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Laura Coates Live

Democrats Facing Return of Obama Years of GOP Obstruction

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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First, Chris goes one on one with Senator Joe Manchin on GOP obstruction of President Biden's agenda. Then, Chris discusses the federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani's actions on Ukraine with former Adviser to the Ukrainian President, Igor Novikov. Chris wraps up the show with Representative Ro Khanna on Facebook's decision to uphold Trump's ban from the platform.   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

Appreciate you, Kup. Thank you very much. I am Chris Pormone and welcome to Primetime.

0:04.6

There is a proverb that some say came from Italy, but all of us know it to be true. And here it is.

0:10.8

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. Shame on me. If you'll remember, we all had it cemented

0:18.8

in our minds as right when a certain president reminded us by getting it wrong.

0:24.3

Fool me once. Shame on you. If fool me, we can't get fooled again.

0:39.4

Look, now we all know the proverb, okay? And in fact, that former president, George W. Bush,

0:45.2

is among one of the few Republicans left who get the reality that his party is in a position

0:51.1

of doubling down on a bad thing, a toxic tailspin. And it is time for all of us, especially the

0:58.5

Democrats, to realize that they are about to get bitten by the minority party again.

1:05.7

And they need to figure out what to do about it. I want you to remember,

1:10.8

2010, then Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear what his mission was as a pertain

1:19.8

to President Obama. Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President

1:27.2

Obama a second term. And he meant it. People didn't believe it. They thought it was just talk.

1:34.5

Today, he said it again. What is his mission with respect to President Biden?

1:41.6

100% of my focus is on stopping this new administration.

1:53.5

This is why I say don't pet this snake. And you know who knows all of this and yet seems like he

2:02.3

is willing to pet the python again. The man who was Obama's vice president for all that

2:08.1

president Biden. Listen. He said that in our last administration,

2:15.8

Barack, he was going to stop everything. And I was able to get a lot done with it.

2:22.3

Was he? I mean, the president may be right on some essentials, but on the big ticket items that

2:28.8

this president Biden now wants, let's remind McConnell killed Obama's jobs plan. Never happened.

2:36.3

Obama's infrastructure plan never happened. No to comprehensive immigration reform. Universal

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