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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Rep Maxine Waters

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Chris goes one on one with Representative Maxine Waters.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

All right, thank you, Anderson.

0:01.1

I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

0:03.3

What do you say?

0:04.3

Let's get after it.

0:10.3

All right, now we now know the whistleblower didn't just worry about that Ukraine call,

0:15.8

but all the people and all the effort that came over the course of months before that

0:22.2

call in order to get Ukraine's help to investigate former VP Biden.

0:27.9

The other shocker was what came after the call.

0:31.0

This accusation that people around this president worked to cover up records of that call and

0:38.3

others.

0:39.3

Quote, White House officials told me that they were directed by White House lawyers to remove

0:45.4

the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically

0:49.6

stored.

0:50.6

Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system.

0:56.4

And this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript

1:01.6

was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically

1:07.8

sensitive rather than national security sensitive information.

1:12.7

The president says it was a perfect call.

1:16.0

And why move mountains to conceal the record?

1:19.4

And if it's all fine, why call the whistleblower basically a spy and suggest they should

1:25.4

be killed?

1:26.4

Yes, that's where we are.

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