Trump has said in the past he barely watches Seth Meyers, but yesterday he was posting about watching the show for the second time in the last few weeks — and it was a rerun:

[email protected] when I asked him if he considers Schumer a leader of the future of Democrats: “That’s an interesting question … he’s a reasonable amount older than I am. So it’s hard to say about somebody —what is he, in his 70s? — ‘leader of the future.’” www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

NEW from me and @mkraju.bsky.social: How Schumer is reacting to the trouble he knows he’s facing in DC as leader and back home in New York when he’s up in 2028. “It’s his last term, and he may be the only one on Earth unaware of it,” one House Dem from NY told me. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

FIFA, which faced allegations of corruption for awarding the World Cup to Russia and Qatar, is now going to have its own peace prize—which the FIFA president is teasing may be awarded to Trump in December: apnews.com/article/fifa...

NEW on CNN: Inside the “absolute shitshow” at the Heritage Foundation. Where staff are in open revolt, a major donor bailing, and resurfaced deleted tweets from Kevin Roberts show him praising Pence and seemingly bashing Trump on Jan. 6th. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

“I’ve got to get Adams and Sliwa out and then I’m going to win,” Cuomo kept saying, according to an operative who spoke with him but didn’t sign on to his campaign. “I know who to call, I know who to put pressure on.” He had no other real plan. www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

Bernie Sanders was walking out of the bathroom at Trevor Noah’s podcast studio in Sept when an aide played him the video of Adams staying in the race. “All right!” he said, pumping his fist. “He’s still going to drop out, but this is very good news.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

on their call Saturday, Mamdani told Obama that his 2008 race speech was the template for his own Islamophobia speech two weeks ago, which he saw as a key moment for his campaign. (He had also considered an anti-semitism speech earlier, but passed on it.) www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

The secret meetings of top NYC Dems that began in November 2023. Mamdani’s promises when he launched. Sanders’s behind the scenes warnings. The Obama call details. What Mamdani thinks of Lander. My story on what you didn’t know was coming together: www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

If polls hold, Spanberger is looking more likely to clear 50% in her more swingy state than Mamdani is in a city so Democratic that only 6 of 51 city council members are Republicans. Dems nationally say that matters a lot for thinking what comes next. www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

Ruben Gallego, who won his Arizona seat last year running far ahead of Harris, said he sees Spanberger & Sherrill as more the path forward for Dems than Mamdani. But “Look at the Republicans, look at those weirdos, man. They have a weird span of things.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

Spanberger to me on Mamdani: “People do want us to be aspirational and dream big. They also don’t want us to lie to them." When Democrats make "promise after promise" and then say they couldn't get it done "vulnerable people believed you." www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

NEW from me: I asked Spanberger what she thought of Mamdani's saying he's won the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. “Then maybe,” she said, “he should be a Democrat.” + much more on the sharply different paths out of 2025 coming from VA & NYC www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

after months of focus on Biden’s autopen pardons:

A child born the day before Obama won in 2008 will be eligible to vote by next year’s midterms - another factor that’s driving the calibrations as the former president tries to figure out his place in the current political moment: www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...

James Talarico on the call he had with Obama, especially when they talked about hope seeming to fade for Dems: “I definitely sensed an urgency that he felt that he had a responsibility to help the next generation of leaders be able to meet the moment.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...

NEW from me: Obama used to be confident America would survive Trump. He’s not so sure anymore. “The harm is so profound that this calls for both a different approach generally, and a different involvement specifically by President Obama,” Eric Holder said www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...

The conventional wisdom in DC is that it will take “a crisis” to end the shutdown—but it’s a question of what counts as “a crisis”: something like major flight delays b/c of controller shortages or something like the millions who won’t be able to buy groceries w/o government assistance.

NEW from me: a rising DSA sees major inspiration from Mamdani. Meetings are full. Other offices are being won. They’re dominating conversations. But actual ranks are still small. The NYC chapter has doubled since Mamdani’s primary win…to now about 11k. www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...

Sen. Chris Murphy, first politician to speak at the DC No Kings rally: “There aren’t establishment Republicans riding to our rescue. The mainstream media isn’t riding to our rescue. There are no oligarchs riding to our rescue. It is up to us to save us.”

