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January 10, 2019
• Trump Makes Trip to Border, Says He Will "Almost Definitely" Declare National Emergency. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Former Trump Fixer Michael Cohen Set to Testify Before Congress; Trump Visits Border on Day 20 of Shutdown Over Wall. Aired 4-4:30p ET


January 09, 2019
• Evidence of Trump Campaign Collusion Emerges in Russia Probe?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Evidence of Trump Campaign Collusion Emerges in Russia Probe?; Republican Support Fading Over Shutdown?; Interview with Senator Kamala Harris of California. Aired 4-4:30p ET


January 08, 2019
• Trump to Deliver Prime-Time Address on Border Wall. Aired 4- 4:30p ET


January 07, 2019
• Could Trump Get A Third Supreme Court Pick?; Despite Trimp's Denials, Parts of Salacious Dossier Prove True; Ruth Bader Ginsburg Still Recovering; Democratic 2020 Contenders. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Bolton Contradicts Trump on Syria Pullout; Trump Threatens to Prolong Shutdown; Biden's Brother: Biden Could "Annihilate" Trump in 2020. Aired 4-4:30p ET


January 04, 2019
• Interview with Republican Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina; New Dem Representative Tlaib: "We're Gonna Impeach the Motherf****r"; House Democrats Divided On Impeaching President; Warren Makes First Trip To Iowa Amid Likely 2020 Bid; Potential Dem Candidates Courting Clinton For Support. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Fed Chair Would Refuse to Resign; President Trump Threatens to Keep Government Shut Down For Year or More; Sources: Mass Sickouts Among TSA Workers Since Shutdown; Interview with Republican Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina. Aired 4-4:30p ET


January 03, 2019
• Trump Makes Surprise Appearance In Briefing Room, Takes No Questions; Notable Dems Pick Their Early Favorites For 2020 Nominee; New NY AG Vows To Target President And His Family; Trump Makes surprise Appearance in Briefing Room, Takes No Questions. Aired 4:30- 5p ET
• Dow Tanks; Democrats Take Control of House of Representatives. Aired 4-4:30p ET


January 02, 2019
• Romney: Haven't Decided Who I'm Endorsing In 2020; Sources: Pentagon Told Trump 120 Days Is Minimum Time Needed To Not Get Everyone Killed; Interview With Utah Senator-Elect Mitt Romney. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• How Far Will Trump Push Government Shutdown Fight?; Interview With Utah Senator-Elect Mitt Romney. Aired 4-4:30p ET


January 01, 2019
• Did Not Air


December 31, 2018
• Stock Market Ends Volatile Year; Elizabeth Warren Launches Presidential Exploratory Committee. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Government Shutdown Continues; Elizabeth Warren Launches Presidential Exploratory Committee: New Year's Celebrations Begin; Mattis Takes Perceived Dig at Trump in Goodbye Letter to Troops; Trump Defends Eventual Troop Withdrawal from Syria. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 28, 2018
• Interview with Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana; Suspected Cop Killer Arrested After Two-Day Manhunt; Wife Of Justice Thomas Stirs Debate With Far-Right Rhetoric; Russian Company Claims Nude Photo Is Part Of Data Collected In Mueller Investigation. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Mueller and the Nude Selfie?; Trump Threatens to Shut Down Entire Southern Border; Government Shutdown Threatens to Drag On Well Into 2019; Interview with Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 27, 2018
• Whiplash On Wall Street After Day Of Ups And Downs; Wash Post: Trump Worried Stocks Could Hurt His 2020 Chances; Putin Claims New Missile Can Avoid U.S. Detection Systems; DHS Secretary Nielsen Returning to Border Tomorrow. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Shutdown Continues; Government Investigates Death of 2nd Migrant Child in U.S. Custody; Interview with Republican Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina. Aired 4-4:30ET


