| 1 | Oct 24, '23 | In a world exclusive, @QueenRania of Jordan spoke with me about the ongoing bombing of Gaza, civilian deaths, the massacres of October 7, and what she calls “a glaring double stand | 27.3× | 8.8M | 20k | 8.6k | 2.9k |
| 2 | Nov 22, '23 | “The worst ever.” Those are the stark words of @UNReliefChief Martin Griffiths, about the death and destruction in Gaza. Having worked in the field for decades, he adds “I don’t sa | 23.8× | 7.7M | 16k | 9.2k | 2k |
| 3 | Feb 6, '24 | Does Tucker really think we journalists haven't been trying to interview President Putin every day since his full scale invasion of Ukraine? It's absurd -- we'll continue to ask fo | 21.6× | 7M | 32k | 5k | 1.1k |
| 4 | Jun 6, '24 | “If you’ve ever wondered what it was like, that’s as close as somebody in Davenport, Iowa or Oakland, California or Minneapolis, Minnesota was going to get to that.” On the 80th an | 17× | 5.5M | 24k | 3.2k | 2.4k |
| 5 | Dec 4, '23 | Josh Paul resigned from the State Dept over sending arms to Israel. “I have heard from actually so many hundreds of colleagues at this point who support what I did,” he says. “They | 15.6× | 5.1M | 20k | 10k | 3.1k |
| 6 | Sep 22, '22 | Protests are sweeping Iran & women are burning their hijabs after the death last week of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the “morality police”. Human rights groups say at | 13.6× | 0 | 129k | 33k | 1.7k |
| 7 | Aug 14, '24 | “The entire unjust world does not care about this. That’s all I can say.” Heartbreaking testimony in the wake of the killing of newborn twins and their mother in Gaza -- leaving be | 13.1× | 4.2M | 24k | 11k | 1.7k |
| 8 | Jun 1, '20 | Houston Police Chief @ArtAcevedo: “Let me just say this to the President of the United States, on behalf of the police chiefs of this country: please, if you don’t have something c | 12.6× | 0 | 99k | 36k | 1.2k |
| 9 | Nov 6, '20 | A reflection on President Trump’s comments last night: The last President I covered who refused to accept the vote count in an election was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, 2009. | 11.4× | 0 | 112k | 26k | 702 |
| 10 | Dec 14, '23 | Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now @CNN’s @clarissaward, @scottycnn and @Bre | 11.2× | 3.6M | 14k | 8.4k | 2.3k |
| 11 | Dec 9, '23 | U.S. policymakers "don't have the guts and the moral courage" to stand up to the Israeli govt, says top Middle East watcher @FawazGerges. “I really have no trust in American foreig | 11.1× | 3.6M | 12k | 5.2k | 1.1k |
| 12 | Apr 13, '24 | Starvation. The unacceptable face of Israel’s war on Gaza. A doctor from an international aid agency took these pictures 10th April at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. The de | 10.7× | 3.5M | 21k | 13k | 1k |
| 13 | Jan 18, '24 | “Children with… open fractures, partial amputations, open chest wounds, horrendous lacerations… and burns. And that was every day.” Dr Deborah Harrington recently spent 2 weeks in | 10.6× | 3.4M | 24k | 15k | 1.9k |
| 14 | Mar 11, '24 | “Nothing is a substitute for a ceasefire. Delivering aid under bombardment does not stop the destruction... We cannot save people from hunger only then to bomb them to death.” Quee | 10.5× | 3.4M | 6.8k | 2.8k | 508 |
| 15 | Mar 6, '24 | “Death is better than this.” Shocking images of starving, emaciated children from inside Gaza are laying bare the desperation inside the strip, as @nadaabashir reports. | 10.3× | 3.3M | 17k | 12k | 1.5k |
| 16 | Feb 2, '23 | “The poorest fifth of the population are now much poorer [in the UK] than most of the poorest countries in central and eastern Europe,” says @MyStephanomics. “They would be better | 10.1× | 3.3M | 12k | 6.4k | 685 |
