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Cuomo Prime Time
• House Democrats Release New Parnas Evidence; Trump Adds Clinton Impeachment Players To Defense Team; Trump: Democrats Are Rigging The Election Against Sanders. Aired 9-10p ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• House Democrats Release New Evidence As President Trump Reveals His Impeachment Defense Team; New Documents From Lev Parnas Show More Texts About Possible Surveillance Of Former U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine; Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Is Interviewed About The Impeachment Trial; New Book: President Trump Called Top Pentagon Brass A "Bunch Of Dopes And Babies" In 2017 Meeting. Aired on 8-9p ET
• The Lev Parnas Interview; Lev Parnas Unloaded a Whole Lot of Evidence Against President Trump. Aired 11p-12a ET


Amanpour
• How to Live Longer; Interview With Homeboy Industries Founder and Director Father Greg Boyle; Pervasive Messages Culture Sends About Emotional Suppression and Sexual Aggression; Peggy Orenstein is Interviewed About Her New Book; The Healing Power of Tenderness and Spirituality; Rehabilitating Gang-Involved Men and Women. Aired 1-2p ET


At This Hour
• Trump Adds to His Legal Team as Impeachment Trial Starts; Battle Over New Witnesses and Evidence Heats Up; 11 U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Missile Strike; Interview with Representative John Yarmuth (D-KY) on Ukraine Aide and Impeachment. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Pompeo Now Says State Dept. Will Investigate Possible Surveillance Of Then-U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine; Andrew Yang's Wife Evelyn Shares Her Story Of Sexual Assault. Aired 11:30-12p ET


The Global Brief with Bianca Nobilo
• U.S. Now Says 11 Troops Were Injured In Iran Missile Attack; Iran Supreme Leader Boasts "Slap In The Face" to U.S.; Pompeo: State Department Will Investigate Whether Ex-U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Was Spied Upon; Ukraine Investigate Possible Spying On U.S. Ambassador; U.S. President Adds Big Names To Impeachment Defense Team; Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Would "Likely" Support A Motion To Call Witness; Brazil's Culture Secretary Fired, Appeared To Quote Goebbels; China Suffers Its Slowest Growth In 29 Years; Australia Bushfires: Rain In Fire-Ravaged States Brings Relief And New Risk; Microsoft Lays Out Plan To Become Carbon Negative; Rafiki Filmmaker Challenges Stereotypes Depictions Of African Life. Aired 5-5:30p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Attack?; Trump Names Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz to Defense Team; Pompeo Says State Department Will Investigate Possible Surveillance of Ex-U.S. Ambassador. Aired 4-4:30p ET
• Pentagon Now Says 11 Service Members Hurt in January 8 Missile Strike; Trump: Impeachment Trial is 'Rigging the Election Again Against Bernie Sanders". Aired 4:30-5p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• Documents Show the Dots to Lev Parnas' Communications; President Trump Claims he Doesn't Know Parnas at All; Republican Congressman Admits After Denying; New Book, In 2017 Trump Called Top Military Brass A Bunch Of Dopes And Babies; Washington Post Poll Eight In 10 Black Voters Say Trump Is Racist; House Democrats Release New Documents From Giuliani Associate; New Documents Show Communications Between Lev Parnas And Aide To GOP Rep. Devin Nunes. Aired 10-11p ET
• Did Not Air 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• Impeachment Trial Opens as Battle Over Evidence and Witnesses Heats Up; Pompeo Silent About Possible Surveillance of Ex-U.S. Ambassador; Pressure Grows on GOP Senators Over Calling of Witnesses for Impeachment Trial; Source: Intel Officials Ask Congress Not to Hold Public Hearings After Threat Assessment Angered Trump Last Year. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• U.S. Troops Injured in Missile Attack; Yang's Wife Shares Assault; Trump Adds to his Legal Team. Aired 9:30-10a
• Trump Adds To His Legal Team As Impeachment Trial Starts; Pompeo Says He Was Not Aware Ex U.S. Ambassador Was Possibly Surveilled; 11 U.S. Troops Injured In Iran Missile Attack. Aired 10- 10:30a ET
• Interview with Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen; Neo- Nazis Arrested Ahead of Virginia Gun Rights Rally; SAG Awards This Weekend May Signal Oscars' Voting Trends. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Two Ex-Clinton Impeachment Investigators Join Trump Team; that U.S. Troops Were Indeed Injured In Iranian Missile Attack On Two Military Bases In Iraq Just Last Week; Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo Breaks His Silence, Promises To Take Action Over The Alleged Surveillance Of A Former U.S. Ambassador. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Andrew Yang's Wife Evelyn Shares Her Story Of Sexual Assault; Ranking The Top 5 Democrats As The Field Narrows. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Trump Calls U.S. Generals 'Dopes and Babies'; Interview With Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI); Trump Names Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz to Defense Team. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Trump Adds 3 Attorneys, with TV Experience to Defense Team; Interview with Former Sen. Russ Feingold, (D-WI), Senate Impeachment Trial for Bill Clinton; Senate Prepares for Showdown Over Witnesses, New Evidence; WAPO Poll shows 8 in 10 Black Americans Believe Trump is Racist; Controversial "Joker" Film Nominated for SAG Award; Judge Upholds Temporary Gun Ban Outside Virginia's Capital; Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) Opens Up About Her Struggle with Hair Loss. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Senate Impeachment Trial to Begin Tuesday; China Reports Its Weakest Annual Growth in 29 Years; Iran Enriching More Uranium Now Than Before Nuclear Deal; Five Countries Demand Answers from Iran on Downed Flight; Australian Celebs Work for Bushfire Relief; Prince Harry and Meghan's Move Sends Media Into a Frenzy. Aired 12-1a ET
• President Says U.S. Senate Trial "Should Do Very Quickly"; Documents Suggest U.S. Ambassador Under Surveillance; Five Countries Demand Answers From Iran On Downed Flight; China Reports Its Weakest Annual Growth in 29 Years; U.S. Senate Passes USMCA Trade Agreement; Brazil's Indigenous Tribes United to Save Amazon. Aired 1-2a ET
• Iranian Supreme Leader Expected To Lead Friday Prayer; Heavy Rain Drench Fire-Hit States, Trigger Flooding; Five Countries Demand Answer From Iran On Downed Flight; President Trump Impeachment Trial; Ukrainian Investigation; Toll on World's Second Biggest Economy; Sweeping Trade Deal. Aired 2-3a ET
• Iran's Supreme Leader to Lead Friday Prayers; Senate Impeachment Trial Kicks Off; Australia Getting Too Much Rain; Ukraine to Investigate Surveillance on Marie Yovanovitch. Aired 3-3:30a ET