December 26, 2018
• Another Migrant Child Dies in U.S. Custody; Shutdown Fight; Dow Surges. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Dow Surges; Trumps Visit Troops in Iraq. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 24, 2018
• Trump's Syria Decision Rattles Allies. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• White House in Chaos; Worst Ever Christmas Eve for Dow and S&P; Stocks Close Sharply Lower After Trump Unleashes on Fed. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 21, 2018
• Mattis Rebukes Trump's World Views in Resignation Letter; Interview with Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel; Supreme Court Upholds Block On Trump's Asylum Ban; Any Moment: McConnell And Schumer To Announce Possible Way Forward To Avoid Government Shutdown. Whitaker Rejects DOJ Recommendation To Recuse Himself From Mueller Probe. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Supreme Court Upholds Block of Trump Asylum Ban; Trump Forcing Government Shutdown?; Incoming Chief of Staff Called Trump's Push for Border Wall "Simplistic" and "Absurd" in 2015. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 20, 2018
• Trump Says It's Time for Others to Finally Fight ISIS", After Declaring ISIS was "Defeated"; Sources: Admin Officials Worried Trump May Soon Announce Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan; North Korea Won't Give Up Nukes Until U.S. Ends "Nuclear Threat"; Secretary Pompeo: "We are In A Better Place Today" With North Korea; Watchdog: Trump's Commerce Secretary Making Money Off Stocks After Claiming (Twice) He Sold Them. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Bipartisan Criticism Grows of Trump's Decision to Pull Out of Syria; Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Wall Funding. Aired 4- 4:30p ET


December 19, 2018
• Rudy Giuliani Changes Story Again on Trump-Russia Dealings. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Interview With Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger; Facebook Sued Over Privacy Violations; Shutdown Fight; Federal Reserve Ignores Trump Warnings, Raises Interest Rates; President Trump Claims War Against ISIS Over. Aired 4-4:30ET


December 18, 2018
• Trump Blinks on Border Wall Funding?; Trump Foundation Dissolving. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Foundation Dissolving; Judge Blasts Michael Flynn, Delays Sentencing; White House Argues Flynn's Crimes Have "Nothing to Do" With Trump. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 17, 2018
• James Comey Slams Trump and Republicans; Trump Reviews Ex-Green Beret's Case. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Yemeni Mother Blocked By Travel Ban From Seeing Dying Son; Trump Legal Troubles Escalating; What Did Russia Do to Help Elect Trump?; Senate Report: Russian Trolls Tried to Depress Black Votes. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 14, 2018
• ProPublica: Trump's Inauguration Paid Trump's Company; Biden Dominates, O'Rourke Rises In New CNN Poll; WI Governor Signs Bill To Strip Power From Incoming Dems; 7-Year-Old Guatemalan Girl Dies In Border Patrol Custody. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• 7-Year-Old Migrant Dies in U.S. Custody; Legal Trouble Closing in on Trump?; Special Counsel Slams Michael Flynn's Criticism of FBI Interview; Cohen: Trump Knew It Was Wrong to Make Hush Payments. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 13, 2018
• Alleged Russian Spy Admits to Conspiring Against U.S.; WSJ: Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Investigation. Aired 4:30- 5p ET
• Trump Lashes Out at Cohen, Mueller; Melania Trump's Poll Numbers Dropping; Police Kill French Christmas Market Attacker; Despite Guilty Plea, Trump Claims Investigators "Convinced" Flynn to Lie to Mueller's Team; Alleged Russian Spy Admits to Conspiring Against U.S. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 12, 2018
• Michael Flynn Pleads For No Jail Time; British Prime Minister Theresa May Survives No-Confidence Vote. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• AMI Reaches Plea Deal With Federal Prosecutors; British Lawmakers Decide Theresa May's Fate; Trump Fixer Michael Cohen Sentenced to Three Years in Prison; Source: Trump "Seething" About Cohen, Says "He's a Liar". Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 11, 2018
• Paul Manafort in Court; GOP Senator Dismisses Trump Crime Accusations. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• President Trump Accepts Blame For Potential Government Shutdown; Trump Interested in Bossie After His Experience in the Clinton Impeachment. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 10, 2018
• White House Chief of Staff Search Continues; Legal Problems Closing in on Trump?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• White House Chief of Staff Search Continues; Legal Problems Closing in on Trump?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 07, 2018
• Comey Speaks After Closed Door Meeting on Capitol Hill; Government Recommends "Substantial Term Of Imprisonment" For Michael Cohen. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Mueller to Release Filings on Manafort and Cohen; Stock Market Plummets; Trump Names Two New Posts; Sources Say Kelly to Resign Soon. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 06, 2018
• Trump Slams Probe As Mueller Set to Release Cohen, Manafort Memos; Train Carrying Bush Casket Arriving at Final Resting Place. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• New Attorney General Candidate Emerges; Texas Celebrates President George H.W. Bush; Stocks Drop Following Arrest of Chinese Executive; "Miami Herald" Editorial Board Calls for Labor Secretary's Resignation Over Plea Deal With Accused People; Interview with Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. Aired 4- 4:30p ET


