@CNN Senior White House Correspondent. Former elementary school teacher, Oklahoma native, ranch dressing enthusiast.

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Full guest list, via the WH: President Donald J. Trump First Lady Melania Trump President Xi Jinping Madame Peng Liyuan Vice President JD Vance Second Lady Usha Vance Secretary of State Marco Rubio Jeanette Rubio, Spouse of the Secretary of State Chief of Staff Susie Wiles U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue Bonnie Perdue, Spouse of the US Ambassador to China Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent John Freeman, Spouse of the Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Ambassador Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative Marlo Greer, Spouse of Ambassador Greer Cai Qi, CPC Political Bureau Standing Committee Member, Chief of Staff to President Xi Wang Yi, CPC Political Bureau Central Committee Member He Lifeng, CPC Political Bureau Central Committee, Vice Premier of State Council Zheng Shanjie, Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce Ma Zhaoxu, Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ambassador Xie Feng, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Ms. Ivanka Trump Mr. Eric Trump Ms. Lara Trump Ms. Tiffany Trump Mr. Michael Boulos Mr. Viktor Knavs Ms. Arabella Kushner Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, CEO Lori Huang, Spouse of Jensen Huang Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, CEO Dr. Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices, CEO Daniel Lin, Spouse of Lisa Su Tim Cook, Chairman of the Board of Apple John F.W. Rogers, Goldman Sachs EVP and Secretary to the Board Lynn Martin, President of the NYSE Linda Mills, President of New York University Eric Yuan, Zoom, CEO Tang Fangyu Director, Central Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee Minister of Finance Mr. Lan Fo'an Mme. Wang Dan, Wife of Ambassador Xie Feng Zhou Hongxu Deputy Director, General Office of the CPC Central Committee Director, Central Security Bureau Lyu Luhua, Secretary to the President Hong Lei, Assistant Foreign Minister Director General, Protocol Department Cai Wei, Assistant Foreign Minister Director General, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs Mao Ning, Director General, Department of Press, Communication and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhang Quan, Secretary to Madame Peng Zhang Yongchao, Deputy Director General, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kelly Ortberg, Boeing, CEO Larry Fink, Blackrock, CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone, CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI, CEO Greg Brockman, OpenAI, President & Co-Founder Anna Brockman, Wife of Greg Brockman Dr. Miriam Adelson, Las Vegas Sand, Controlling Shareholder Sergey Brin, Google/Alphabet, Co-Founder Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, Partner of Sergey Brin Satya Nadella, Microsoft, Chairman & CEO Jim Taiclet, Lockheed Martin, Chairman, President & CEO Sundar Pichai, Google, CEO Larry Culp, GE Aerospace, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron, CEO Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm, CEO Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Chairman Lauren Sanchez-Bezos, Spouse of Jeff Bezos Jeff Yass, TikTok Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan, CEO Michael Dell, Dell, CEO Mary Barra, General Motors, CEO David Solomon, Goldman Sachs, CEO Jane Fraser, Citi, CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX & Tesla, CEO Darren Woods, ExxonMobil, CEO Chief Justice John Roberts, Chief Supreme Court Justice Jane Sullivan Roberts, Chief Supreme Court Justice Spouse Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court Justice Jesse Barrett, Supreme Court Justice Spouse Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, Spouse of Supreme Court Justice Speaker Mike Johnson, United States House of Representatives, Louisiana Kelly Johnson, Spouse of Speaker Mike Johnson Bret Baier, FOX News, American Journalist and Host Amy Baier, Spouse of Brett Baier Laura Ingraham, FOX News, American Television Presenter Representative Richard McCormick, United States House of Representatives, Georgia Jesse Waters, FOX News Host Emma Waters, Spouse of Jesse Waters David Ellison, Paramount Skydance, CEO Susan Dell, Spouse to Michael Dell Kevin Warsh, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jane Lauder, Spouse to Kevin Warsh Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce Allison Lutnick, Spouse to Secretary Lutnick Director John Ratcliffe, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michelle Ratcliffe, Spouse to Director Ratcliffe Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy