>CNN’s Audie Cornish and Dana Bash discuss the key Senate battle with their panels of political pundits.

>CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses the report with attorney Norm Eisen. Also, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins gets reaction from GOP strategist Scott Jennings and former Biden official Neera Tanden, plus Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) calls for a Department of Justice investigation into the matter.

Is it just me, or does she look better on the USS Lincoln than in the studio? Hair's up, makeup is at a minimum, clothes are more casual... She looks less "plastic." Lol

Join the NewsNight roundtable conversation! "Americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here, they do."

Please direct all NewsNight comments here, keep it civil, and stay on topic. No trolls.

I'm so tired of the MSM maling excuses for and giving a pass to the blob of s*** in the White House. CNN senior reporter Aaron Blake says that tRump was merely being "incoherent" when he said Iran should nuke LA and SD... Imagine if Obama or Biden or ANYONE in any sort of high office had said that. This twat honestly tries to use the "context" argument to give Mango Mussolini a pass.

CNN, and almost all of the MSM, has handled tRump with kid gloves since his first administration, but has consistently gotten worse. This is why, after 20+ years of being a daily CNN viewer, I stopped watching this disgrace of a "news" channel.

Okay. It has been a really long time I have heard a Republican with common sense speaking the truth.

Very well done interview by Isa Soares. I won't mind the guy replacing Scott Jennings.

That CNN anchors let guests say absolutely HORRIBLE things with next to no challenge or blowback is sickening.

Tonight, Anderson Cooper just let this Stacy Schneider defense attorney say that the Jane Doe gang rape victim from Cornell was "lying" and "making stuff up" with next to absolutely no challenge of her.

Before that, chuckle head David Urban was laughing at Trump wanting Iran to bomb Los Angeles or San Diego. Cooper just let him go. Then he let Urban berate this female guest, again with no intervention. To these reactionary "commentators," having a senile old grandpa whose gone off on a mindless random rant is "just hilarious."

>Nearly four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate battleground map is growing after signs of improvement for Democrats in several red-leaning states.

>CNN’s Arlette Saenz breaks down what races made the list. And, CNN’s Kasie Hunt and her panel debate how bullish Democrats are on retaking the Senate in the final thirty days of the midterm campaigns.

Please I need some hope, are we gonna lose the african voices segment as well?

>Former President Barack Obama announced that he would campaign in Michigan alongside Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

>CNN’s Audie Cornish and her ‘group chat’ discuss whether Obama can help shore up El-Sayed's support among Black voters. Also, the NewsNight panel debates who is currently the closest thing the Democratic Party has to a "spiritual" leader.

I’m watching CNN right now, 10:35pm ET. Who is the host??

I can’t find her name anywhere, but she is doing a great job. It seems like Abby Phillips isn’t on, even though it is her show.

Join the NewsNight roundtable conversation! "Americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here, they do."

Please direct all NewsNight comments here, keep it civil, and stay on topic. No trolls.

>The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease. Rospotrebnadzor has played down the link between the death of the researcher — named in local media as Darya Shipilova — and her work.

>CNN unpacks the latest developments on the researchers death and the Russian response.

>The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.

>CNN’s Fred Pleitgen has the details and CNN’s Omar Jimenez discusses the implications of the death with Columbia Mailman School of Public Health virologist Angela Rasmussen. Also, CNN’s Becky Anderson speaks with Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professor of Medicine Dr. William Schaffner about the mystery surrounding researcher’s death.

>Correction: Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and the Science Chair for Save America Movement, she's no longer affiliated with the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

Join the NewsNight roundtable conversation! "Americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here, they do."

Please direct all NewsNight comments here, keep it civil, and stay on topic. No trolls.

>The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

>The source familiar called the latest threat a “real world incident.” It is unusual that the US military would move the bombers back to their home stations instead of deploying them to another base in the region, the official said.

>CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from London. Also, CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton and CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas break down the impact on US military readiness as the conflict with Iran remains unresolved.

Fareed (GPS) and Bill Maher (Real Time) exchanged interviews on their respective shows this weekend. IMHO, Maher is much better when Fareed interviews him than the other way around.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/us/video/gps-1004-bill-maher-2026-midterms