December 05, 2018
• GOP Election Fraud in North Carolina?; George H.W. Bush Remembered; Michael Bloomberg Considering Presidential Run?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Planning Second Nuclear Summit With North Korea?; Trump Under Pressure After New Special Counsel Filings; Trump Awkwardly Greets Ex-Presidents at Bush 41 Funeral. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 04, 2018
• Republicans Attempting to Subvert Democratic Election Victories?; GOP Election Fraud in North Carolina? Aired 4:30-5p ET
• GOP Senators Demand Harsher Punishment for Saudi Prince; Attorneys General in DC, Maryland to Subpoena Trump Hotel Records; Wisconsin and Michigan Republicans Try to Shrink Authority of Incoming Democrats; Mueller to Reveal How Michael Flynn Cooperated; Dow Collapses. Aired 4-4:30p ET


December 03, 2018
• State Funeral of President George H.W. Bush. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• State Funeral of President George H.W. Bush. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 30, 2018
• Many Aftershocks Rattle Alaska After Major 7.0 Earthquake; Sources: U.K. Believes Putin Approved Brazen Attack On Former Spy; Zinke Tweets Jab At Democrat Calling On Him To Resign; James Patterson On New Thriller, Clinton, Trump And The Passion. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• White House Complains Mueller Hurting Trump-Putin Relationship; Alaska Earthquake; Report: Mueller Looking at Role of Don Jr., Ivanka in Moscow Project. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 29, 2018
• Trump Slams Former Attorney Michael Cohen Calls Him "Weak"; Trump Cancels Putin Meeting Citing Ukraine Crisis Not Cohen. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying About Trump Tower Moscow. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 28, 2018
• Interview With Arizona Senator Jeff Flake; No CIA Briefing to Senate on Journalist's Murder; President Trump Not Ruling Out Pardon For Paul Manafort. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• No CIA Briefing to Senate on Journalist's Murder; President Trump Not Ruling Out Pardon For Paul Manafort. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 27, 2018
• Trump Threatens General Motors; Mississippi Senate Election. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Blasts Mueller; Did Paul Manafort Meet With Julian Assange?; Roger Stone's Efforts to Seek WikiLeaks Documents Detailed in Draft Mueller Document. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 26, 2018
• Interview With Utah Congresswoman Mia Love; Mississippi Senate Race. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Disputes His Own Administration's Climate Change Report; DHS: 69 Arrested After as Many as 1K Migrants Rushed Border. Aired 4- 4:30p ET


November 23, 2018
• Report Warns: Dire Health Economic Impacts from Climate Change; Trump Eyes Replacing Kelly With Young, Rich Loyalist; Trump Admin Says It Believes Hostage Austin Tice Is Alive; Online Sales - Trump's Trade Wars Threaten Black Friday's Future; Obama's Chief Photographer Trolls Trump In New Book. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Roger Stone Associate in Plea Talks With Mueller; White House Chief of Staff in Danger?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 21, 2018
• Trump Submits Answers to Robert Mueller; Democratic Investigations Worrying Trump Organization?; Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Democratic Investigations; Supreme Court Chief Justice Rebukes Trump; Trump Appears to Let Saudis Slide on Murder of Journalist as CNN/NYT Learn Trump Wanted Prosecution of Clinton, Comey. Aired 4- 4:30p ET


