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The Beat with Ari Melber

Hear Ted Cruz caught on tape plotting ‘step two’ of Jan. 6 Coup

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, Government, News, Versant, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant Media

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast extra and MSNBC exclusive, you'll hear MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber report on new tape recordings of Sen. Ted Cruz and Fox's Maria Bartiromo. Cruz is caught pushing a fake “commission” to steal the 2020 election and outlining his plot just four days prior to January 6th, 2021. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

New, previously secret recordings of Senator Ted Cruz

0:04.3

discussing an explicit strategy to overthrow the election

0:09.6

in advance of January 6th.

0:12.7

So there's some stuff that's familiar here

0:14.7

because we all lived through January 6th.

0:16.3

What I have for you tonight is new.

0:18.1

It's secret until the night.

0:19.3

It's exclusive.

0:20.4

And it goes to the advanced plotting

0:22.2

specifically four days prior.

0:25.1

So, airing for the first time tonight

0:26.7

are tapes I'm about to play for you.

0:28.3

They come on the heels of something

0:29.5

that might be familiar.

0:30.5

Other Ted Cruz recordings that we recently reported

0:33.2

would show how he himself doubted that there was

0:37.4

hard evidence that would win in court

0:39.3

of Trump challenging the election.

0:41.4

And no, Trump did lose all those court challenges.

0:44.6

So when Cruz was saying that,

0:45.8

it turned out that what he saw as weak evidence

0:48.3

was weak evidence.

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