Kaitlan Collins
CNN's Chief White House Correspondent, 9 p.m. Anchor and diehard Alabama fan.
- Pete Buttigieg will also be joining me tonight at 9 p.m. ET.
- Jeffrey Goldberg will join me at 9 p.m. ET tonight. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Trump says he didn't sign Alien Enemies Act. "I don't know when it was signed 'cause I didn't sign it. Other people handled it. But Marco Rubio's done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that." But the proclamation on reads, "BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
- Rebecca Slaughter, the Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission fired by President Trump yesterday, will join me at 9 p.m. ET. tonight.
- Coming up at 9 p.m. ET, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
- As President Trump argues the pardons President Biden issued are null and void -- and the White House seems to walk it back -- I'll be joined by Rep. Jamie Raskin, who received one of those pardons, tonight at 9 p.m. ET.
- Kentucky is the heart of America's bourbon industry. How will a 50% tariff from the EU impact them? I'll speak to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear about it at 9 p.m. ET.
- Elon Musk met with House Republicans tonight about his efforts to slash federal spending and the size of the workforce. We'll speak with one lawmaker who was in the room at 9 p.m. ET.
- Coming up tonight, I’ll sit down with Secretary Rubio at 9 pm ET.
- What happened inside the WH after the Oval shouting match: Trump huddled with his key advisers immediately afterward inside the Oval. According to a White House official, Trump consulted Vance, Rubio, Bessent, etc. That was when Trump decided that Zelensky was "not in a place to negotiate."
- Coming up tonight, I'll sit down with House Speaker Mike Johnson after he pulled off a close win in the House last night, amid major questions about what's next for President Trump's agenda. See you at 9 p.m. ET.
- Coming up tonight at 9 p.m. ET, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
- Elon Musk will be at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow, per the press secretary.
- President Trump has ousted Joint Chiefs Chairman CQ Brown and says he is replacing him with Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Caine. A retired four-star general expressed serious dismay over this move to me tonight, calling it "sadly political and tragic for our nation."
- Coming up tonight, after Trump calls Zelensky a dictator, I'll speak with Fareed Zakaria, Maggie Haberman and GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt. See you at 9 p.m. ET.
- Coming up at 9 p.m. ET, I'll ask Amb. John Bolton for his view of President Trump meeting with President Putin, potentially in Saudi Arabia. Bolton was serving as his national security adviser when he met with Putin in Helsinki.
- News — President Trump had a call with Russian President Putin this morning, I'm told.
- "Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...
- Coming up at 9 p.m. ET, Sen. Chris Murphy will join me as a federal judge says the Trump White House has failed to comply with a court order.
- Coming up at 9 p.m. ET, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, whose state is home to nearly 6% of the federal workforce.
- "The Gaza thing has never worked," President Trump says in the Oval Office. "If we could find the right piece of land, pieces of land, and build them some really nice places...I think that would be a lot better than going back to Gaza."
- Elon Musk is officially serving as a special government employee, according to a White House official. Per a DOJ summary, a special government employee is "anyone who works, or is expected to work, for the government for 130 days or less in a 365-day period." Musk is not being paid, I am told.
- Officials have just held a short briefing on the plane crash in Philadelphia. The FAA has just updated its numbers to say six people were on board the aircraft. We'll have the latest updates at 9 p.m. ET.
- We're live tonight at 9 p.m. ET outside of Reagan National airport with the latest on the airliner-helicopter crash.
- Coming up tonight at 9 pm ET, I’ll speak with Sen. Elizabeth Warren about her explosive exchange with RFK Jr. today.
- Trump signed a settlement agreement today ending his lawsuit against Meta after the company suspended his account after Jan. 6. This requires Meta to pay out roughly $25 mil, $22 mil of which will go to a fund for his forthcoming presidential library. www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/b...
- News — The Office of Management and Budget has just issued a memo rescinding the federal funding freeze following a lot confusion and calls to the White House about its impact.
- Coming up tonight at 9 p.m. ET, I'll speak with Trump's border czar Tom Homan.
- The White House releases First Lady Melania Trump's official portrait by photographer Régine Mahaux.
- Pete Hegseth just arrived on Capitol Hill ahead of his scheduled confirmation vote in the next hour. Senate Republicans and the White House are expecting a tight vote amid some uncertainty. We'll have a live report at 9 p.m. ET with our reporters and two senators.
- News: President Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci's security deal that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar tells me. It was pulled last night. Fauci has since hired his own private security that he'll pay for himself.
- I'll speak with John Bolton, who also had his security detail yanked, at 9 p.m. ET. www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/p...
- The federal judges who handled hundreds of cases from Jan. 6th are pushing back against President Trump’s mass pardons, rebuking the newly forgiven as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the attack. www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...
- Coming up tonight at 9 p.m. ET, Sen. Bernie Sanders. We'll get his reaction to the first 24 hours of the Trump presidency.
- NEWS: Within hours of taking office, President Trump terminated the Secret Service detailed that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton. The Justice Department charged an Iranian national in 2022 for plotting to kill him. www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
- Before he leaves office for the final time, President Biden plans to pen President-elect Trump a letter, following a modern presidential tradition, I've learned tonight. www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/p...
- Former Vice President Mike Pence is now confirmed to attend President-elect Trump's inauguration Monday, a person familiar with his travel confirms to CNN. He had been planning to attend but it was unconfirmed until now, given he was traveling in Asia.
- President-elect Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis played golf together today, a source familiar with the outing tells CNN.
- "I'm not going to be out of sight or out of mind," President Biden says when asked about plans for his post-presidential life.
- The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, has declined to stop Trump's sentencing tomorrow, meaning it will happen. John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberals on the court.
- "We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," Trump says during remarks from Mar-a-Lago.
- Back in the chair tonight following a busy day in Washington. See you at 9 p.m. ET!
- News — I'm told Trump spoke with TikTok CEO Shou Chew tonight after the incoming president asked the Supreme Court to pause a ban on TikTok set to go into effect the day before he takes office. The two men met in person at Mar-a-Lago about two weeks ago. www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/p...
- Musk and Ramaswamy, the co-chairs of Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficiency, are facing backlash from the MAGA-base and others within the GOP after encouraging offering more visas to highly-skilled and foreign-born immigrant workers. Our segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZEK...
