The Lead with Jake Tapper

Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as President Trump's White House Chief of Staff, handing one of the most important White House roles to the architect of the administration’s hardline immigration crackdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today Democrats have flipped another slew of House seats and have now won at least 253 seats. Democrats are now on track to win their largest majority since the early 1990s. In the Senate, Democrats now hold 54 seats to Republicans 44, with two major races yet to be called. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Continuing Midterm Election coverage with Dana Bash, Kaitlan Collins, Jake Tapper, and Anderson Cooper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Continuing Midterm Election coverage with Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Midterm Election Day is tomorrow and nearly 56 million ballots have already been cast as Democrats hope to make historic gains in the House and Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With four days until the midterm elections, CNN is tacking key races that could make or break control of Congress with the latest polls, forecasts, and analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN’s team is all over the United States to bring you the latest on the key races that will decide the balance of power in Congress in next week’s midterm elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With control of both the House and the Senate at stake both President Trump and former President Barrack Obama are back on the campaign trail this evening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN’s team of reporters are on the ground in battleground states keeping eye out for all the action with the upcoming midterm elections just a week away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is attaching a cash prize to stop, what he claims without evidence, is widespread vote fraud. Plus, the Justice Department is trying to convince a California court that it should be able to immediately intervene in early ballot processing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 23 million Americans have already cast their ballots with only 11 days left until Election Day and the Trump administration is trying to sow some doubt in the integrity of elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump finds himself compelled to head to ruby red Iowa with only 12 days left until the midterms despite having won the state by 13 percentage points in the last election. CNN brings you latest in the upcoming races across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The New Mexico attorney general files a civil lawsuit against two Epstein advisers. Plus, more than 15 million Americans cast ballots during early voting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 10 million American voters have already cast their ballots in the midterm elections with in-person early voting starting today in some states. Plus, CNN goes inside a voting center in one key battleground state to see how they are trying to protect election workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is in yet another red state where he is trying to save a Republican seat. Plus, parts of France are under curfew this evening after protests spread into country-wide violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Police in Bend, Oregon provide an update on Thursday’s deadly mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School. So many questions remain unanswered as the Bend community grapples with such a horrific act of violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With 19 days until midterm elections, CNN is tracking the key races that could shift control of congress to Democrats. Plus, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Robert Garcia joins to discuss potential investigations into Trump and his administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Only 20 days left until polls close in the 2026 midterm elections and President Trump is headlining a campaign rally in the swing state of Arizona. Plus, CNN is live in Texas ahead of tonight’s townhall with Senate candidate James Talarico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Vatican has confirmed Pope Leo XIV had a cancerous growth in his lung. CNN brings the latest updates on his health condition. Plus, CNN’s John King visits North Carolina to ask what issues are at the top of voters’ priority list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An early morning raid on the DC home of Rep. Ilhan Omar. Plus, a brand new investigation at the State Department into Kimberly Guilfoyle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A brand new forecast for Hurricane Isaias. The National Hurricane Center warns conditions are rapidly deteriorating along the northern Gulf Coast. In just a few hours, Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall around the Florida panhandle as a Category 3 hurricane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With 26 days left until the midterm elections, CNN looks at three key races for Senate and what voters are revealing about the candidates in two of those races. Plus, oil companies along the Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Isaias. Could this result in even higher gas prices? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says he has a call with Vladimir Putin about the plague after a lab worker’s death. Should the public be worried? Plus, CNN is on board the troubled aircraft carrier that spent more than 10 months at sea with very little time at port. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The nation is four weeks away from midterm Election Day. Plus, a new audio recording surfaces in the alleged gang rape case at Cornell University. Also, unprecedented student protests rise across France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The world wants to know what happened inside the Russian research laboratory. Plus, breaking news at Cornell University, a new audio recording emerges of the suspects involved in an alleged gang rape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The alleged gang rape at Cornell University is now in the hands of a special prosecutor as we learn of a ketamine overdose and a drug-related arrest just one day before the alleged attack at that very same fraternity house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alabama reaches a landmark deal with TikTok over claims the app harmed children and teens. Plus, a public hearing in Ithaca, New York, home to Cornell University, where many are voicing their outrage over the university’s handling of an alleged 2024 fraternity gang rape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN has now obtained the six page signed statement from the woman known publicly as Jane Doe laying out exactly what she told university police back in 2024. Plus, new fallout over AI models going rogue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How text messages about a basketball game lead to an embarrassing moment from one senator on Capitol Hill as he tried to accuse former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury. Plus, President Trump met this afternoon at the White House with top leaders of the artificial intelligence industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

