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Laura Coates Live

House Delivers Article of Impeachment to Senate

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

First, Chris goes one on one with Trump impeachment manager Representative Madeleine Dean. Then, Michael Smerconish and John Kasich join Chris to discuss Trump's Senate impeachment trial. Chris wraps up the show with Dominion CEO John Poulos on the $1.3 Billion lawsuit over Rudy Giuliani's election lies.   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

Appreciate it, Coop. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime, a reminder of the history of this moment.

0:07.5

Just think about it. We have never lived a moment like this in America before.

0:14.1

Ever. Tonight, a third article of impeachment served to the Senate against Donald Trump.

0:21.7

This ceremony, the handing over of the impeachment, just a year from the last article walk over by House managers,

0:30.0

all of this done in context. We must remember what brought us to this point.

0:37.8

We must remember what happened on January 6th. It must live in infamy.

0:45.6

And it makes this walk all the more solemn and sorrowful.

0:51.3

And also in infamy, must love the only president who undoubtedly helped bring us to this point.

0:57.2

The only, to ever, have a double disgrace of two impeachments attached to his name forever.

1:05.7

You know, watching it, the walk, it felt very different tonight.

1:10.8

There's a sense of trauma. This is a sacred place therein.

1:15.7

And yet it is now a crime scene. These are lawmakers, they're prosecutors,

1:23.5

but they're also witnesses and victims.

1:27.9

Insightment of insurrection. That is the accusation against the former president by those

1:33.7

who feared for their lives. There's nothing remote about any of this. There is no proxy here.

1:41.1

The people who are dealing with what must happen because of this are the ones who were directly

1:47.8

targeted by what happened. The case, the case for impeachment by lead manager, representative,

1:56.9

Jamie Raskin. Donald John Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence

2:06.7

against the government of the United States. President Trump's conduct on January 6th, 2021

2:12.0

followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020

2:18.0

presidential election. Donald John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial removal from

2:23.6

office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United

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