November 20, 2018
• New Revelations Emerge About Ivanka Trump's Private E-Mail Use; Obama Speaks Out on Trump. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Signals No Punishment for Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi Murder; Former President Obama Jokes About Defeating Trump in 2020. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 19, 2018
• Democratic Leadership Fight?; Trump's Tone. Aired 4:30-4:45p ET
• Trump Once Again Questions U.S. Intelligence Conclusions; Trump Blasts Admiral Who Ordered Bin Laden Raid; Crisis In California: Forecast Could Bring Mudslides and More Danger. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 16, 2018
• Interview with Congresswoman-elect Abigail Spanberger of Virginia; NYT: Trump Asking if Vice President Pence is Loyal; 66 People Dead, 600+ Reported Missing In California; Kim Jong-un Supervises Test Of New Ultramodern Weapon; Oscar-Winning Screenwriter William Goldman Dies. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Recovery Efforts Continue in California; President Trump Comments on Mueller Probe; Source: Trump Legal Team Balks at Mueller Questions Relating to Post 2016 Election. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 15, 2018
• Sources: 17 Dems Vow to Vote "No" for Pelosi as Speaker; U.S. Sanctions 17 Saudis Over Death of Jamal Khashoggi. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• More Mueller Indictments Coming?; Florida Recounts Hit Deadline. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 14, 2018
• President Trump Talks Prison Reform; Congressional Leadership Battles. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• U.S. Troops Remain at Border; White House Chaos?; What Happened to Trump's Migrant Caravan Warnings? Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 13, 2018
• Who Will Lead House Democrats? California Fires. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Lawsuit Filed to Replace New Acting Attorney General; Melania Trump Feuding With Deputy National Security Adviser; White House Sources: Trump Has No Intention of Removing Whitaker As Acting Attorney General Despite Criticism. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 12, 2018
• North Korea Improving Nuclear Capabilities?; Deadly California Fires. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Interview With Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz; Florida Recounts; White House Braces for Democratic-Lead Investigations. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 09, 2018
• Whitaker's Prosecution of Iowa Dem Raises Alarms; Emergency Hearing in Lawsuit Involving Florida Senate Race; Trump Jokes About Russian Interference In Midterm Races; Controversy In Three Florida Races With Razor-Thin Margins; Michelle Obama: Trump's Birther Lie Put Family In Danger. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• President Trump Changes Story on New Attorney General; Michelle Obama Blasts Trump Over Birtherism; Florida Senate Fight; Trump Claims He "Doesn't Know" Acting AG He Chose, But Calls Him "Very Smart & Very Respected". Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 08, 2018
• George Conway Calls Appointment of Acting AG Illegal; Officials Give Update on Deadly California Bar Shooting. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Questions Emerge About New Acting Attorney General; California Mass Shooting; Sources: New Acting AG Has No Plans to Recuse Himself; Interview with Congressman Adam Schiff of California. Aired 4-4:30p ET>;


November 07, 2018
• Trump Fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Interview with Mazie Hirono (D-HI). Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Interview With California Congressman Ted Lieu. Aired 4-4:30p ET
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions Fired. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Trump Fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Aired 3-3:30p ET


November 06, 2018
• Interview With Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen; Election Day. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Election Day. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 05, 2018
• Key Florida Races; Midterm Election Outlook. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Midterm Election Outlook; Dems Cry "Witch Hunt" Over GOP Candidate Kemp's New Probe; CNN Polls: Dems Positioned for Big Midterm Wins Tomorrow. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 02, 2018
• Sources: Pentagon Rejects Requests for Troops to do "Crowd Control" at Border; President Targets Red-State Dems in Final Midterms Push; Vulnerable Red-State Dems Embracing Trumpian Positions; President Targets Red-State Dems In Final Midterms Push; New CNN Special Report Examines Battle Over Voting Rights. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• President Trump Hurls Blame at Media For Violence; Michael Cohen Details Alleged Racist Trump Statements; Trump's Racially- Charged Ad Makes False Claims; Obama Stumps for Candidates in Tight Florida, Georgia Governor Races. Aired 4-4:30p ET


November 01, 2018
• Trump: "We're Not Allowing" Migrants In; Trump Announces Change In Asylum Rules For Migrants; Trump: We're Going To Catch And No Longer Release Migrants; Trump On Slow-Moving Caravan: They're Rushing Our Border. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Stokes Immigration Fears; Trump Accused of Tweeting Racist Ad. Aired 4-4:30p ET


October 31, 2018
• Midterm Election Outlook; Interview With Former General Stanley McChrystal>. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Smacks Down Paul Ryan; Trump: Up to 15,000 Troops Going to the Border; U.S. Commander in Afghanistan: There Must Be a Political Solution. Aired 4-4:30p ET


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