Dems ask Trump to testify under oath at impeachment trial; Soon: House vote over Rep. Greene’s committee assignments;Awaiting house vote over Rep Greene’s committee assignments; Rep. Greene on conspiracy comments: These were in the past, do not represent me; Rep. Greene attempts to rewrite history, doesn’t apologize for spreading conspiracy theories about 9/11, school shootings; Kevin Mccarthy pretends not to know what Qanon is despite denouncing conspiracy theory in August; Fmr Trump Adviser:
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 4 February 2021
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Dems ask Trump to testify under oath at impeachment trial; Soon: House vote over Rep. Greene’s committee assignments;Awaiting house vote over Rep Greene’s committee assignments; Rep. Greene on conspiracy comments: These were in the past, do not represent me; Rep. Greene attempts to rewrite history, doesn’t apologize for spreading conspiracy theories about 9/11, school shootings; Kevin Mccarthy pretends not to know what Qanon is despite denouncing conspiracy theory in August; Fmr Trump Adviser: Trump will not testify in Impeachment trial; House impeachment managers request Trump testify under oath about his conduct on January 6;Tension between school districts and teachers grows over kids returning to in-person learning ;CDC: Increasing data suggests UK variant may be deadlier ;450,000+ Americans have died from covid-19 ;Pace of vaccinations slowly increasing, now at 1.3M shots per day ;Atlanta public schools mulling possible mandatory summer school for covid-19 “Learning Loss” ;Chicago Teachers’ Union & schools reach agreement on testing, but no deal to open; President Biden delivers first foreign policy address ;Biden Admin announces major foreign policy moves including freezing troop withdrawals from Germany ;Biden reverses multiple Trump foreign policy moves; Biden: “Ending all support” for Saudi-Led campaign in Yemen; Voting Tech Company files 2.7B lawsuit against Fox, Trump Allies ;Analysis: More than 100 Bills aim to restrict voting in 28 states ;GA Dem Lawmaker: New voting bills are “knee-jerk reaction” to GOP losing races ;Georgia GOP tries to limit mail-in-voting with bills that could require two copies of photo ID, Ban on Ballot Boxes ;Georgia Republican: Voters should “put forth a little bit of effort” to cast ballot ;Arizona GOP pushes bill that would allow legislature to override election results
Voting Rights Group: Laws to restrict ballot access mostly target minority voters
Any Moment: House vote on removing GOP Rep from committees
Beloved school worker in New York among Covid-19 victims
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to the lead-in, I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:05.2 | We are following two big breaking stories in our politics lead today. |
| 0:09.1 | One, a former Trump advisor just told CNN that former President Trump will not testify |
| 0:14.9 | after Democratic House impeachment managers this afternoon requested that he do so, |
| 0:18.5 | testify either before or during his Senate impeachment trial, |
| 0:22.2 | set to begin Tuesday. |
| 0:23.8 | In addition, we expect to see a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives |
| 0:28.0 | soon to determine whether or not Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican who's |
| 0:32.8 | been in the news lately for her bigoted and deranged conspiracy theories, |
| 0:36.4 | whether she should keep her committee assignments this afternoon, Congresswoman Greene took to the |
| 0:41.7 | floor of the House and tried to defend herself from charges that she spread lies and conspiracy |
| 0:45.6 | theories she attempted to do so by telling lies and creating a new conspiracy theory. |
| 0:51.2 | This one, blaming the news media for, quote, |
| 0:53.7 | taking teeny tiny pieces of comments she made so as to cancel her. |
| 1:00.0 | That is not true, that is not at all what happened. |
| 1:02.9 | The full context of Congresswoman Greene's bigoted theories and stunts have been recorded |
| 1:09.2 | for all of us to see by her videos, live streams, we took screenshots. |
| 1:15.6 | Here she is on video, a costing parkland activist and school shooting survivor David Hogg |
| 1:20.8 | in 2019 calling him a coward. He was a teenager at the time. |
| 1:26.4 | Here she is trying to find a Muslim American Congresswoman to leave an Omar trying to force |
| 1:31.8 | them to swear in on a Christian Bible, claiming falsely that they were not legitimate Democratic |
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