Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CNN Evening News for 2017-07-13

This program is about 1 hour long

• Introduction/Preview Anderson Cooper (New York)

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  07:00:00 pm — 07:00:10 pm

• Trump / Russian Connection / Trump, Jr. / France Trip / A Discussion

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  07:00:10 pm — 07:19:20 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) President Trump's defense of son Donald Trump, Jr., about his meeting with a Russian lawyer to get dirt on Hillary Clinton introduced. [In Paris, TRUMP - says most people would have taken the "opposition research" meeting: it is standard in politics.] The e-mails from publicist Rob Goldstone to Don & his reply quoted & the presence of Jared Kushner & Paul Manafort at the meeting & what makes it uncommon & newsworthy noted. [In response to question at the hearings, FBI nominee Chris WRAY - says any threat to our elections should be referred to the FBI.] [TRUMP - says the Russian lawyer's passport was approved by Attorney General Loretta Lynch.] Who actually authorizes visas stated. What the intelligence community is saying about election interference introduced. [At hearings, several intelligence OFFICIALS - confirm Russian interference.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; Paris: Jeff Zeleny) The issue of Russian meddling in all Democratic elections, including in France, the likelihood Trump, Jr., & Paul Manafort will appear before Congress soon, how this issue about his son is on Trump's mind, so he keeps calling it a witchhunt, the status of the relationship between Trump & French President Emmanuel Macron discussed. [TRUMP - speaks about the Paris Accord: we will see what happens, how we discussed Syria & Ukraine.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's "New York Times"'s Charles Blow, RealClearPolitics' Amy Stoddard, Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord & former Bush assistant Scott Jennings about Trump in Paris. [BLOW, JENNINGS, STODDARD, LORD - offer views on Trump's position on the Paris Accord, what Trump is in France for: to build a relationship with an ally, his defense of his son & his continued defiant response, the past involvement of President Jimmy Carter & the Clintons with Russia, what Trump, Jr., should have done & then cooperate with the investigation, the facts about the meeting with a Russian lawyer: he did the wrong thing.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Lincoln; One-A-Day; Publishers Clearing House; Allstate; "Dunkirk"; Alka-Seltzer; coolsculpting; Fidelity Investments; Dr. Scholl's; Booking.com.

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  07:19:20 pm — 07:23:20 pm

• Trump / Paris Climate Accord

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  07:23:20 pm — 07:27:40 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper, Freed Zakaria) The significance of President Trump in Paris saying that "something could happen" with the US position on climate change as per the Paris Accord, which is voluntarily, but created an international norm/standard, how we take presidential rhetoric very seriously, but Trump just says what he feels at the moment, Trump's pattern of saying nasty things about all countries except Russia & his {false} claims to have met Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed.

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: ancestry.com; Aleve; Empire Today; Visionworks; trivago; CNN "The History of Comedy"; "Autopsy: Bruce Lee"/Reelz; Sleep Number.

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  07:27:40 pm — 07:30:50 pm

• Trump / Russian Connection / Kushner, Trump, Jr.

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  07:30:50 pm — 07:37:10 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli & attorney Laura Coates about Jared Kushner's security clearance forms. [CUCCINELLI, COATES - offer views on how the Trump people are hurt by this lack of information, the purpose of the security form, how Donald Trump, Jr., is not open to criminal charges about this Russian meeting, how there could/could not be criminal liability related to campaign finances law.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: trulicity; CNN "The History of Comedy"; namely.com; Sokolove Law; Christian Faith Publishing; CNN "Declassified"

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  07:37:10 pm — 07:40:40 pm

• Senate / Health Care Plan / A Discussion

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  07:40:40 pm — 07:47:30 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; Washington: Ryan Nobles) The new version of the Republican Senate health care bill & the reception to it discussed; highlights of the bill outlined on screen. [Senator Deal HELLER - comments on the legislation.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's former Trump adviser Stephen Moore & Democratic economist Austan Goolsbee† about the new bill. [MOORE - offers views on whether & when they will get the 50 votes, the high cost under the Obamacare mandate.] [GOOLSBEE - offers views on the Ted Cruz plan of cheap policies, the opposition to the bill.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: TD Ameritrade; Land Rover; Red Lobster; Vanda; Geico; Entyvio.

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  07:47:30 pm — 07:51:00 pm

• Trump / France Visit / The First Lady / A Discussion

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  07:51:00 pm — 07:56:10 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; London: Kate Bennett) The issue of what President Trump said in Paris to Brigitte Macron, the first lady of France, about what good shape she was in & how the Trumps & Macrons had met before in Hamburg discussed. [Voice of TRUMP - says "you're in good shape."]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Trump author Michael D'Antonio & Gloria Borger about the Trump interaction; scenes re-shown. [BORGER - offers views on presidential protocol in praising Brigitte: this is Trump, who likes to compliment women.] [D'ANTONIO - offers views on Trump's "entertainer's instinct" & being a kind of Hollywood guy.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Taltz; Verizon; CNN "The History of Comedy"; acornstairlifts.com.

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  07:56:10 pm — 07:59:50 pm

• Start of second hour of AC360.

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  07:59:50 pm — 07:59:50 pm