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Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• Trump Team Refuses To Provide Evidence He Declassified Documents; Interview With Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD); Video Shows Trump Allies In Georgia Elections Office For Hours On Day Of Voting System Breach; Migrants On The Promises Made To Them To Fly Out Of Texas; TX Sheriff Conducting Criminal Investigation; New Book Takes Aim At False Stories About The 2020 Election And The People Who Spread Them; Ukraine, U.S. Denounce Referendum Plans In Russian-Held Areas; Turks And Caicos Under Shelter-In-Place Order; At Least 5 Dead Across The Caribbean. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• Interview With "Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict With China" Author Michael Beckley; Interview With Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti; Interview With "The Third Reconstruction" Author And Historian Peniel E. Joseph. Aired 1-2p ET


At This Hour
• Hurricane Fiona Slams the Turks and Caicos; Florida Governor Says Migrants Signed "Consent Forms," Flights Were "Voluntary"; Judge Vacates Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Occupied Territories To Hold Referendum Votes To Join Russia; Task Force Recommends Anxiety For Adults Under 65; Parents Spread Warning About Counterfeit Pills. Aired 11:30a-12p ET


The Global Brief with Bianca Nobilo
• Russia's War On Ukraine; UNGA Meeting; Hurricane Fiona Slamming The Caribbean. Aired 5-5:30p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• White House Admits Dealing With Increase In Migration Is A Challenge; Arrests At U.S.-Mexico Border Top 2M In A Year For First Time; Puerto Ricans Suffer From Mudslides, Flooding After Hurricane; Russia Moves Toward Annexing Eastern, Southern Ukrainian Regions; Biden To Address United Nations General Assembly Wednesday; Video Shows Trump Allies In A Georgia County Elections Office On Day Of Voting Systems Breach. Aired 4-5p ET
• DOJ Hints It May Go To Supreme Court In Mar-a-Lago Doc Dispute; Trump Lawyers Push Back Against Requests From Special Master; Migrants Advocacy Group Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Florida Governor & Others Over Flight To Martha's Vineyard; Iranians Protested In Tehran Over A Woman's Death In Police Custody; Biden Again Says U.S. forces Would Defend Taiwan Against Chinese Aggression. Aired 5-6p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• Special Master Going Back And Forth With Trump's Legal Team; Governor Ron DeSantis Under Fire Over Migrant Shipment; A Book That Describe What Kind Of President Donald Trump Is; Artist Shares His Talent And Wealth. Aired 10-11p ET
• Special Master Questions Trump's Claims About Mar-A-Lago Docs Being Declassified; Lindsey Graham Proposes 15-Week Abortion Ban; Hurricane Fiona Slams Puerto Rico; Russia Not Expected To Attend U.N. Security Council Meeting On Ukraine; CA Teachers Struggle To Find Affordable Rent. Aired 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• Fiona Hits Puerto Rico; Ramon Luis Nieves is Interviewed about Puerto Rico; Georgia Election Office Breach; Asha Rangappa is Interviewed about Trump's Next Deadline; Stock Futures Down; Record Number of Migrants in NYC. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Fed Rate Hikes; Adnan Syed Conviction Vacated; Stephen Bright Featured in Champions for Change. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Fiona Strengthens to Cat 3, May Get Even Stronger; Today, Deadline for Trump Team's Response to DOJ Request to Keep Reviewing Seized Docs; Texas Sheriff Launching Probe of Migrant Flights to Martha's Vineyard. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• U.N. Secretary General Says, Assembly Meeting Happening at Time of Great Peril; Judge Tosses Murder Conviction of Serial Podcast Subject Adnan Syed; CDC Says, Four Out of Five Pregnancy-Related Deaths Could Be Prevented. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Ron DeSantis Facing Legal Trouble Over Shipping of Migrants?; Video Reveals Trump Allies Accessing Georgia Voting Machines; Trump Team and DOJ to Meet With Special Master; White House Surging Disaster Assistance to Puerto Rico. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• U.N. General Assembly Gathers as Global Crises Mount; Biden Heads to U.N. Today Ahead of Critical Wednesday Speech; Pro-Separatist Officials in Occupied Areas of Ukraine Set Referendums for Joining Russia; Delaware Prepares for Possible Migrant Arrivals After Report of Flight Planned from Texas; Buffalo Bills Player Taken Away in Ambulance After Neck Injury; Univ. of Oregon Apologizes for "Disgraceful Chant" During Game Against BYU; Police Investigating After Fan Allegedly Hits NFL Player; "Champions of Change": Coach Pushes Girls on Track Towards College. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Special Master Holds First Hearing on Government Documents Found At Mar-A-Lago; Biden To Address World Leaders At UN General Assembly Tomorrow; Fiona Strengthens Into Atlantic As Category 3. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• CDC: Four Out Of Five Pregnancy-Related Deaths In U.S. Are Preventable; Task Force Proposes Directive To Screen For Anxiety In Adults; FDA Warns Against Cooking Chicken In Nyquil; Interview With Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX); Fed Expected To Make Another Aggressive Rate Hike Tomorrow; Gas Prices Fall For 98th Day Straight After Peaking In June; Pro-Separatist Officials In Occupied Areas Of Ukraine Set Referendums For Joining Russia. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• DOJ Hints It May Go To Supreme Court In Dispute Over Mar-A-Lago Special Master; Migrants' Lawyers Brochures "Used To Entice" Them To Martha's Vineyard; Puerto Rico Slammed By Fiona On 5th Anniversary Of Hurricane Maria. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Video Shows Georgia GOP Official in Elections Office on Day of Breach; Adnan Syed Released From Prison After Judge Vacated Conviction; Organization Uses Music to Bring People Together; FDA Releases Review of How It Handled Baby Formula Shortage. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Queen Elizabeth Laid To Rest After Solemn State Funeral; Queen's Great Grandchildren Say Goodbye As New Era Begins; Russian Forces Shell Recently Liberated Town In East Ukraine; Iranians Protest Woman's Death In Police Custody; At Least 2 Dead in Puerto Rico and Power Out; Hurricane Fiona Heads for Turks and Caicos; Biden Declares End of COVID Pandemic; 27 Killed in China in COVID Quarantine Bus Accident. Aired 12-1a ET
• Queen Elizabeth Laid To Rest After Solemn State Funeral; Queen's Death Raises Questions Over Commonwealth's Future; New Chapter For British Monarchy After Queen's Funeral; Ukrainians In Newly Liberated Areas Struggle To Cope; Taliban Trade Navy Veteran For Convicted Drug Smuggler. Aired 1-2a ET
• At Least 2 Dead in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Fiona; Powerful Earthquake Strikes Southwest Mexico; At Least 2 Dead in Japan at Typhoon Nanmadol; Iran Protest Turns Deadly; U.S.-Afghanistan Prisoner Swap; Texas Sheriff to Investigate Migrant Flights to Martha's Vineyard; Biden Facing Pushback for Declaring Pandemic Over; COVID Quarantine Bus Crashes in China; 17-year-old Ukrainian Wins Award for Developing Mine Detector; BLACKPINK Urging Action on Climate Change; Symbolic Jewelry Worn at Queen's Funeral. Aired 2-3a ET
• Izium Residents Living in Freedom Without Resources; Ukrainians Outsmart Russians in War; Kremlin Denies Allegation of Torture; United Kingdom Bid Goodbye to Queen Elizabeth; U.S. Navy Mark Frerichs Freed Via Prisoner Swap; Sheriff Wants to Investigate How Migrants Were Lured; Hurricane Fiona Devastated Puerto Rico; Zero COVID Policy Killed 27 People in China. Aired 3-4a ET
• A Least 2 Dead in Puerto Rico Amid Recovery Efforts; Texas Sheriff to Investigate Flight to Massachusetts; Ukraine Pushes Counteroffensive Deeper into Luhansk Region; Izyum Residents Cope with Aftermath of Russian Occupation; Taliban Trade Navy Veteran for Convicted Drug Smuggler. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Queen Elizabeth Laid to Rest After Solemn State Funeral; 27 Killed in China in COVID Quarantine Bus Accident; Judge Vacates Conviction of "Serial" Podcast Subject Adnan Syed. Aired 4:30-5a ET


