Hundreds are attempting to climb Everest despite multiple deaths already this season. Jon Krakauer, who was on the journey that inspired the film 'Everest,' joins The Lead.
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#climbing #everest
'The early parts of any outbreak are most essential. And unfortunately, that's not a good time for on-the-job training.' Dr. Ashish Jha joins @jaketapper to react to new CNN reporting that a penile implant specialist with a history of far-right comments led the federal government's hantavirus presser this week.
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#hantavirus #outbreak
As "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's" final show approaches, CNN's Jake Tapper lays out the timeline of CBS and its parent company Paramount's 2025 merger, President Trump's FCC's approvals and when the announcement of Colbert's cancellation took place.
Paramount is awaiting regulatory approval to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN's parent company.
‘I have no doubt the Democratic Party will unite before November. These midterm primaries are really, really tough, and I think as we get closer to November and people fully understand the implications of this race and in this moment, they're gonna get excited.’ Denise Powell joins The Lead after her democratic primary win in Nebraska.
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#democrats #nebraska #midterm #vote
‘We all wish we knew exactly what happened down at the kennels on the night of, of June 7, but we don't. We know that Alex [Murdaugh] didn't do it.’ Alex Murdaugh's attorney, Jim Griffin tells @jaketapper
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#alexmurdaugh #truecrime
Richard Glossip's lawyer finds out on air that the former death row inmate leaves an Oklahoma jail for the first time in 30 years
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#deathrow #wrongfulconviction
'That meddlesome comedian has been rid. Who's next? And how long will corporate America's chieftains sully their reputations to please one leader?' @jaketapper reports on the timeline of Stephen Colbert's last show and President Trump's criticism of the host.
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#donaldtrump #stephencolbert
CNN's Jake Tapper reported in 2024 on the end of a program that had allowed Gold Star families to buy flowers for the graves of loved ones killed in action abroad.
Now, ahead of Memorial Day, the government has restored it.
‘I was worried about my body not my mind… I believe I got all the strength from the people outside fighting for me’. CNN’s Danny Freeman reports on the case of Carlos Della Valle after his return home to Pennsylvania after months in ICE custody.
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#ice #immigration
‘That was the first sort of sign of anxiety that I heard in his voice’, The New Yorker writer Akash Kapur told @jaketapper about exchanging messages with a scientist who was on the cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak and when that scientist learned about the first deaths.