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Former President Trump Praised "Tremendous Unity" Among GOP Lawmakers After DC Meetings

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump vented about his legal troubles to House Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill today, the first time Trump has returned to the Capitol campus since leaving office after the January 6, 2021 riot. Trump aired his grievances regarding his legal and electoral challenges, attacked his critics in the room, and only briefly addressed policy matters like abortion and taxes, according to multiple GOP lawmakers who were in attendance. He also met with Senate Republicans, including Sen. Mitch McConnell, who had an icy relationship with the former President and hadn’t spoken directly with him since December 2020. Trump praised McConnell today and shook his hand. New York Democratic congressman Daniel Goldman speaks to Anderson about Trump’s day in Washington. Also tonight, a top Senate Democrat revealed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took more undisclosed trips on a private plane of GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. CNN justice correspondent Jessica Schneider, former federal judge John E. Jones III and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig give their thoughts on the new development. Plus, a special goodbye and good luck to our longtime executive producer Charlie Moore, who’s taking on a new role at CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, the former president goes to Washington to formalize his almost total

0:06.0

takeover of the Republican Party, what he told lawmakers behind closed doors, and what

0:10.6

it signals about his plans if reelected.

0:13.0

Also tonight, CNN Stoney O'Sullivan talking with Trump supporters about what they think will happen to the country if he loses

0:19.0

and to a Pulitzer Prize winning historian about what she thinks might happen if he wins.

0:25.0

Also breaking news on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas already under scrutiny for

0:28.9

accepting millions of dollars in gifts and travel over the years.

0:31.8

Now the Senate Judiciary Committee

0:33.8

reveals three more trips he took but did not disclose.

0:37.6

Good evening, thanks for joining us.

0:38.9

We begin tonight, keeping him honest,

0:40.8

with the former President's day in Washington with his party and that

0:44.0

use of the possessive to describe the Republican senators and House members he met

0:47.8

with today in separate closed-door sessions each just steps from the Capitol is

0:52.4

no accident because if he's done nothing else

0:54.7

over the last three and a half years of insurrection and search warrants and indictments

0:58.8

and trials and felony convictions it has been to remake the party of Ronald Reagan in his own image.

1:04.8

At the House meeting he made a point of reminding members that nearly every Republican who

1:08.6

voted to impeach him has either been voted out of office or retired.

1:13.0

Not that by this point the survivors really needed reminding.

1:16.0

Listen to Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson almost basking in the afterglow,

1:20.0

and majority whip Tom Emmer, a self-proclaimed tough on crime lawmaker, attacking the criminal

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