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Former Trump advisers: The former President is more obsessed than ever with the 2020 election

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Advisers for former President Trump tell CNN that he is more obsessed than ever with the 2020 election and is listening to “the bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel.” The New York Times is reporting Trump is telling his allies he expects to be reinstated as President by August, which is not even a possibility. Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger has been an outspoken critic of the former President and the lies his GOP colleagues have been spreading about the 2020 election. He joins AC360 to discuss whether or not he agrees that the American democracy is in peril. Plus, state lawmakers from Pennsylvania traveled to meet with members of the Arizona legislature about the “audit” happening in Maricopa County. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs joins AC360 to discuss the “audit” and says it’s “dangerous” and will do “nothing to determine the validity of election results.” Airdate: June 2, 2021   Guests: Rep. Adam Kinzinger Katie Hobbs 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

And good evening we begin tonight with a striking claim about one of the most controversial

0:04.1

provisions in the bill Texas State Republicans are pushing to restrict voting.

0:08.1

It would have limited polling hours on Sundays to after 1 p.m. drastically affecting the

0:12.9

souls to the polls voter turnout efforts in black churches around the state.

0:18.0

Right now as you know the bill is in limbo after state house Democrats ran the clock out

0:21.8

on it for their current legislative session.

0:24.4

Now some of the backers are trying to say that the whole Sunday voting hours portion of

0:28.8

the bill was nothing more than a typo.

0:33.1

Call it a script or whatever you want to that I talk to our team yesterday.

0:37.4

It's kind of regrouping of what happened that was not intended to be reduced.

0:42.6

I think there was a you know call them as fake if you want to what should have been

0:46.7

11 was actually spread out as one.

0:50.7

That's a supporter of the bill Republican supporter of the bill who's calling it a typo

0:53.9

or scribner's error mistake why it took them more than three days to find that mistake

0:59.9

and many public arguments about the mistake in fact supporting the 1 p.m. time frame is

1:08.0

not answered that question.

1:10.1

The very public outcry is anyone's guess exactly what's going on.

1:14.2

Now maybe his retreat on especially problematic piece of it is a welcome sign if so it would

1:18.6

be a lonely one an exception to President Biden's warning just the other day that quote

1:23.3

democracy is in peril.

1:24.9

Well some I think that sounds overly dramatic consider what we've seen in just the past

1:28.9

few days.

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