Return to Transcripts main page

CNN Newsroom

Note: This page is continually updated as new transcripts become available. If you cannot find a specific segment, check back later.

April 18, 2017


April 17, 2017
• Restoring of Power Wins; Tough Words; Alerting People; Getting Ready for Election. Aired 3-4a ET
• US VP Pence Visits Korean DMZ; Turkish President Erdogan Claims Victory In Constitutional Referendum; Aggravated Murder Warrant For Facebook Suspect; Former Mexican Governor Arrested In Guatemala. Aired 2-3a ET
• Turkey's Erdogan Declares Referendum Victory; Concerns Over Russian Meddling In French Elections; Aggravated Murder Warrant For Facebook Suspect. Aired 1-2a ET
• Turkey's Erdogan Declares Referendum Victory; U.S. VP Mike Pence Visits Korean DMZ; Aggravated Murder Warrant for Facebook Suspect; Javier Duarte Arrested in Guatemala. Aired 12-1a ET
• Report: Manhunt on for Cleveland Facebook Killer; Lawyers Say Trump Cannot Be Sued Since He's Become President; Trumps Host First Easter Egg Hunt. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Facebook Murder Manhunt; North Korea Tensions. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• WH Briefing Amid Rising Tensions With North Korea; WH: No Red Lines Expected On North Korea; WH: "Not Taking Options Off The Table" ON N Korea; Trump Never Releasing Taxes? Spicer: "Get Back To You"; WH: Trump Holds "Cards Close To Vest" On North Korea; White House Comments on Not Releasing Visitor Logs. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Trump on North Korea; Pence Visits DMZ; Georgia Senate Race; White House Press Briefing. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• First Family Hosts Its First Easter Egg Roll at the White House; Dems Fight to Flip Red Seat in Georgia Special Election; Neil Gorsuch Takes the Bench; Impact of Trump's Foreign Policy on U.S. Markets. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Pence Visits DMZ as Tensions Spike with North Korea; Lawmakers Seeking "Use of Force" Vote; Police Urge Facebook Murder Suspect to Surrender; Trump Speaks at White House Easter Egg Roll. Aired 10- 10:30a ET
• Gorsuch Hears First Arguments; Gorsuch Takes his Seat; Dems Flight in Georgia Election; White House Easter Egg Roll. Aired 9:30- 10a
• Pence Visits DMZ As Tensions Spike With North Korea; Pence To North Korea: "Era Of Strategic Patience Is Over" Aired 9-9:30a ET


April 16, 2017
• North Korea's Latest Missile Launch Fails; V.P. Pence Arriving in South Korea; Pro and Anti Trump Protesters Clash in Berkeley; Deaths from Attack on Syrian Evacuation Buses; Turkish Vote Could Change Presidential Powers. Aired 5-6a ET
• North Korea's Latest Missile Launch Fails; V.P. Pence Arriving in South Korea; Turkish Vote Could Change Presidential Powers. Aired 4-5a ET
• North Korea's Latest Missile Launch Fails; V.P. Pence Arriving in South Korea; Deaths from Attack on Syrian Evacuation Buses; Turkish Vote Could Change Presidential Powers. Aired 3-4a ET
• North Korea's Latest Missile Launch Fails; V.P. Pence Arriving in South Korea. Aired 2-2:30a ET
• Manhunt for Facebook Murderer; H.R. McMaster Arrives in Afghanistan; President Trump's Flip-Flop or Flexibility; Vice President Pence Visits Korean Border. Aired 8-9p ET
• A Suspected Shooter Still on the Loose; Syria's President in Full Denial About the Deaths in Chemical Attack; White House Power Struggle; National Security Adviser General McMaster Speaking from Afghanistan. Aired 7-8p ET
• Ongoing manhunt for Steve Stephens; latest threat from North Korea, The White House refusing to reveal what it plans to do in response to the country's latest missile tests; President Trump says China really is the key in helping with North Korea; Aired 6-7p ET
• Manhunt Ongoing For a Suspected Killer In Cleveland; "All Options on the Table" For North Korea, H.R. Mcmaster; United Airlines Changes Policy Ater Incident; Car Bomb Attack In Syria; Climate Change a Health Risk. Aired 5-6p ET
• Vice President Mike Pence Is Just Across The Border In Seoul, South Korea; U.S. National Security Advisor Lieutenant General H.R. Mcmaster Is In Kabul, Afghanistan; Cleveland Police Are On The Hunt For Man Who Allegedly Just Killed Another Man On Facebook Live; Manhunt for a live shooter in Cleveland, Ohio; North Korea's failed missile launch; Battle for Georgia's Congressional seat; Trump on defending stance on China. Aired 4-5p ET
• North Korea Missile Test Fails as Pence Arrives in Seoul; McMaster on NK: All Options on the Table; Trump Defends Reversal on China Currency Label; Nearly 70 Children Killed in Syria Car Bomb Attack; LeVell in Competitive Race for Georgia Congressional Seat; Trump Supporters, Protesters Get Into Fistfights. Aired 3-4p ET
• North Korean Missile Test Fails, Pence Arrives in Seoul; National Security Adviser Arrives in Afghanistan; McMaster on NK: "All of our Options on the Table"; Senator McCain: Not Sure If U.S. Sabotaged North Korea Launch; Pope Condemns "Vile" Attack On Syrians In Easter Sermon; Trumps Host Annual Easter Egg Roll. Aired 2-3p ET


