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Tapper: Platner appears to validate criticism of his self-pity in exit video

CNN’s Jake Tapper takes a look at Graham Platner’s exit video, and how it appears to echo the portrait painted by former girlfriends who accused the Maine Democratic Senate candidate of narcissism, self-pity and refusing to take responsibility.

03:39 • Source: CNN
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Tapper: Platner appears to validate criticism of his self-pity in exit video

CNN’s Jake Tapper takes a look at Graham Platner’s exit video, and how it appears to echo the portrait painted by former girlfriends who accused the Maine Democratic Senate candidate of narcissism, self-pity and refusing to take responsibility.

03:39 • Source: CNN
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China denies Trump’s election interference claims. What now?

President Donald Trump’s claim that China has waged a campaign of interference in US elections threatens to upset a fragile stability between the two powers ahead of an expected visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the US in September. CNN’s Simone McCarthy reports.

01:22 • Source: CNN
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Partner of man fatally shot by ICE agent: 'My daughter asks for papa'

Karolina Rojas -- the partner of Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero -- who was fatally shot by ICE law enforcement on Monday, remembered her partner as a "responsible" man, "devoted" to his family. The couple have a three-year-old daughter.

01:32 • Source: CNN
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Trump claims new intel reveals vulnerabilities in US elections

President Donald Trump in a primetime speech on Thursday alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, though declassified documents his administration released largely discuss vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.

01:17 • Source: CNN
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Leavitt pressed on why no charges have followed Trump’s election fraud claims

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to say whether charges would be filed related to President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday night when asked about it by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

00:28 • Source: CNN
During an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. John Fetterman bluntly warned that he would leave the Democratic Party if it adopts an anti-Israel policy — one of his most direct threats yet amid the first-term Pennsylvanian’s intensifying battle with progressives over the direction of their party.
Fetterman warns he could leave Democratic Party over Israel

During an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. John Fetterman bluntly warned that he would leave the Democratic Party if it adopts an anti-Israel policy — one of his most direct threats yet amid the first-term Pennsylvanian’s intensifying battle with progressives over the direction of their party.

01:30 • Source: CNN
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White House: Teleprompter operator on leave amid insider trading probe

President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez, who’s under investigation for potential insider trading, has been put on administrative leave “without pay,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

00:50 • Source: CNN
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Former DOJ lawyer says she was asked to ‘rubber stamp’ a favor for Trump

Former Department of Justice Lawyer Elizabeth Oyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee that two days after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he fired her for refusing to restore firearm rights for a convicted domestic abuser and friend of President Trump. Oyer says she was pressured to go along with it, but she refused and was fired from her job.

01:08 • Source: CNN