Biden: Trump “Held A Dagger To The Throat Of America” On Jan 6
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now here on Capitol Hill and across the United States Americans |
| 0:07.3 | mark one year since the deadly insurrection with the wounds still deep and |
| 0:12.1 | democracy still in danger. |
| 0:15.0 | President Biden seizing the moment, |
| 0:17.0 | directly blaming former President Trump |
| 0:19.0 | for spinning a web of lies that fueled the insurrection accusing his predecessor and I'm quoting now |
| 0:26.0 | of holding a dagger to the throat of American democracy. This as a divided |
| 0:32.0 | nation grapples with a hard reality that January 6th could be repeated. |
| 0:37.0 | Tonight, Homeland Security is warning of a spike in extremist threats over the last 48 hours with lawmakers among the targets again. |
| 0:47.0 | We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States at Around the World. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Wolf Flitzer, you're in the situation room. |
| 0:53.6 | We're alive at the U.S this January 6 on the historic rounds invaded and |
| 1:06.3 | defiled by rioters one year ago. |
| 1:09.5 | Our correspondence analysts and contributors are covering every angle of this day, a day of remembrance |
| 1:16.2 | and the escalating threats to American democracy. |
| 1:19.1 | Let's begin with CNN's chief national affairs correspondent Jeff |
| 1:23.2 | we heard President Biden call out former President Trump today in a way he |
| 1:28.1 | hasn't done so before update our viewers. |
| 1:30.9 | Well if the president's tone marked a sharp departure from anything he has said |
| 1:35.2 | really over the last year when he's essentially tried to move beyond his predecessor, not |
| 1:40.0 | wanting him to hijack his administration or simply politics in America, but the president of course has been becoming increasingly alarmed by the spreading of these election lies. |
| 1:49.8 | So his advisor said on this historic day he intended to mince no words. |
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