Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CNN Evening News for 2018-01-24

This program is about 1 hour long

• Introduction/Preview Anderson Cooper (New York)

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  07:00:10 pm — 07:00:20 pm

• Trump / Russian Connection / Interview / A Discussion

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  07:00:20 pm — 07:15:40 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) What President Trump said about speaking to special counsel former FBI director Robert Mueller introduced. [With reporters, voice of TRUMP - says no collusion, no obstruction, but he would love to speak with Mueller & he would do it under oath, there's no collusion, he was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton & the crooked machine.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; White House: Pamela Brown) The reports about a Trump-Mueller sit-down interview with the lawyers negotiating, the topics of the firing of FBI director James Comey & national security director Michael Flynn, the obstruction of justice issue discussed

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; Washington: Gloria Borger) The negotiations about Trump testifying subject to the advice of his lawyers, who advise written answers to questions discussed.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, David Chalian, Michael Zeldin & Gloria Borger about Trump & Mueller. [TOOBIN, ZELDIN, CHALIAN, BORGER - offer views on the Trump interview in the Mueller investigation, the lawyers' concerns about an unscripted interview, the public support of Trump testifying under oath, how Mueller wants conversations & has told the Trump team he wants an interview, how this is a solvable problem of a complicated legal question involving the president, the lawyers wanting a road map of the investigation.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Mitsubishi; Charles Schwab; Servicemaster Restore; legalzoom; DirectTV; BirdsEye; Centrum; "Hostiles"; Alka-Seltzer; trivago.

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  07:15:40 pm — 07:19:30 pm

• Trump / A Chat / McCabe / A Discussion

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  07:19:30 pm — 07:26:20 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) President Trump's chat with reporters before leaving for Davos for the World Economic Forum introduced. [With reporters, voice of TRUMP - says he spoke about FBI's Andrew McCabe, asking him about who he voted for is not a big deal, but he does not remember asking it.] Live discussion held with CNN's Jennifer Granholm & former RNC chief of staff Mike Shields about Trump. [SHIELDS - offers views on Trump asking McCabe who he voted for, the investigation of Hillary Clinton not being fully done, what we know about the special counsel former FBI director Robert Mueller's investigation.] [GRANHOLM - offers views on how it is inappropriate for Trump to ask the question: that he believes the Justice Department serves him, not the country. Trump's 2007 lawsuit in which he admitted lying, thus he does not want to be interviewed by Mueller, the obstruction of justice issue.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Experian; Expedia; "The Shape of Water"; Pom Wonderful; "Cuomo Prime Time"; "Bellevue"; SoFi.

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  07:26:20 pm — 07:28:50 pm

• Trump / Russian Connection / FBI Texts / Dent Interview

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  07:28:50 pm — 07:38:00 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) President Trump's chat with reporters before leaving for Davos for the World Economic Forum in which he talked about missing text messages between FBI agents Peter STrzok & Lisa Page introduced. [With reporters, voice of TRUMP - says he worries about five months worth of the 50,00 missing texts.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; Capitol Hill: Manu Raju) The technical glitch that affected thousands of FBI phones, the texts about a "secret society" issue raised by Republican Senator Ron Johnson discussed; inset video of the president's Marine One helicopter taking off.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Representative Charlie Dent about the FBI text messages. [DENT - offers views on the Justice Department explanation about the texts & conspiracy theories: the need to be more measured, on President Trump going after his own FBI: baffling, the issue of him asking the FBI's Andrew McCabe who he voted for.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Hilton; Northwestern Mutual; ancestry.com; "Cuomo Prime Time"; Great America PAC.

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  07:38:00 pm — 07:40:50 pm

• Trump / Immigration / Sanders Interview

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  07:40:50 pm — 07:48:30 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) What President Trump said about the immigration issue & DACA in his audio chat with reporters introduced. [Voice of TRUMP - says we will look into Dreamers at some point, his plan to build the wall from a fund of 25 billion dollars, that the immigration problem will be solved.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with Senator Bernie Sanders about what Trump said about immigration. [SANDERS - offers views on how the president says different things & lies a lot, but we have a moral crisis about 800,000 people who came to the US as children & this is their home & they could lose their legal status; suggests the border can be protected by something other than a wall; lists crises related to budget issues; comments on the deal between Trump & Senator Chuck Schumer on immigration.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: trulicity; CNN "The Radical Story of Patty Hearts"; ClearChoice.

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  07:48:30 pm — 07:52:00 pm

• Trump / Russian Connection / Hayden Interview

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  07:52:00 pm — 07:57:00 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) What White House lawyer Ty Cobb told the "New York Times" about what President Trump meant about being interviewed by special counsel former FBI director Robert Mueller introduced. Live discussion held with CNN's former CIA dir. Michael Hayden about Trump & Mueller. [HAYDEN offers views on the facts there is a cloud over the president, so he needs to talk to Mueller despite whatever the lawyers say, that FBI morale matters when the Trump administration attacks the institution, what Senator Ron Johnson said about the missing FBI texts & a secret society: the unusual viciousness of the attacks now coming from the right.]

• COMMERCIALS: Wells Fargo; Shriners Hospitals.

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  07:57:00 pm — 08:00:10 pm

• Good Night

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  08:00:10 pm — 08:00:10 pm