Republicans Slam Justice System After Trump’s Conviction
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Team Trump debating whether they should try to push his July 11th |
| 0:07.2 | sentencing date. The lead starts right now. The question of the moment for |
| 0:12.4 | the Trump campaign should they try to move the |
| 0:14.8 | former president's sentencing date or keep it as it is the Republican |
| 0:19.2 | Convention begins July 15th in Milwaukee sentencing July 11th ahead what sources are telling CNN |
| 0:25.8 | about this dilemma plus Dr Anthony Fauchy back on Capitol Hill facing questions |
| 0:31.0 | and some attacks about the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 0:35.0 | Do the American people deserve to be abused like that? |
| 0:39.0 | Mr. Fauchy? |
| 0:40.0 | Because you're not doctor, you're Mr. Fauchy in my few minutes. |
| 0:43.6 | Is this what we have become? |
| 0:45.4 | Is this what Congress has become? |
| 0:49.3 | And that flagrant foul on W NBA superstar Caitlin Clark Clark was it all just part of the game |
| 0:54.4 | or intended to be a lot more personal. |
| 0:58.8 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we start today with our law and |
| 1:05.2 | justice lead and brand new CNN reporting on the politics at the heart of |
| 1:09.0 | Donald Trump's current legal issues. Trump's attorneys are currently debating whether they're going to try to push this July 11th |
| 1:15.9 | sentencing date in the Hushmoney case, given that that date is just four days before |
| 1:20.9 | the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. |
| 1:24.8 | But a source familiar with those deliberations tells CNN's Paula Reed that the decision |
| 1:29.6 | is not going to be ultimately up to the lawyers. Instead, Trump and his political advisors will make |
| 1:34.0 | the call as they weigh whether or not they can successfully frame the former president as something |
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