Overview
- NewsNation held a two-hour town hall from 8 to 10 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Center hosted by Chris Cuomo with guests including Tom Homan, Joe Manchin, Tim Burchett, Ro Khanna, Stephen A. Smith, Bill O’Reilly and podcaster Adam Mockler.
- The NewsNation event was simulcast on The CW, streamed on YouTube TV, Hulu, Sling, Fubo and DIRECTV, and re-aired at 11 p.m. EDT on NewsNation.
- CNN aired "Shutdown America: A CNN Town Hall" at 9 p.m. ET in Washington with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez moderated by Kaitlan Collins for a politically mixed audience that included people affected by the shutdown; the program also ran on CNN International and CNN en Español.
- Debate at the NewsNation forum focused on the government shutdown and immigration enforcement, with Homan defending ICE practices and saying nearly 70% of arrests involve public safety or national security threats.
- Participants traded blame over the stalled government funding, and Stephen A. Smith highlighted public frustration by noting that ordinary workers featured in the audience were going without paychecks.