Missed the first NYC mayoral general election debate but want to know what happened and who struggled where in the Mamdani-Sliwa-Cuomo face-off? Takeaways from Gloria Pazmino and me: www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

the first NYC mayoral debate is about to begin -- catch up on what's going on with the race and how tonight factors in with my story from today here: www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

NEW from me - ahead of the first NYC mayoral debate, the state of the wacky race with under three weeks to go: Cuomo hopes for a chance, Mamdani hopes for a mandate: If there’s such energy for Mamdani, Cuomo insisted, “Then why isn’t he at 50%? Boom!” www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

here are the proposed designs Trump was showing off to rich donors for the massive arch he wants to build in Washington, per images captured by a pool camera:

NEW - 46 year old Seth Moulton launches primary challenge to 79 year old Senator Ed Markey in Massachusetts: “The next generation will keep paying the cost if we don’t change course. This isn’t a fight we can put off for another six years.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

NEW from me - NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declared last night to a rally of over 3,000 supporters that he is leading a “movement that won the battle over the soul of the Democratic Party,” that is much bigger than his bid for City Hall. www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

Obama said he particularly enjoyed a Maron bit when the comedian jokes that progressives annoyed the average American into fascism. “I think this was a fault of some progressive language, was almost asserting a holier-than-thou superiority" www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

Obama on James Talarico, the Texas state rep running for Senate: a “terrific, a really talented young man,” whose podcast appearances show “a certain confidence in your actual convictions to debate and have a conversation w/somebody who disagrees w/you.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

NEW - Obama is @marcmaron's final @WTFpod guest. Lots in there, including ripping into firms, universities & businesses that have made concessions to Trump: “We’re not going to be bullied ... based on some criteria that’s been cooked up by Steve Miller" www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

Kamala Harris: "There's so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they've lost their minds - when in fact, these motherfuckers are crazy." www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...

The speaker of the House suggesting a major shift might be coming after saying he just read a headline on the topic:

Mamdani's statement as a mayoral candidate on the two-year anniversary of Oct. 7 calling it a "horrific war crime" & criticizing Israel and America in the aftermath vs Mamdani's statement from two years ago (on the day after) referring to "ongoing violence" & criticizing Israel:

yesterday, Stephen Miller claimed "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand-to-hand combat every night to come and go from their building" in Portland. here's what Shimon Prokupecz saw in Portland of what those interactions look like: www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Pritzker also speaking out against the NGA over National Guard: actions “that sidestep, eliminate or otherwise reduce Governors’ authority within their states and territories undermine longstanding partnerships, precedence, military readiness and operational efficacy.”

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

Jeffries, who has been getting more confrontational with Trump, on last night’s video from the President mocking him: “say it to my face”

Massive sales show how Harris’s book is landing differently than in the insider political world, which has largely responded by saying they hate the book and she should go away. More on that, and her take on it from our interview, from my story here: www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/p...

Harris’s 1st draft was sent back to her to add more interesting material. Then the book was on its 5th printing by the day after its release. “It’s very nice to have something up there with a romantasy novel,” the Barnes & Noble CEO told me re sales. www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/p...

“I don’t think this is about nostalgia,” Harris told me. “I wrote the book with the intention that this would be about remembering where we were, only for the purposes of contextualizing this moment, and then thinking about where we have to go.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/p...

NEW from me: what does Mamdani actually believe about police, beyond his platform now? His campaign declined to answer specifics including re new video we found when he calls for “abolition” & police union “power is built on the murder of Black people” www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/p...

NEW - Kamala Harris to me this afternoon: “It’s painful to see. I mean what’s happening with Comey: Are you fucking kidding me? The United States Department of Justice?” www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

As happened at an Obama event last week, Harris tonight in New York was interrupted by protesters screaming about Gaza. As Obama did, she responded in part that she doesn’t have any foreign policy power right now. Protesters like these have not been at any Trump or Vance events.

At first book event in NY, Harris is interrupted by screaming pro-Palestinian protestors. When another woman screamed back, Harris says, “Let’s bring the temperature down—unlike the current president.” Then: “What’s happening right now in Gaza is outrageous and breaks my heart”

Mamdani called Kamala Harris this afternoon to thank her for her support, two people familiar with the call tell me. Harris told her New York needs to be successful and that means he needs to be successful. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

Mamdani orbit to those who question whether he can govern as mayor, via top adviser Morris Katz: Their campaign was “dismissed by every pundit to a historic victory & it will be that same culture of excellence that delivers the change this city deserves.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

NEW from me: Obama pivoted from praise to a warning. You’ve got the inspiration part down, the former president told Zohran Mamdani, but there’s a lot riding on governing. ...inside the success & struggles as Mamdani starts to think about running NYC www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

Obama: “When I hear not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political opponents vermin, enemies, who need to be ‘targeted,’ that speaks to a broader problem that we have right now & something that we’re going to have to grapple with” www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/p...

The GOP president and the GOP nominee for NYC mayor together in 1986. “He looks to me and he goes, ‘Curtis, what are we gonna do?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, Donald, you’re not a conservative, I’m not a conservative.’ He goes, ‘Let’s make the best of it.’” www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/p...

the pushback Pritzker led -- via the bully pulpit and via building a united response among political, business and community leaders -- appears to have convinced Trump to back off plans for Chicago that he'd been posting and even fundraising about: www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...