Interview with Sen Richard Blumenthal

Laura Coates Live

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3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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First, Chris goes one on one with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). The two discuss President Trump's pleasure with Bill Barr's use of the term "spying" in his testimony. Chris continues that conversation with Phil Mudd and Mark Mazzetti. Then, Chris sits down with Former Counsel to Julian Assange, Geoffrey Roberts, to discuss his former client's arrest for his alleged conspiring with Chelsea Manning. Chris wraps up the show with the top five heated capitol hill hearings with Mike Rogers.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	Anderson, thank you.
0:01.0	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time.
0:03.4	The president attacked the rule of law like we have never seen.
0:07.3	Forget the clever legal minds and devious debates, it is obvious what happened here.
0:11.8	There is evidence that shows it and we have it.
0:14.4	So let's get after it.
0:21.1	What do you do when a president dictates what is justice for his friends?
0:26.8	We watch the president praise his attorney general and his cronies and Trump are now
0:31.3	saying the prosecutors, they're the ones who went rogue, deep state.
0:35.8	It's all BS and there is a trail to prove it.
0:39.2	The deception is not new.
0:41.0	In fact, it is the directness that's startling.
0:44.2	Presidents usually a, usually pardon for something like this, right?
0:47.2	Think Bush with Weinberger, Clinton with Mark Rich.
0:50.6	Why?
0:51.6	Because they know that the institutions of justice would generally not go along with a perceived
0:55.3	political payback.
0:56.8	But this president is post-presential.
1:00.3	He is in automatic, autocratic mode.
1:04.0	Is it your tweet political interference?
1:07.8	No, not at all.
1:09.2	He was treated very badly.
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