House impeachment managers present case to convict Trump
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did the president encourage violence? |
| 0:04.0 | Yes. |
| 0:06.0 | No doubt that he did. |
| 0:09.0 | Final question. |
| 0:12.0 | Did the president act willfully in his actions that encouraged violence? |
| 0:21.0 | Well, let's look at the facts. |
| 0:24.0 | He stood before an armed, angry crowd |
| 0:29.0 | known to be ready for violence at his provocation. |
| 0:33.0 | And what did he do? |
| 0:35.0 | He provoked them. |
| 0:37.0 | He aimed them here, told them to fight like hell. |
| 0:43.0 | And that's exactly what they did. |
| 0:46.0 | And his conduct throughout the rest of that terrible day |
| 0:52.0 | really only confirms that he acted willfully, |
| 0:57.0 | that he incited the crowd and then engaged in a dereliction of duty |
| 1:01.0 | while he continued in flaming the violence. |
| 1:06.0 | And again, we don't have to guess what he thought because he told us. |
| 1:11.0 | Remember the video he released at 4.17pm? |
| 1:16.0 | Lead manager Raskin showed that to you yesterday. |
| 1:19.0 | The one where he said, quote, we had an election that was stolen from us. |
| 1:24.0 | Remember the tweet that he put out just a couple hours later, |
| 1:29.0 | 6.01pm on January 6th. |
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