April 15, 2017
• North Korea Holds Military Parade; Tensions Rise between U.S. and North Korea; Trump Sends Message through U.S. Military Might; Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts; U.S. Military's MOAB Killed 94 ISIS Fighters; Turks Divided ahead of Sunday's Vote. Aired 5-6a ET
• North Korea Holds Military Parade; North Korea Vows "Merciless Response" to Provocation; Trump Sends Message through U.S. Military Might; Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts; Turks Divided ahead of Sunday's Vote. Aired 4-5a ET
• North Korea Holds Military Parade; South Korea Reacts to North Korean Show of Force; Trump Sends Message through U.S. Military Might; Trump's Foreign Policy Shifts; U.S. Military's MOAB Killed 94 ISIS Fighters; Turks Divided ahead of Sunday's Vote. Aired 3:30-4a ET
• North Korea Vows "Merciless Response" to Provocation; North Korea Holds Military Parade; Tensions Rise between U.S. and North Korea; U.S. Military's MOAB Killed 94 ISIS Fighters; Great Barrier Reef "Cooking and Dying". Aired 2-2:30a ET
• North Korea Vows "Merciless Response" to Provocation; North Korea Holds Military Parade; North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal Growing Rapidly; U.S. Military's MOAB "Right Weapon against Right Target"; Pope Observes Good Friday in Rome; F1 Prepares for Bahrain Grand Prix. Aired 12-12:30a ET
• North Korea's Attempted Missile Launch Fails. Aired 8-9p ET
• North Korea with a failed missile launch just hours before U.S. vice president Mike Pence arrives in South Korea; Aired 7:00-8:00p ET
• 14 Arrested in Berkeley as Trump Protests Turn Violent; Trump Monitoring North Korea Situation From Mar-A-Lago; Trump White House to Keep Visitor Logs Private; Female Kicker Makes College Football History; Good Samaritans are Rock Stars in a Classroom. Aired 5-6p ET
• President Trump Came Out This Week With Positions On NATO, The Chinese, Even Fed Chair Janet Yellen; Pyongyang Is Threatening All-Out War If It Is Provoked By The U.S.; President Trump Has Been Monitoring The Situation In North Korea From His Private Mar-A-Lago Resort; United Airlines Is Changing Its Policy After Facing Backlash From The Viral Video Showing A Passenger Being Dragged Off An Overbooked Flight; President Trump Is Sending His Own Message In The Past Couple Of Weeks. Aired 4-5p ET
• North Korea Holds Military Parade; Vice President Pence Visits South Korea; FOX News Relationship with Bill O'Reilly Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations Examined; Protestors Call for President Trump to Release his Tax Returns. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• North Korea Sends Message with Missiles on parade; Feud Between Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner; Syria's Pro-Regime State Media Says Reports on Deadly Blast That Hit a Convoy Of Buses; Nikki Haley Emerges as Leading Voice in Administration's Foreign Policy; New Incentives from Delta Airlines. Aired 1-2p ET
• Pence Heads To Seoul As North Korean Tensions Escalate; North Korea Parades New Missiles Amid Rising Tensions; Trump's Evolving Foreign Policy Plan; Activists Demand Trump Taxes In Nationwide Marches; China, Russia, Syria And Iran Issue Warnings To The U.S.; North Korea Surprises With Never-Before-Seen Missiles; "Mother Of All Bombs" Killed 94 ISIS Fighters; Manifesto Fugitive Arrested In Wisconsin. Aired 12-1p ET
• North Korea Surprises with Never-Before-Seen Missiles; Pence Heads to Seoul as North Korea Tensions Escalate; Trump's Military Actions Raise Questions on His Foreign Policy Doctrine; Tax Day March Calls on Trump to Release His Taxes; Centrist Voices Gaining Favor In Trump's Inner Circle; U.N. Singles Out North Korea's Embassy In Russia As Diplomatic Cover. Aired 11a-12p ET
• North Korea Shows Off Never-Before-Seen Missiles; Trump Shifting from America First Stance?; Thousands Demand That Trump Release His Tax Returns; North Korea Threatens All-Out War with U.S.; Police Violence Caught on Tape; Aired 3-4p ET


