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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Pence: “Trump Is Wrong…I Had No Right To Overturn The Election”

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Former Vice President Mike Pence called out former President Donald Trump, saying he was wrong and had no right to overturn the 2020 election. Pence continued to say nothing could be more “un-American” than for one person to decide the outcome of an election. The Republican National Committee censures the two Republican members of Congress on the January 6th committee. We discuss the Republican civil war over that dark day. 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

Pence says Trump was wrong and, quote, un-American about the election.

0:07.2

The lead starts right now.

0:09.7

Former Vice President Mike Pence calling out his former boss just moments ago, saying

0:14.5

former president Donald Trump is wrong and that he had, quote, no right to overturn the

0:18.7

election on January 6, 2021, that nothing could be more un-American.

0:24.3

What kind of backlash might Pence face from his own party now, and speaking of which?

0:30.5

The Republican National Committee censures the two Republican members of Congress, January

0:35.6

6th Committee members Adam Kinzinger and Liz Janie, censoring in part for participating

0:40.2

in, quote, persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.

0:47.9

Is that how the Republican Party views that violent, deadly assault on the Capitol?

0:53.0

On democracy, the Republican Civil War over that dark day, that's ahead.

0:57.4

And, as the games begin, the Chinese government cynically pushes an athlete from its ethnic

1:03.0

Muslim minority to light the torch, hoping that you forget the genocide the Chinese government's

1:09.4

committing against that very same ethnic group.

1:18.7

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, just in.

1:21.4

Former Vice President Mike Pence just moments ago directly took on his former boss, Donald

1:26.1

Trump, and Donald Trump's outlandish, untethered claims about the election.

1:31.7

Take a listen.

1:34.3

And I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election.

1:42.3

The President Trump is wrong.

1:44.8

I had no right to overturn the election.

1:47.5

The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone.

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