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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Sen Richard Blumenthal

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chris interviews Senator Richard Blumenthal and Chris Ruddy, moderates "Cuomo's Court," with Laura Coates and Mike Rogers, and presents a Closing Argument on Mueller's message to "every American."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

Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to prime time.

0:04.0

Mueller was seen and heard. Now there are more Democrats wanting more action against the president.

0:10.1

Mr. Mueller said what he wrote. He was not allowed to charge the president, and he would have cleared the president if the facts allowed, but they didn't.

0:19.7

So what is the way forward for Democrats and when will they decide?

0:25.1

We have a top dem.

0:26.5

Senator Richard Blumenthal is here, and he's going to give us some insight on that.

0:31.1

And wondering what the president was thinking, as Mr. Mueller was speaking,

0:35.5

and what it meant to him, me too. And we have someone who was in the

0:39.7

room with the president right after Mr. Mueller's remarks. His longtime friend, Chris Ruddy,

0:45.8

the head of Newsmax, he was with the president and now he's with us tonight. And for all the talk

0:51.8

about what Mueller couldn't do and wasn't allowed to do and what he

0:55.5

didn't do, but what he thought he might do, he had one clear statement of concern about the

1:00.1

integrity of our democracy, and it's being all but ignored. Is anyone focusing on how to protect

1:06.5

our next election? Time to speak truth to power. What do you say? Let's get after.

1:25.4

All right. Once and for all, together as one, there was no exoneration. It was clear in the report.

1:29.0

And for those of you who didn't read or didn't believe what the Attorney General was telling you and what the President was telling you was wrong, Mr.

1:34.9

Mueller finally stepped forward and spelled it out plainly.

1:39.9

A president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office.

1:45.2

The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally

1:51.7

accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.

1:55.0

If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have

2:00.3

said so.

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