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April 24, 2019
• Biden's Challenges?; Jared Kushner to Head Immigration Reform?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Stonewalls Congress Over Tax Returns; Trump Ignoring Continued Russian Threat to Elections?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 23, 2019
• Joe Biden Set to Announce Presidential Bid; Authorities Investigate Sri Lanka Bombings. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Joe Biden Set to Announce Presidential Bid; Jared Kushner Downplays Russian Interference in 2016 Elections. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 22, 2019
• Terror in Sri Lanka; Democratic Presidential Field Grows. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• How Will Democrats Respond to Mueller Report?; Terror in Sri Lanka. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 19, 2019
• Special Counsel Referred At Least 14 Other Criminal Investigations; Judiciary Chairman Nadler Issues Subpoena For Full Mueller Report And Underlying Evidence; Mueller: Trump Campaign Had Contact With WikiLeaks And Had Heads Up On E-mail Release; Mueller Found Russia Meddled In 2016, Will Trump Accept It?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Stunning Number of Trump Lies Exposed By Mueller Report; Senator Warren: House Should Begin Impeachment Proceedings; Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is Interviewed About the Path Forward After Mueller Report. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 18, 2019
• Mueller Found No Evidence of Collusion, Couldn't Make Obstruction Decision; Trump Takes Victory Lap: I'm Having a Good Day. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Adam Schiff Comments on Mueller Report; Mueller Report Findings?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 17, 2019
• Redacted Mueller Report Set For Release Tomorrow. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump vs. Sanders; Redacted Mueller Report Set For Release Tomorrow. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 16, 2019
• Trump Adviser Defends Past Comments on Immigration; Presidential Fund-Raising Numbers Released. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Democrats Investigate Alleged Presidential Pardon Offer; French President Vows to Rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 15, 2019
• Redacted Mueller Report Set for Release Thursday; Flames Engulf Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Interview With French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud; Flames Engulf Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 12, 2019
• One-on-One with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Pence, Buttigieg Battle Over Christianity, LGBT Rights; Atlantic: Trump Considered Ivanka For U.N. Or World Bank Role. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump's New Plan to Detain Immigrants?; Sources: Trump Told Then-CBP Head Kevin McAleenan He'd Pardon Him If Hew Went to Jail For Denying Entry to Migrants. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 11, 2019
• Trump Cites AG, Says Campaign Was Spied On, Gives No Proof; Mayor Pete Buttigieg Surges in New Early State Polls; CNN Exclusively Obtained Biden's Letters Showing He Resisted Mandated Busing To Desegregate Schools; Dr. Sanjay Gupta Searches For Keys To Longer, Better Life. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Interview With Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI); Julian Assange Charged. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 10, 2019
• Trump Visits Texas; Bernie Sanders Unveils New Health Care Plan. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Interview With Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Most California Voters Unfazed By Biden Allegations; Bernie Sanders Unveils New Health Care Plan; Attorney General to Investigate Spying on Trump Campaign. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 09, 2019
• Bernie Sanders Set to Release Tax Returns; Trump Denies Plans to Restart Family Separations. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Homeland Security Leadership Purge?; William Barr Faces Congress; Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) is Interviewed About AG Barr Releasing the Mueller Report. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 08, 2019
• Did Trump Tell Border Agents to Break Law?; Trump Fires Secret Service Director and Homeland Security Chief; When Will Bernie Sanders Release Tax Returns?; Interview With Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI). Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Did Trump Tell Border Agents to Break Law?; Trump Fires Secret Service Director and Homeland Security Chief; When Will Bernie Sanders Release Tax Returns?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 05, 2019
• Biden Jokes About Accusations 2 Days After Attempted Apology; 2020 Candidates Address Race, Violence, Economy And Reparations As They Court Black Voters; State Dept: Saudi Government Detains Two Americans In Sweep; Trump Tries To Nudge Fed, Suggests Cutting Rates; Trump Slammed For Picking Supporters For Fed Board. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Fighting Release of Tax Returns; Interview With Sen. John Kennedy (R) Louisiana; Joe Biden Jokes About Physical Contact Controversy; Trump Visits Border; Trump Attorney Attempts To Head Off Democratic Tax Return Demand; Sen. John Kennedy (R) Louisiana Reaction To President's Legal Team Letter To The Treasury Department; Biden Jokes About Accusations 2 Days After Attempted Apology. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 04, 2019
• Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) Joins Field As More Dems Tease Potential Run; Senator Sanders Tries to Win Over Diverse Voter Base. Aired 4:30- 5p ET
• Trump Backs Down Over Threat to Close Border; Did Barr Mischaracterize Mueller Report in Letter?; Trump Now Says He'll Give Mexico a Year Before Closing Border. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 03, 2019
• Trump's Number of Lies Increasing?; House Votes to Subpoena Full Mueller Report. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Democratic Fund-Raising Numbers Revealed; Joe Biden Responds to Unwanted Touching Allegations. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 02, 2019
• Democratic Presidential Fund-Raising Numbers Revealed; Joe Biden Under Fire. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Interview With Sen. Joe Manchin (D) West Virginia; Trump to Offer No Plan to Replace Obamacare Until After Election. Aired 4-4:30p ET


