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Anderson Cooper 360

Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With six days until midterms, President Biden delivered a speech urging Americans to denounce and discourage political violence. The president also called on voters to be “patient” as they wait for election results. Vermont Independent Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders weighs in on the president’s message and the upcoming midterms.  Also, CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz continues his investigation into the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. He has details on devastating 911 phone calls from another 4th grader trapped in a classroom. It’s the parents of the children who want this made public. Shimon joins Anderson with the exclusive reporting.  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, which is six days to go until tens of millions of Americans exercise their

0:04.7

democratic right to vote.

0:05.9

President Biden has just issued a warning about the fate of democracy itself.

0:09.3

We'll get Senator Bernie Sanders take on it shortly.

0:11.9

First, the president just before air time, he began by talking about the attack on Paul

0:15.5

Pelosi, and the alleged plot to kidnap and interrogate and maim House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

0:20.8

He quickly framed the issue as the shared, and urgent need to fight for the survival

0:25.1

of the American experiment.

0:30.6

He'll do all Americans, regardless of party, to meet this moment of national and generational

0:36.7

importance.

0:38.2

We must vote knowing what to stake and not just the policy of the moment, but institutions

0:45.4

that have held us together as we saw it a more perfect union or also at stake.

0:50.3

The extreme MAGA element of Republican Party, which is a minority of that party, as I said

0:54.5

earlier, but is this driving force?

0:58.5

Is trying to succeed where they failed in 2020 to suppress the right of voters and subvert

1:06.7

the electoral system itself?

1:09.9

That means denying your right to vote and deciding whether your vote even counts.

1:16.7

Instead of waiting until no election is over, they're starting well before it.

1:22.7

They're starting now.

1:25.3

They've been bold in violence and intimidation of voters and election officials.

1:30.9

It's estimated that there are more than 300 election deniers on the ballot all across America

1:38.3

this year.

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