Biden: Trump’s actions are “an embarrassment”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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President-elect Joe Biden says he is “well underway” with his transition effort despite Pres. Trump refusing to accept the results of the election. Biden called Trump’s actions “an embarrassment” and that it “will not help the President’s legacy.” Bob Woodward is the author of “Rage” and spoke to Trump frequently on the phone and in person throughout the year. He joins AC360 to react to the President’s refusal to concede and says he is “obviously wounded.” Plus, Democrats have shifted their focus to Georgia where incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are both expected to miss the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff, pitting them against Democrat candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Ossoff and Warnock need to win their runoffs to get Democrats the majority in the Senate. Jon Ossoff tells Anderson Cooper “Democrats in Georgia right now are invigorated like I’ve never seen.” Airdate: November 10, 2020 Guests: Bob Woodward Jon Ossoff 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, the president and his enablers are escalating their cries of election fraud.
0:05.5	When the only fraud continues to be the one they appear to be perpetrating themselves,
0:09.6	instead of accepting the reality that they lost the selection plain and simple.
0:13.9	President Trump lost the electoral college count and he lost the popular vote by more than
0:17.2	four and a half million votes, and those votes are still being counted.
0:20.7	Joe Biden is president-elect of the United States, but President Trump and the people
0:24.6	around him who are too afraid to tell him he's lost are casting doubt on the voting process
0:30.0	in ways that are absurdly transparent and, well, just kind of sad.
0:35.2	Let's be perfectly clear, the very thing they're trying to say was stolen in the dead of
0:39.2	night.
0:40.2	We all watched, up close, ballot by ballot, moment by moment, day after day, for five days,
0:46.4	in fact.
0:47.4	We saw a video of Democratic and Republican observers in the counting rooms.
0:52.1	We got bulletin after bulletin from election officials in both parties, in red states and
0:57.1	blue states as votes were being counted, not a single one of whom reported seeing any
1:01.5	want-read irregularities.
1:05.5	At the end of the day, we are counting eligible votes cast by voters.
1:11.5	The controversy surrounding it is something I don't understand.
1:15.4	It's people making accusations that we wouldn't count those votes or people are adding fraudulent
1:21.5	votes or just coming up with just all sorts of crazy stuff.
1:27.9	That is Al Schmid, a Republican election official in Philadelphia, talking to 60 minutes about
1:32.1	the baseless accusations he is hearing.
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