to Middle East Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Assistant to the President Katie Miller, Spouse of Stephen Miller Dan Scavino, Deputy Chief of Staff, Assistant to the President Erin Scavino, Spouse to Dan Scavino Attorney General Todd Blanche, Attorney General of the United States Kristine Blanche, Spouse to Attorney General Todd Blanche Meredith O’Rourke, The O’Rourke Group Secretary Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health & Human Services Secretary Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary of Interior Kathryn Burgum, Spouse to Secretary Burgum Secretary Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation Rachel Campos-Duffy, Spouse of Sean Duffy Director Russell Vought, Director of Office of Management & Budget Administrator Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling, Acting Secretary of Labor Brad Gerstner, Altimeter, CEO Sangeeta Mehrota, Spouse of Sanjay Mehrotra Anthony Barra, Spouse of Mary Barra Kathy Woods, Spouse of Darren Woods Albert Bourla, Pfizer, CEO David Sacks, Co-chair, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Small Business Administrator Jeff Sprecher, Spouse of Kelly Loeffler Katie Simpson, Fiancé to Brad Gerstner Representative Jason Smith, United States House of Representatives, Missouri Senator Steven Daines, United States Senator, Montana General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Director Jay Clayton, Director of Office of the Director of National Intelligence Bernard Arnault, LVMH, CEO Alexandre Arnault, Son of Bernard Arnault Ryan McInerey, Visa, CEO Michael Miebach, Mastercard, CEO Sandra Lynn Ellison, Spouse of David Ellison Cheryl Hines, Spouse of Secretary Kennedy
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Putin will be welcomed back to the U.S. for the second time in little over a year: “We’ve invited President Putin to the G20. We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with the president but with other world leaders. We hope that’s an invitation he’ll accept,” Secretary of State Rubio told reporters here at the UNGA.
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President Trump on his red carpet welcome of Chinese president Xi Jinping: “he looks strong, vibrant, and fit”
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“Less than seven weeks before the midterm elections, the political environment has deteriorated so badly for Republicans that the battlefield now extends deep into states and districts Mr. Trump carried three times, often by double digits.”
NEW: GOP strategists are privately discussing whether the Georgia Senate race is out of reach — GA only Senate race GOP getting outspent — Vance in KS — New GOP super PAC in NE — Trump $$$ in deep red districts W/ Reid Epstein on GOP's deteriorating map nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/po…
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President Trump says interest rates should be lowered, but stops short of directly criticizing Kevin Warsh in his first response to Fed raising rates.
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Members of Russian intelligence services network charged with conspiring to finance terrorism and commit murder for hire in the United States: “We will not tolerate efforts to finance terrorist activities and engage in acts of violence—particularly when these activities are commissioned by state actors and touch American soil,” said U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald. @TheJusticeDept @DOJNatSec @FBI @NewYorkFBI @FBIWFO justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/mem…
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Trump’s planned super PAC spending (1/2) #MISen — $18.2M #OHSen — $15.1M #AKSen — $11.3M #NHSen — $10.8M #TXSen — $10.8M #NY17 — $8.8M #FL25 — $6.8M #NCSen — $6.1M #MI04 — $5.3M #ME02 — $4.6M #TX35 — $3.6M #NJ07 — $3.3M #NC01 — $2.4M #GASen — $2.2M #OH10 — $2.2M #TX15 — $2.0M #NC11 — $2.0M #MTSen — $1.9M #AZ01 — $1.8M #WA03 — $1.8M #MI10 — $1.6M #MI07 — $1.6M #FL14 — $1.5M #IA01 — $1.1M #PA10 — $1.1M #CA22 — $1.0M #CO08 — $973K #IA02 — $934K #AZ06 — $849K #NM02 — $816K #PA08 — $732K #CO05 — $719K #KY06 — $637K #TX34 — $546K #IASen — $544K #CO03 — $507K
