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Anderson Cooper 360

White House East Wing Completely Demolished

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.1 • 3.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 24 October 2025

ā±ļø 45 minutes

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Summary

The East Wing of the White House, and the 123 years of American history it embodied, is now reduced to rubble.Ā ThisĀ comes asĀ the cost of the ballroom, and with it opportunities for donors to curry favor with the PresidentĀ rise. Perspective from former Trump campaign adviser David Urban,Ā formerĀ senior adviser to President Obama David Axelrod,Ā and CNN Presidential HistorianĀ Tim Naftali.Ā  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, crushing, the east wing of the White House and the 123 years of American

0:07.0

history and embodied is now reduced to rubble. As the cost of the ballroom and with it, opportunities

0:12.0

for donors to curry favor with the administration rises. Also tonight, a new presidential

0:16.6

pardon for a crypto billionaire whose company is alleged to have enabled Hamas and al-Qaeda to move

0:22.4

money, but also more recently, a business owned by the president's family to make millions.

0:27.2

And later, the massive FBI gambling bust involving one current player, one NBA head coach,

0:32.8

and one former player for New York mafia crime families families and the FBI says millions of dollars.

0:39.3

It is quite a story.

0:40.3

Good evening, thanks for joining us. This is what we witnessed throughout the day today.

0:44.3

The ripping apart tearing down destruction of the entire East Wing of the White House.

0:48.3

Now we would show you live pictures, but there's nothing to see and it's not just because of the darkness.

0:53.3

It's mostly rubble that's left.

0:55.0

The last of the building came down earlier today, was torn down.

0:58.0

It just took about three days from start to finish to demolish a structure that first went up in 1902 under President Theodore Roosevelt,

1:06.0

and had been added to and refurbished several times over the last almost century and a quarter since.

1:12.0

These are photos taken earlier today from a different angle. The East Wing was home to America's

1:16.7

First Ladies. Betty Ford, that's her at her desk. She once famously said, if the West

1:21.7

Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart. Well, it has been ripped out.

1:27.7

Tonight, looking at these new pictures

1:29.7

in the building being torn down from a different angle,

1:31.9

piece by piece, it is difficult not to feel a bit stunned,

1:35.2

if you care about American history, that is.

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