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"I Took My Own Advice"; Negotiating With The Enemy; GOP Seeks To Cancel Republican Primaries In Four States In 2020

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

NYT: Commerce Chief Threatened Firings At NOAA After Pres. Trump's Dorian Tweets; Government Extracted High-Level Agent Out Of Russia In 2017 After Concerns Trump Administration Might Compromise Him; Pres. Trump: Talks With Taliban "Are Dead"; Pres. Trump Cancels Meeting With Taliban At Camp David, "It Was My Idea"; Pres. Trump, The Taliban And Camp David; CNN Exclusive: American Spy Spirited Out Of Russia In Early Days Of Trump Administration; Worries Agent Could Be Comprised; Government Extracted High-Level Agent Out Of Russia In 2017 After Concerns Trump Administration Might Compromise Him; Pres. Trump Says His Primary Challengers Have "No Credibility"; Joe Walsh On Challenging Trump, Cancelled GOP Primaries; Areas Of The Bahamas Still Cut Off By Hurricane Dorian; Search And Rescue Efforts In The Bahamas; Trump: "Everybody Needs Totally Proper Documentation"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

Good evening, thanks for joining us.

0:02.3

There is breaking news tonight that a member of President Trump's cabinet threatened

0:05.2

top-level firings at NOAA after the National Weather Service's Birmingham off Alabama

0:10.2

office contradicted the president's false tweet about Hurricane Dorian.

0:14.7

We've also learned, and this is a scene and exclusive, that US intelligence pulled a

0:18.2

very high-level agent to spy out of Russia, in part out of concern the president might

0:23.0

somehow blow this individual's cover.

0:24.9

I love more on both of those stories tonight, but we begin with the president's invitation

0:29.1

now revoke to the Taliban.

0:31.2

Had it come to pass, Taliban representatives would right now be at Camp David as guests

0:35.4

to the president, brought here to finalize a deal for pulling US troops out of Afghanistan.

0:40.5

They'd be staying at the very same place as Congresswoman Liz Cheney pointed out today

0:44.2

that her father, the vice president, President Bush and other top officials gathered just

0:48.4

days after New York and Washington had been attacked on 9-11 to plan a response.

0:54.1

At least that was the idea, which the president revealed in a tweet on Saturday in which

0:57.9

he also rescinded the invitation, citing the suicide attack on Thursday that killed an

1:02.6

American soldier.

1:03.6

Now, as you might imagine, the tweet raised a number of questions and criticisms.

1:07.8

Why would the president invite the Taliban to America days before the anniversary of 9-11?

1:12.6

And why to Camp David of all places?

1:14.8

Why would he have the president of Afghanistan come as well when the Taliban has refused

1:18.4

to deal directly with the Afghan government and has refused to stop attacks against that

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