Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CNN Evening News for 2017-07-10

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 / Trump. Jr., Meeting / A Discussion (Part I)

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  07:00:20 pm — 07:17:00 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) A "New York Times" report that a Russian lawyer promised Donald Trump, Jr., damaging information of Hillary Clinton during the presidential election campaign & Jared Kushner & Paul Manafort went to the meeting & the different explanations from Trump, Jr., about his account of the meeting introduced. [Dec. 18, 2016, Trump adviser Kellyanne CONWAY; Jan. 15, Vice President Mike PENCE; Feb. 16, President TRUMP - deny conversations with the Russians about the election.] [Jul 24, 2016, TRUMP, Jr. - says the Clinton camp will lie.] Photos of five Trump associates who had meetings with Russians shown.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; White House: Jeff Zeleny) The hearing by Trump, Jr., of a lawyer {Alan Futerfas††} to handle these matters, word from Senator Mark Warner he wants to hear from the president's son, what deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the day's briefing that President Trump did not know about this past meeting until now, the timing of that meeting at the Trump Towers discussed.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's David Chalian, Kirsten Powers, "The New Yorker"'s Ryan Lizza, Jason Miller, Bryan Lanza, Brian Fallon, Matt Whitaker about Trump, Trump, Jr., the Russians. [CHALIAN, POWERS, LIZZA, MILLER, FALLON - offer views on Trump surrogate Trump, Jr., meeting with a Russian national, the unusual nature of this meeting with a lawyer with ties to the Russian government, how he was seeking negative information about Hillary Clinton, how all campaigns seek "dirt" on the opposition, downplays the meeting, the campaign finance statute that may be applicable.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: CNN "The History of Comedy"; Jaguar; Hilton; ancestry.com; Fidelity Investments; coolsculpting; CNN "The Nineties"; Fisher Investments; CNN "Declassified"

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  07:17:00 pm — 07:21:00 pm

• Trump / Russian Connection / Trump. Jr., Meeting / A Discussion (Part II)

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  07:21:00 pm — 07:30:50 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion continued with CNN's David Chalian, Kirsten Powers, "The New Yorker"'s Ryan Lizza, Jason Miller, Trump supporter Bryan Lanza, Brian Fallon, former US attorney Matt Whitaker about Donald Trump, Jr.'s meeting with the Russian attorney last year. [MILLER, LANZA, WHITAKER, FALLON, LIZZA - offer views on what Trump. Jr., knew about the Russian he was meeting, downplays the legal liability about the meeting, the two statements from Trump, Jr., about the meeting, the issue of access inside Trump Towers.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Allstate; tripadvisor; HepcHope; Ace Hardware; One-A-Day; Samsung; CNN "The Nineties; "Great American Alliance.

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  07:30:50 pm — 07:34:40 pm

• Trump / Russian Connection / Trump. Jr., Meeting / Veselnitskaya / A Discussion

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  07:34:40 pm — 07:42:40 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Report introduced.

  (New York: Randi Kaye) The background of the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya††, Donald Trump, Jr., met in 2016 at Trump Towers presented; details given about US human rights laws {Magnitsky Act} coming out of the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in prison in Moscow in 2009, her efforts to overturn the Magnitsky Act, her postings on American politics.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Jill Dougherty & Steve Hall about Veselnitskaya†† & Russia. [HALL, DOUGHERTY - offer views on how things work in Russia: how Veselnitskaya†† would be Kremlin-connected & could have been used, why Russians hate the Magnitsky Act, which led to the Russian ban on adoption of Russian children, how a lot of the story in unclarified.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Jos. A. Bank; Subaru; Nutrisystem; Taltz.

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  07:42:40 pm — 07:45:40 pm

• US-Russia Relations / Cyber Security / A Discussion

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  07:45:40 pm — 07:51:40 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) The cyber security discussions between President Trump & Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit reviewed; Trump tweets quoted. [On NBC, voice of Senator Lindsey GRAHAM; on CNN, Representative Adam SCHIFF; on CBS, Senator John McCAIN - criticize the cyber security idea.] Critical tweets from Senators Ben Sasse & Marco Rubio quoted.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Kennan Inst. Matthew Rojansky, David Chalian, Kirsten Powers, Jason Miller about the cyber security deal with Russia. [MILLER, ROJANSKY, CHALIAN, POWERS - offer views on Trump's later answer about Russian President Vladimir Putin, the problems with the term "cyber security" & the need for basic rules of the game & Russian cyber probing, the backlash to the Trump-Putin meeting & this bad idea of a cyber security deal.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Hilton; Hulu; CNN "The Nineties"; Entyvio; CNN "The History of Comedy"

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  07:51:40 pm — 07:54:40 pm

• Trump & Russia / Friedman Interview

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  07:54:40 pm — 08:04:10 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with "New York Times" columnist/author Thomas Friedman about President Trump & Russia. [FRIEDMAN - offer views on Donald Trump, Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer in the context of Russia's attempts to get the sanctions lifted if Trump were president, how the cyber security collaboration with Russia is a dumb idea, on the president not behaving as an adult as in what is being said about his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the Democrat-Republican split where the opposition is a "them"; the fragility of civilization, how America is still key to the world, how Trump is a "chump" who does not think things through as with the Trans-Pacific Partnership {TPP}, which will have vast consequences.]

• Start of second hour of AC360.

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  08:04:10 pm — 08:04:10 pm