Biden Blasts Efforts To Restrict Voting As A "Truly Unprecedented Assult On Our Democracy"

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Biden blasts effort to restrict voting as a "truly unprecedented assault on our democracy"; Biden: The right to vote is "under assault" like I've never seen; Biden: Biggest threat to the homeland is white supremacists; Biden visits Oklahoma to mark 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre; Biden names Harris to lead administrations effort on Voting Rights 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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0:27.6	Barclays, here for every goal. Happening now, news President Biden only moments ago commemorating the
0:37.0	Tulsa Race Massacre with a historic speech and condemning efforts to
0:41.4	restrict voting rights as a quote
0:43.7	unprecedented assault on our democracy.
0:47.3	Also right now the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn tells the
0:51.6	conference that included QAnon followers that a coup like
0:55.0	the one in Myanmar quote and I'm quoting him now should happen here but now he
1:00.5	denies saying it although although he did.
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1:30.0	Our chief White House correspondent, Caitlin Collins, is working the story for us.
1:34.3	Caitlin, the president was very forceful in his condemnation of Republican efforts underway
1:39.8	right now to restrict voting here in the United States.
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