Former AG Bill Barr: Trump Was “Detached from Reality”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol held its second public hearing and focused on former President Trump’s false 2020 election fraud claims. The committee played portions of video deposition from former Attorney General William Barr where he described the former President’s claims as “bogus” and said “he’s become detached from reality.” Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff is a member of the committee and tells Anderson Cooper it’s important for the American people to hear testimony like Barr’s so they know Trump wasn’t “mistaken” or “merely just misled.” Plus, a bipartisan group of senators announced they’ve reached an agreement on gun safety that they say includes “needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can’t purchase weapons.” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has been leading the negotiations for the Democrats. He joins AC360 to discuss when he thinks the Senate will vote on the bill. 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	Good evening, any fair-minded person who's followed the life and presidency of Donald
0:04.4	J. Trump knows that he lies and lies a lot.
0:07.3	What we learned today from this foreign testimony, those who work closely with then President
0:11.6	Trump, is that they knew he lied just as much as we thought he did.
0:16.3	The former President of the United States lied about non-existent election fraud before
0:20.9	during and after the 2020 election.
0:23.2	He lied, despite being told a Ken and again and again, that it was not existent, that
0:28.9	there was no widespread election fraud by the people around him.
0:33.1	His supporters in the White House, they were telling him using many different kinds of
0:36.6	words that what he was saying was a lie.
0:39.9	He lied in an effort to stop the counting of ballots on election night and to later
0:43.5	cast doubt on their validity.
0:45.4	And allegedly, he lied and pursued of a quarter billion dollars in campaign donations
0:50.0	to a fund he lied about the very existence of.
0:53.4	An election defense fund that did not exist.
0:56.8	Those are the elements of the case, the January 6th committee is building against Donald
1:00.0	Trump.
1:01.0	And today, in the second installment of televised hearings, it was testimony from some
1:04.6	of the former President's most senior advisors at the time who actually made that case,
1:09.8	including his campaign manager, Bill Steppian, and the sitting attorney general of the
1:14.2	United States at the time Bill Barr.
1:16.2	As you'll hear, and this is from the other, or this is the other takeaway from today's
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