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Breaking news on two fronts in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. Investigators are looking into a new message sent to one of the same news outlets that got the purported ransom letter, and there’s fresh law enforcement activity at and around the Guthrie home.Plus, the president is now weighing in on the removed racist post on his social media, depicting the Obamas as apes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nancy Guthrie's son has a new plea for her captors to reach out, with proof that his mom's alive. TMZ's Harvey Levin, who got one of the alleged ransom notes, joins us 360° to explain why the second deadline is, in his words, far more consequential. Plus, will Penn Station and Dulles Airport soon be named Trump? The president names his price for freeing up billions that Congress has already approved for badly-needed infrastructure and the price is his name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A significant new development now in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. Her children, including NBC's Savannah Guthrie, posted a video on social media calling for her safe return and address reports of a ransom note. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports from Tucson, Arizona. Also joining 360°, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and criminologist Casey Jordan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The local sheriff is acknowledging reports of ransom notes tied to disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, but gave no details. Also, the Los Angeles Times reports that blood was found inside the missing 84-year-old’s home. Plus, the president doubles down on his call for Republicans to “nationalize" elections after his supporters said that’s not what he meant. We’re Keeping Them Honest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest on the search for “Today" show anchor Savannah Guthrie's mom, whose disappearance is now being treated as a crime; an abduction, according to the local sheriff. Plus, President Trump says he wants to “nationalize" the elections in blue states. That, and the direct involvement we now know the president had in the recent FBI raid related to the 2020 election in Georgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The government's massive, and they say final, batch of Epstein files are out. What we know so far about what, and who, is in them. Plus, remembering Catherine O’Hara and the unforgettable characters only she could have created, with or without a script. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump breaks a day of silence on the subject and says there will be no pullback of immigration agents in Minnesota, just hours after his border czar signaled the opposite.Plus, Anderson's conversation with another witness to Alex Pretti's shooting. What she remembers of the moment and why she says, "We all need to be courageous." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hear from Minneapolis officials and community leaders, including Mayor Jacob Frey, as they take questions and discuss pathways forward. Moderated by CNN Anchors Anderson Cooper and Sara Sidner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She’s been called the "woman in the pink coat” and tonight she talked with Anderson. She captured that crucial video from just steps away, as federal officers shot Alex Pretti. Then moments later, she bore witness to his passing. She shares what she saw, what she heard, and why she's coming forward now. Plus, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in his first television interview since Pretti was killed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Pretti was a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a VA hospital when he was shot dead by federal officers while recording them with his cell phone Saturday morning in Minneapolis. And, like Renee Good just 19 days ago, he was smeared by the administration, defamed as a "domestic terrorist" bent on massacring law enforcement within just hours of his death. Tonight, three sources are now telling CNN that the face of the crackdown here, Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, and some of his masked agents, are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow. Anderson Cooper 360° is live tonight from Minneapolis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From New Mexico to New England and all points between, nearly a quarter-billion people get ready for the kind of winter storm they'll talk about for years to come. From sleet to ice, to a foot or more of snow, we'll tell you who's getting the worst of it, where and when. Plus, new details on the 5-year-old boy and his dad in custody, as mass protests about this and other cases set off in the Minneapolis today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 5-year-old boy in custody, along with his dad. What it says about the tactics ICE and federal agents are using to grab as many people as they can. Plus, the latest on what people in two dozen states are facing from a massive winter storm that's gathering force as we speak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says he's got the "framework of a future deal" over Greenland, but as the first details emerge, is it much different than the deal the U.S. already has, and was it worth the potential rupture of the NATVO alliance to get? Plus, a verdict announced in the trial of former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales. CNN's Shimon Prokupecz is outside the courthouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is asked how far he'll go to get Greenland. His answer as he heads off to a hostile reception in Europe: “You'll find out." Plus, how North Korea's state-run film industry is changing and taking a cue from Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President ratchets up his push to take over Greenland and somehow links it to not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, which he says has freed him from thinking "purely of peace." Plus, tensions rising in the Minnesota with protesters confronting a pastor who activists say is also a local ICE official, but the Department of Homeland Security won’t say. Also 1,500 active-duty troops are on standby for possible deployment there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department is now investigating Minnesota's governor and the Minneapolis mayor for allegedly obstructing federal law enforcement officers. Plus, a frame-by-frame video analysis by the New York Times sheds light on some of the most fundamental questions about Renee Good's final seconds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More protests after another shooting, as President Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act, and the head of Homeland Security says if you are near an ICE operation, you too can be stopped and asked to prove you are an American. Anderson also speaks to Antonio Romanucci, an attorney for the family of Renee Good. Plus, just a day after the president backs away from military action against Iran, another carrier strike group heads toward the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the world bracing for possible U.S. action against Iran, a