Biden: “There is no need” for Trump to get intel briefings
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And good evening, breaking news this hour, short time ago, President Biden telling CBS |
| 0:04.2 | news this about giving the former president classified intelligence briefings, and |
| 0:08.0 | I'm quoting President Biden, quote, there is no need for him to have intelligence briefings. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm quote, the briefings are privileged, not a right bestowed to former presidents. |
| 0:17.1 | Biden's reasoning, the president's reasoning, quote, because of his erratic behavior unrelated |
| 0:21.6 | to the insurrection. |
| 0:22.6 | We'll have more in this story in just a moment because we want to start with the insurrection |
| 0:26.1 | at the Capitol tomorrow, one month will pass since one of the most shocking incidents, |
| 0:30.3 | political and domestic terrorism these countries ever witnessed. |
| 0:33.3 | The trauma will be measured in years, if not decades, particularly for the family and |
| 0:37.0 | friends of the five people who died from the violence that day, including one Capitol |
| 0:41.0 | Hill police officer laid to rest this week. |
| 0:44.1 | But also because in the days since January 6th, we have learned exactly who we are right |
| 0:48.7 | now. |
| 0:49.7 | And it's not a comforting lesson. |
| 0:51.4 | It's a painful one. |
| 0:52.4 | That's because members of our democracy have chosen to memory whole why this violence |
| 0:56.8 | occurred in the first place. |
| 0:58.6 | Simply put, one man used lies, fear and violent rhetoric to provoke his most volatile supporters, |
| 1:04.2 | and they were then put into position, a rally near his opponents, where they could do something |
| 1:08.2 | about the election results or so they thought. |
| 1:11.0 | That was this nation's first attempted coup, when we all watched on full live, one that |
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