Episodes 16
Avg. Duration 33m
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Since Jun 2024
Latest Episode Sep 2025

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CNN Presents is the home for powerful, narrative-driven audio storytelling, featuring in-depth reporting from CNN journalists. Leading off this feed: Tortured Justice with Omar Jimenez, follows the story of James Gibson, who was tortured by the Chicago Police Department and sent to prison for 30 years for a crime he was later cleared of. In this three-part series, Jimenez tells the story of how a CPD unit nicknamed “The Midnight Crew” violently produced wrongful convictions, the toll it took on survivors like Gibson and if — even with a massive public reckoning — justice can ever really be served.  Also in this feed: Persuadable with Donie O’Sullivan and All Over the Map with John King.

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S3E1 Tortured Justice: The Midnight Crew

Sep 17, 2025 36m

It’s 1989. James Gibson is back in Chicago for Christmas when he’s picked up by police on suspicion of murder. He will end up spending nearly 30 years in prison, convicted of a crime he’d one day be…

S3E2 Tortured Justice: The Unlikeliest Man

Sep 17, 2025 50m

James Gibson’s story might never have seen the light of day if not for one man — maybe the unlikeliest imaginable. Andrew Wilson’s relentless legal battle exposed a decades-long pattern of torture by…

S3E3 Tortured Justice: What Does Justice Look Like?

Sep 17, 2025 49m

In the presence of torture, can real justice still exist? With the truth of torture under Chicago police commander Jon Burge and his detectives finally out in the open, the city and victims grapple…

S3 Coming Soon: Tortured Justice

Sep 10, 2025 2m Trailer

Imagine you were tortured by police and sent to prison for 30 years for a crime you didn’t commit. Is there anything that could make up for what was done to you? What would justice look like? Would…

S2E3 Persuadable: Scrolling Alone

May 14, 2025 34m

If loneliness and social isolation are part of what pushes people down the rabbit hole, what’s the cure? CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan sits down with a cult survivor who explains why conspiracy theories can…

S2E2 Persuadable: Back Up the Rabbit Hole

May 07, 2025 36m

What would you do if the person closest to you woke up believing something that sounded completely crazy? That’s what happened to Stephen Ghiglieri when his then- fiancée, Katrina Vaillancourt,…

S2E1 Persuadable: Why Do We Believe Crazy S**t?

Apr 30, 2025 31m

Conspiracy theories are not new. They’re as old as time itself. But if you feel like they’re everywhere right now, you’re not alone. So, what do you do when somebody you love has fallen down a rabbit…

S1E9 All Over The Map: Why America Voted, From Actual Voters

Nov 11, 2024 32m

As the dust settled in the wake of election day, the All Over the Map team started calling up some of the 86 swing-state voters John King has been visiting and revisiting over the last year and a…

S1E8 All Over The Map: The Pennsylvania Voters Who May Decide the Race

Nov 04, 2024 33m

With just hours before election day, we’re returning to a handful of people who represent a crucial voter segment: unhappy Pennsylvania Republicans. John King interviews three people who voted for…

S1E7 All Over The Map: Why the Race Is So Close in the Rust Belt

Oct 28, 2024 37m

Wisconsin and Michigan, the big bricks of the former Blue Wall, are considered must-wins for Kamala Harris. They’re also both toss-ups at this point. This week, John talks to voters in Milwaukee and…

S1E6 All Over The Map: In Purple Georgia, The Election Math Is Not So Simple

Oct 14, 2024 31m

Vice President Kamala Harris’ goal in Georgia is to turn out the coalition that barely tipped the newly purple state to Joe Biden in 2020. That means firing up the base, convincing the unconvinced,…

S1E5 All Over The Map: Why Nevada’s Economic Woes Make It an Election Wildcard

Sep 30, 2024 32m

Nevada — especially Clark County, home to Vegas and almost 75 percent of the state’s population — is a political bellwether in a very specific way. The pandemic gutted the tourism-based economy, and…

S1E4 All Over The Map: Desert Demographics: Arizona in Play

Sep 16, 2024 31m

In a presidential race destined to come down to a handful of swing states, Arizona is a political puzzle: a Sun Belt state that’s historically gone red, but went for Biden in 2020. Do the changing…

S1E3 All Over The Map: The Cracks in the Blue Wall

Jul 08, 2024 33m

Michigan and Wisconsin are Midwestern swing states with the power to make or break the election. They’re crucial bricks in the Democrats’ “Blue Wall” strategy, a wall that’s starting to crack. On…

S1E2 All Over The Map: Georgia’s Swing-State Spotlight

Jul 01, 2024 33m

During the 2020 election, there was perhaps no bigger upset than Joe Biden carrying Georgia. This was the first time a Democrat had won the reliably red state in three decades — in years past,…

S1E1 All Over The Map: The Key to Pennsylvania? Nikki Haley Voters

Jun 24, 2024 35m

More than 158,000 Republicans cast Pennsylvania primary votes for Nikki Haley nearly two months after she quit the race for president. That’s enough votes to swing a state critical to victory in…

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