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Anderson Cooper 360

Keeping Them Honest: "It's Going To Be Legendary"

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tonight, President Trump takes a victory lap at the Department of Justice and promises more retribution against those he thinks did him wrong. CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, former Republican Congressman who served on the House January 6th Select Committee Adam Kinzinger, and former US district court judge Shira Scheindlin with their take on the President's speech. Plus, CNN's MJ Lee takes us to a town near the US-Canadian border trying to navigate what these new tariffs will do to their businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, President Trump takes a victory lap, the Department of Justice, and promises

0:06.3

more retribution against those he thinks did him wrong.

0:09.9

Also tonight, the Education Secretary says cuts to her department eliminate bureaucratic

0:13.8

bloat.

0:14.8

But a new lawsuit says layoffs undermine one office's ability to investigate allegations of

0:19.3

discrimination and protect the most vulnerable

0:21.8

children in America. And later, a successful takeoff for a delayed mission to return to

0:26.6

astronauts home. Good evening. Just over eight years ago, President Trump went to the CIA

0:31.5

headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and stood in front of a memorial wall dedicated to CIA officers

0:36.4

killed in the line of duty.

0:38.1

He used it as a backdrop for a speech that was largely about himself, his grievances, and his

0:42.4

perceived enemies. That speech was the day after his inauguration, and at the time, it shocked a lot

0:47.6

of people. It was a breach of decorum and grace. Well, today he did the same kind of thing,

0:52.4

and perhaps it was no big surprise.

0:54.7

His backdrop this time was the Department of Justice, which he's already filled with his attorneys and supporters.

1:00.1

The setting was far more meaningful. It appeared to be a victory lap over the agency that indicted him in two federal cases that were dismissed after he won the election.

1:08.0

His speech came after a number of DOJ attorneys and FBI agents involved in

1:11.9

the prosecutions of the January 6th attackers that he pardoned were forced out. The president

1:17.0

invoked a lot of his standard campaign lines about weaponization of justice against him and references

1:22.3

to Hunter Biden's laptop. He even exited to the village people's YMCA. The president made it clear all that pre-election

1:29.5

talk about retribution. He meant every word. We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces

1:37.1

from our government. We will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes and severe

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