Interview with Pete Buttigieg
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Prime Time during a pivot point for the presidency. |
| 0:05.7 | There's no information on our watch. So what do you say? Let's get after it. |
| 0:15.0 | This is CNN breaking news. Nancy Pelosi has launched an official impeachment inquiry |
| 0:22.2 | against President Donald J. Trump. The president has admitted to asking the president |
| 0:30.2 | of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. The action of the actions of the |
| 0:36.7 | Trump presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of |
| 0:42.2 | office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. |
| 0:48.8 | Therefore, today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official |
| 0:54.0 | impeachment inquiry. The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law. |
| 1:00.1 | All right, what does that mean? It means that the Democrats are all now on the same page. |
| 1:04.6 | It took a long time, but there's no new process that started. This is about the politics of coming |
| 1:10.6 | together for one side of the aisle. Also tonight, an unusual development. Our sources say the White |
| 1:17.0 | House is preparing to cooperate. That they are going to release the whistleblower complaint |
| 1:22.6 | at the center of this as early as tomorrow. Also tomorrow, we are told from the president |
| 1:29.3 | that he says he will release the unredacted transcript of his call with the president of Ukraine. |
| 1:36.5 | That call was only one of multiple alleged matters of concern. Now unredacted transcript, |
| 1:42.5 | the call to our understanding was not recorded. There are people who transcribe it. It can be reviewed, |
| 1:48.5 | it can be changed. So it is good to have, in fact, necessary to have it with the complaint. |
| 1:54.8 | Now, the House Intel Committee may actually hear from the whistleblower directly at some point |
| 2:01.5 | this week according to Chairman Schiff. That's not that easy. The General Counsel for the DNI |
| 2:07.6 | is saying they don't think that should happen. So we'll have to see. If the complaint comes out, |
| 2:12.3 | what would be their objection? We'll be watching that. Then what? What kind of case will they be |
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