Interview with Rep Tom Suozzi

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🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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First, Chris goes one on one with Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY). They discuss the New York Times article claiming that member's of Mueller's team claim their findings were more damaging for Trump than Barr revealed. Then, Trump Biographer and Syracuse Law Professor, David Cay Johnston joins Chris to give her perspective on what the next move for the administration may be. Then, Chris brings on Angela Rye and Scott Jennings to discuss the 2020 hopeful candidates and controversies in "The Great Debate." Chris wraps up the show with Bob Baer and a Closing Argument calling for transparency in the Mueller probe.

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0:00.0	Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:03.6	Total exoneration. That's what the president declared about the Mueller probe.
0:07.6	Thinking he was nailing the coffin shut. Instead, it seems he's opened up Pandora's box.
0:13.5	Mueller's team is pushing back. They say no complete exoneration.
0:18.0	Even the Attorney General's account of the special counsel's findings, they say, isn't right.
0:23.7	This is breaking at the same time Democrats authorize a subpoena for the full,
0:28.8	unredacted report. They've also opened up a new front in their new season of oversight.
0:34.9	Years of this president's taxes, personal and professional.
0:39.6	The professional, they ask for them, will they get them?
0:42.6	The other question is, will they be sorry if they do? We're going to bring in a powerful
0:47.4	ways and means committee member to lay out the case. And the Chinese lady at Mar-a-Lago,
0:52.8	it started as a joke. But now our intel folks, they're not laughing.
0:57.2	We have their reasons for concern. My friends, it is never boring. Tonight it matters.
1:02.4	So let's get after it.
1:07.8	So here's the big story. The New York Times reports some members of team Mueller,
1:11.8	believe the Attorney General, fail to adequately characterize the findings of their inquiry.
1:18.1	That the stuff in the report is worse for this president than as summarized.
1:24.3	And the timing could not be better for the Democrats. They're ready to send a subpoena
1:28.1	for the full Mueller report. And now the House, Ways and Means Committee, the only one with this power.
1:35.0	They can call for the president's taxes. They can call for anybody's taxes.
1:38.4	They're asking for personal and professional taxes from the president from 2013 to 2018,
1:45.5	along with like eight of his business entities. So this is going to be a legal fight. It will certainly
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