Connect the World
• Luhansk and Donetsk Separatists Call to Join Russia; Ukraine Looms Large as UNGA General Debate Begins; Iranian President Says Government Cannot Trust the Americans; Iranians Protests Death of Woman in Morality Police Custody; Brazilian President Gives First Speech at UNGA Debate; Most of Puerto Rico without Power or Water; Judge Vacates Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed. Aired 10-11a ET
• Luhansk and Donetsk to hold Referenda on Joining Russia; U.N. Chief Warns of "Great Peril" as World Leaders Meet; Anger in Iran after Death of 22-Year-Old Woman in Custody; Ukrainian Lawmaker: Russia should be Kicked Out of U.N.; Royal Family in Mourning Another Week after Historic Funeral; UK & U.S. Central Banks Trying to Fight Stubborn Inflation. Aired 11a-12p ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Putin May be On Verge of Mass Troop Mobilization as He Calls for Increase In "Weapons of Destruction As Soon As Possible"; Special Master Trump Sought Questions Trump's Lack of Proof on Declassification: "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too"; Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against DeSantis Over Migrant Flights; Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) is Interviewed on DeSantis' Migrant Relocation Program; U.S. Border Encounters Top 2M as Human Smugglers, Not Multi- National Criminal Enterprises, Seize on Migrants' Desperation; Hurricane Fiona Now Expected to Intensify to Category 4 by Tomorrow. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• Fiona Now a Major Hurricane, Much of Puerto Rico Powerless; Texas Sheriff Investigating Migrant Flights to Martha's Vineyard; President Biden: "The Pandemic is Over". Aired 5-5:30a ET
• Murder Conviction of "Serial" Subject Adnan Syed Overturned; Jan 6 Committee Members Propose Bill to Reform Electoral Count Act; Stock Futures Higher as Fed Interest Rate Decision Looms; Protests Erupt in Iran over Death of Woman in Police Custody; Eli Manning goes Undercover as Penn State Walk-on. Aired 5:30-6a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• Izium Residents Cope with Aftermath of Russian Occupation; Queen Elizabeth Laid to Rest after Solemn State Funeral; Germany: Gas Reserves at more than 90 Percent Capacity; 27 Killed in China as COVID Quarantine Bus Crashes; Philip Morris International Moves Away from Cigarettes; Leaks of New "Grand Theft Auto" Game Footage Emerge Online. Aired 9-10a ET