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.@KristenHCNN: “Earlier today, President Trump said that there was new evidence in the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. He said it was a Democratic plot. Moments later, Kash Patel testified that the shooter wasn’t speaking to anyone other than his parents. Can you please explain both how this was a Democratic plot and what this new evidence is? And a second question, which is in the same post, he said that Christopher Wray should be punished for his lack of oversight during this investigation. Is the Justice Department considering bringing charges against Chris Wray?” Attorney General Todd Blanche: “So, that — the Department of Justice doesn’t punish, by the way. But so, look, I — I was with President Trump during the time period before and after the attempted — assassination attempt on his life, and he was shot. He was a victim. There was an innocent man killed. There were other people who were very seriously injured when that happened. What President Trump said today about the new information and this new information is information that — that we found, that the FBI found, that produced to — to the Senate in response to inquiries that they had. It is new information about the shooter and about his background, about his history, and that’s stuff that we didn’t know before. So, that’s the new information. As far as the President’s frustration with the FBI, I was there with him; I lived it. I mean, you have a situation where — where it’s not really clear what the leadership of the FBI were doing in the weeks and months ahead of the attempted assassination to protect President Trump. That’s the same organization that was simultaneously trying to put him in prison until he dies. So — so his frustration and concern about what the former director was doing is something that is not new. He said that for a very long time, I was with him during the investigation and trying, you know, before he was elected President, trying to understand what happened and why. And — and Director Patel has — has undertaken a Herculean effort to go through all the documents and understand what was missed, if anything, and to provide anything that hadn’t come forward to the American people — to the American people, and that’s what he’s done.”
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AG Todd Blanche says there's new information on Butler, PA shooter's background,  but wouldn't address President Trump’s claim the assassination attempt was a "Democrat plot." “It is new information about the shooter and about his background, about his history. And that’s stuff that we didn’t know before. So that’s the new information,” Blanche told CNN’s @KristenhCNN during a Rose Garden press conference when asked about Trump’s comment.
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Support for Trump is down across all age groups, but Millennial disapproval really worries his operation They’re the biggest voting block & are most likely to have young families It’s a key to understanding his convention speech & his midterm messaging axios.com/2026/09/11/vance-s…
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Online influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody in the US while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom to face rape and human trafficking charges, a federal judge in Miami has ruled.
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President Trump says US gas prices are unlikely to fall before November’s midterm elections, an acknowledgment of continued domestic fallout tied to his war with Iran. “Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward." Comes as global benchmark oil price topped $100 a barrel once again.
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Trump's departure to Dallas for midterms convention a bit delayed because of the inflatable slide on the AF1 gifted from Qatar. "They're checking the slide," Trump told us. "They want to make sure everything works perfectly."
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The reservations by MAGA Inc.'s affiliated super PAC, No Going Back: $14.9 million in Michigan. $11.1 million in Ohio. $9.7 million in New Hampshire. $7.7 million in Alaska. $1.9 million in North Carolina. $1.3 million in Georgia. Per @AdImpact_Pol
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Trump gave WH aides Natalie Harp, Margo Martin, and Chamberlin Harris $45,000 and Walt Nauta $20,000 in cash as a holiday gift, public financial disclosure forms confirm (h/t @kristincbrown)
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When Corey Lewandowski was at the Department of Homeland Security, he approached senior Qatari officials with a proposal: Hire me on the side. He told Qataris he could help with any issues that fell under the department’s purview, such as visas, and made a similar proposal to the UAE. Both turned him down. Read this story by @tparti @jdawsey1 @MHackman @summer_said: wsj.com/politics/policy/core…
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NEW — The much-awaited MAGA Inc spending is here. First $10 million just got recorded, in Texas. For TV and digital ads to help Paxton.
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