Formal Complaint Filed Over Trump's Georgia Call

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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First, Chris goes one on one with Georgia Election Board Member Matt Mashburn on Trump's pressure on Georgia to "find votes." Then, Jim Schultz and Norm Eisen join Chris to discuss the possible legal jeopardy Trump faces over that phone call. Chris wraps up the show with Trump's niece Mary Trump and Stacey Abrams ahead of Georgia Senate runoffs. 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	Happy New Year, brother. Good to see you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to prime time.
0:04.3	Top of the New Year and our collective fate in 2021 will be greatly influenced by what happens
0:10.4	this first week. The retrumpelkins they are insistent. They just want to ignore reality.
0:16.9	Do you know that every 33 seconds someone now dies in America of COVID, every 33 seconds?
0:23.4	There's desperation everywhere. The vaccine is being wasted. The distribution is a mess.
0:31.1	There's no word of or worry about how to improve it by this leadership. And instead of obsessing
0:37.3	over the reality, Trump and Co are engaged in the fantasy that our election was a fraud.
0:44.8	And yet these same men and women who say they're so worried about manipulation of votes
0:50.6	that they must, they must try to stop our constitutional transfer of power.
0:56.9	The same people are stubbornly resistant to the strongest evidence of very irregularities that we have.
1:04.3	What is the strongest evidence of irregularity? What is in fact a smoking gun? This.
1:10.4	There's nothing wrong with saying that you've recalculated. Well, I want to do is this. I just want to find
1:21.7	11,780 votes. If flipping the state is a great testament to our country.
1:32.7	If only on this Trump is the worst we have ever seen. Find me the votes. Nothing wrong with that.
1:48.6	With pressuring Georgia's top election official to overturn his defeat. Listen, put a pinky ring
1:57.6	on this guy's little hand. He is nothing but a mob boss. Listen to this.
2:05.0	You should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican. It's more illegal for you
2:11.0	than it is for them because you know what they did and you're not reporting it. That's a criminal
2:17.0	that's a criminal offense. And you know, you can't let that happen. That's that's a big risk to you
2:23.1	and to Ryan. Your lawyer is going to be very costly in many ways. He has no proof of any of that.
2:30.6	He offered no proof of any of that, but it's going to be costly. Is he going to sleep with the
2:35.1	fishes? Scorsese never had a more obvious malifactor in his films. Look, it's a new year. All right,
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