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00:00Let's go out front.
00:03And good evening.
00:04I'm Erin Burnett.
00:05And out front tonight, we begin with breaking news.
00:07A major oil port believed to have been hit by Iran up in flames.
00:11Let's show you this new video that we have obtained.
00:13It shows the crucial port in the UAE on fire.
00:17Explosions rocking one of the wealthiest cities in the world, in the UAE as well, in Dubai.
00:22Now, the UAE put out these numbers.
00:24They said that Iran fired 19 missiles and drones at their country today.
00:28They say that broke down to 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and four drones.
00:33Sources are telling CNN that an Israeli Iron Dome air defense system was used to intercept
00:39what is now one of the largest attacks since the ceasefire.
00:42So I guess they're still calling it a ceasefire.
00:45But when you're talking about that number of cruise missiles coming in, it's hard to call it that.
00:49Iran also targeted U.S. warships today.
00:51And the commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Brad Cooper, told reporters, and I quote him,
00:57All right, that exchange comes after Trump's new push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,
01:01which has been closed for more than 60 days, is ongoing.
01:04Trump now says the U.S. military will guide ships through the strait.
01:08They say they're going to have guided missile destroyers, more than 100 aircraft, drones,
01:12and 15,000 service members.
01:13And that's really crucial.
01:1415,000 American sailors with their lives on the line.
01:18Now, according to the U.S. military, two U.S. flagged vessels made it through today.
01:22The Danish shipping company Maersk confirmed that one of its ships traveled through the strait
01:27while being protected by the U.S. military.
01:29But, of course, three ships is not even a proverbial drop in the bucket.
01:33And the markets are not convinced about Trump's plan in the strait.
01:36Oil prices now up, again, another 4 percent, $112 a barrel, the highest since 2022.
01:42And if the situation isn't resolved soon,
01:45the top oil market experts predict U.S. gas could hit $5 a gallon.
01:49And at some point soon, everybody, we're going to start an issue hitting where it's not just about prices.
01:54It's actually going to be about availability and shortages.
01:58Kristen Holmes is out front live outside the White House.
02:00And, Kristen, what is the latest you're learning there about what Trump plans to do?
02:04I mean, we look at the image.
02:06People are talking about a ceasefire and whether it's in effect or not.
02:09But when you talk about that many cruise missiles hitting the UAE today,
02:13it's pretty hard to call it a ceasefire.
02:15All right, Kristen, thank you very much.
02:17And everyone is here with me.
02:19So, Seth, Trump asked tonight about that ceasefire, right?
02:21And he responded, well, if it's over.
02:23And he said, well, I can't tell you that, as Kristen's reporting.
02:26But obviously, you have a port where you've got a giant fire going on
02:32and 12 ballistic missiles and three cruise missiles fired at the UAE by Iran.
02:37So how would you describe the quote-unquote ceasefire right now, Seth?
02:42So, Philip, Trump downplayed the strike on the UAE today,
02:45which would be consistent with trying to say that a ceasefire that is no longer a ceasefire
02:49is still a ceasefire.
02:50So he downplayed it.
02:51But then he did use the bellicose language that Kristen referenced to Iran,
02:55saying that they would be, quote, blown off the face of the earth
02:57if they targeted U.S. ships,
03:01which they're trying to do because they're enforcing their control of the strait.
03:05Right. So, but it is interesting when Trump gets upset that he would, you know,
03:10a civilization is going to be wiped off the map
03:12or now they're going to be blown off the face of the earth.
03:14He goes straight to the rhetoric.
03:16Yeah, I mean, this is one of those situations where the reality that Donald Trump, right,
03:21here he can't do that.
03:22He's been saying for so long, for more than a month, two months now,
03:25that this is one that the United States has done.
03:27But he understands that the markets aren't buying it.
03:30He knows that the military doesn't accept that as the reality.
03:33He knows that it observes, well, no, we just need to bomb them one more time
03:36or that we're going to have the ceasefire hold.
03:38He can't reconcile those two things.
03:39And so he's trying to be everything.
03:40It's a huge risk.
03:41And on the political side, Philip, top analyst Andy Lippo from Oil Analysts
03:47said that if the strait doesn't open, U.S. gas prices could go to $5 by the end of the
03:52month.
