Interview with Sen Richard Blumenthal
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to prime time. Breaking news. New evidence of the depth of the efforts by |
| 0:06.0 | this president to go after the Bidens, a CNN exclusive and key players making the case and trying |
| 0:14.1 | to defend on the show tonight. Where do you stand? Let's get after it. |
| 0:24.1 | All right, so here is the latest. |
| 0:33.7 | The president's personal lawyer pushed the State Department and the White House to get a visa for the ousted Ukrainian prosecutor who promised dirt on the Bidens. |
| 0:44.1 | This comes in a CNN exclusive from four sources citing the testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent this week to Congress. |
| 0:52.3 | They tell us that in January 2019, Rudy Giuliani tried to secure a U.S. visa for Ukrainian Victor Schokin. |
| 0:53.6 | You've heard that name a lot now. |
| 0:56.1 | He was forced to resign in 2016 with the help of the United States for failing to root out corruption. Now, as if the plot were not |
| 1:02.4 | already painfully clear, President Trump's acting chief of staff admitted to a quid pro quo, |
| 1:08.8 | and then Potus and company had him deny it. So we know what |
| 1:12.9 | happened. The question is, what does it mean? Where do things stand? Let's ask a possible future |
| 1:19.0 | juror and top Democrat Senate Judiciary Member Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut. Always good to |
| 1:25.2 | see you, Senator. Thank you for joining us, especially on a Friday night. |
| 1:29.1 | So, we know what happened. It is inarguably wrong for a number of reasons. You can argue that it is |
| 1:36.4 | abuse of power. But do you believe that you have reached a point with all that you have seen to this |
| 1:41.4 | point, that this is worthy of articles of impeachment and removal. |
| 1:46.4 | It is unquestionably worthy of moving forward with impeachment proceedings, |
| 1:51.6 | as the House is doing. |
| 1:53.2 | It is unquestionably an abuse of power by the President of the United States, |
| 1:58.2 | a betrayal of his oath of office. |
| 1:59.5 | Let's remember the commander-in in chief on that July 25th phone call is pressuring, indeed, extorting a foreign leader to interfere in our elections, to try to sway our democratic process and compromise our democracy for the commander-in-chief to undertake |
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