April 01, 2019
• FAA: Software Update To Fix Grounded Boeing Jets Will Be Delayed For Weeks; Clooney, Elton John Protesting New Anti-Gay Law In Brunei; Alex Jones Confronted With, Struggles To Defend Lies Calling Sandy Hook A Hoax In New Deposition; Joe Biden Under Fire; Boeing Tries to Get Planes Back in Operation. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Threatens to Shut Border; Did White House Approve 25 Security Clearances Despite Denials?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 29, 2019
• Trump on Muller Report: I Have Nothing to Hide; 2020 Dems in Fundraising Frenzy Ahead of First Major Deadline; Buttigieg Takes Midwestern Pitch to Coastal Democrats; Are The Saudis Using U.S. Energy Information To Get Nukes?; Trump Threatens To Shut The Mexico Border Next Week. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• U.S. Sharing Nuclear Secrets With Saudi Arabia?; Release of Mueller Report Expected By Mid-April; Sources: McMahon to Leave Post, Join Trump's Political Group; Trump Threatens to Close Border as Soon as Next Week; Trump on Mueller Report: I have Nothing to Hide. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 28, 2019
• Biden Leads the Democratic Pack in New 2020 Poll; Trump Talks To Reporters As He Departs For Campaign Rally; Trump On Mueller: Beautiful Conclusion. I Haven't Seen Report; Trump: We'll Have Far Better Than ObamaCare Including Pre-Existing Conditions. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Tiny Fraction of Mueller Report Revealed So Far; Did Trump Organization Cook Books?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 27, 2019
• President Trump Awards Medal of Honor; Trump Pushes to End All of Obamacare. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Majority of Americans Don't Believe Mueller Report Exonerates Trump; Boeing Officials on Capitol Hill. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 26, 2019
• Pete Buttigieg Rising; Boeing 737 MAX Plane Forced to Make Emergency Landing; Russia's Military Moves. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Moves to Eliminate Obamacare Entirely; Trump Looks to Weaponize Mueller Report Against Democrats. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 25, 2019
• Will Public See Mueller Report?; Michael Avenatti Charged. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Will Public See Mueller Report?; Michael Avenatti Charged. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 22, 2019
• Trump Makes his Picks, Wants to Face Biden, Sanders, O'Rourke; Bloomberg Mocks Biden and O'Rourke: They're on an "Apology Tour"; Trump Tries To Discredit Probe As White House Braces For Report. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Mueller Report Release Imminent?; New Information on Boeing Crashes; Trump Makes Claim Dems are "Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish". Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 21, 2019
• Could Biden Announce a Running Mate Day 1? Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Cummings: Some Senior White House Officials Using Personal Email to Conduct Government Business. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 20, 2019
• Beto O'Rourke's Campaign Launch Continues; Conway vs. Conway. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Conway vs. Conway; Republican Senator Rebukes Trump Over McCain Attacks. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 19, 2019
• Devin Nunes Suing Twitter; New Details on Mueller Investigation of Michael Cohen. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Blasts McCain Again; Kamala Harris Rising in Polls. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 18, 2019
• Beto's Big Numbers; Will Biden Announce Soon?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Beto's Big Numbers; Trump Blasts Late Senator John McCain; Aides Defend Trump's Mental Fitness and Deny Racism Charges. Aired 4- 4:30p ET


