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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Impeachment witness Lieutenant Colonel Vindman fired from White House; Iowa Democratic Chair: Caucus mistakes "Categorically Unacceptable"

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2866 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Impeachment witness Lieutenant Colonel Vindman fired from White House; Attorney: Vindman fired for "Telling the Truth"; Impeachment witness Bill Taylor says Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, Ambassador Yovanovitch have been "Unfairly Attacked"; Photos of Giuliani in Spain suggest Lev Parnas has more material to share with investigators; Iowa Democratic Chair: Caucus mistakes "Categorically Unacceptable"; Iowa Democratic Chair admits he didn't use failed app at the center of caucus counting controversy; Sanders: Won't ask for full recanvas of Iowa results; Deadline extended for candidates to challenge Iowa results; Sanders hits Buttigieg over wealthy donors; Trump mocks Democrats over Iowa counting troubles; Trump: Democrats "Fried" their votes in Iowa; Trump's Big Week: Acquittal, Poll Numbers, Jobs Report; Some Sanders fans use hostile tactics to drown out critics; Coronavirus infections spur cruise ship quarantines amid growing global concerns over spreading threat;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

has learned anything

0:01.8

uh... from this impeachment saga uh... Susan Collins was one republican

0:05.8

senator who was saying earlier this week that she believes the president

0:08.8

learned something learned a lesson in all of this

0:11.7

uh... but perhaps the lesson that the president has learned, Wolf,

0:14.6

after this entire impeachment saga is now over, is that he can get away with what he got away with

0:20.8

and that he can seek retaliation against people who were

0:23.6

testifying against him during those hearings up on Capitol Hill but we're

0:27.5

waiting to find out whether or not the president has more to say in all of this

0:30.9

uh... he's arriving at the white House just now after an event earlier today

0:34.5

down in Charlotte, North Carolina. We'll see what, if anything, he says,

0:37.4

Ari Jim Acosta at the White House. Thank you. Let's go to Capitol Hill right now.

0:40.8

We're seeing as Manu Raju has been getting congressional

0:43.6

reaction to lieutenant colonel didman's firing. I'm on what are you hearing?

0:47.0

Yeah Democrats are just starting to react now. This of course happened in the past

0:51.0

hour and most Congress has gone for the weekend but some

0:55.0

statements are starting to come out one from the House Foreign Affairs Committee

0:58.2

Chairman Elliot Engel who was part of that impeachment inquiry in the House.

1:03.0

He issued a statement that says,

1:04.8

this is shameful, of course, but this is also

1:07.6

what we should now expect from an impeached president

1:10.8

whose party has decided he is above the law and accountable to no one.

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