April 14, 2017
• ISIS Base Annihilated By Moab Strike, Say Afghan Officials; Us Sending Dozens More Troops To Somalia; Us Watching North Korea Closely On Major Holiday; Sources Say Uk And European Intel Intercepted Contacts Between Trump Associates And Russia; Chemical Attacks Is 100 Percent Fabrication Says Bashar Al-Assad; Cia Director Slams Wikileaks As Hostile to the US. Aired 3-4a ET
• U.S. Drops "Mother of All Bombs" on ISIS; Japan Warns North Korea Could Fire Sarin Loaded Missiles; Trump Turns to China on Dealing with North Korea; Syria's Assad Calls the Chemical Attack Fake; Russia Slams U.S. Intelligence Gathering; U.S. Military: Russia & Iran May Be Aiding Taliban; Passenger Dragged Off Flight Likely To Sue; Still Missing Three Years; World Sports. Aired 2-3a ET
• U.S. Drops "The Mother Of All Bombs"; Passenger Dragged Off United Airlines Flight Likely to Sue; Search for the Missing Chibok Girls; "The Fate of the Furious" Roars Into Theaters. Aired 1-2a ET
• U.S. Drops "Mother of All Bombs" on ISIS; Japan: North Korea Could Fire Sarin-Loaded Missiles; Referendum Could Lead to More Power for Erdogan. Aired 12-1a ET
• Report: Nikki Haley Says Never Go Rogue on Trump; Ex-NFL Player Hernandez Not Guilty of Double Murder; World Braces for North Korea's Next Move. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Former Trump Adviser Denies Russia Ties; Trump White House Refusing to Disclose Visitor Logs; Nuclear North Korea Fears. Aired 3- 3:30p ET
• Man attacked by police officer after stopping him of jaywalking; President Trump quietly overturning an Obamacare rule protecting federal funding for a number of health clinics; Teacher and two students shot, only one of them survived; Aired 2:30-3:00p ET
• World Braces for North Korea Move; Trump Flexes Military Might; White House Visitor Logs Kept Private; Trump Gives Military Authorization; Violent Officer Behavior. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• "Mother of All Bombs" Kills 36 ISIS Troops; One-on-One with Nikki Haley; United Way CEO on his One-on-One with Trump. Aired 10:30- 11a ET
• U.S. Drops Massive Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan; North Korea: "Merciless" Response to U.S. "Provocation"; Trump Sign Anti- Planned Parenthood Law in Private. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• U.S. Drops Massive Bomb; Annual Easter Event at White House; Ex-Goldman Chief Trump Aide. Aired 9:30-10a
• Sources: British Gave Trump Associates Communications With Russians To U.S.; Trump: Afghanistan Bombing "Very, Very Successful"; Trump: We've Given Military "Total Authorization" Aired 9-9:30a ET


