Defense Delivers Closing Argument In Rittenhouse Trial
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You just witnessed President Joe Biden signing a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure |
| 0:14.0 | bill into law. |
| 0:15.0 | It is now the law of the land. |
| 0:17.0 | You see him there on the south lawn of the White House surrounded by Democrats and Republicans. |
| 0:23.8 | He's standing with Shellymore Capital, Republican of West Virginia. |
| 0:27.7 | Saw a Republican Rob Portman actually speaking at this event. |
| 0:32.0 | Those were members of Congress on the other side of the aisle who worked hand in hand with |
| 0:37.8 | Democrats to get this done. |
| 0:40.0 | It is, as we heard the President say, over and over in so many different ways, why he thinks |
| 0:47.1 | that he was elected. |
| 0:49.4 | And he said, point blank to the American people. |
| 0:52.9 | My fellow Americans today, we hear you and we see you. |
| 0:58.2 | A lot to unpack here as we go to the White House. |
| 1:01.2 | I want to get to Phil Mattingley, who is there. |
| 1:04.3 | So Phil, this is, you clearly can't underscore and understate how big of a deal this is for |
| 1:13.8 | the President and for the, again, the ideals that he largely can't paint on, which is I |
| 1:21.6 | can break log jams in Washington and do it on issues that really matter to people that |
| 1:28.0 | people are going to feel in their states, in their hometowns all across the country. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah, and Dana, I think it's something that brought no shortage of scoffs at times during |
| 1:37.5 | his campaign of people who've been working in Washington over the course of the last decade |
| 1:42.0 | or so and thought that bad idea in and of itself seemed a little bit far-fetched. |
| 1:46.5 | And yet what you're looking at right now with the President being surrounded by cabinet |
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