House Dems: Trump is “singularly responsible” for inciting insurrection

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

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The House impeachment managers argue that former Pres. Trump is “singularly responsible” for inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol as Trump’s legal team claims he’s protected by the First Amendment and a Senate conviction would be unconstitutional. Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries was an impeachment manager during Trump’s first impeachment trial. He joins AC360 to react to the former President’s defense strategy. Plus, Senate Republicans are distancing themselves from GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene as many are indicating enough is enough. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy met with Greene after several of her debunked theories over the years came to light, ranging from her questioning whether the Parkland school shooting was a “false flag” to whether a plane really hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Sen. John Thune, a member of the GOP leadership, said House Republicans have to decide if they want to focus on “limited government and fiscal responsibility, free markets, peace through strength and pro-life” or if they “want to be the party of conspiracy theories and QAnon.” George Conway is a conservative lawyer and co-founder of the Lincoln Project. He tells Anderson Cooper we’re watching the “moral collapse of the Republican party.” Airdate: February 2, 2021 Guests: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries George Conway 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, just about 90 minutes from now, the United States Capitol will receive
0:04.2	the ashes of Capitol Police Officer Brian Siknek.
0:06.6	They'll be taken to the Rotunda, where the Lion Honor or a minor to assault the insurrection
0:11.6	that caused his death on the 6th of January.
0:14.6	As that happened, the United States senators, whose lives and whose staffers lives he died
0:18.9	protecting, they are being asked to show some bravery as well.
0:22.9	How some peat management managers and the ex-presidents' legal team have today presented their
0:26.8	briefs in next week's impeachment trial, and just to be clear, the insurrection, at the
0:31.2	heart of that trial, it's not ancient history.
0:33.2	They'll be weighing their decisions with the seat of American democracy and their workplace
0:37.7	still showing the scourers from an attack unlike any we've seen in our lives.
0:49.6	The manager's case is straightforward.
0:51.9	They plan to use video, the former president's rally leading up to this and comments by his
0:56.6	violence supporters to show he insukated the attack.
0:59.7	They also plan to rebut the notion that a president cannot be tried after leaving office.
1:04.5	As for the defense, well, their brief begins with a mistake, a pretty sloppy one, actually,
1:09.6	at the top of page one, as you see it there, the lawyers misspelled United States.
1:14.6	Those are the ex-presidents' lawyers.
1:16.8	From there, they argue that an ex-president cannot be convicted on constitutional grounds.
1:21.7	In addition, though, they make a claim that's pretty easily disproved, reading from their
1:26.7	brief, quote, it is admitted that after the November election, the 45th president exercised
1:32.4	his first admitted amendment right under the Constitution to express his belief that the
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