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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Mayor Jenny Durkan

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Chris goes one on one with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. 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

Hey Anderson, thank you very much. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. All eyes are on Seattle.

0:05.6

And Trump sees an opportunity to make everything that's happening there and really everywhere

0:10.1

about his political opponents and their radical ranks. His move calls to dominate the people on

0:17.1

the streets, dangling troops again. Wonder what effect that will have on people who say they are

0:22.6

tired of being dominated. On the same day that the head of the joint chiefs apologized for even

0:28.8

the suggestion of military presence in our politics, Trump, tone deaf once again, double down.

0:37.9

Seattle would be so easy to solve. We have to dominate the streets. You can't let that happen

0:43.4

what happened in New York City, the damage they've done. You have to dominate this world. If you

0:48.2

think about it, we're dominating the street with compassion because we're saving lives.

0:52.6

Dominating the street with compassion. If that doesn't tell you everything that Trump doesn't know,

1:01.9

I don't know what will. When I say he is tone deaf, I mean to call for equity and justice.

1:10.2

That is because he is singing a different tune. It's more like a dog whistle, right? To his base

1:15.8

and too many of them want to see the people who are begging for change put down. The governor of

1:22.8

Washington, however, is pushing back saying his state won't allow threats of military violence from

1:27.7

the White House. The mayor of Seattle calls it a threat to invade and is calling on Trump to go back

1:34.3

to his bunker. She's going to have more to say to us in just a moment. But first, let's get to the

1:39.0

streets of Seattle. Dan Simon is there. Dan, what's the situation?

1:45.3

Well, hi, Chris. This is the Seattle police station that has essentially been taken over by

1:49.7

protesters. You can see it's been totally defaced. Look where we used to say the Seattle police

1:54.3

department. And now it says the Seattle people department and all the windows are bordered up because

2:00.0

the officers who work in this station essentially abandoned ship. Let me explain how this all came

2:05.7

about, Chris. You had several days of violent clashes between police and protesters in front of

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