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Cuomo Prime Time
• Miles Taylor Reveals He Wrote 2018 "Anonymous" Op-Ed; Trump Slams "Anonymous" Author Miles Taylor As "A Sleazebag"; Joe Biden On Trump Administration's Handling Of The COVID-19 Pandemic. Aired 9-10p ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• Interview With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Donald Trump Holds Arizona Rallies With Few Masks And No Distancing As His Task Force Warns Of Unrelenting Community Spread; New CNN National Poll: Biden Leads Trump 54 To 42 Percent; New Kushner-Woodward Tapes Released; Kushner Admits Trump Passed The Buck On Pandemic Response In New Woodward Tape; Trump Continues To Assail MI Governor Whitmer; Hurricane Zeta Hits New Orleans. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• French President Macros Announces New Lockdown as Country Battles Second Wave of Coronavirus; 60 Minutes Interview that President Trump Cut Short; Nearly Half a Million Tested Positive for COVID in U.S.; Third Time Lucky for Joe Biden?; Evan Osnos, Author, "Joe Biden: The Life, the Run and What Matters Now, is Interviewed About Joe Biden; "Men Who Hate Women," a Book About Everyday Sexism; Laura Bates, Founder, Everyday Sexism Project, is Interviewed About Sexism and Misogyny. Aired 3-4p ET


At This Hour
• Did Not Air 11a-12p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• Battleground Arizona; White House Claims Victory Over COVID-19 Pandemic?. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Anonymous Op-Ed Writer Revealed Who Detailed Resistance Inside the White House; New Jersey's Largest City Imposes Shutdown Measures Amid Surge; Interview with Gov. Phil Murphy (D) New Jersey on COVID Playbook; Dow Drops Sharply as Virus Surges and Election Nears. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• White House Claims Victory Over COVID-19 Pandemic; Big Biden Lead in New National Polls. Aired 4-4:30p ET
• Big Biden Lead in New National Polls; Comparing Biden and Trump's Pandemic Plans Aired 4:30-5p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• Biden Says Trump Has Thrown White Flag; Joe Biden Leading In National Polls; President Trump Complains About Discomfort In Rallies; Trump Supporters Crowded In Buses; Philly's D.A. Warns The Trump Team; Supreme Court Hands Another Win For Democrats; Seventy-Five Million Americans Voted. Aired 10-11p ET
• Record Shows 75-Plus Million Americans Have Already Voted; Joe Biden Slamming President Trump On His Handling Of The Coronavirus Pandemic; CNN National Poll: Biden Leads Trump; Trump Holds Two Rallies Which He Won In 2016; Stock Market Tumble Complicates Trump's Economic Pitch; COVID Cases Rising In Deadly Fall Surge Despite Trump Claims Of Rounding The Turn; Jared Kushner Bragged In April That Trump Was Taking the Country Back From The Doctors. Aired 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• Race to Finish Line as Campaigns Fight for Last-Minute Holdouts; New COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Soar as Pandemic Worsens in Midwestern States; Trump, Biden Race to the Finish Line As Campaigns Fight for Last-Minute Holdouts; Futures Down Sharply As Pandemic Worsens. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Experts New Warning over Coronavirus Vaccine; Fighting COVID in the U.K.; Trump Downplays Plot against Governor; Unrest in Philadelphia. Aired 9:30-10a
• New Cases, Hospitalizations Soar as Pandemic Worsens; Race to Finish Line as Campaign Fight for Last-Minute Holdouts. Aired 10- 10:30a ET
• Trump Lagging in Support From Women, Texans; U.S. Citizen Vitali Shkliarov Released From Belarus; Hurricane Zeta to Make Landfall Tonight. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• 2020 Early Vote Now Half Of Total 2016 Turnout; U.S. Now Averaging Nearly 72,000 COVID-19 Cases Per Day; Cash-Strapped Trump Pulls Back Advertising In Florida. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• More Than Half a Million Americans Infected in Past Week; New Poll Shows Biden Leads Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan; Player Pulled from World Series Game after Positive COVID Test. Aired 11:30-12p ET
• 2020 Election; Coronavirus Pandemic; Biden Receives Public Health Briefing. Aired 12:30-1p ET
• Trump, Biden Deliver Final Pitch With 73 Million Ballots Already Cast; White House Touts Ending Pandemic As Cases, Hospitalizations Soar; 2020 Early Vote Now Half Of Total 2016 Turnout. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Republican Lawmakers Grill CEOs Of Twitter, Facebook And Google; Trump Defends Having $281 Million In Debt Forgiven After Failing To Repay; FBI Agent's Association To Biden & Trump: Keep Wray As Director. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Trump to Visit Arizona Today While Biden Highlights COVID-19 Response; Live Coverage of Trump Press Conference; Trump Campaign Highlights COVID-19 As Success. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Kushner Bragged In April That Trump Cut Out Doctors, Scientists; Trump To Women: We're Getting Your Husbands Back To Work; Utah Hospitals Overwhelmed, May Have To Start Rationing Care. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Did Not Air 3-4p ET
• Russia Imposes Mask Mandate Amid Soaring Cases, Deaths; Mexico Says Death Toll is Much Higher Than Reported; Tropical Storm Zeta Heads for Gulf Coast; White House Falsely Claims 'Ending COVID-19 Pandemic' as Trump Accomplishment. Aired 12-1a ET
• World Braces For COVID Round Two; Philadelphia Shooting, Father Says Avoidable; Trump Rallies His Base, Biden Talks To Red States; WHO: World Reached Record 3 Million New Cases Last Week; Lincoln Project: The Before And After Of Election Day; U.S. Pro Sports Teams Open Up Stadiums for Voting; Young Voters Energized Ahead of Election; Mexico Says Death Tolls is Much Higher than Reported; U.S. Tech Chiefs to Face Questions on Capitol Hill. Aired 1-2a ET
• WHO: Record 2.8 Million Global Coronavirus Cases Last Week; Trump Tries to Shore Up Support at Campaign's End; Doha Airport Officials Make Invasive Body Checks of Women; Outrage Sparks in Philadelphia after Police Shooting; Typhoon Molave Makes Landfall in Vietnam; Deadline for Mail-in Ballots in Some States; Trump Failed to Deliver on Many Campaign Promises. Aired 2-3a ET
• Trump with Unstoppable Packed Rallies; Joe Biden Observed Health Protocols; Coronavirus Second Wave Strikes in Europe; South Africa's President Now in Self-Quarantine; Outrage Spark in Philadelphia; Airport Officials Made Invasive Body Checks on Women; Typhoon Molave Hit Vietnam; Typhoon Molave Makes Landfall in Vietnam; How Trump and Biden Differ on Foreign Policy; U.S. Tech Chiefs to Face Questions on Capitol Hill; Russia Imposes Mask Mandate Amid Soaring Cases and Deaths; 29 U.S. State Report Surge of New COVID-19 Cases; Canada's Trudeau Gets Emotional About COVID-19 Toll; L.A. Dodgers Win First Championship Since 1988; Turning Out the Youth Vote. Aired 3-4a ET
• Six Days to Go Until Election Day; COVID-19 Remains Key Issue in Final Week of Election; Trump Questions Legality of Vote Counting After November 3; Mapping Potential Paths to 270 Electoral Votes; 11 States Reporting Record Number of COVID Patients; Philadelphia Protests Erupt for Second Night After Police Shooting; Too Late to Mail Ballots in Time in Some States; Young Voters Energized Ahead of Election. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Early Voting Numbers Breaking Records; Trump Fights for Key Votes in Nebraska, Maine; How Trump and Biden Differ on Foreign Policy; White House Claims to Have Ended Pandemic as Cases Spike; Macron to Announce New COVID-19 Restrictions; Europe Hard-Hit By Surge in New COVID-19 Cases; Russia Imposed Nationwide Mask Mandate as Cases Rise; Australian Prime Minister Calls Doha Airport Incident Unacceptable; Comedian's Satirical Take on Trump Goes Viral. Aired 4:30-5a ET


CNN RIGHT NOW
• Did Not Air 1-2p ET


Connect the World
• Six Days Left until U.S. Election; Deadline for Mail-in Ballots in Some States; Trump Failed to Deliver on Many Campaign Promises; British Hospital Overwhelmed by Rising Cases; Migrant Boat Sinks off French Coast. Aired 10-11a ET
• Trump: "They'll Stop Talking COVID After The Election; Washington Inks New Defense Agreement With New Delhi; U.S. Signs Defense Deal With New Delhi Amid, China Tensions; CNN Goes Inside Overwhelmed Intensive Care Unit In England; Big Tech "Bad Behavior" Hearing Underway In U.S. Senate; Melbourne, Australia Lifts Nearly Four-Month Lockdown. Aired 11a-12p ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Trump Holds Rally With Few Masks, No Distancing as His Task Force Warns of "Unrelenting" Community Spread; Trump Holds Crowded Rally in State With Rising Cases, WH Touts "Ending" Pandemic Despite One American Dying Every 90 Seconds; Record 74+ Million Early Ballots Cast 6 Days Before Election, More Than Half of All 2016 Votes; Trump Complains That if not for Coronavirus He Wouldn't Need to Campaign in States He Won in 2016; Trump, Biden to Campaign in Florida Tomorrow, Trump Says He's "Doing Fantastically" in State as Polls Show Dead Heat; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is Interviewed About the Biden Campaign; Hurricane Zeta Hits New Orleans as Category 2 Storm. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• Did Not Air 4-5a ET
• Biden & Trump Make Final Pitches as Coronavirus Cases Soar; Doctors Warn Vaccine Dangers May Not Be Known; Dodgers Win Series, Player Celebrates After Positive COVID Test. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• Biden Delivers Closing Argument To Voters At Rally In Georgia While Trump Sharpens Focus On Midwest And Suburban Women Voters; Experts Warn It May Not Be Clear If Coronavirus Vaccine Works Until It Is Used; Dodgers Win World Series, Star Exits Game Due To COVID. Aired 5:30-6a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• Global Stocks Fall Amid A COVID Case Surge; European Leaders Take Steps To Contain The Virus; CEOs Of Facebook, Twitter And Google Facing Lawmakers Over Liability Laws. Aired 9-10a ET


Inside Politics
• Did Not Air 12-1p ET


New Day
• Trump Ignores Pandemic, Biden Pushes Unity in Final Sprint; Wisconsin Shatters Records for New COVID-19 Cases; Dodgers Win World Series, Star Pulled from Game after Positive Test; New Poll: Biden Has 17-Point Lead Over Trump in Wisconsin. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Coronavirus Cases Increase in U.S.; Philadelphia Victim's Family Speaks Out; Pennsylvania to Count Mail-in Ballots Last. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• 73,240 New Coronavirus Cases in U.S., Fourth Highest Day in Pandemic; Trump Ignores Pandemic, Biden Pushes Unity in Final Days of Campaign; Philadelphia Victim's Family Sought Ambulance, Not Police. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Unrest in Philly After Deadly Police Shooting of a Black Man; U.S. Futures Down Sharply As Pandemic Worsens; U.S. Sees More than 70,000 New Coronavirus Cases in Fourth Highest Day in Pandemic. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• COVID-19 Cases Continue Rising in States Across U.S.; White House Lists Ending COVID-19 Pandemic as One of President Trump's First Term Accomplishments; Pence Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Despite Worsening Outbreak. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Wisconsin Urges Self-Imposed Lockdown; Former Felons Vote in Florida; Presidential Election Polls; Supreme Court Ruling on Early Voting in Wisconsin. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• Did Not Air 3-4p ET


The Situation Room
• Record 74-Plus Millions Early Ballot Cast Six Days Before Election; Now: Trump Fighting To Hold On To Arizona; Biden Spends Day In Home State Of Delaware, Casts Early Ballot; White House Tries To Clarify After Listing Ending Pandemic As A Trump Accomplishment; U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 227,000, 8.8 Million Cases As Infections Are On The Rise In Nearly The Entire Country; CNN Obtains Recording Of Bob Woodward And Jared Kushner. Aired 5-6p ET
• U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 227,000, 8.8 Million Cases As Infections Are On The Rise In Nearly The Entire Country; White House Claims Victory Over COVID-19 Pandemic; With Six Days Until Election, Trump Campaigning In States He Won In 2016, Including Arizona And Wisconsin; Hurricane Zeta Makes Landfall In Louisiana. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN 10
• History Of Voting In America; New Theories About Water On The Moon; Ways You Can Verify News You Read Online. Aired 4-4:10a ET