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Laura Coates Live

Michigan County Certifies Election Results Despite GOP Efforts

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Chris discusses Wayne County, Michigan GOP officials voting to certify the election despite previously attempting to block it with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Anthony Scaramucci, and David Gregory. Then, Chris goes one on one with Sen. Sherrod Brown on clashes over mask-wearing in the Senate. Chris wraps up the show with Pennsylvania Attorney General, Josh Shapiro.  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

All right, thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. There are very heavy

0:04.3

matters on our watch. Once again, Trump party leaders are standing by silently as the man they fear

0:11.6

most revenge fires yet another top staffer protecting our country. Why for telling the truth?

0:20.4

The person's name is Chris Krebs. He's the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure

0:25.5

Security Agency, fired for saying there was no widespread fraud in this election.

0:31.7

Trump says there were massive improprieties and fraud, including dead people voting. Here's his

0:37.6

problem. Chris Krebs said the election was good with proof because he was in charge of overseeing

0:44.9

the security. Trump has no proof. But what makes this once again a grave night for us?

0:52.1

No pushback from any GOP member of Congress. Please remember this. Remember how these men and women

1:03.9

were silent. When they pretend to be something else down the road, remember who they were in this

1:10.8

moment. Law and order, they say they're about. To them, it seems to me that the law is that Trump

1:18.2

orders them when to speak. Chris Krebs took to Twitter after the firing. He wrote,

1:23.8

honored to serve. We did it right. Defend today. Secure tomorrow. Hashtag, protect 2020.

1:31.5

Of course, the president has the right to remove Krebs. But that doesn't make it right. And the GOP

1:38.2

knows it's wrong. But just like with the rest of the Trumpere surrounding this

1:44.4

Fugaisie election fraud fiction, they choose to pretend nothing is wrong. Listen.

1:53.7

In all of these presidential elections, we go through this process. And we're going to have an

1:58.2

orderly transfer from this administration to the next one. What we all say about it is frankly irrelevant.

2:07.0

So this is what usually happens. That you don't allow the transition in the middle of a pandemic.

2:14.8

When we have a vaccine that needs to be distributed by the administration that's coming in and

2:19.5

the administration that's there right now won't let them let them learn what's happening. That's

2:24.7

what's normal. How can McConnell serve in the Senate? If he thinks it's irrelevant to speak right

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