Interview with Kirstjen Nielsen

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Two sides of the big story up for discussion tonight- Democrats demanding the full release of the Special Counsel's report and Attorney General Bill Barr defending his summary of the findings. The perfect starting point for "The Great Debate," with Jennifer Granholm and Ken Cuccinelli. Chris then heads to the Magic Wall to dig into previous investigations and the precedent to release them in full. Next, Chris brings on 2020 Democratic hopeful, Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH). Chris wraps up the show discussing the crisis at the border and how the government is handling it with Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen. In a Closing Argument, Chris pleads with the President ahead of his trip to the southern border to not make it about optics, but rather to work to find a solution.

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0:00.0	Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime. Big night. No question about it. The
0:05.5	battle for the Mueller report is blowing up as team bar fires back at team Mueller. Now there's
0:12.2	a new demand from Democrats in Congress to find out what the heck is going on here. Almost two
0:17.8	weeks in. And now we have more questions and answers. When will we get to see the facts? And
0:24.8	why is the president now backing off his threat to close the border? Good move.
0:29.2	But he said he wasn't playing games. Was it a game? We have the perfect guest to tell you the
0:33.8	reality on the border. A Primetime first. Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen from our border.
0:41.2	This administration must be straight about the real emergency and what it will do to substantially
0:47.5	address it. Also here. The newest 2020 player fresh office announcement. Democrat number 17. On your mark,
0:55.5	let's get after. All right, so look, here's the suggestion. If the special counsel prepared summaries
1:06.3	of his findings, why did the president's attorney general choose to craft his own? Especially one
1:12.8	that may have grossly downplayed what was found. This lies at the heart of the latest front in
1:19.5	the fight for truth. And the head of the House Judiciary Committee is determined to get that truth.
1:25.2	Jerry Nadler now insisting that the AG clear up the discrepancies demanding the release of
1:31.6	Mueller's summaries to the public and then release the full report to Congress so it can
1:37.9	assess and decide what to redact on its own. Sound fair, certainly debatable. So let's do just that.
1:45.9	Jennifer Granholm. Ken Kuchinelli, Governor Granholm, make the case. The AG said he would do it.
1:51.8	Just give him a little time. Now the Democrats want to rush him. Why?
1:58.2	Well, I think that this story from last night and today is a game changer on this report.
2:04.6	The fact now that we know that he had actually received summaries from Mueller of what was in
2:10.4	the report, those summaries intended to be released. That why didn't he do it? And so then all
2:17.4	of a sudden, well, I was willing to give him and wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt as a
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