Interview with Sen Chris Murphy
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Chris Cuomo, welcome to Prime Time. |
| 0:04.0 | We are living history, my friends. |
| 0:06.0 | President Trump is now on trial. |
| 0:09.0 | The Senate took an oath to do its impartial best today. |
| 0:13.0 | The question is, can they honor that oath |
| 0:16.0 | if they don't have witnesses and examine the record of fact? |
| 0:20.0 | Let's take a look tonight at what they may try to avoid. |
| 0:24.0 | The damning details offered by Trump co-member Lev Harness. |
| 0:29.0 | What do you say? Let's get in. |
| 0:36.0 | All right, for better or worse, today it begins. |
| 0:39.0 | Senators took an oath, swearing to God, |
| 0:42.0 | to do their best to be impartial in trying the case against Trump. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm sad to say that for many that oath is suspect already |
| 0:51.0 | and for several reasons. |
| 0:53.0 | The leader of the right McConnell sees himself as there |
| 0:57.0 | to exonerate the president. |
| 0:59.0 | He said as much, in fact, he went further negating the oath |
| 1:03.0 | before he took it. Remember this. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm not a impartial viewer. This is a political process. |
| 1:10.0 | But today he took an oath, saying exactly that. |
| 1:13.0 | He raised his hand to God. I wonder if his fingers were crossed |
| 1:16.0 | when he took that oath. You know what? |
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