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CNN Newsroom
• Source: Suspect's Writing Indicate Anti-Trump Admin Ideology; Official: Correspondents' Dinner Suspect Bought Guns Legally; Correspondents' Dinner Suspect Arrested; Buckingham Palace: Security Talks Underway for King's State Visit; Top Iran Diplomat in Pakistan Meeting with Mediators. Aired 1-2p ET
• Source: Suspect's Writings Indicate Anti-Trump Administration Ideology; Investigation Underway After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner; Buckingham Palace: King Charles' U.S. State Visit Will Go Ahead. Aired 2-3p ET
• Source: Suspect's Writings Show Anti-Trump Administration Ideology; Sources: Suspect Identifies as 31-Years-Old California Man; Iranian Foreign Minister Meets with Mediators in Pakistan on Truce Talks. Aired 3-4p ET
• Investigation Underway After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner; White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Senator John Fetterman (D) Interview. Aired 4-5p ET
• Gunshots Heard During White House Correspondents' Dinner. Aired 5-6p ET
• Trump Appears On CBS 60 Minutes After Correspondents' Dinner Shooting; Investigation Underway After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner; Shooting Renews DHS Funding Debate; FBI Searching Home In California Tied To Suspected Gunman; Suspected Correspondents' Dinner Gunman To Be Arraigned Tomorrow; Buckingham Palace Confirms King Charles' U.S. State Visit Will Go Ahead. Aired 6- 7p ET
• Investigation Into White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Underway; FBI Searching Home In California Tied To Suspected Gunman; President Trump Reacts To Shooting Incident; Interview With Representative Michael Rulli (R-OH); Former Secret Service Agent Talks About the Investigation; Source: Suspect Identified As 31-Year-Old California Man; WHCA Boart Meeting To Assess Shooting Incident And Next Steps; Trump: If Iran Wants To Talk, They Can Call Us. Aired 7-8p ET
• FBI Going Door to Door at Shooting Suspect's California Neighborhood; Suspect's Family Told Police of Manifesto Just Before Shooting; Timeline of White House Correspondents' Dinner Attack; House Oversight Committee Asks for Secret Service Briefing; President Trump Gives First Interview Since Shooting Incident; Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Suspect to be Arraigned Tomorrow; Trump Says If Iran Wants to Talk, They Can Call Us. Aired 8-9p ET
• FBI Searching Home In California Tied To Suspected Gunman; Source: Suspects Writings Indicate Anti-Trump Admin Ideology; U.S. Confronts Rising Political Violence After WHCD Attack; Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Suspect To Be Arraigned Tomorrow; Police: Suspect Had Shotgun, Handgun And Multiple Knives; Iran's Top Diplomat To Meet With Putin As U.S. Peace Talks Stall; Some GOP Lawmakers Call For End To DHS Shutdown After Shooting; Buckingham Palace: King Charles' U.S. State Visit Will Go Ahead. Aired 9-10p ET
• Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Suspect To Be Arraigned Monday; 31-Year-Old Cole Tomas Allen Charged In WHCD Shooting; Source: Secret Service Fired On Suspect But Did Not Hit Him. Aired 10-11p ET
• President Trump, White House Correspondents' Dinner Rocked By Assassination Attempt; Iran Reopens Negotiations Concerning War And Strait of Hormuz. Royal Family To Still Visit D.C. Despite Saturday's Attack. Aired 11p-12a ET
• Trump Safe After Shots Fired At Correspondents' Dinner. Aired 12-1a ET
• Trump Safe After Shots Fired At Correspondents' Dinner; Man In Custody After Shots Fired At Gala Trump Attended. Aired 1-2a ET
• Man In Custody After Shots Fired At Gala Trump Attended. Aired 2-3a ET
• FBI At Los Angeles Area Home Linked to Suspect in Shooting at Gala Attended by Trump; Man in Custody After Shots Fired at Gala Trump Attended; Trump Safe After Shots Fired at Correspondents' Dinner. Aired 3-4a ET


CNN This Morning
• Suspect in Custody After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner. Aired 5-6 am ET
• Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner, Suspect Arrested. Trump Safe After Shots Fired At Correspondents' Dinner; Suspect In Custody After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents'' Dinner; Man In Custody After Shots Fired At Gala Trump Attended; Trump Cancels U.S. Delegation's Pakistan Visit For Iran Talks; Central U.S. Under Threat Of Tornadoes, Hail Through Monday. Aired 6-7a ET
• Suspect In Custody After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner; Trump Says He "Fought Like Hell" To Stay At WHCD After Shooting; Secret Service Officer Who Was Shot Released From Hospital. Trump Safe After Shots Fired at Correspondents' Dinner; Suspect Cole Thomas Allen Arrested; Iran Talks on Hold; Trump Cancels U.S. Delegation's Pakistan Visit; Iran: Will Not Enter "Forced" Talks Under U.S. Pressure. Aired 7-8a ET


Fareed Zakaria GPS
• Shots Fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner; U.S.-Iran Stalemate. Interview With The Former Commander Of U.S. Special Operations Command Retired Admiral William McRaven; Interview With Council On Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Sebastian Mallaby; "The Imperial Presidency," Airs Tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern. Aired 10-11a ET


Inside Politics
• Trump Safe After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner; Suspect in Custody After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner; Investigation Underway After Shots Fired At White House Correspondents' Dinner. Investigation Underway after Shots Fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner; Could GOP Lose House Majority after Redistricting Wars; Tomorrow King and Queen Arrive for U.S. Visit Amid Tensions. Aired 8-9a ET


State of the Union
• Interview With Wolf Blitzer; Interview With Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche; Interview With Oz Pearlman; Interview With Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). Aired 9-10a ET
• Chaos At Washington's Biggest Annual Dinner; Rep. McCaul On Shooting At Washington's Biggest Annual Dinner; Will Shooting Push Congress To Fund DHS?; Aired Chaos at Washington's Biggest Annual Dinner. Official: Shooter's Writing Indicate Anti-Trump Ideology. Aired 11a-12p ET
• Alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner Gunman's Manifesto Emerges; Interview With Wolf Blitzer; Interview With Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche; Interview With Oz Pearlman; Interview With Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). Aired 12-1p ET


The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
• Did Not Air 8-9p ET