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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Andrew McCabe

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Chris goes one on one with former FBI Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe.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

Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to prime time. The Intel Committee voted quickly to send their report to the judiciary and new evidence provided therein explains why they went so fast.

0:12.9

Phone logs are in here. Look how thick this thing is, 300 pages and they show major players making calls to people that are hard to explain away often at key times.

0:24.6

The most important question in any investigation will drive us tonight.

0:28.6

Why?

0:29.6

You have to look at all the people around the president and all the way to him contacting players and places that were key to pressuring Ukraine and

0:40.0

what does it all mean going forward? Let's get after it.

0:48.7

All right. Now, the Intel Committee vote was predictable. It was party line 13 to 9. But when

0:54.0

you look at this report,

0:55.6

it cites, quote, overwhelming misconduct and unprecedented obstruction by the President of the

1:00.9

United States, Donald J. Trump. These are 300 damning pages from the House Intel Committee led

1:08.0

by Adam Schiff. Here's him.

1:16.6

This report chronicles a scheme by the President of the United States to coerce an ally Ukraine that is at war with an adversary Russia into doing the president's political dirty work.

1:25.1

Now, specifically, the report accuses the president of abusing his power,

1:30.1

specifically the power of his office to solicit foreign election interference for his own

1:36.5

political gain. Quote, President Trump's scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy, undermined our national

1:43.7

security.

1:44.6

Then they say it wasn't about just one call.

1:47.6

It was a cabal, senior U.S. officials, including the VP, the Secretary of State,

1:53.0

the Acting Chief of Staff, the Secretary of Energy, and others were either knowledgeable of or

1:59.0

active participants in an effort to extract from a foreign nation

2:04.1

the personal political benefits sought by the president.

2:08.8

Now, this report makes the case that the president engaged in unprecedented obstruction.

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