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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Fred Fleitz

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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0:00.0

Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. We have more breaking news on our watch.

0:05.5

Another one of the president's top guys is about to tell all he could back up the most

0:10.9

damning impeachment testimony today. What does it mean? What do you say? Let's get after it.

0:20.8

All right, so here's what we have to get into tonight. Bill Taylor's testimony may be about to

0:25.8

get some backup. A current White House official named Morrison is expected to testify before

0:32.0

House impeachment investigators next week. His testimony would be the first from someone who heard

0:38.2

what the president said on that July 25th call directly, not just through that transcript

0:45.2

that the rest of us got to see. Now, sources say Morrison, who is a top Russia and Europe advisor

0:51.1

on President Trump's National Security Council will corroborate key elements of Taylor's account.

0:57.0

Namely, the president with Ukraine was pressing for that president, that government to publicly

1:03.2

announce investigations into the Biden's before he would green light U.S. security assistance.

1:10.0

What does this mean? Would this be enough to have some consensus on wrongdoing? Let's bring in

1:15.5

another team, Trump member, former deputy assistant to the president, Fred Flight's in studio.

1:20.5

Good to have you here. Good to be here. Thank you for coming on the show. Before we get into

1:24.0

substance, I want to see if we agree on a point of civility. Okay. The idea that if someone in your

1:28.9

party is against the president argues against them all the time, do you believe that person is scum?

1:35.8

Well, I provide a material to the president sometimes he disagrees with and I've never, he's never

1:41.4

thrown me out of his office. I think the president is prepared to take other points of view.

1:45.2

But when he calls never Trumpers, as he calls people in his party, who aren't for him, scum. Do you

1:51.4

think that's right? I think that Mr. Trump has a certain way of talking that we all love him for.

1:56.0

It's a salty way of talking. You and I may have a different way of explaining things, but that's

2:00.4

the way the president is. Would you call somebody like that scum? I wouldn't know. Okay. Let's leave

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