The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown: The command center for breaking news, politics and extraordinary reports from around the world. The Situation Room airs weekdays 10am-12pm Eastern, Monday through Friday on CNN.
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August 11, 2025 • 112 mins
As today show begins we're expecting President Trump to address the critically important issue of crime here in the nation's capital as he threatens a federal takeover of Washington, DC. Federal agents have already fanned out across the city. And a source tells CNN that as many as 130 FBI agents could soon patrol side by side with local law enforcement. We have our correspondents covering all the angles of this important story as i...
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August 8, 2025 • 80 mins
The Israeli security cabinet greenlights a plan to occupy Gaza City. It puts Israel one step closer to fully occupying the entire Gaza strip. Plus, an exploding wildfire north of Los Angeles is burning more than a football field every two seconds. We take you there live.
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August 7, 2025 • 80 mins
President Trump's sweeping tariffs are now in effect, and they raise taxes on imported goods to their highest levels since the Great Depression. Most products coming into the US now face an average effective tariff rate of 16%-17%, and they include some of the country's largest trading partners. We get specific and assess the potential impact these new tariffs could have on your wallet.
Also on today's show: A first-on-CNN interv...
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August 6, 2025 • 79 mins
Top White House officials are meeting today to hash out how to deal with the escalating fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case. Plus, Diddy's lawyers say the convicted music mogul deserves a pardon.
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August 5, 2025 • 78 mins
A big name takes his name out of the running for Federal Reserve chair. Also, Texas Democrats are speaking out as the fight over redistricting crosses state lines.
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August 4, 2025 • 78 mins
As Texas Democrats flee the state over redistricting, the state's GOP Governor Greg Abbott threatens to charge them with felonies. Plus, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries joins us in the Situation Room to respond to Abbott's threats.
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August 1, 2025 • 87 mins
President Trump's tariff plan, which is scheduled to go into effect today: What they it mean for the US economy and for you. Also, US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee head to a food distribution area in Gaza as a starvation crisis grips the enclave. Palestinians react with hope, skepticism and anger.
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July 31, 2025 • 84 mins
As today show begins we're tracking the flurry of 11th-hour activity amid President Trump's trade war. Plus, terrifying turbulence on a Delta flight, with two dozen people taken to the hospital as passengers who weren't wearing their seat belts hit the ceiling and carts bounced around the cabin.
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July 30, 2025 • 86 mins
As we come on the air today, multiple countries - including the US - are on high alert for tsunamis after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia. Plus, the latest GDP numbers show the economy rebounding sharply in the second quarter. But a major company that makes items you use every day says its products could soon cost more.
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July 29, 2025 • 74 mins
Investigators are piecing together why a gunman opened fire in a Manhattan high-rise, killing four people - one a 36-year-old NYPD officer - before turning the gun on himself. We bring you all the latest developments. Plus, new video shows Palestinians swarming aid trucks as the food crisis in Gaza grows more dire by the day. Two leading Israeli human rights groups are now accusing Israel of genocide. Israel's ambassador to the Uni...
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July 25, 2025 • 81 mins
As today's show begins, we've been listening to President Trump speaking to reporters just before leaving for a trip to Scotland. What did he say? We begin our coverage with CNN's senior White House reporter Kevin Liptak.
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July 24, 2025 • 89 mins
Once again, the Jeffrey Epstein controversy dominates the news ... and today's show. The big headline: US Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly told President Donald Trump that his name is in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Meanwhile, sources tell CNN that US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet today with Epstein's accomplice, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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July 23, 2025 • 61 mins
Lawmakers in Texas are holding their first public hearing into this month's deadly floods. Both Democrats and Republicans are promising to look for answers after the disaster killed at least 135 people. But divisions are already emerging. Plus, sentencing day. The man who admitted to killing four University of Idaho students in their home will soon learn his fate. Today, will the victims' families finally get some answers to a very...
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July 22, 2025 • 90 mins
The Justice Department is in talks with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime girlfriend and accomplice. And it's coming as calls for transparency over the Trump Administration's handling of the Epstein files grow louder in the halls of Congress. Plus, we have cell phone video of Florida officers pulling a man from his car and punching him in the face during a traffic stop. How are authorities are defending their actions?
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July 21, 2025 • 86 mins
As today's show begins, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Hoem is providing an update on an off-duty border patrol agent who was shot during an apparent botched armed robbery over the weekend in New York City. The 42-year-old officer is in stable condition and is expected to survive. Police say there is no evidence that he was targeted because of his employment. A suspect is in custody.
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July 18, 2025 • 86 mins
President Trump is firing back over a note reportedly bearing his name to Jeffrey Epstein. He says it's fake and vows to sue a close ally. Plus: A mother of a Camp Mystic victim shares her story and the letters from her eight-year-old daughter after her death.
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July 17, 2025 • 87 mins
First: We speak exclusively with the owners of Camp La Junta about the moment they jumped into action to save every camper from the rising waters of the Guadalupe river. Then: Maureen Comey prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Now she’s been fired from the DOJ. Does it have anything to do with the fact she’s the daughter of the former FBI Director James Comey?
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July 16, 2025 • 93 mins
Powerful airstrikes rock the Syrian capital of Damascus. State media there is blaming Israel. We have late reporting coming into the Situation Room. Plus, there are growing calls for an investigation into the death of a Palestinian American beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, including a new push this morning from the US Ambassador to Israel.
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July 15, 2025 • 84 mins
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok became infamous for posting antisemitic rants and praising Hitler. Now it's landed a $200 million contract with the Defense Department. Plus, underwater divers were left stranded in subway stations filled with water as flash floods hammered parts of the Northeast.
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July 14, 2025 • 103 mins
Central Texas is dealing with a new, dangerous threat as flash flood warnings hamper the search for more than 150 people still missing after the flooding on July 4th. Officials in Kerr County met for the first time to discuss how to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. Plus: Nine people are dead after a fast-moving fire at an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts.
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