36 days left until the midterm elections. A look at what CNN is learning about Trump’s aggressive campaign strategy as more candidates appear to be slipping away from the president’s support. Plus, an explosive lawsuit against Cornell University that could potentially soon lead to criminal charges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With just 39 days until midterm Election Day, a new ruling from the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration expanded access to review who is and who is not eligible to vote. Plus, did anything substantial come from the three day visit from Chinese leader Xi Jinping? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Press access at the White House is tested after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate press badges for the news outlets. A judge lays out next steps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A judge’s ruling could come at any moment after a hearing this afternoon over the White House’s media ban against CNN, Politico, and MS NOW. Plus, Chinese leader Xi Jinping just landed in Washington and CNN breaks down what’s at stake in his upcoming talks with Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kamala Harris is back on the campaign trail in Michigan. Can she help Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the race for Senate? Plus, one of Trump’s former foreign policy advisers joins to discuss Trump’s speech today at the United Nations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration is facing a new lawsuit after the president bans CNN and other media outlets from the White House. Plus, no flights in or out at some of the busiest airports in the country. How a construction mishap is to blame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump this afternoon in a social media post announced that he is going to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House as “a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Does the president really think the Kennedy Center needs to be demolished if his name is not put on the building? Plus, OpenAI revealed six new instances of its bots going rogue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is on his way to a campaign rally on the heels of some bad economic news. Today, the Federal Reserve ignored Trump’s demands and raised interest rates for the first time in years. Plus, mounting pressure on singer Ed Sheeran after he kicked one performer off his tour and the other opening acts quit in solidarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump called into a Kennedy Center board meeting and yelled about his name not appearing on the side of the building. Plus, Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department will comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling to block President Trump’s effort to restrict mail-in voting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump dismissed all the artificial intelligence doomsday warnings even though many of the warnings are coming from folks inside the AI industry themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

25 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, a nation remembers. Plus, the Supreme Court is reconsidering President Trump’s order to restrict voting by mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

$5,000 for every adult who is an American citizen if Republicans keep the House and the Senate is President Trump’s latest promise. Plus, one day after apocalyptic warnings about artificial intelligence, a new word from Anthropic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stark warnings from experts at AI companies about how the technology might kill us all. Plus, as the Republican midterm convention begins, oil prices top $100 a barrel, diesel hits a record, and regular gas had its biggest jump in months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

56 days out from the midterm elections, what will the courts decide? Trump wants to dictate the voting process but it’s not just voting by mail at issue. Plus, President Trump has a new spin on his claims about 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At least five people are dead after an Amazon cargo aircraft overran the runway during a landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, striking multiple vehicles and sending a thick black plume of smoke into the air as it caught fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another dramatic day in court ends with a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. So, will the Massachusetts woman face another trial over allegations of killing her three children? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The judge has ordered the jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial back to court tomorrow for a seventh day of deliberations. At one point, Clancy’s defense abruptly pushed back revealing it is a single juror who is keeping the jury from a unanimous decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After five days there is still no verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial as the judge pushes the jury for a unanimous decision. Plus, 62 days before the midterms and some campaign ads feature a Republican not on the ballot, Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A whistleblower has quite the warning about mail-in voting. Plus, a brand new round of strikes in Iran. Also, the jury is deadlocked in the trial of Lindsay Clancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The rush is on to find hundreds of missing people believed to be trapped in tunnels after Nepal’s catastrophic flooding last week. Plus, flash flooding at the Grand Canyon killed two people with a dozen others still missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices