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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Rep Gerry Connolly

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0

Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. The question, is it really over?

0:06.7

The president still hasn't provided you a stitch of proof this country had to take out in general

0:12.1

right now, not a centilla of proof. We have lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who got the intel.

0:18.4

Why are so many so appalled by the quality of the briefing?

0:23.1

And we're going to take on the great mystery in the sky over Iran. 176 killed.

0:29.8

Just after take off in Iran on the way to Ukraine, forget the chatter. What does the evidence

0:35.3

show so far? Let's get after it.

0:43.3

All right, the House says it's going to vote tomorrow to reign in the president's war-making powers.

0:49.8

Why? Well, in large part because of wild dissatisfaction with briefings from the administration

0:55.9

today about the strike that got U.S. bases bombed. Here's a taste.

1:01.8

Probably the worst briefing I've seen, at least on a military issue, in the nine years I've

1:07.2

served in the United States Senate, to come in and tell us that we can't debate and discuss the

1:12.0

appropriateness of military intervention against Iran. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional.

1:18.4

And it's wrong. All those Democrats they won't shut up. Oh, it was a Republican.

1:23.0

Oh, well, he just hates Trump. No, he doesn't. That was Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah,

1:29.6

standing alongside fellow Republican, Rand Paul, and Raged and Insulted, he said.

1:36.1

To be told by Trump officials, don't debate the merits of taking military action against Iran.

1:43.5

Does that sound like a clear-cut case is being offered?

1:46.8

Now, House Democrat Jerry Connolly says he left the room more troubled than he went in.

1:52.1

The Foreign Affairs Committee member joins us now. Thank you, sir. Happy New Year to you and the

1:56.4

family. You too, Chris. So, imminent thanks to the DOJ basically means anything a president wants

2:03.1

it to mean with such a broad explanation. How was the briefing still unsatisfied?

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