change in tone from the president, who now says the regime has stopped killing protesters, even as bodies overflow the morgues, and the regime says it's back in full control. Plus, the Cold War, of sorts, over Greenland. The "fundamental disagreement" our NATO ally Denmark says there is, after talks at the White House today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With new clashes on the streets of Minneapolis, and the president promising a "day of reckoning and retribution," the Justice Department says there's no evidence and no basis to investigate the ICE officer who killed Renee Good. But several federal prosecutors in Minnesota who are under pressure to investigate Good and her wife, have now quit. Anderson speaks to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Plus, the estimated death toll in Iran is rising from hundreds to thousands, as President Trump tells protesters that American help is on the way, but what that means is unclear. Air date: Jan. 13, 2026Guests: Keith Ellison Brett McGurk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve Chairman is under criminal investigation by the Trump DOJ and openly at odds with the president who chose him for the job, but now wants him gone. Plus, more than 500 people have been killed in Iran, according to a US-based rights group, as the regime cracks down on demonstrators, and the protests in the streets continue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the first time since an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in her car in a quiet Minneapolis neighborhood, we have video that he recorded on his cellphone. Plus, the enormous challenges still facing so many people in Southern California, a year after some of the most destructive fires ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two breaking stories tonight. Demonstrations tonight in Minneapolis, and new video in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother, killed in her SUV by an ICE officer. Meanwhile, we learned of another shooting, in Portland, Oregon, where two people were wounded by federal border agents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The focus is on Minneapolis tonight where large crowds gathered after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman amid a ramped up federal immigration crackdown in the city. Anderson speaks to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who at a press conference earlier today called the claims of self-defense "bullshit." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is “discussing a range of options” to acquire Greenland making clear that using the US military is not off the table. Rep. Jake Auchincloss joins Anderson to discuss. Prominent lawyer George Conway joins Anderson to talk about his candidacy for an open house seat in New York, which is heavily democratic and encompasses most of central Manhattan. Conway is running as a Democrat. He is a former Republican who gained a lot of attention criticizing President Trump while his-then wife Kellyanne Conway was a Trump advisor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump administration officials briefed a select group of bipartisan lawmakers on Venezuela in a classified setting this evening. One person who was in the briefing, Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, joins Anderson to discuss what was learned. And former CIA Director and head of U.S. Central Command, retired General David Petraeus, gives his perspective on the historic U.S. military operation leading to Maduro’s arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He's only been in office for two days, but New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already at the center of a political storm, after revoking his predecessor's recent executive order, including a directive that expanded the definition of antisemitism and another that barred city employees and agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel. Plus, it's the most enduring aviation mystery since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, tonight a new search is underway for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, almost 12 years after it vanished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She fought what she called a battle with her blood and let the world in on the fight. Tatiana Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's granddaughter. Her courage in the face of a rare form of Leukemia, and the legacy of public service and family tragedy she sadly now joins. Plus, previewing Zohran Mamdani's history-making inauguration, just after the ball drops tomorrow night, as New York's first Muslim Mayor, and one of the youngest ever to serve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Russian threats over a claimed attack on one of Vladimir Putin's homes that Ukraine says did not happen, and President Trump says he does not like. Plus, China's live-fire war games around Taiwan. What the President says about the possibility that this is not a drill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look back at Rob Reiner’s legacy and the movies we can’t stop quoting. Plus, CNN investigates scammers using phones in the high tech crypto economy. Also, the remarkable painter Amy Sherald on her rise from obscurity to art world stardom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN's Katelyn Polantz has learned the Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, who serves on the Oversight Committee, joins to talk about the latest developments. Plus, Julie K. Brown, award-winning investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, whose work was instrumental in exposing the extent of Epstein's crimes, talks about the information that is coming out and the information that is being redacted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States is pursuing another oil tanker through the Caribbean, and President Trump says "it'd be smart" for Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to leave power. Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton weighs in on Trump's escalating pressure campaign on Venezuela. Plus, Anderson and Andy Cohen giggle through their New Year’s Eve memories as the look forward to hosting again from New York City’s Times Square. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump DOJ releases a trove of the Epstein files, but much of them are heavily redacted and many have yet to be released, which defies the law passed to get them into the public eye. John King speaks to one of the law's co-authors tonight. Plus, new details on that multi-day, multi-state manhunt for the suspected Brown University shooter that ended up with him dead in a storage facility. What connections he had to the school and to the MIT professor he's believed to have murdered, as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Live images from Salem, New Hampshire where law enforcement has converged on a storage facility and a vehicle which may have been used by the Brown University shooting suspect. Police are also investigating potential ties between the Brown shooting and this week’s killing of a MIT professor in Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are there cracks forming in the president's wall of Republican support? The rebellion he faced in Congress today, the bruising new polling, and rough jobs report, all landing as he gets ready to address the nation at 9pm ET. Plus, new video of Nick Reiner, shortly before his arrest in connection with his parents' deaths, and new details from the medical examiner about how they died. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair about the president having a quote, "alcoholic's personality," the vice president embracing conspiracy theories, Elon Musk being a "odd duck," and more. Anderson has an exclusive conversation with the reporter Wiles spilled it all to.vPlus, the manhunt continues for the Brown University killer, as authorities release more video of a person of interest they're seeking in connection with Saturday's mass shooting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The sickening slaying of Rob and Michele Reiner, their son Nick, now in custody and "responsible," police say, for their deaths. Plus, with the Brown University shooter still at large, authorities put out new footage and information providing the best picture yet of the man they're looking for, someone they say should still be considered armed and dangerous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

House Democrats release more photos of Jeffrey Epstein with then-friend and businessman Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and more. Tonight, President Trump's reaction to the pictures. Plus, an in depth, revealing conversation with actor, writer, and director Ben Stiller, about growing up with his famous mom and dad, losing them, and what he discovered about them and himself going through the things they left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two big defeats for the president on redistricting and for the second time in a week, a grand jury says no to charges against one of the president's leading enemies, New York Attorney general Letitia James.Plus, a state of emergency in western Washington state, after days of heavy rain causing severe flooding. Anderson speaks to Governor Bob Ferguson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The administration escalates the naval campaign against Venezuela, seizing an oil tanker said to be carrying Venezuelan crude and telling Colombia's president "he's going to be next." Plus, the president is asked to reconcile his promise to make America affordable again, with his claim that affordability is a Democratic hoax. How he answered, how he's dodging responsibility, and where that leaves him with voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President tries selling his record on affordability in the swing state Pennsylvania, but with midterms now less than a year away, will voters buy it, at any price? Plus, the moment Luigi Mangione was caught on police body camera video. The video was released a year to the day after his arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last week, President Trump said he had no problem with the Pentagon releasing classified video of the boat strike that killed two survivors clinging to wreckage, but today he says he didn't say that. Now, with lawmakers in both parties seeking more transparency, we're Keeping Them Honest. Plus, the reward's now up to $15 million in the global manhunt for a fugitive Olympic snowboarder and alleged drug kingpin accused, among other things, of ordering the execution a federal witness against him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Exclusive new reporting is casting doubt on the Trump administration's claim that hitting an alleged drug boat, then killing the survivors, was necessary, because the boat was heading to the U.S. We now know the mission commander said it was not. Plus, the president gets a new, somewhat puzzling prize, from a soccer league. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.S. military strikes another alleged drug boat, as lawmakers are shown classified video of the earlier strike that some have called a possible war crime. We have new exclusive CNN reporting that undercuts a major claim made by defense officials about that secondary strike. Plus, a suspect is arrested and charged in the 2021 Washington, D.C. pipe bomb case. Authorities say he planted bombs outside Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters, the night before the January 6th attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new report finds Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering troops by sharing sensitive war plans on Signal, that's according to the Pentagon's own inspector general. AC360° has the exclusive reporting. Plus, never-before-seen video and photos of Jeffrey Epstein's infamous private island. Anderson talks with one of the lawmakers in Congress helping to lead the charge to get the full Epstein files released. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Polls have just closed in a key special election that could say a lot about Democrats' chances in the midterms. We've got results as they come in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President holds an Oval Office meeting on Venezuela as questions grow over an alleged drug trafficking boat with experts and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle raising the specter of a potential war crime. Plus, Jared Kushner, a private citizen and the President’s son-in-law, is on his way to Moscow along with Steve Witkoff to try to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine with Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re following breaking news in what is being a called a targeted attack on two national guardsmen in Washington, DC. We have the latest on their condition and what we know about the suspected shooter. Plus, as controversy swirls around the phone call between President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the Kremlin, one Republican congressman calls for him to be fired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration makes a federal case out of six democratic lawmakers after their message to service members urging them to disobey unlawful orders. What the FBI is up to, and why their investigation would be unlike anything ever seen before. Plus, not many climb Mount Everest, fewer still climb it and ski back down. Anderson talks to skier Jim Morrison who took on Mount Everest, and Academy Award-winning director Jimmy Chin, who was there with him to document it all for an upcoming National Geographic film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge tosses cases against two presidential enemies because the president's handpicked prosecutor was put in the job unlawfully. We look at the ruling, and what the Justice Department plans to do next. Plus, with millions of Americans about to see their health insurance premiums skyrocket, what's the administration's plan to stop it and when, if ever, will we see it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Call it Mamdani in the lion's den. New York City’s Mayor-elect visits the man who has called him a commie, and who he called a fascist, and it's smiles all around. Plus, breaking news. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she will resign in January. The unexpected development comes just days after her falling out with President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices