires Burning at a Record Rate in the Amazon Rainforest; How Our Data is Being Weaponized for Political and Financial Gain; Ethics of Big Tech Data Under Fire in Netflix Film. Aired 11a-12p ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Trump Insists "Economy Is Doing Really Well" Despite Warning Signs That The Economy Is Not Doing Well; Ivanka And Jared Publicly Missing In Action Amid Trump's Claims That Jewish Dems Are "Disloyal To Israel"; Trump Faces Backlash After Calling Jewish Dems "Disloyal"; 18 States, DC Look To Block New Trump Admin. Deportation Rule; The Attorney General Taking on Trump, 17 Suits in Eight Months; Buttigieg Looks to Iowa to Get His Momentum Back. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• Trump Calls Himself the Chosen One, Among Other Eyebrow-Raising Claims; Russia Applauds Trump's G-7 Support; Trump Defends Cancelling Denmark Trip. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Trump Claims of Being the "Chosen One"; Trump's Obsession with Obama; Trump Blames Danish PM for Cancelled Trip. Aired 4:30-5a ET
• Trump's Plethora of Eyebrow-Raising Claims; More Shootings Averted; Another Democrat Drops Out; Mets Win With Help from Indians' Mental Lapse. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• President Trump's Plethora Of Eyebrow-Raising Claims; Trump Defends Cancelling Denmark Trip; Jay Inslee Drops Out Of 2020 Race. Aired 5:30-6a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• The Federal Reserve Has A Split Personality; President Trump Hit A Nerve Talking About The Trade War With China; Britain's Boris Johnson Meets With Emmanuel Macron Ahead Of That All-Important G7 Meeting. Aired 9-10a ET


Inside Politics
• Trump Sparks Confusion; Trump Reverses on Background Checks; Inslee Drops out of Race; Sanders on Unions and Health Care. Aired 12- 12:30p ET
• Biden to Union Workers: Won't Lose Coverage Under My Plan; Bennet: Sanders Is "Reversing" Himself on Medicare for All; Hickenlooper Announces Colorado Senate Bid; Exit Strategy Looms Over U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks; Joe Walsh Teases Trump Primary Challenge; McConnell Writes NYT Op-Ed Defending Filibuster. Aired 12:30-1p ET


New Day
• Trump Grows More Erratic Amid Economic Warnings; Jay Inslee Drops Out of Democratic Race. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Police Thwart Mass Shooting; Battle for Senate Control; U.S. Steel Lays Off Workers; MLB Warns of PEDs. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• Trump's Statements More Erratic as Economy Worsens; Joe Walsh is Interviewed about His Possible GOP Challenge to Trump. Aired 7- 7:30a ET
• Parkland Survivor And Parent Of Victim Speak Out On Guns; CNN Reality Check: Republican Hypocrisy On Soaring Deficit; Trump Spars With U.S. Allies, Gets Cozy With Strongmen. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• U.S. Economy May Face Headwinds; Donald Trump Makes Controversial Statements about Jewish Democratic Voters; Some Officials Express Worry over President Trump's Recent Behavior; Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) is Interviewed About Trump Sparking Criticism By Repeating Anti-Semitic Trope; Tom Steyer Live on NEW DAY. Aired 8- 8:30a ET
• Tom Steyer (D) is Interviewed on his Campaign and Politics; Escape after Jet Catches on Fire after Takeoff; Florida Victim's Girlfriend Testifies in Trial; Traces of Manmade Chemicals in Bloodstreams. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• Italy's Center-Left Party Seeks Coalition With Populists; Boris Johnson Gets Frosty Reception In Paris; Trump Compares U.S. Economy To European Peers; Bernie Sanders Releases Climate Change Program; Fire Burns at Record Rate in Amazon Rainforest; Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil Lacks Resources to Fight Amazon Fires. Aired 3-4p ET


The Situation Room
• Trump Grows More Erratic Amid New Economic Warnings, Flip- Flopping On Guns And Taxes, Drops Bid To Cut Foreign Aid; Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Is Interviewed On Trump's Behavior And Rising Tensions Around G7; Tensions Rise As Trump Heads To G7 Summit; 2020 Dem Presidential Field Shrinks, GOP Field May Grow; Court Docs: El Chapo Associate Orders Hit From Prison. Aired 5-6 ET
• New Russian Spy Controversy; State Of The Trump Economy?; Interview With Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE); Trump Threatens To Release ISIS Detainees In Germany, France And Other Countries; Sarah Sanders Joining Fox News As A Contributor, Sean Spicer To Compete On "Dancing With The Stars;" Manhunt Underway For Sniper Who Shot L.A. Sheriff's Deputy; Police Thwart Mass Shooting At California Hotel; Thousands Of Fires Ravaging The Amazon Rain Forest. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN 10
• International Disagreement Centers on World`s Largest Island, Greenland; CNN Hero; Time Capsule`s Secrets Lost to Time


Hala Gorani Tonight
• Boris Johnson Meets With Emmanuel Macron; Smoke From Burning Amazon Covers Half Of Brazil; U.S.-Denmark Relations Seem Repaired; Trump's Contradictory Remarks Spark Confusion, Controversy; Russia Cheers Trump's Push For It To Rejoin G7; Rescued Migrants Test E.U. Immigration Policies; Critics Question China's Roles At Hong Kong Train Station; Learning Civil Disobedience At Activist Training Camps. Aired 2-3p ET