03:52And by the way, there's going to come a point where the increases aren't a few cents a day,
03:56which are unbelievably stark.
03:59It's going to become more than that, right?
04:00It's going to be what we see in jet fuel, where, what, there's been 2 million seats
04:04produced in airplanes flying because there isn't enough fuel.
04:07It becomes an issue not of cost, but of actually availability.
04:10And that is a whole different economic world.
04:13That's the political world that Trump is staring at, though.
04:16That's right.
04:17And I think we're not so long to get here, to your point.
04:19But yeah, I mean, the political reality here for the president and for his party
04:22is that people are going to be driving by gasoline signs saying $5 or $4.50 or whatever,
04:27even what it is now, and being constantly reminded of how much money is coming out of their pockets
04:31to pay for gas.
04:33This is a president who, in 2024, won based on two things, really.
04:37First, that he wasn't the establishment.
04:38And second, that prices were too high.
04:40Now he's the establishment.
04:41And he's the reason most Americans...
04:44All right.
04:45Thank you all very much.
04:46And next, Putin's new paranoia.
04:49Incredible new reporting tonight about what Putin is doing to keep himself from being murdered,
04:55from being overthrown.
04:56Cooks and bodyguards banned from taking public transportation.
04:59He's holed up in a bunker.
05:01It's absolutely mind-boggling.
05:03Plus, the Bezos backlash.
05:05A revolt tonight at one of the most talked-about events of the year,
05:08all because Jeff Bezos and his wife are taking center stage.
05:12We'll take you there live.
05:13And Trump trying to spin his way out of record low approval ratings tonight.
05:18Can any explanation he offers help him?
05:22Jamal Simmons and Anna Navarro are here to talk about it.
05:29Great first block, everybody.
05:31Let's get Jamal and Anna seated and wired up for the next block.
05:35Stand by master.
05:36Ready to roll your break.
05:36Effective black in three, two, one.
05:38Effective black.
05:39Roll master.
05:42Tonight, President Trump with a spin on record low approval numbers.
05:47Worth noting, of course, that Iran did not have a nuclear weapon,
05:50and U.S. intelligence said that they were not about to get one.
05:53However, it is unclear which specific poll Trump is referring to here,
05:57but it is in line with what's happening.
06:00Poll after poll does show a majority of Americans are against the war with Iran,
06:04now on par with the Iraq and Vietnam wars in its unpopularity.
06:08Jamal Simmons and Anna Navarro are out front.
06:09And it also goes along with Trump being underwater on every issue in some polls,
06:15every single issue from the economy to the war.
06:18Including the border.
06:19Including immigration.
06:20Including immigration, which was the stunt, even that one.
06:23So he's saying 32% is high for approving a war because nobody likes war.
06:27That polls are fake.
06:27Now, obviously, can we just take aside for a fact that if the numbers were reversed,
06:30he'd be saying the polls are wonderful.
06:31We know that.
06:33It is kind of amazing that 32% of people approve of a war.
06:36I mean, is that just basically that's his stalwart base?
06:39Yeah.
06:39I mean, those are the people that when he had an unpopular precedent, an unpopular war,
06:43also, he did no work in preparing a cult maze of messaging to follow.
06:50Impossible.
06:51And then you see him doing things that are so deeply unserious
06:54at a time when we need a commander-in-chief who's leading.
06:58He is.
06:59Anna's right.
07:00Tweeting a lot in the middle of the night.
07:01Yeah.
07:01And it is a little disconcerting when you wake up in the middle of the night,
07:04as many of us do, and I check online and I see, you know,
07:07you want people to get a little bit of rest when they're doing jobs like that.
07:11I want you to get some rest.
07:12If you're waking up in the middle of the night, you're taking tweets.
07:13Right. I mean, okay, so why am I doing that?
07:16Right.
07:16Anna mentions the tweets, though.
07:18There's one that's getting a lot of discussion where he posts about the war,
07:21saying, I have all the cards, and he posts an image of himself.
07:24Cards.
07:25I have some small kids.
07:26Another bunch in that deck for that guy.
07:28Oh, stacking the deck, right?
07:30Well, it was to have that many wild cards.
07:31I mean, this is at the same time that he comes up with in the middle of the night.
07:34You know, I mean, he posted like 40 times, and things like him floating on with African-Americans.
07:42It's just, you know, we're in the middle of a war.
07:45The pain that he's inflicting, seriously.
07:4913 Americans have died.
07:51The pain at the pump, the sorts of absurd things.
07:53If it was your father tweeting this, you would take him to a neurologist and have a scan of his
07:59brain.
08:00You would.
08:00But here's the thing, Erin.
08:01You know, I don't have resolve.
08:04People need to be able to depend on our country and know that our word is solid.
08:07That's not what the president is doing.
08:10And so if I have this mess that preserves some credibility for our nation before he really ruins all of
08:18it, at the same time, people are paying $5 a gallon for gas.
08:21And I will say this, though.
08:23In this interview in The New Yorker that Barack Obama gave, he was saying that Trump's kept him more involved
08:28in politics than he would have preferred, which is sort of interesting because I feel like it's pretty clear that
08:32it's an anathema to Barack Obama.
08:33He does not want to be right when he has to get in, he gets in.
08:36But then he said something about people wanting him out there campaigning.
08:39He said, I understand why people feel that way.
08:42They don't steal the name people want to hear from.
08:44Is that a real big problem for Democrats that four cycles afterwards, he's still the main guy?
08:50But I think he's a he's a unique character in history, right?
08:53First, he was such a trailblazer.
08:55He made is a very convincing spokesperson for the Democratic Party.
08:59He's also young.
09:00He's got the youth.
09:01I'm not sure, you know, if if if Joe bitch that some of these former presidents like Bill Clinton does
09:07carry.
09:08So he's pretty much I want to say Bill Clinton did have a big.
09:12We got work to do.
09:13He's out there alone, right?
09:14Obama in the sense that you can't have which was long.
09:17He could have flown to California and campaigned in the time it took me to read that interview.
09:22But in that interview, he says that he.
09:25Well, Aaron, it is true.
09:26This will resolve itself a little bit next year when the Democrats circle in on a Democratic nominee.
09:30The video is terrifying.
09:33And when you think about how many people are on board, nearly 300 people could have died.
09:38The United Jet colliding with a truck on the New Jersey turnpike.
09:41So I'm going to talk to someone who witnessed the whole thing.
09:43They were right there.
09:45Plus, the stunning new reporting about Putin isolated.
09:48An inner circle that can only use cell phones that do not even have access to the Internet.
09:52Why he is so paranoid of being assassinated now.
09:56Gary Kasparov, vocal critic.
09:58Tonight, extraordinary new details about Vladimir Putin's extreme paranoia and what this means on the ground right now.
10:04He has fears of an assassination attempt or coup.
10:07And that has led to the Russian president heightening security dramatically and taking unprecedented measures.
10:13This is according to a European intelligence agency report obtained by CNN's Nick Payton Walsh.
10:17And to begin our coverage, here's more from Nick's report.
10:22Out front now, Max Seddon.
10:24He is the Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times.
10:26He first broke the story on Putin's increased security.
10:29Max, it's always a pleasure to talk to you.
10:30So Putin increasingly isolated.
10:33These fears grow.
10:35I mean, just how paranoid is he right now?
10:37What are you learning?
10:38No.
10:39All right, Max Seddon, thank you very much.
10:40And I want to bring in Gary Kasparov now, founder and chairman of the Renewed Democracy Initiative and publisher of
10:45the next move on Substack.
10:47It's fascinating what Max is saying at this point, Putin doesn't even really have an inner circle anymore.
10:52Is this all just paranoia or does Putin have reason, do you think, at this specific moment to be this
10:59afraid?
10:59No, he's, of course, paranoid, never cared about the price to pay for victory.
11:04The cost just was irrelevant.
11:07But bad wars, retreat from Afghanistan, and basically the failure in the Cold War led to the collapse of the
11:13Soviet Union.
11:14And, well, I mean, and we can just hear it by just reading, you know, just even pro-war bloggers
11:20now, they express doubts that Putin can deliver.
11:23The piece today was titled Putin is in trouble.
11:25You were writing about those military blow.