| 17 | Feb 24, '23 | A brief hello with President Zelensky, as I film him entering his packed press conference on this one year anniversary of total war. | 9.5× | 3.1M | 32k | 2.6k | 367 |
| 18 | Dec 4, '23 | Awful news about our colleague Ibrahim Dahman's family: at least nine of his relatives have been killed. He's been fearlessly reporting for CNN from Gaza since well before this war | 8.9× | 2.9M | 14k | 5k | 440 |
| 19 | Oct 16, '23 | “I don’t have anywhere else to go.” Ibrahim Dahman is a CNN journalist in Gaza and sent this first person account of what life is like right now in Gaza. “I know deep down no build | 8.5× | 2.8M | 12k | 6.2k | 892 |
| 20 | Oct 3, '24 | Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib tells CNN that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a 21-day ceasefire just before he was assassinated by Israel. The tempo | 7.6× | 2.5M | 12k | 4.7k | 1.2k |
| 21 | Nov 13, '23 | These are the sounds of the final gasp from Gaza’s collapsing healthcare system. @nadaabashir reports. | 7.2× | 2.3M | 11k | 7.8k | 743 |
| 22 | Feb 5, '25 | President Trump's proposal will only mean "more conflict and more bloodshed," warns former Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al Faisal. "It is a fantasy to think that ethnic cleansing | 7.0× | 2.3M | 14k | 4.4k | 2.2k |
| 23 | Jun 24, '24 | “If we shall not end the occupation, we shall not have security,” warns Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, “and if we shall not end this occupation, we shall not have democracy.” | 6.6× | 2.1M | 11k | 5.2k | 3.4k |
| 24 | Jun 6, '24 | "They put themselves here for what? Because it was the right thing to do... they were not gaining territory, they were not here for riches, they were not here to conquer anything. | 6.3× | 2M | 28k | 4.3k | 1.4k |
| 25 | Jun 6, '24 | “Every one of us was prepared to give our life to kick Hitler’s ass out of Europe!” 101-year-old D-Day veteran Jake Larson tells me that he knew exactly what they were fighting for | 6.3× | 2M | 31k | 5.6k | 1.2k |
| 26 | Sep 22, '22 | And so we walked away. The interview didn’t happen. As protests continue in Iran and people are being killed, it would have been an important moment to speak with President Raisi. | 6.2× | 0 | 68k | 9.7k | 218 |
| 27 | Feb 10, '23 | President @LulaOficial has been criticized by western allies over his position on Ukraine. He tells me that if a country is invaded, “of course it has the right to defend itself,” | 6.2× | 2M | 13k | 1.2k | 434 |
| 28 | Feb 16, '24 | “I have to go back.” Speaking just before he returned to Russia, Navalny told me: “I don’t think that I can have such a privilege of being safe in Russia, but I have to go back, be | 6.1× | 2M | 23k | 6.9k | 607 |
| 29 | Jun 19, '24 | “I’m a middle-aged Black man. I’ve got all of these degrees, I’ve won cases at the Supreme Court – and I still go to places where I’m viewed as less than, where I’m presumed to be | 6.0× | 2M | 21k | 5.8k | 1.4k |
| 30 | Oct 24, '24 | “He told me to take them. In the next attack, use them as a human shield.” An IDF soldier and five former Palestinian detainees tell CNN that the Israeli military has used civilian | 5.9× | 1.9M | 15k | 7.7k | 2.5k |
| 31 | Apr 23, '24 | “We just want to give him a dignified burial”. Overwhelming grief as a mass grave containing over 300 bodies has been uncovered at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. @nadaabashi | 5.8× | 1.9M | 9.7k | 5.1k | 851 |
| 32 | May 29, '20 | CNN crew has been released. Governor has apologized. For the record: arresting journalists is the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. We live in | 5.3× | 0 | 47k | 13k | 246 |
| 33 | Jan 8, '24 | The number of journalists killed during Israel’s war on Hamas is appalling and unprecedented. 79 in just three months, according to @pressfreedom Journalists in Gaza are our eyes a | 5.0× | 1.6M | 18k | 8.5k | 501 |
| 34 | Oct 31, '23 | “It is just so horrific, so unbelievable, so unconscionable that every single Palestinian and… person with just an iota of humanity is shaken to their core.” Veteran Palestinian po | 4.9× | 1.6M | 13k | 6.3k | 561 |
| 35 | Mar 17, '21 | EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Brazilian President @LulaOficial tells me he is urging President Biden to call a G20 meeting to ensure proper vaccine distribution worldwide: “Vaccine, vaccine, vac | 4.2× | 0 | 40k | 6.3k | 338 |
| 36 | Feb 27, '24 | “I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan @NRC_Egeland of @NRC_No | 4.2× | 1.4M | 16k | 9.6k | 1.2k |
| 37 | Feb 26, '22 | President Zelensky’s address to the Russian people “was a speech for the ages, one that deserves to be read now and long after this crisis is over. For it did not just plead his pe | 3.8× | 0 | 45k | 6.3k | 604 |
| 38 | Mar 24, '25 | Another diplomatic first (& not in a good way): the prime minister of Greenland calls a visit by the U.S. second lady and high level officials “highly aggressive”. Greenland an | 3.8× | 1.2M | 28k | 8.3k | 844 |
| 39 | Feb 19, '24 | The death of Navalny shows “Putin’s playbook hasn’t changed. This is the way he operates. This is the dictator’s handbook in real life,” Estonian Prime Minister @kajakallas tells m | 3.6× | 1.2M | 12k | 3.5k | 237 |
| 40 | Nov 26, '17 | @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews If President Trump knew the facts, he would never have sent that tweet. Here is my (late) camerawoman Margaret Moth, who took a bullet in the face coverin | 3.6× | 0 | 30k | 11k | 0 |
| 41 | Jul 3, '24 | “I care deeply that the American people have an entire picture of what is at stake in this election. And where we are right now, after that debate, is not giving us that picture,” | 3.5× | 1.1M | 8.4k | 3.5k | 1.4k |
| 42 | Mar 5, '21 | Dr. Sasa says he was with Aung San Suu Kyi on the morning of February 1, when a military coup took over Myanmar’s government. He tells me he had to dress as a taxi driver to escape | 3.2× | 0 | 18k | 14k | 42 |
| 43 | May 6, '25 | My first podcast series with @global has arrived. Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files with Jamie Rubin He was in the room. I was on the frontline. 20 years married. 7 years | 3.1× | 1M | 1.9k | 590 | 270 |
| 44 | Mar 28, '24 | “People are shocked & appalled by what the US government is doing.” Annelle Sheline has resigned from the US State Department in protest over the administration’s ongoing suppo | 2.9× | 943k | 12k | 5.8k | 1.1k |
| 45 | Oct 13, '16 | Truthful, not neutral. | 2.8× | 0 | 19k | 4.6k | 495 |
| 46 | Oct 22, '20 | .@falzthebahdguy is part of Nigeria's #EndSars protests. Is he afraid for his life? He says no. "We have a seriously high level of poverty, there’s unemployment. We’re in a critica | 2.7× | 0 | 14k | 13k | 322 |
| 47 | Sep 22, '22 | I politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves. I pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have in | 2.6× | 0 | 32k | 3.8k | 62 |
| 48 | Jan 31, '19 | NEW: Venezuela’s @jguaido in English, gives this message to the American people: We want to reconstruct “our country, our liberty.” | 2.6× | 0 | 18k | 9.9k | 62 |
| 49 | Jan 24, '24 | “This is me giving you a sneak peek into hell.” Watch this visceral look at life and death inside Gaza from 20-year-old Nowara Diab – and her tribute to her two best friends, who w | 2.6× | 834k | 11k | 6.7k | 992 |
| 50 | Oct 22, '20 | You can see my full interview with @falzthebahdguy about #EndSARS here: | 2.6× | 0 | 13k | 13k | 424 |
| 51 | Sep 30, '24 | “We are living in Palestine and Palestine is scattered, we're not able to live a normal life, we can't move in our own homeland freely... every day it's a constant fight.” Saleh Ba | 2.6× | 832k | 12k | 4.2k | 1.2k |
| 52 | Mar 24, '25 | OMG. Please read every last word of this shocker, including the emojis. Amateur hour? Is the president, is America, being properly served? Dangerous. | 2.6× | 829k | 19k | 4k | 841 |
| 53 | Sep 7, '22 | Gay sex is illegal in Kenya and President-elect @WilliamsRuto previously said “we have no room for gays.” Ruto tells me “we respect everybody,” but adds “this is not a big issue fo | 2.5× | 0 | 18k | 4.2k | 780 |
| 54 | Apr 25, '23 | May Harry Belafonte, the lionhearted civil rights hero, rest in peace. He inspired generations around the whole world in the struggle for non-violent resistance justice and change. | 2.5× | 814k | 17k | 2.2k | 53 |
| 55 | Feb 22, '25 | Having spent most of my career covering forces in the field, I am sad & alarmed by this purge of a distinguished man with a trailblazing combat & leadership record in the U | 2.5× | 810k | 16k | 4.8k | 520 |
| 56 | May 2, '24 | “They are out there for the right reasons… they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.' They are out there because they are outraged by what the Israeli government is doing | 2.4× | 773k | 12k | 3.8k | 894 |
| 57 | Jul 17, '25 | “I was born as a negotiator. I was a trade union leader. I went on strikes… but everything ended at a bargaining table,” Brazil’s President Lula tells me, as the US threatens massi | 2.4× | 764k | 13k | 1.1k | 788 |
| 58 | Nov 14, '24 | Gaza is “a post-apocalyptic environment,” with “people just waiting to be killed, either by airstrike, by disease, or even by hunger,” says UNRWA chief Philippe @UNLazzarini. On th | 2.2× | 721k | 13k | 7.3k | 1.1k |
| 59 | Nov 2, '21 | The UK PM @BorisJohnson is in hot water after being pictured unmasked next to 95 year-old David Attenborough. I asked him for his response: | 2.2× | 0 | 16k | 4.8k | 349 |
| 60 | Jul 17, '25 | Exclusive: President Trump wasn’t elected “to be the emperor of the world,” Brazil’s President Lula tells me, in the face of massive tariff threats over the prosecution of Jair Bol | 2.2× | 696k | 16k | 2k | 425 |
| 61 | Sep 22, '22 | Again, I said that I couldn’t agree to this unprecedented and unexpected condition. 6/7 | 2.1× | 0 | 28k | 2.4k | 16 |
| 62 | Apr 15, '20 | Defunding @WHO in the middle of a pandemic is like pulling the plug on firefighters in the aftermath of 9/11. | 2.1× | 0 | 16k | 4.1k | 52 |
| 63 | Aug 13, '24 | “Everyone in Venezuela is afraid for losing our freedom or even our lives but we’re committed to make truth prevail”. Opposition leader @MariaCorinaYA tells me “the [Maduro] regime | 2.1× | 691k | 12k | 5.4k | 326 |
| 64 | Sep 22, '23 | “I was going over a list of books that are banned in Tennessee [schools] and… the list was really staggering,” says novelist Ann Patchett. “Yet at the same time, we’re not doing an | 2.1× | 690k | 9.7k | 2.7k | 98 |
| 65 | Oct 20, '20 | No Mr President, we at CNN are not "dumb bastards" for covering Covid. Listen to why we do. h/t @brikeilarcnn | 2.1× | 0 | 16k | 6.1k | 282 |