April 13, 2017
• New Evidence of Syria's Attack; President Trump's Total Reversal; U.S. On High Alert for Possible Sixth Missile Test by North Korea; A Week of Apologies; Pope's Message for Christians. Aired 3-4a ET
• Trump Makes Foreign Policy Shifts; Tillerson Mets Lavrov, Putin in Moscow; Trump: China Ready to Help with North Korea; Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack; U.S. Commander Making Final Preparations to Liberate Raqqa; Arrest in Football Club Attack in Germany; Turkish Voters Go to Polls on Presidential Powers Referendum. Aired 2-3a ET
• Trump: NATO Is "No Longer Obsolete"; North Korean Nuclear Site "Primed And Ready"; Exclusive Look Into U.S. Fight Against ISIS; Trump Removing Subsidies in Obamacare; Manafort to File as Foreign Agent; U.S. Commander Making Final Preparations to Liberate Raqqa; Is Kansas Race Sign Trump Losing Support. Aired 1-2a ET
• U.S.-Russia Relationship at Low Point; N. Korea Monitor: Nuclear Site Primed and Ready; China Turns Back North Korean Coal Cargo Ships; U.S.-led Coalition Preparing to Drive ISIS from Raqqa. Aired 12-1a ET
• Report: U.S. Drops Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan; CIA Chief Speaks; Trump Says If China Won't Deal with North Korea, We Will; Interview with Afghani Ambassador. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• CIA Director Speaks Out; Assad Denies Using Chemical Weapons; U.S. Military Drops Massive Bomb in Afghanistan; Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Syrian President Calls Accusations Against Him False; U.S. Drops "Mother of All Bombs" on ISIS in Afghanistan; Japan PM: North Korea May Be Preparing to Launch Missile; Trump Thanks 1st Responders to Atlanta I-85 Bridge Collapse; United Passenger's Attorney, Family Speak Out at News Conference. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• U.S. Drops MOAB Bomb; Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Dropped; Fighters Killed in Syria; Trump Stance on Military Force. Aired 2- 2:30p ET
• Steve Bannon's Future at the White House Remains Unclear; United Passenger's Family and Attorney Speak Out; Trump Stuns with Economic Policy Reversals; Cubs Get Championship Rings; Aired 10:30- 11a ET
• Assad: Chemical Attack is "100 Percent Fabrication"; Trump Launches Stunning Reversal on Campaign Issues; U.S.: Coalition Accidentally Kills 18 Syrian Rebels; Report: North Korea Nuclear Site "Primed and Ready". Aired 10-10:30a ET
• North Korea Nuclear Site; Assad on Chemical Attack; United Promises Refunds. Aired 9:30-10a
• Trump Reverses Course On Key Campaign Issues; Assad: Chemical Attack Is "100 Percent Fabrication"; Trump Stuns With Economic Policy Reversals. Aired 9-9:30a ET


April 12, 2017
• Investigation into Explosions Targeting Sports Team; US and Russia Meeting Face-to-Face; Spicer's Wrong Choice of Words; United Airlines P.R. and Stocks Down; Wanted: Secret Service. Aired 3-4a ET
• Tillerson Meets With Russian Foreign Minister Wednesday; North Korea Defiant After U.S. Warships Redeployment; Trump Vows again Unilateral Action If Needed; Police: Letter Claims Borussia Dortmund Blast Steve Bannon & Jared Kishner Battle For Position; Republican And Democratic Lawmakers Dispute Surveillance Claims; United Airlines Video Sparks Global Outrage; Trump Racking Up Costs For Trips To Mar- a-Lago. Aired 2-3a ET
• United Public Relations Nightmare; Top U.S. And Russia Diplomats To Meet Amid Syria Tensions; Spokesman: Hitler Comments Were A Mistake; Spicer Remarks Were Inappropriate And Insensitive; Trump Family Expenses Piling Up; Social Media Tackles United Airlines Blunder. Aired 1-2 ET
• Tillerson: Russia Failed in its Responsibility; North Korea Nuclear Threat; Sean Spicer's Big Blunder; Steve Bannon & Jared Kushner Battle for Position; Man Bloodied When Kicked Off United Plane; Trump Racking Up Costs for Trips to Mar-a-Lago. Aired 12-1a ET
• Report: Fates of Trump Inner Circle in Question; United CEO Says Ashamed of Incident; Trump and NATO Leader to Address Media. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Members of Trump Inner Circle in Danger?; Sources: President Trump's Wiretapping Claims Contradicted by Documents; Tillerson Meets With Putin. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Tillerson/Lavrov Wrap News Conference; Tillerson Brings Up Russian Hacking of Election. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Tillerson/Lavrov Press Conference; U.S./Russia Relations. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• FBI Surveilled Trump Adviser Carter Page; Is Trump Backing Away From Steve Bannon?; Spicer's Hitler Remarks Fallout; Police Suspects Terrorist Involvement in Dortmund Bus Attack; Trump Slams Russia for Backing Bashar al-Assad; United Airlines CEO Apologizes; Cat Disturbs Marlins Park Game; Aired 10:30-11a ET
• U.N. Security Council to Vote Today on Syria; Sources: Classified Docs don't Support Nunes, Trump; Top Senate Intel Dem Holds News Conference. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Spicer at Newseum Event; Spicer Apologizes Again; Trump Backing Away from Bannon; U.S. And Russian Envoys Meet; U.S. Stance on North Korea. Aired 9:30-10:00a
• One-on-One Interview of Sean Spicer. Aired 9-9:30a ET