11:27Massive troops and tanks and all of these things be this small, pared-back thing.
11:35Yeah, look, it's the S-bat raid.
11:37By the way, Russia was celebrated May 9th because Stalin didn't want to do it on May 8th as the
11:42rest of the world.
11:43It was a kind of sacred date.
11:44This is what made, you know, Moscow and St. Petersburg, other big cities, to be involved.
11:48No body bags there.
11:50So he looked for either pre-war.
11:51I mean, they have to also suffer financial losses because all these, you know, refineries and-
11:56One person at the beginning of the war who was very close to Putin was Sergei Shoigu, a former defense
12:01minister.
12:02He had his ups and downs, but he's been a Putin ally.
12:05And now the intel report that Nick Payton wrote when Putin sees this report.
12:11Look, I think it's hearsay.
12:14It's just the rumors.
12:15But remember, both in economic, political and, of course, military, is now expressing, openly expressing doubt.
12:23The frightening close call of the United jet flying so low, it hit a truck on the New Jersey turnpike
12:27just as it was coming in for landing, literally as it was about to touch down.
12:31And someone who was there witnessed all of this is next.
12:34Plus, one of the most talked about nights in fashion, for sure.
12:38And now even more.
12:40The embrace, though, of the Met Gala of Jeff Bezos has caused a massive backlash, sparking protests and A-listers
12:45backing out.
12:47We're going to take you there live.
12:53New tonight, the NTSB is investigating after a United plane hit a bakery truck right outside Newark International Airport on
13:00the New Jersey turnpike.
13:02Major thoroughfare, I-95.
13:04The collision caught on this incredible dash cam video.
13:07I want to just be clear here.
13:09Miraculously, that driver is safe.
13:12He was hospitalized with cuts from broken glass, but he is safe.
13:15And you can see the terrifying moment frozen right here.
13:19The landing gear, all right, so you can see it.
13:22I mean, that's a massive 767, fully loaded, coming from Venice.
13:25The landing gear strikes the top of the truck.
13:27Now, the miracle here is that that driver's okay, the other drivers around it were okay, and everyone on that
13:33plane is okay.
13:34Safe landing, no injuries to the 210 people on board.
13:37That is a miracle.
13:39And out front now is Patrick Oyulu, who was driving on the turnpike and witnessed all of this.
13:44So, Patrick, you know, we can see in your video just how close you were to the plane.
13:50I mean, literally, I don't know how much distance, maybe a few feet, maybe a lot less than a few
13:55feet, because it actually had already hit something.
13:57Right.
13:57Could have meant 230 people or more were dead.
14:02I mean, do you just keep replaying this in your head?
14:04I know.
14:06From where I think it was now on the ground, and I was really relieved that Didi, my friend, was
14:12driving.
14:12That's what matters.
14:13But this is playing over, over.
14:16Incredible.
14:16Well, thank you for coming on and sharing that.
14:18And, of course, a miraculous ending for everyone involved, including you and your friends, a bakery driver, everyone on board.
14:24Well, next, it is fashion's biggest night, and some of the biggest names in entertainment are there.
14:29It's always as A-list as it gets, but there is a lot of outrage tonight over the event.
14:33Tonight, Bezos backlash.
14:35Protest messages like these lighting up New York City as the billionaire and his wife, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, take center
14:41stage tonight at the Met Gala.
14:43Now, Sanchez Bezos just walked the red carpet moments ago, and the Amazon founder not only bankrolled the event, but
14:50Bezos are also now honorary chairs as a result, which has sparked a social media revolt coming as high-profile
14:56Democrats, including the New York City mayor, Zoran Mamdani, skipped fashion's biggest night out.
15:01Meanwhile, the red carpet already heating up for those who did choose to attend.
15:05Anna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue, wearing a feathery Chanel ensemble.
15:11Heidi Klum was also there.
15:13And tennis icon Venus Williams also showing up.
15:16But it is the backlash getting so much attention tonight, and our Jason Carroll is there out front.
15:22Interesting.
15:23All right.
15:24Thank you very much, Jason Carroll.
15:25And thanks so much, as always, to all of you.
15:27We'll see you back here tomorrow.
15:28AC 360 with Anderson begins now.