Trump Administration Officials Brief Key Lawmakers On Venezuela Strike

The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is “discussing a range of options” to acquire Greenland making clear that using the US military is not off the table. Rep. Jake Auchincloss joins Anderson to discuss. Prominent lawyer George Conway joins Anderson to talk about his candidacy for an open house seat in New York, which is heavily democratic and encompasses most of central Manhattan. Conway is running as a Democrat. He is a former Republican who gained a lot of attention criticizing President Trump while his-then wife Kellyanne Conway was a Trump advisor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump administration officials briefed a select group of bipartisan lawmakers on Venezuela in a classified setting this evening. One person who was in the briefing, Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, joins Anderson to discuss what was learned. And former CIA Director and head of U.S. Central Command, retired General David Petraeus, gives his perspective on the historic U.S. military operation leading to Maduro’s arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He's only been in office for two days, but New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already at the center of a political storm, after revoking his predecessor's recent executive order, including a directive that expanded the definition of antisemitism and another that barred city employees and agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel. Plus, it's the most enduring aviation mystery since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, tonight a new search is underway for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, almost 12 years after it vanished.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She fought what she called a battle with her blood and let the world in on the fight. Tatiana Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy's granddaughter. Her courage in the face of a rare form of Leukemia, and the legacy of public service and family tragedy she sadly now joins. Plus, previewing Zohran Mamdani's history-making inauguration, just after the ball drops tomorrow night, as New York's first Muslim Mayor, and one of the youngest ever to serve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Russian threats over a claimed attack on one of Vladimir Putin's homes that Ukraine says did not happen, and President Trump says he does not like. Plus, China's live-fire war games around Taiwan. What the President says about the possibility that this is not a drill.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look back at Rob Reiner’s legacy and the movies we can’t stop quoting. Plus, CNN investigates scammers using phones in the high tech crypto economy. Also, the remarkable painter Amy Sherald on her rise from obscurity to art world stardom.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN's Katelyn Polantz has learned the Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, who serves on the Oversight Committee, joins to talk about the latest developments.  Plus, Julie K. Brown, award-winning investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, whose work was instrumental in exposing the extent of Epstein's crimes, talks about the information that is coming out and the information that is being redacted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States is pursuing another oil tanker through the Caribbean, and President Trump says "it'd be smart" for Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to leave power. Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton weighs in on Trump's escalating pressure campaign on Venezuela. Plus, Anderson and Andy Cohen giggle through their New Year’s Eve memories as the look forward to hosting again from New York City’s Times Square.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump DOJ releases a trove of the Epstein files, but much of them are heavily redacted and many have yet to be released, which defies the law passed to get them into the public eye. John King speaks to one of the law's co-authors tonight. Plus, new details on that multi-day, multi-state manhunt for the suspected Brown University shooter that ended up with him dead in a storage facility. What connections he had to the school and to the MIT professor he's believed to have murdered, as well.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Live images from Salem, New Hampshire where law enforcement has converged on a storage facility and a vehicle which may have been used by the Brown University shooting suspect. Police are also investigating potential ties between the Brown shooting and this week’s killing of a MIT professor in Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices