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Anderson Cooper 360

Graham Platner Drops Maine Senate Bid

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner said in a video statement Wednesday he was suspending his campaign, taking aim at the Democratic establishment while clearing the way for the party to select a new candidate to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most important contests of November’s midterm elections. “It’s not the false allegations though that have brought us to where we are. It’s the fact that they are being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure on us,” Platner said. Plus, growing questions about the new Air Force One, which the President Trump flew to Turkey on, but did not leave there on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.6

Good evening, topping our CNN global war coverage tonight.

0:26.6

A very real demonstration unfolding as we speak of what the president meant earlier today when he said the ceasefire with Iran is over. That's footage from one of many American airstrikes on Iranian targets tonight along the Persian Gulf for the second night in a row.

0:47.7

They began not long after the president headed home from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey today.

0:53.4

Iranian state media reporting explosions in coastal cities on the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz,

0:57.9

and into the Gulf of Oman to the east.

1:00.7

Midway through his flight home, the president spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One.

1:06.9

We just hit him very hard, and I say we hit him 20 to 1. Every time they hit us, we're going to hit them 20. And we did it last night. It did a little something today, but it was really retribution for last night. They hit actually three boats, not two. And when they hit, we hit back much harder.

1:27.2

How we return to full-scale military conflict, sir?

1:29.8

I don't know. I don't know. But win it very quickly.

1:33.3

Well, he also said that he'd been in touch with the Iranian leadership.

1:38.3

They called a little while ago, they want to make a deal so badly. I just don't know if they're worthy of making a deal. I don't know if they're going to honor the deal. That's the problem. Well, the president, as you know, has been saying for months now that Iran badly wants to make a deal. That's nothing new. He's also, as you heard, been threatening to escalate the fighting beyond tit-for-tat strikes.

2:01.9

Earlier tonight, on social media, the president warned Iran against future attacks on shipping,

2:06.0

quoting him now, if it happens again, it will get much worse.

2:09.5

And before leaving Turkey, he talked about how much worse.

2:14.0

Look, we're not attacking at the highest level.

2:26.3

The highest level of the bridges, we're not attacking at the highest level. The highest level of the bridges, which we can knock down, I would say in one day we knock down every single bridge in Iran. There's not a thing they can do about it.

2:28.3

They're electric plants where they make their electricity in there.

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