March 15, 2019
• Trump On Rising White Nationalism: I think It's A Small Group Of People; Representative Andre Carson (D-IN) Interviewed About President Trump's Comment About White Nationalism As A Rising Threat In The World; 49 Killed in Mosque Mass Shooting, Suspect To Appear to Court; New Zealand PM: Suspect Used Five Guns In Massacre, Says Our Gun Laws Will Change. Aired 4:30-5pm ET
• 49 People Killed in New Zealand Mass Shooting; North Korea Threatens to Suspend Nuclear Talks; Trump Signs First Veto to Stop Congress from Blocking his National Emergency; 49 Killed in Mosque Mass Shootings, Suspect ti Appear in Court. Gunman Live-Streamed Terror Attack at Mosques; Trump Speaks After Signing His First Veto. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 14, 2019
• Israeli Military: Rockets Fired From Gaza Towards Tel Aviv; Trial of Trump Confidant Roger Stone Set for November. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Beto O'Rourke Running for President; Senate Votes to Block Trump's Emergency Declaration. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 13, 2019
• Trump Warns Republicans Not to Vote Against National Emergency; Boeing 737 MAX 8 Grounded. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• New Michael Cohen E-Mails Revealed; Manafort Gets More Time, More Charges; Boeing 737 MAX 8 Grounded. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 12, 2019
• Boeing Plane Grounded Outside U.S.; Cheating Scam. Aired 4:30- 5p ET
• Will Biden Run?; Cheating Scam; Pelosi Comes Out Against Impeachment; Interview With Rep. Brad Sherman. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 11, 2019
• Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Under Fire; Major Airlines Ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 After Crash; What Will Joe Biden Do?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Under Fire; Major Airlines Ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 After Crash; Trump Unveils Budget Proposal. Aired 4- 4:30p ET


March 08, 2019
• Warren Announces Plan To Break Up Amazon, Google, Facebook; Former MD Rep Fights For 2020 Traction After Running For 2 years; George Conway Takes Digs At Trump In Rare Public Appearance. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump vs. Cohen; Trump Communications Director Resigns; Outrage Grows Over Manafort Sentence. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 07, 2019
• Cohen Sues Trump Organization for Unpaid Legal Fees; White House Pressuring GOP Senators to Back National Emergency. Aired 4:30- 5p ET
• Vote on Anti-Hate Bill Causes Distraction for Democrats After Rep. Omar's Comments on Israel. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 06, 2019
• Congress Grills Homeland Security Secretary Over Child Separations; North Korea Rebuilding Missile Site?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Michael Cohen Back Before Congress; North Korea Rebuilding Missile Site?. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 05, 2019
• Senate Briefed on North Korea Nuclear Summit; Will Joe Biden Run? Sens Paul, Udall Announce Bill Declaring Afghan War Victory; No Women's Championship Team Made Solo Visits To Trump's W.H.; Sen. Rand Paul (R), Kentucky is Interviewed About Their Legislation Which Would Effectively End the U.S. War in Afghanistan; Sen. Tom Udall (D), New Mexico is Interviewed About Their Legislation Which Would Effectively End the U.S. War in Afghanistan. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Michael Bloomberg Not Running; White House Pushes Back on Investigations. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 04, 2019
• How Will Sanders Campaign Change in 2020?; Rand Paul to Vote Against Trump's National Emergency. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• American Allegedly Tortured in Saudi Arabia; Congress Ramping Up Trump Investigations. Aired 4-4:30p ET


