Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CNN Evening News for 2017-07-26

This program is about 1 hour long

• Introduction/Preview Anderson Cooper (New York)

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  07:00:10 pm — 07:00:30 pm

• Trump / Transgender in Military / Duckworth Interview / A Discussion

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  07:00:30 pm — 07:16:10 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) President Trump's sweeping ban on transgender people in the military introduced; Trump tweets quoted; details given about the estimate cost per year for treating transgenders, the politics behind the ban. [White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee SANDERS - says the Obama policy is expensive & disruptive, so he concluded it erodes military readiness: it is a military decision.] [June 16, 15, 21, 2016, TRUMP - says LGBT is starting to like Donald Trump, who will protect gays.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Earlier interview held with wounded helicopter pilot Senator Tammy Duckworth about the ban. [DUCKWORTH - says the president blunders forward again, that thousands of transgender people have served in the military, that this is about appealing to his base, how his cost estimates are wrong; criticizes Trump's actions; promises to fight on their {any military men & women} behalf.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Matt Lewis, Dana Bash, Kirsten Powers, Jeffrey Toobin, & American Urban Radio Networks' April Ryan about Trump & the transgender ban. [BASH, TOOBIN, LEWIS, POWERS, RYAN - offer views on how this banning action defies logic other than an appeal to the base & it was done via random tweets, the coming lawsuits, but the courts give the military deference over policy, how this comes out of nowhere with no rationale other than political, how transgender people have become the bogeyman for conservatives, the role of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in bringing in conservatives to Trump.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Chantix; Tums; Mercedes-Benz; Aleve; Weather Tech; Geico; Fractvideo.

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  07:16:10 pm — 07:20:40 pm

• Trump / Transgender in Military / Beck Interview / A Discussion

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  07:20:40 pm — 07:29:20 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Earlier interview held with former Navy SEAL Kristin Beck, who is transgender, about President Trump's ban on transgender people in the military. [BECK - says we have served on the frontlines, so there will be a lot of repercussions.]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Christine Quinn & Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord about Trump's ban. [QUINN, LORD - offer views on the president's action being political despite what he said previously, how this issue does not resonate; debate the military paying for Viagra.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: ancestry.com; Breo; snhu.edu; Reelz/"Scandal Made Me Famous: Monica Lewinsky"; Gillette.

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  07:29:20 pm — 07:32:50 pm

• Senate / Health Care Bill / A Discussion

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  07:32:50 pm — 07:39:30 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper; Capitol Hill: Ryan Nobles) The Republican defection on the Senate health care bill, the changing Democratic plans to deal with the "skinny" repeal of Obamacare, what comes next with a final debate & then what the Democrats will do discussed.

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's Dana Bash, Kirsten Powers, Trump supporter Jason Miller about the health care bill. [BASH, POWERS, MILLER - offer views on whether the "skinny" bill will pass or not & where some senators will stand, how we are getting "bamboozled" by not being able to get a bill through the Republican Senate, how the current system {Obamacare} will not work.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: T-Mobile; Lexus; Humira; Allstate; Choice Hotels; CNN "Declassified"; Great America Alliance; CNN "The Nineties"

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  07:39:30 pm — 07:43:20 pm

• Trump / Sessions / "Loyalty" A Discussion

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  07:43:20 pm — 07:48:20 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) The ongoing criticism from President Trump of Attorney General Jeff Sessions introduced; Trump tweets quoted. [Seven times, TRUMP - speaks about "loyalty."]

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio & "Politico" magazine's Jack Pitney about Trump & loyalty. [PITNEY, D'ANTONIO - offer views on Trump's entire long career of betrayal, how Trump's view of loyalty flows in one direction & has stiffed many in business & politics, how there is a sense of loyalty in politics, how Sessions had security as a senator, whose support brought in votes for Trump.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: Tums; Dr. Scholl's; Men's Wearhouse; trulicity.

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  07:48:20 pm — 07:51:10 pm

• Trump / Transgender in Military / Beck Interview / A Discussion

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  07:51:10 pm — 07:56:30 pm

  (Studio: Anderson Cooper) Earlier interview continued with former Navy SEAL Kristin Beck, who is transgender about President Trump's ban on transgender people in the military; scenes from a CNN 2014 documentary on Beck & photos of him/her shown. [BECK - says no one knows what will happen after being blindsided by the ban telling transgender people they are unworthy to serve, defends the capabilities of experienced military who are transgender; states diversity makes the military stronger.]

• Upcoming Items & COMMERCIALS: ancestry.com; "Dunkirk" Nexium; Geico; Honda; CNN "The History of Comedy"; Entyvio.

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  07:56:30 pm — 08:00:30 pm

• Start of second hour of AC360

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  08:00:30 pm — 08:00:30 pm