Interview with Rep Steve Cohen

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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First, Chris brings on Asha Rangappa and David Cay Johnston for a session "Cuomo's Court," in which they discuss the over 450 federal prosecutors pushing back against Attorney General Bill Barr. Then, Chris goes one on one with Representative Steve Cohen. Chris heads to the Magic Wall to break down the controversial abortion bill passed in Georgia. Chris wraps up the show with "The Great Debate," and a Closing Argument on the necessity of transparency.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, thanks, JB. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time. Why did they release the Ukraine aid to them when they did?
0:08.0	Why? More than ever, the answer seems to be because the people involved knew that Congress was on to the scam.
0:17.0	And by they, we can now definitely include President Trump. Why?
0:22.0	Reportedly, the President was briefed about the whistleblower complaint before he released the Ukraine aid.
0:29.0	You know, right when he started saying, no quid pro quo, no quid pro quo, I want nothing when he had just said the opposite before that.
0:37.0	We also have two other pieces of the puzzle that make the picture of potential impeachment even more clear.
0:43.0	So what do you say? Let's get out.
0:49.0	All right, this comes from the New York Times just tonight.
0:52.0	Sources say President Trump already knew about the whistleblower complaint when he released the hold on military aid to Ukraine on September 11th.
1:03.0	The Times reports lawyers from the White House Council's office briefed the President in late August.
1:09.0	Remember, I'm going to lay out the whole timeline for you again in detail in the next segment. But July 25th is the call, right?
1:15.0	Then August, he finds out about the whistleblower September. They released the aid out of nowhere.
1:20.0	This is a vital piece of information to develop the truth of why the aid was suddenly released.
1:26.0	And remember why that matters because if this wasn't about leveraging Ukraine, well, they can, what's their defense?
1:34.0	Well, we gave them the aid, but why did they do it then? If they did it then because they thought everything was about to be exposed, they're in trouble.
1:42.0	Let's bring in Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen. Now he sits on the House Judiciary Committee, which is of course going to be the next instrument of a potential impeachment.
1:53.0	This is where it really becomes a serious confrontation.
1:58.0	Congressman, we'll talk about the process in a second. Let's start with the headline.
2:01.0	What does it mean to you that the President, not just the White House, was well aware of the whistleblower complaint to some degree of detail,
2:10.0	just weeks before they released the aid?
2:15.0	It's obviously why he did it. If the whistleblower didn't file his report, the President of Ukraine would have gone on television on your network at Trump's request and announced the investigation of the Biden's, so he would get the military aid.
2:30.0	He was scheduled to do it because he didn't know different. Trump had it. He loved him according to Simlon.
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