Adviser: Trump wants world to know “election was stolen from him”

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

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An adviser to former Pres. Trump says he may add more attorneys to his legal team before his impeachment trial starts. Trump named two new lawyers for his trial a day after five members of his team left and his team effectively collapsed. A separate adviser said the former President is still obsessed with the false conspiracy theory that he won the election and “he just wants the world to know the election was stolen from him.” Republican Senator John Cornyn who is a member of the GOP leadership, told CNN it would be a “disservice for Trump’s legal team to focus on his baseless claims.” Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal is a juror in the upcoming trial and tells Anderson Cooper the argument that impeaching a former president is unconstitutional is flat wrong. He thinks it’d be wiser to rely on that defense instead of arguing the election was stolen, which has already been rejected by the courts. Plus, new Covid-19 hospitalizations and cases are down dramatically even as January became the deadliest month of the pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning that even if you’ve had the virus, there’s a “very high rate” of being reinfected with the new variants if they become dominant. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins AC360 to discuss Dr. Fauci’s warning about the new variants and how crucial it is to get vaccinated. Airdate: February 1, 2021 Guests: Sen. Richard Blumenthal Dr. Sanjay Gupta To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader and a man who says nothing casually
0:05.6	is just weighed in on QAnon supporter in First Man Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
0:10.3	What he just said could matter a lot.
0:12.2	We'll tell you in just a few moments.
0:14.4	First, we begin tomorrow morning.
0:16.5	Just in time for Groundhog Day, House impeachment managers will file papers laying out their
0:20.6	case in the second trial of the 45th President of the United States.
0:24.6	And in keeping with the spirit of the day, there's a lot about what he's accused of as
0:27.7	well as how he's conducting his defense that will bring on a sense of deja vu, especially
0:32.5	when it comes to how much of the wrongdoing played out in plain view.
0:36.5	Sources familiar with the matter say the impeachment team intends to establish that the former
0:40.5	President's incitement of the Capitol in Selection was intentional and went on for months,
0:44.9	something that we all saw and heard over and over again.
0:50.4	Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country.
0:55.1	It's going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud.
0:59.6	This was not a close election.
1:01.8	You know I say sometimes jokingly, but there's no joke about it.
1:05.8	It was a rigged election.
1:07.5	You look at the different states.
1:09.0	The election was totally rigged.
1:10.6	There's no way we lost, Georgia.
1:12.3	There's no way.
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