Inside Politics
• New Filing: Trump Lawyers Ask To Keep Hold On DOJ Investigation; Arrests At U.S.-Mexico Border Top 2M In A Year For First Time; Fiona Strengthens, Bears Down On Turks & Caicos. Aired 12- 12:30p ET
• Biden On 60 Minutes: "Pandemic Is Over," Still Doing "Work" On COVID; Tomorrow: Fed Decision On Interest Rate Hike; NYT: New Poll Shows Most Latino Voters "Out Of GOP's Reach". Aired 12:30-1p ET


Isa Soares Tonight
• Separatists To Hold Votes On Joining Russia; U.N. General Assembly Kicks Off Amid "Colossal Global Dysfunction"; Hurricane Fiona Rips Through Powerless Puerto Rico; Most Of Puerto Rico Without Power Or Water; Biden Faces Pushback After Declaring Pandemic "Over"; Judge Vacates Murder Conviction Of Adnan Syed. Aired 2-3p ET


New Day
• Puerto Rico Without Power, Rescues Underway as Fiona Hits; Video Shows Trump Allies in Elections Office on Day of Breach; Texas Sheriff Launches Criminal Probe into Migrants Sent to Martha's Vineyard; Record Number of Migrants Arriving in NYC; Trump Team Opposes Disclosing Which Docs He Claims He 'Declassified'; Biden to Arrive in NYC Today Ahead of United Nations Address; Booby Traps, Torture Chambers Discovered in Liberated Cities. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Fed Likely to Raise Rates; Inflation Not Hurting Democrats; Susan Glasser is Interviewed about Her New Book on Trump; Preventable Pregnancy-Related Deaths. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• Puerto Rico in Dark as Fiona Unleashes Catastrophic Flooding; Trump Team Fights Special Master's Demand for Doc Disclosures; Migrant Children Now Enrolling in New York City Schools Amid Record Surge. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Supreme Court Can't Escape 2020, 2024 Races in Looming Term; Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Defends Sending Migrants to Martha's Vineyard; New Data Shows Democracy on the Rise, Autocracy on Retreat. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Hurricane Fiona Devastates Puerto Rico; New Video Shows Republican Operatives with Attorney for Former President Trump Spending Hours Inside Restricted Area of Georgia Elections Office; Migrants Continue to be Sent to Sanctuary Cities from Southern States; President Biden Answers Interview Question regarding His Running for Reelection. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Sen. Angus King (I-ME) is Interviewed about Covid, Immigration, Ukraine and Lobster Protests; Steve Kelly is Interviewed about Syed's Release; Offensive Chant at Oregon/BYU Football Game. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• Global Stocks Fall Ahead Of Interest Rate Decisions; Russia Pushes To Annex Parts Of Ukraine; UN Chief Urges Rich Countries To Tax Fossil Fuel Companies; Fix Supply Chain To Tame Inflation; Easing Post-Pandemic Traffic At Port Of Long Beach; Social Media Erupts Over Chinese Bus Crash; U.S. Stocks Slide Ahead Of Fed's Expected Rate Hike. Aired 3-4p ET


CNN Live Event/Special
• CNN TONIGHT: Legal Team For 30-Plus Martha's Vineyard Migrants Sues Gov. DeSantis; Senate Probe Finds Nearly 1,000 Unaccounted Prison Deaths In 2021; FDA Warns Against New TikTok Challenge That Involves Cooking Chicken In NyQuil. Aired 9-10p ET


The Situation Room
• DOJ, Trump Team Hold First Meeting With Mar-A-Lago Special Master; Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Sued Over Martha's Vineyard Migrant Flights; CNN Gets Rare Access To Frontlines Of Heated Fight In Ukraine; U.S. Bracing For Another Interest Rate Hike Tomorrow. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN 10
• The Balance Of Power In The U.S. Congress; An Earth-Protecting Mission Hoping To Crash Into An Asteroid. Aired 4-4:10a ET