March 01, 2019
• Ocasio-Cortez And Pelosi Warn Moderates To Vote With Party; Biden Responds To Backlash From LGBT Activists After Calling VP Mike Pence A Decent Guy; State Dept: Osama's Son Taking Over As Al Qaeda Leader; Israeli PM's Legal Woes Draw Comparison To Trump's. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Family of Otto Warmbier Rebukes Trump Over Siding With North Korean Dictator; Did Trump Personally Order Jared Kushner's Security Clearance?; Mob-Linked Informant With Ties To Trump To Testify Publicly March 14. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 28, 2019
• Meadows Denies Racism Claims as Videos Surface Showing Him Pushing Obama Birtherism in 2012; O'Rourke Says He's Made Decision on Presidential Run. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Remarks on Cohen Testimony; Trump Fails to Secure Deal With Kim Jong-un. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 27, 2019
• Michael Cohen Testifies Before House Oversight Committee. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Michael Cohen Testifies Before Congress; President Trump Meets With Kim Jong-un. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 26, 2019
• Reparations Debate; Will House Overturn Trump's National Emergency Declaration. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Will House Overturn Trump's National Emergency Declaration?; Trump and Kim Set to Meet; Michael Cohen Preparing to Testify Publicly Before Congress. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 25, 2019
• How Can Bernie Sanders Stand Out?; Crisis in Venezuela; Trump Jr. Complains About Mueller Probe. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump Prepares to Meet With North Korea Leader; Michael Cohen Set to Testify. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 22, 2019
• R Kelly Charged With 10 Counts Of Sexual Abuse; Billionaire Bob Kraft Busted In Florida Prostitution Case; Trump Administration Ups To 400 Number Of Troops Staying Behind In Syria; Trump's Plan For 2020 Dems Is To Cause Chaos. Aired 4:30-5pm ET
• Trump To Meet With Kim Jong Un As Cohen Testifies And House Votes To Block National Emergency For Wall Funding; Trump: I Will Veto Dem Resolution On National Emergency; Michael Cohen To Testify Publicly On Same Day As Kim Summit; Patriots Owner Caught in Sex Sting?; New Info Expected in Mueller Probe. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 21, 2019
• North Carolina Elections Board Votes For New Election in U.S. House Race; Coast Guard Officer Faces Gun, Drug Charges, Prosecutors Allege He is a Domestic Terrorist. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Jussie Smollett in Court; New Gag Order Placed on Roger Stone. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 20, 2019
• Bernie Sanders Raising Big Money; Will Trump Fire Dan Coats?. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Trump: Andrew McCabe is "Poor Man's J. Edgar Hoover". Aired 4- 4:30p ET


February 19, 2019
• McCabe Speaks Out; Bernie Sanders Announces Presidential Bid. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Did Trump Try to Intervene in Cohen Investigation?; Bernie Sanders Announces Presidential Bid. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 18, 2019
• Crisis in Venezuela; Democratic Message for 2020?. Aired 4:30- 5p ET
• Border Battle; Trump Lashing Out. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 15, 2019
• Aurora, Illinois Shooting; Active Shooter Apprehended In Aurora; Mueller Met With White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders; Trump On Declaration: I Didn't Need To Do This; Officials: Shooter Apprehended After Incident In Aurora, Illinois; Hospital Say They Have Received Multiple-Patients. 4:30-5p ET
• Active Shooter Situation in Illinois; City Official: 4 Police Officers, Multiple Civilians Struck After Shooting At Aurora Illinois Business; City Official: 4 Officers Who Were Shot Are Stable; Officials: Shooter "Apprehended" After Incident In Aurora, IL; WH: Trump Has Been Briefed On Shooting In Aurora, Illinois; Hospitals Multiple Patients From Active Shooter In Aurora, IL. Aired 4-4:30p ET


February 14, 2019
• Senate Passes Spending Bill to Avoid Government Shutdown; Fired Acting FBI Dir: I Wanted to Make Sure Russia Investigation Didn't "Vanish in the Night Without a Trace"; McCabe To CBS: Meetings Were Held At DOJ To Discuss Using The 25th Amendment To Remove President Trump; Feds Investigate If Saudi Govt Helped Students Evade Justice. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• Senate Passes Spending Bill to Avoid Government Shutdown; Trump Set to Sign Budget Deal, Declare National Emergency to Fund Border Wall. Aired 4-4:30p ET


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