| 66 | Jun 13, '25 | “We are in a dangerous moment. I’m sorry that diplomacy did not work,” says former top US diplomat @wendyrsherman, who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal. “If Donald Trump had | 2.1× | 676k | 11k | 3.9k | 446 |
| 67 | May 14, '25 | My friend Jemima's sons are now speaking out about their father Imran Khan's ongoing solitary confinement in Pakistan. The UN says the former PM is being arbitrarily detained. Watc | 2.0× | 662k | 24k | 11k | 204 |
| 68 | Apr 15, '22 | At 102 @BenFerencz is the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor. “I am heartbroken” at atrocities in Ukraine, he says. “To see it happening again, very similar, kids being shot, home | 2.0× | 0 | 17k | 6.4k | 371 |
| 69 | Jul 16, '24 | “This decision is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.” As a young DOJ staffer, @neal_katyal helped write the Special Counsel regulations. Now he tells me that Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to | 2.0× | 653k | 9.1k | 2.9k | 312 |
| 70 | Sep 22, '22 | The aide made it clear that the interview would not happen if I did not wear a headscarf. He said it was “a matter of respect,” and referred to “the situation in Iran” - alluding t | 2.0× | 0 | 24k | 3k | 41 |
| 71 | Sep 22, '22 | 40 minutes after the interview had been due to start, an aide came over. The president, he said, was suggesting I wear a headscarf, because it’s the holy months of Muharram and Saf | 2.0× | 0 | 23k | 3.3k | 51 |
| 72 | Oct 9, '18 | Exclusive: @HillaryClinton says “you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.” | 2.0× | 0 | 16k | 4.3k | 81 |
| 73 | Dec 8, '21 | Watch this extraordinary denunciation of the modern Republican Party by Reagan's former solicitor general Charles Fried. He was born in Prague in 1935 and says today he hears "the | 1.9× | 0 | 12k | 6.1k | 828 |
| 74 | Nov 11, '22 | “Ukraine is maybe the most important place in the world right now, and the fate of freedom writ large really does hang on what happens in Ukraine,” says historian @TimothyDSnyder, | 1.9× | 0 | 18k | 4.4k | 443 |
| 75 | Sep 22, '22 | This was going to be President Raisi’s first ever interview on US soil, during his visit to NY for UNGA. After weeks of planning and eight hours of setting up translation equipment | 1.8× | 0 | 22k | 2.5k | 25 |
| 76 | Feb 25, '20 | So happy to see these girls together - between them they’ve mobilized more armies for good than any leader today! @Malala @GretaThunberg | 1.7× | 0 | 20k | 2.9k | 46 |
| 77 | Mar 27, '25 | "I can't help but think about what would happen if this was my daughter, if this was my niece?" @VinceWarren reacts to the detention of a Tufts University PhD student by ICE agents | 1.7× | 559k | 12k | 4.2k | 462 |
| 78 | Sep 27, '19 | .@ImranKhanPTI: 'I fear a massacre' in Kashmir - | 1.7× | 0 | 16k | 4.7k | 51 |
| 79 | Jul 16, '18 | Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns doesn't mince his words on the Trump/Putin summit: "I think that press conference was the single most embarrassing performance by | 1.7× | 0 | 13k | 5.9k | 54 |
| 80 | May 3, '21 | “Journalism in India is on a ventilator,” argues @RanaAyyub. “Why is Modi not being asked the tough questions on the front page of our newspapers?” #WorldPressFreedomDay | 1.7× | 0 | 14k | 5k | 134 |
| 81 | Jan 24, '18 | Monstrous sex abuser Larry Nassar gets the book thrown at him. Prosecutor praises a dogged investigative reporter, and one brave girl, for outing him. That’s not fake. That’s fact. | 1.6× | 0 | 17k | 3.8k | 0 |
| 82 | Jul 17, '25 | Exclusive: President Trump’s massive tariff threat “was a surprise,” Brazil’s President Lula tells me, “not only the value of that tariff but also how it was announced.” On the dem | 1.6× | 515k | 12k | 1.5k | 487 |
