
CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip
CNN Podcasts·Hosted by Abby Phillip·543 episodes
Abby Phillip delivers a smart, sharp approach to the day's biggest stories.
Why listen
CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip turns the day’s biggest political stories into a fast-moving panel conversation, with Abby Phillip pressing guests through sharp debate rather than just reading headlines. It is a strong fit for listeners who want nightly U.S. politics, legal drama, election fights, and global crises explained with cable-news urgency and multiple viewpoints in the room.
Episodes
The alleged suspect of an explosion outside of a federal building in New York City was carrying "anti-ICE" material. Plus, is Iran turning into Trump’s forever war? Also, Trump announces new tariffs against Canada. What it could mean for the affordability crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A warning from Markwayne Mullin for state election officials if they don’t follow DHS orders on election security. Plus, United States strikes in Iran intensify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Trump delivers a primetime address the White House says will shock you. Also, a key senator says Todd Blanche will get his support to be attorney general only after he meets with Epstein survivors. Plus, the New Mexico attorney general blasts the DOJ claiming they are stonewalling his Epstein investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The President’s men on Capitol Hill tow the President’s line while blurring others. Plus, a furious Trump says the suspension of ICE traffic stops is over after the DHS secretary is blasted for the move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The president says all options are on the table in Iran. As strikes intensify, the question remains what’s the endgame? Plus, after two deadly ICE shootings in less than a week, a change in tactics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A federal judge slams Trump’s IRS lawsuit and slush fund for his allies. A slap on the wrist for his attorneys, including the man tapped to be the next attorney general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tonight, one fatal shooting, two very different stories and a call for an independent investigation. Plus, new satellite imagery shows activity at Iranian nuclear and missile bases after the memorandum of understanding was in place. Also, the president says it's the SAVE Act or nothing, refusing to sign the bipartisan housing bill that's set to become law tonight. Live from the Food Network, Isaiah Martin, Joe Borelli, Caroline Sunshine, and Charles Blow join Abby for a special Summer Fridays edition of NewsNight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Join the conversation on tonight's breaking news: tensions between the US and Iran escalate with reports of an assassination plot against President Trump. Tune in for expert insights and diverse viewpoints. We dive deep into the chaos surrounding the US electoral system as Trump fires the Election Assistance Commission leaders. What does this mean for the upcoming midterms? Don't miss different perspectives and heated debates. A tragic ICE operation leads to a fatal shooting with many questions left unanswered. We're discussing accountability, policy implications, and the human stories behind the headlines. Tune in for a comprehensive look at today's immigration crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump declares the Iran ceasefire over. What happens now with the war that was supposed to only last a few days? Plus, Graham Platner exits and the race is on in Maine to find a new candidate fast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Graham Platner’s campaign unravels but will he quit in time to give the next candidate a chance? Plus, Trump blasts NATO and tensions rise in the Strait of Hormuz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Political shockwaves in the Maine Senate race. In a CNN exclusive interview, a woman who dated Graham Platner says he raped her in 2021, an allegation he denies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donald Trump spins profiting off the presidency while defending his public stakes in private businesses. Plus, another worrying sign for the economy as the United States added jobs at a slower rate than expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After the Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to kill birthright citizenship, MAGA has a backup plan. Plus, after calling affordable housing a yawn, the president shows off his new plane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A return that would make the founding fathers blush, the president’s cashing in on industries over which he has influence. Plus, the Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 14th Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donald Trump gets more power from the Supreme Court while his fight against mail-in ballots suffers a blow. Plus, it’s landmark, it’s bipartisan, and it will help Americans afford homes, but the president refuses to sign it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tucker Carlson calls Trump 'weak' as conservative critics grow bolder. Tune in to hear more on this brewing GOP division from Abby Phillip's table of diverse voices. Let's talk about the future of American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
He accused them of eating cats and dogs, now Donald Trump can start deporting hundreds of thousands of migrants after the Supreme Court expands his power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donald Trump upends his agenda and holds a bipartisan housing bill hostage over his demands on voting reform. Plus, tempers flare between Trump and his own party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The results are in as Zohran Mamdani’s influence is put to the test. Will socialism be on the rise? Plus, Donald Trump and Iran contradict each other as the Senate votes to rebuke his war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The White House touts a concession from Iran that was in the Obama deal while the United States allows Iran to sell oil in dollars for the first time in decades. Plus, Hilary Clinton reignites a debate over how America votes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The President lashes out at critics of his Iran agreement as his number two delivers a blunt warning to Israel. Plus, another MAGA civil war erupts over the Iran deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donald Trump defends what many Republicans call a surrender, the worst foreign policy blunder in decades, and crazy. So, is Iran better off now than before the war? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The mystery intensifies over what the United States and Iran agreed to as the goal posts move and the backpedals spin. Plus, why half of Americans now refuse to identify as Republican or Democrat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Conservatives unleash on Donald Trump’s agreement with Iran calling it a surrender. Plus, California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the DOJ is investigating his family. Also, the White House refuses to condemn a fighter’s smear against Michelle Obama despite widespread outrage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The fate of the Iran War depends on who you ask. Conflicting versions emerge of a potential agreement to keep talking but leaves out nuclear specifics. Plus, Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire. Is this a reason to celebrate or be horrified? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As the world spins, so does the fate of the Iran war. Trump calls off more strikes with claims of an agreement. Also, the president vows to pressure over his pick to run America’s intelligence, while the House rejects extending his spy powers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After insisting the United States is close to a deal with Iran, the president says he’ll start bombing them again. Plus, Republicans sound the alarm after inflation hits the highest pace in three years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The results are in and we learn the fates of a Trump ally and a Trump snub as MAGA tries to make masculinity an issue in the midterms. Plus, as Trump says an Iran deal is imminent at least 38 times, one Republican compares him to a cartoon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
MAGA’s fraud fever rises as California’s reality television candidate sinks to third place. Plus, Israel defies the president as attacks begin again with Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Is Graham Platner too much for the Democrats to handle? James Carville says no. Plus, Donald Trump tells his new man overseeing intel agencies to start taking them apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As the president selects Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department, his would be predecessor appears to throw him under the bus. Plus, Donald Trump reveals why he chose a man with zero intel experience to lead the nation’s intelligence agencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The House votes to rein in Trump’s powers against Iran as the war drags on. Plus, Trump’s party officially bucks him on the ballroom and the slush fund which he suggests isn’t dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Results are now coming in from election primaries across the nation. CNN is following races in California, Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, New Jersey, and New Mexico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donald Trump drops his fund to compensate allies after Republican and legal backlash. But, can the IRS still investigate him? Also, as Iran suspends talks, the president throws his hands up and says he doesn’t care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
If Congress or public opinion isn’t stopping Donald Trump, gavels certainly are. Judges block his name on the Kennedy Center and his fund to pay allies. Plus, new allegations of corruption, the President keeps buying stock in companies then promoting, touting, or awarding them government contracts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A deal for a plan for an agreement for a memorandum to keep talking all while Iran unearths its missile stockpile. Plus, as a giant UFC cage goes up at America’s most famous house, and so does the volume of critics against the spectacle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The feds launch a criminal investigation into one of Donald Trump’s accusers tied to the lawsuits against him. Plus, after telling Americans that Joe Biden did a great job at the infamous debate, a new version from the former First Lady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The results are in and the longtime senator snubbed by Donald Trump learns his fate. Plus, even MAGA fans are shocked by the brazen presidency. Also, Republican hawks blast the rumored deal with Iran, calling it worse than Obama’s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump defends his slush fund to pay his allies and wants praise for not taking money himself. Plus, as Americans hit the road, consumer sentiment hits an all time low and the president’s economic approval crashes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Questions rise on Trump losing control over the Senate. Plus, Iran is rebuilding faster than expected as Trump and Israel diverge on the war’s future. Also, CNN gets ahold of the Democrat’s infamous 2024 presidential election autopsy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
January 6 officers are suing Donald Trump over his slush fund to pay rioters as the party sounds the alarm. Plus, Republicans are moving closer to blocking public money for Trump’s big ballroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The results are in from the revenge primaries. Plus, why the president rattles the Republican Senate by endorsing a challenger. Also, as the DOJ slush fund deal bans the IRS from investigating Trump and his family, the administration doesn’t rule out paying rioters who assaulted cops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The president sets up a slush fund with taxpayer money to compensate his allies including the Capitol rioters. Plus, the separation of church and state disappears in the modern era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As the pressure mounts so do the president’s outbursts. How another week of war is weighing on Donald Trump. Plus, the administration is considering a slush fund paid for by Americans to compensate MAGA allies who were investigated by Biden’s DOJ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The president gets a red line warning from China as Donald Trump’s predecessor defends the deal made to avoid a war with Iran. Plus, many of the talking heads who entertain conspiracies are shocked when Americans believe them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The US-Israeli war with Iran and ensuing global energy crisis loom over Trump's visit to China. Trump is expected to encourage Xi Jinping to push Tehran, a Chinese ally, to agree to a peace deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint vital to oil trade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Americans are broke and fed up as a damning new look shows an overwhelming majority are feeling financial pain and are blaming Donald Trump. Plus, an explosive new report undercuts Trump’s war claims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Is Iran playing Donald Trump? The frustration builds as negotiations draw out. Plus, the Supreme Court allows Alabama to eliminate a district held by a Black Democrat as the map wars spread across America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Virginia deals a blow to Democrats retaliating against Donald Trump’s redistricting moves in a consequential twist. Plus, is JD Vance losing his advantage to potentially become the next Republican presidential nominee to America’s top diplomat? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The United States attacks Iran in what’s being called retaliation. Is this a restart of the war? Plus, chaos erupts as Tennessee is the next state to gerrymander. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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