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Cuomo Prime Time
• Interview with Erik Prince; Trump Economy Examined; Security Clearance Rescinding Questioned; Interview with Anthony Scaramucci; Trump Military Parade Postponed. Aired 9-10p ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• 75 Former Intelligence Officials Criticize President Trump for Pulling Ex-CIA Director Brennan Security Clearance; Washington Post: White House Drafts More Clearance Cancellations Demanded by President Trump Could Be Released As Distractions to Unfavorable News; Manafort Jurors End Work For Week With No Verdict As Pres. Trump Again Calls The Case "Very Sad"; Colorado Man Suspected In Deaths Of Children, Wife; Military Parade In Washington Postponed; Feds Want Prison Time For Russia Probe Figure. Aired on 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• America's First Black Female Governor;Stacey Abrams Hopes to Make History in Georgia;Glenda Jackson on Her Return to Broadway. Aired 2-2:30p ET


At This Hour
• Trump Speaks Amid Security Clearance Battle; Manafort Jury In 2nd Day of Deliberations & Asking Judge Questions. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• D.C. Mayor Fights Back after Trump Blames Military Parade's Soaring Costs on Local Officials; Democratic Governor Sarcastically Asks Trump to Campaign for GOP in Washington State; New York Governor: America "Was Never Great"; System Analyst Scours Social Media to Unmask Disinformation Campaigns. Aired 11:30a-12n ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• Trump's Military Parade Postponed; Security Clearance Firestorm Grows; Manafort Jury Deliberates; Trump: I Canceled Military Parade Due to Cost. Aired 4-4:30p ET
• Trump Doesn't Rule Out Manafort Pardon: He's a "Good Person"; Cohen Reversed Course On Stormy Daniels Payment After Access Hollywood Tape Surfaced; Pentagon: China Likely Training Pilots For Strikes on U.S. Aired 4:30-5p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• Former Trump Staffer Faces Jail Time for Six Months; Former CIA Officials in Full Force Against Trump; More to Follow Brennan's Lead; President Carter Calls Trump a Disaster In Human Rights and Treating People; Omarosa Believed to Have as Many as 200 Tapes. Aired 10-11p ET
• White House Drafts, Documents Demanded By Trump To Silence Critics, Could Be Released As Distraction From Unfavorable News; Ex- Intel Chief, Trump Trying To Stifle Free Speech; Is Manafort's Judge Influencing Jurors; Who Is The Real Melania Trump?; President Trump Denies Using The N-Word; President Trump's Tribute to Aretha Franklin; CNN Heroes: Poetic Justice. Aired 11p-12m ET


CNN Newsroom
• President Trump Looks at Stripping More Security Clearances Soon; Pentagon Postpones Trump Military Parade; Pentagon: China "Likely" Training Pilots to Target the U.S.; Jury Begins Second Day of Deliberating in Manafort's Fraud Trial. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Jury Deliberates for Second Day; Judge Stops Deportation; Women Warned Not to Run. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Former U.S. Intel Chiefs Blast Trump for Revoking Brennan's Clearance; Bin Laden Raid Leader Asks Trump to Revoke his Security Clearance; Jury Begins 2nd Day of Deliberations in Manafort Fraud Trial. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Some Dems Say They Wouldn't Pick Pelosi; Jordan McNair's Parents want Maryland Coach Fired; Pentagon Postpones Trump Military Parade. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Report: Trump Hints He Will Strip More Former Officials of Security Clearances; Ex-Intel Leaders Unite Against Trump Revoking Clearances; Manafort Jury Deliberating After Asking the Judge Several Questions; Manafort Judge Says Jurors Are Being Threatened and Their Names Will Not Be Revealed; Father Leads Police to Where Bodies of Pregnant Wife and Two Children Are Hidden. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Father in Custody, Bodies Found Believed to Be Pregnant Wife & Kids; D.C. Mayor Fights Back after Trump Blames Military Parade's Soaring Costs on Local Officials; Jury Sends Another Note to Judge in Manafort Trial. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Trump's Military Parade Postponed; Security Clearance Firestorm Grows; Manafort Jury Deliberates. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Rand Paul to Ask Trump to Lift Sanctions off Some Russian Lawmakers; New York Governor Said America Was Never Great Remark Inartful; Inside the Final Days of "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Trump: Brennan's Clearance Revoked Over Russia Probe; Vatican Responds to Priest Sexual Abuse; Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin Dies at 76; Gunmen Assault Intelligence Training Center in Kabul; Taliban Offensive Targeted Key City of Ghazni; ISIS Claims Responsibility for Education Center Blast; World Mourns "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin. Aired 12m-1a ET
• "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin Dies at 76; Families Mourn Victims of Kabul Suicide Bombing; Syrians Face Difficult Reconstruction after War; North and South Korean Families Will Soon Reunite; Interview with Gene Simmons. Aired 1-2a ET
• Never Said Goodbye: Seven Decades of Separation in Korea; Newspapers Run Editorials Denouncing Trump's Rhetoric; World Mourns "Queen Of Soul" Aretha Franklin; Aretha Franklin Always Supported Detroit. Aired 2a ET
• Catholic Church Under Heavy Criticism; Queen of Soul Leaves Her Mark; Government and Contractor Finger Pointing Continues; Vatican Responds To Latest Clergy Abuse Allegations; ISIS Claims Responsibility For Two Kabul Attacks; Queen Of Soul, Aretha Franklin Dies At 76. Aired 3-4a ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Sixty-Plus Ex-Intel Officials Blast Trump On Security Clearances; Trump Warns DOJ Official Could Lose Clearance "Very Quickly"; D.C. Mayor Taunts Trump After Cancellation Of Military Parade; Trump Donor Blasts Offer to Pay Omarosa With Donor Money; Rate of Pregnant Women Addicted to Opioids Quadruples. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• President Trump Could Strip More Security Clearances in Coming Days; Remembering Aretha Franklin; Husband Arrested for Murder of Colorado Mom and Kids. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• President Trump Could Strip More Security Clearances in Coming Days; Remembering Aretha Franklin; Husband Arrested for Murder of Colorado Mom and Kids; Violence Escalating in Afghanistan. Aired 4:30- 5a ET
• More Clearances could be Stripped in Coming Days; President Trump's Military Parade Postponed; NYT: WH Aide Worried Omarosa has 200 Tapes; 2nd Day of Deliberation in Manafort Trial. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• President Trump Could Strip More Security Clearances In Coming Days; Trump's Military Parade Postponed; Fans Pay Respect To Aretha Franklin; Husband Arrested For Murder Of Colorado Mom. Aired 5:30-6a ET


Inside Politics
• Trump on Mueller; Intel Chiefs Rebuke Trump; Graham Sends Letter to FBI. Aired 12-12:30p ET
• Manafort Jury Deliberates For Second Day; New Ad in Maine's 2nd District Race; Trump's Parade Plans. Aired 12:30-1p ET


New Day
• Trump Revokes Brennan's Security Clearance; NYT: Omarosa May have as Many as 200 Recordings; Omarosa Releases Tape of Lara Trump Offering $15K for a Month Job; Jury Begins Second Day of Deliberations in Manafort Fraud Trial; WSJ: Cohen Reversed Course on Stormy Daniels' Payment After Access Hollywood Tape-Release. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Remembering Aretha Franklin; Trump's Unreality Show; McNair's Parents Speak Out. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• Interview with Michael Hayden; Manafort Trial Latest; Interview with Rep. Scott Taylor. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Remembering The Life And Legacy Of Aretha Franklin; Authorities Find Bodies Of Missing Colorado Mom And Daughters; Pentagon Postpones Trump's Military Parade Until Next Year; Maryland Investigating Football Program After Player's Death. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Reporting Indicates President Trump Revoked Security Clearance of John Brennan Partially in Response to Controversy Concerning Omarosa Manigault Newman; President Trump Cancels his Plan for a Military Parade in D.C.; Manafort Jury Asks Judge about Definition of Reasonable Doubt; Catholoc Church Responds. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Vatican Expresses Shame and Sorrow; Police Tase and Arrest Grandmother; Robinson and Holliday Remember Aretha Franklin. Aired 8:30-9a ET


NEWS STREAM
• Ghazni Visited By President Ashraf After Attacks By Taliban; ISIS Claiming Kabul Attacks; Monsoon Rains And Deadly Floods In Kerala In India; Vatican Breaks Silence On Sexual Abuse Case In Pennsylvania; Number Of Missing People Still Unknown On Collapsed Bridge; Trump's Military Parade Postponed; Google CEO Address Issue Of Censored App For China; Elon Musk Scared Investors After Emotional Interview; North And South Korean Family Reunion; Aretha Franklin, Dead At The Age Of 76; Violence In Afghanistan; Rampant Physical And Sexual Abuse; Aretha Franklin: 1942-2018. Aired 8-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• Elon Musk Opens Up And Tesla Shares Go Heading Down, The New CEO Of Air France KLM Was Announced And The Market Is Down 3% In Its Stock, 1,400 Google Workers Signed A Protest Petition After Reports That The Company Would Build A Censored Search Engine Especially For China; Paul Manafort Jury Ask to Leave By 5:00 p.m. Eastern Friday; Worst Flooding in Nearly a Century Claims 324 Lives in the Indian State of Kerala; U.S. to End Funding for Stabilizing Syria; Two Palestinians have Been Shot and Killed in Gaza; Turkey Rejects Appeal for U.S. Pastor's Release; Turks Anxious of Weakened Currency; Trump Postpones Military Parade; WWE Stars Ring the NYSE Closing Bell; Crazy Rich Asians on Track to Top the Meg at Box Office; Amazon's Twitch Becomes Full-Time Job for Video Gamers. Aired: 4-5p ET


The Situation Room
• Donald Trump Supporting Manafort; Trump Trying To Stifle Free Speech; Trump Suggests Justice Official Bruce Ohr Will Lose Clearance Next; Senator Rand Paul Wants Russian Lawmakers Taken Off Sanctions List; Trump Cancels Military Parade, Blames D.C. City Officials. Aired 5-6pm ET
• Trump's Military Parade Postponed; Security Clearance Firestorm Grows; Manafort Jury Deliberates; Interview With Texas Congressman Marc Veasey; Pentagon: China Likely Training Pilots to Target U.S.; CNN Exclusive: Bomb That Killed 40 Children in Yemen was Supplied by the United States; Ex-CIA Members Condemn Trump For Revoking Brennan's Security Clearance; Trump Praises Manafort During Jury Deliberations. Aired 6-7p ET


Wolf
• Manafort Judge Holds Hearing; More Security Clearances Revoked; Ex-Intel Leaders United Against Trump; New Poll on Russia; Paul Asks for Lift of Sanctions on Some Russians; Trump Cancels Military Parade. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Manafort Jury In 2nd Day of Deliberations & Asking Judge Questions; Michael Cohen Agreed on Hush Money to Daniels after "Access Hollywood" Tape Release; Pentagon: China Training Pilots to Bomb U.S. Experts Worried Russian Satellite Could Be Used as Weapon Against U.S.; Video Shows Aretha Franklin at Piano Not Long Ago. Aired 1:30-2p ET


Hala Gorani Tonight
• Admiral McRaven Adds His Name to The List of People Denouncing Trump's Revocation of Security Clearances; Trump's Military Parade in D.C. Canceled; China Is Challenging the U.S. Military Power Around the World; Manafort Jury Had A Note for The Judge Involving Two Questions; Vatican Responds Directly to Pennsylvania Abuse Report; Neo-Nazi Cafe Welcomes Germany's Far Right; Extremism Gains A Voice In Germany; Monsoon Rains Turn Deadly, Spark Landslides; North And South Korea Prepare For Family Reunions; Syria Faces Complicated Reconstruction As War Nears End; Aretha Franklin Remembered. Aired 3-4p ET