| 83 | Jul 13, '20 | .@edyong209: “A country that, 7 months into a pandemic, still cannot ensure that its healthcare workers have enough gowns and gloves and protective equipment is not going to be abl | 1.5× | 0 | 11k | 4.7k | 313 |
| 84 | Feb 17, '24 | “Putin kills whoever he wants, be it an opposition leader or anyone else who seems a target.” President Zelensky reacts to the death of Putin’s fiercest critic: “After the murder o | 1.3× | 436k | 9.1k | 2.4k | 114 |
| 85 | Mar 17, '21 | EXCLUSIVE: Will @LulaOficial run for president of Brazil again? “If my party and the other allied parties understand that I could be the candidate, and if I’m well… I can reassure | 1.3× | 0 | 14k | 1.8k | 58 |
| 86 | Mar 26, '25 | “It is untruthful,” what Pete Hegseth is saying, “and I’m sorry to see that,” says Hegseth’s predecessor, former US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. When America’s allies “see this k | 1.3× | 410k | 11k | 2.7k | 278 |
| 87 | Mar 7, '25 | We reported then, and we keep reporting, that NATO’s Article 5 has only ever ONCE been invoked: to protect and defend the United States of America after 9/11. | 1.3× | 407k | 11k | 3.1k | 208 |
| 88 | Oct 30, '18 | President Trump has been able to appeal to journalists’ “own narcissism” by attacking them, says Jon Stewart. “They take it personally, and now he’s changed the conversation to, no | 1.2× | 0 | 9.4k | 3.3k | 201 |
| 89 | Nov 16, '22 | “I think we’re seeing the unwinding not of a company but of a person,” @profgalloway says of Elon Musk and Twitter. “I think this is an individual who has demonstrated a total lack | 1.2× | 0 | 10k | 2.8k | 470 |
| 90 | Mar 22, '22 | For months, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov and many other Russian officials repeatedly denied Russia planned to invade Ukraine – and then invaded anyway. I put this to Peskov: | 1.2× | 0 | 9.9k | 2.5k | 368 |
| 91 | May 15, '24 | “My job is to provide the air cover for those that maybe aren't willing to step out and say Donald Trump is wrong for not only this party, but for this country.” Georgia’s former L | 1.0× | 324k | 11k | 3.9k | 204 |
| 92 | Nov 26, '17 | @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews At CNN we dodge bullets to bring you the news. Nothing fake about that. #FactsFirst 🍎 | 1.0× | 0 | 8.8k | 2.7k | 0 |
| 93 | Feb 26, '22 | … You know our character, our principles, what matters to us.’ It did not just make the case against all wars: ‘People lose their loved ones and themselves.’ It specifically set ou | 1.0× | 0 | 12k | 1.3k | 41 |
| 94 | Jun 8, '18 | My heart breaks for Tony Bourdain. May he rest in peace now. He was a friend, a collaborator, and family. A huge personality, a giant talent, a unique voice, and deeply, deeply hum | 0.9× | 0 | 11k | 1.6k | 11 |
| 95 | Jul 16, '24 | It’s hard to believe my friend John Kennedy Jr. was killed, with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren, 25 years ago today. Time does not lessen the grief and loss. John was a | 0.9× | 294k | 9.3k | 1.1k | 148 |
| 96 | Jan 5, '22 | I’m isolating and working from home as I just tested positive for Covid-19 this morning, but thanks to being fully vaccinated the symptoms are mild. | 0.9× | 0 | 12k | 468 | 16 |
| 97 | May 9, '25 | “There is only one aggressor in this war, and that is Russia… They could stop the war… just by withdrawing,” says Finnish President @alexstubb. Importantly, he adds, “we will never | 0.6× | 194k | 11k | 2.6k | 170 |
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