Debate Night in America

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Michael Bloomberg facing the first major test of his presidential campaign during his debut on the debate stage in Las Vegas. Andrew Yang, former Democratic presidential candidate, dropped out of the race after the New Hampshire primary. He joins Anderson Cooper, to discuss what he's looking for from the remaining candidates. President Trump says he will name Richard Grenell, the current American ambassador to Germany and loyalist to the President, as the next acting Director of National Intelligence. Carrie Cordero, who was a Senior Associate General Counsel at the Office of the DNI, calls Grenell's appointment "outrageous" and explains why he isn't qualified for the position. Airdate: February 19, 2020To 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	And good evening from Las Vegas.
0:03.2	There's breaking news tonight.
0:04.5	The president choosing someone to oversee the intelligence community and with it the
0:08.4	nation's security who has no real intelligence experience.
0:11.5	We'll have that story ahead.
0:13.3	We begin though right here in Las Vegas at a key moment in the race for the Democratic
0:17.3	presidential nomination.
0:19.0	Michael Bloomberg, who is not even on the ballot in this weekend's caucuses in Nevada,
0:23.5	will be on the debate stage here tonight, which means that millions of voters who may
0:27.6	only know him through the campaign ads he's already spent more than $400 million on,
0:32.7	will finally get to see how he thinks on his feet.
0:35.1	It could be in for some tough questions.
0:37.4	There's no doubt about it about his record with respect to stop and frisk and his alleged
0:42.0	sexist comments in the past.
0:44.1	He's already taking hits from his other rivals, some of whom say he's not even a true
0:47.8	Democrat.
0:48.8	Truth is, he's basically been a Republican his whole life.
0:53.5	The fact of the matter is he has, he didn't endorse Barack or me when we ran.
0:58.3	This is a guy talking about using Barack's pictures like, you know, they're good buddies.
1:02.8	I'm going to talk about his record.
1:06.4	Just quickly that's largely untrue.
1:08.2	Bloomberg was a longtime Democrat who changed party affiliations to run for mayor of New
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