April 11, 2017
• Mixed Messages; Torn Between Allies and Principle; Horrifying Scene at the Plane; Communications Cut; G-7 Members Meets in Italy; On Guard for North Korea's Move; Goodbye 'Luv Gov'. Aired 3-4a ET
• How Trump Frames First 100 Days; G7 Meeting to Include Stakeholders in Syria Conflict; Tillerson to Meet Russian Foreign Minister in Moscow; New Risks U.S. Military Faces in Syria; Coral Bleaching Hits Great Barrier Reef; Man Bloodied When Kicked Off United Airlines Plane. Aired 2-3a ET
• Outrage Over Passenger Dragged Off Flight; White House Not Ruling Out Further Action in Syria; Neil Gorsuch Sworn in As U.S. Supreme Court Justice; North Korea Holds Legislative Meeting Amid Nuclear Tensions; Growing Fears North Korea Will Speed Up Nuclear Program; North Korea Defiant After U.S. Warships Redeployment. Aired 1-2a ET
• Trump's Emerging Foreign Policy; North Korea Holds Legislative Meeting Amid Nuclear Tensions; Gorsuch Sworn in to U.S. Supreme Court; Boy and Teacher Killed in California School Shooting; France's Le Pen Slammed Over Holocaust Comments; Man Bloodied When Kicked Off United Plane. Aired 12-1a ET
• Report: WH Accuses Russia of Gas Attack Cover-Up; Pentagon Holds First Briefing Since Syria Strikes; Mattis Says No Doubt Syrian Regime Behind Gas Attack. 3:30-4p ET
• Trump Administration's Foreign Policy?; Spicer Compares Assad to Hitler. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• State Dept: Tillerson Would Accept Putin Meeting Invite; Sean Spicer Comment on Hitler Causing Outrage; Eric, Ivanka Influenced Syria Strike Decision; White House Weighs in on United Dragging Passenger Off Plane. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• White House Press Briefing; Russia Accused of Cover-up; Spicer talks about Hitler; Tillerson Meets with Lavrov. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• North Korea Ready for War; Interview with Representative Brendan Boyle; Search for Man Who Sent Trump Anti-Government Manifesto; Democrat See Georgia House Race as Opportunity; Trump Holds Policy Discussion With CEOs; Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Putin: Syrian Rebels may Use Chemical Weapons, Blame Assad; Tillerson: Russia either Incompetenet or Lax on Syria; Tillerson: "Defeat of ISIS" still Top Goal in Syria. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Mission over Syria; Tillerson Arrives in Moscow; United Faces Backlash. Aired 9:30-10a
• White House Tries To Clarify Trump's Red Line In Syria; White House Grapples With How To Sell Trump's First 100 Days; United Stock Set To Nosedive After Passenger Dragged. Aired 9-9:30a ET


April 10, 2017
• Attacks on Holy Day; Breaking the Record; What's Next; Taking Precautionary Measures; Immigrant's Voices on the Street. Aired 3-4a ET
• ISIS Claims Responsibility for Bombing 2 Coptic Christian Churches in Egypt; U.S. Sends Mixed Messages on Syria, Assad's Future; U.S. Sends Strike Group in Response to North Korean Threats; Chinese Company Bringing Thousands of Jobs to American Rustbelt. Aired 2-3a ET
• At Least 47 People Killed In Egyptian Churches Blasts; U.S., Russia, Iran In Escalating Dispute Over Syria; Tillerson To Visit Moscow Amid Syria Dispute; Sweden Mourns 4 People Killed In Terror Attack; U.S./Russia Relations After Strike in Syria; U.S. Sends Mixed Messages on Syria, Assad's Future; White House Feud Between Bannon & Kushner; North Korea Holds Marathon as Nuclear Tensions Escalate; Sergio Garcia Wins at Masters Tournament. Aired 1-2a ET
• ISIS Claims Egyptian Church Bombings; Syrian Conflict & Russia on Agenda for G7 Summit; Festive Mood in Pyongyang Despite Tensions; Swedish Police Arrest Second Man after Terror Attack; Chinese Company Brings Thousands of Jobs to U.S.; North Korea Holds Marathon as Nuclear Tensions Escalate. Aired 12-1a ET
• Report: Passenger Forcibly Dragged from Oversold Flight; Democrat Rep Skeptical of Assad's Guilt; Gorsuch Sworn in as Justice. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Strife Inside Trump Administration; White House's Confused Syria Policy?; School Shooting in California. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• White House: Syria Used of Bombed Airfield a "P.R. Stunt"; White House Feud Between Bannon & Kushner; Deadly Shooting at San Bernardino Elementary School; White House Suggests Barrel Bombs Cross "Red Line" for Trump. Aired 2:30-3p ET


Next Page