Sources: Trump telling aides he believes he’ll be acquitted
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:01.0 | This country has only seen three presidential impeachment trials in its entire history. |
| 0:06.1 | Tomorrow, it'll see its second in about a year of the same president. |
| 0:09.9 | The first was for trying to pressure foreign head of state into helping him win the 2020 |
| 0:14.0 | election. |
| 0:15.0 | This one is for trying to overturn it by force. |
| 0:17.3 | Tonight, San Francisco, Macosta has some new reporting that goes to the heart of the |
| 0:20.3 | case. |
| 0:21.3 | It speaks to the former president's state of mind as the insurrection is invaded the |
| 0:24.7 | Capitol. |
| 0:25.7 | A former senior White House official saying he was, quote, loving watching the Capitol |
| 0:29.6 | mob and quote, think about that. |
| 0:32.3 | This former senior official says the president of the United States was watching on television |
| 0:36.4 | as the seat of our democracy was being overrun in an assault that would leave five people. |
| 0:41.2 | Dad and dozens of police officers badly injured and he was loving it. |
| 0:45.5 | That said, it's not all we are learning tonight. |
| 0:47.4 | So it's telling Jim Acosta the former president is already taking his acquittal for granted |
| 0:52.1 | and is fixated instead on punishing any Republicans who went against him because and this will |
| 0:56.8 | be a theme throughout the trial. |
| 1:00.1 | The majority of the leaders are chuckshoom or laid out the agreed on trial rules. |
| 1:05.7 | House managers will get 16 hours over two days to make their case than the same for the |
| 1:10.1 | former president's side. |
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