CNN RIGHT NOW
• Trump Adding Ken Starr And Alan Dershowitz To Legal Team; Senate Trial Begins As New Revelations Emerge; Parnas Says, I Saw Trump Tell Aide To Fire Ambassador Yovanovitch. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Democratic Senators Will Be Off Campaign Trail for Impeachment; Interview with Representative Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) on Endorsing Michael Bloomberg; 11 U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Missile Attack; DOJ Investigating Media Leak Tied to Clinton E-mail Probe. Aired 1:30-2p ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• House Dems Release New Evidence From Giuliani Associate; New Documents From Giuliani Associate Implicate Rep. Nunes' Aide In Push To Dig Up Dirt On Trump Rivals; Dems Release New Evidence As Trump Taps Ken Starr, Who Trump Once Called A "Lunatic," To Lead Defense; Dems Release New Evidence From Giuliani Associate As Trump Adds High- Profile Lawyers Primed For TV; 11 U.S. Service Members Hurt in Iran Attack; Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) is Interviewed About Service Members Hurt in Iran Attack and Top U.S. General Warning that North Korea is Building New Missiles. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• 11 U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Missile Attack; President Trump's Impeachment Trial Begins; Ukraine Probes Alleged Marie Yovanovitch Surveillance. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Defense Department Reveals U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Missile Attack; Chief Justice John Roberts and Senators Sworn in for Trump's Impeachment Trial; Four Democratic Senators Off Campaign Trail Due to Impeachment Trial; China's Economic Growth at Slowest Pace in 29 years. Aired 4:30-5a ET
• Troops Were Injured In Iran Attack; President Trump's Impeachment Trial Underway; Andrew Yang's Wife Evelyn Shares Her Story of Sex Assault; MLB: No Evidence Players Cheated with Wearables. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• U.S. Troops Were Injured In Iran Missile Attack; President Trump's Impeachment Trial Begins; Evelyn Yang Reveals Sexual Assault By Her OB-GYN. Aired 5:30-6a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• China Reporting Its Weakest Growth In Decades; Microsoft Promising To Become Carbon Negative; Democrats Getting A Series Of Revelations In The Impeachment Trial. Aired 9-9:30a ET


