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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Behind the chaos in Trump's Oval Office

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

First: Exclusive new CNN reporting on the special counsel's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Prosecutors are probing witnesses about a heated Oval Office meeting just weeks after Donald Trump's loss, during which the former president considered desperate measures to stay in power.  Then: On the campaign trail, Donald Trump is once again trying to spin his legal problems in his favor, going after the Justice Department.  Plus: President Biden speaks exclusively to CNN on his decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, explaining that while he has concerns with the controversial weapons, they're crucial to Kyiv's counteroffensive.  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

Happening now, exclusive new CNN reporting on the Special Council's investigation into efforts

0:08.2

to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

0:12.4

Prosecutors probing witnesses about a heated Oval Office meeting

0:16.0

just weeks after Donald Trump's loss, during which the former president considered desperate

0:21.5

measures to stay in power.

0:24.0

Also, Trump on the campaign trail, once again trying to spin his legal troubles in his favor.

0:30.0

He's going after the U.S. Justice Department and his main Republican rival

0:34.8

Governor Ron DeSantis. And President Biden is speaking exclusively to CNN on his

0:40.6

decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine.

0:44.0

The President voicing his concerns with the controversial weapons,

0:47.6

but ultimately deciding they're crucial to Keeves counter offensive.

0:53.0

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

0:57.0

I'm Wolf Flitzer, you're in the situation room. First up tonight CNN's exclusive new reporting on that chaotic Oval Office meeting now at the

1:12.1

center of Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation

1:15.3

into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Our political

1:20.3

correspondent Sarah Murray is joining us right now.

1:22.8

She's got new information.

1:23.8

Sarah, take us through the details.

1:26.2

The Special Counsel seems so interested in.

1:29.2

Well, Wolf, this was a wild meeting in the Oval Office in the Trump administration even by the Trump administration's

1:36.5

standards.

1:37.5

We know that this is something that prosecutors have looked at in the past, but we are now learning

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