Inside Politics
• Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Ray Expected To Join Trump Legal Team; Ken Starr Has Predicted Witnesses At Senate Trial; CNN: Donald Trump Adds To His Legal Team As Impeachment Trial Starts; Lev Parnas: Perry Aware Of Ukrainian Pressure Campaign; Donald Trump Has Repeatedly Distanced Himself From Associates, Advisers. Aired 12- 12:30p ET
• Impeachment Trial Pulls Some 2020 Candidates off the Trail; Sanders, Warren Try to Move On From Post-Debate Confrontation; Andrew Yang's Wife Evelyn Shares Her Story of Sexual Assault. Aired 12:30-1p ET


New Day
• 11 U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Missile Attack; Senate Impeachment Trial Begins as New Revelations Emerge. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Trump Lases Out as Impeachment Begins; Pompeo Silent Amid Reports of Surveillance of U.S. Ambassador; MLB Sign-Stealing Scandal Grows; Information Since Impeachment Passed in the House. Aired 6:30- 7a ET
• Senate Impeachment Trail Begins amid New Revelations; Troops Injured in Iran Missile Attack; Four Senators Sidelined from Campaigning in Iowa. Aired 7:00-7:30a ET
• The Battle Over Impeachment And Witnesses Heats Up Ahead Of Impeachment Trial; Senate Approves New North American Trade Deal; Andrew Yang's Wife Evelyn Shares Her Story Of Sexual Assault. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) is Interviewed About the Impeachment Trial and His Presidential Campaign; Senate Begins Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump; Indicted Rudy Giuliani Associate Lev Parnas Claims to have Witnessed President Trump Fire Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Missile Attack; Conservatives Argued for Witnesses in Clinton Impeachment Trial; Douglas London Shares Briefing Experience with Trump. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• Larry Kudlow Says Impeachment Won't Stop The Stock Market As Donald Trump Beefs Up His Legal Team; Tech Shares Surging in 2020 On Trade Optimism; China's GDP Grows At Slowest Pace in 29 Years; U.S. Says 11 Troops Were Injured in Iran Missile Attack; Rain in Fire-Ravaged Australia Brings Relief; President Trump Adds Big Names to Legal Team for Impeachment Trial. Aired 3-4p ET


The Situation Room
• Dershowitz to Present Oral Arguments at Senate Trial; Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is Interviewed about Trump's Impeachment; Trump Adds Big-Name Attorneys to Impeachment Legal Team; Trump Adds More Lawyers to Impeachment Team, Including Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz; U.S. Troops Injured in Iran Missile Attack Despite Pentagon Initially Saying There Were No Casualties; State of Emergency Takes Effect, Neo-Nazis Arrested Ahead of Virginia Pro-Gun Rally. Aired 5-6p ET
• New Ukraine Scandal Evidence; President Trump Names Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz to Impeachment Defense Team; Interview With Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); Trump Adds Three Big Names To Defense Team, Including Former Clinton Prosecutor Ken Starr; House Dems Release New Evidence from Giuliani Associate Lev Parnas. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN 10
• Martin Luther King Jr.`s Life and Death Remembered; A Look Back at the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Having a Four-Year Degree May be More Important than Where it Came From


Hala Gorani Tonight
• Iran's Ali Khamenei Speech Signals Breakdown in Trust with West; Mike Pompeo Announces Investigation into Lev Parnas' Yovanovitch Text Messages; Week of Extremes in Washington; Andrew Yang's Wife Evelyn Shares Her Story Of Sexual Assault; Harry And Meghan's Frogmore Cottage Staff "Redeployed"; Britain Decides If Brexit Is Worth A Bong; Actors To Pick Best Performances At Sunday's Award Show. Aired 2-3p ET