Special counsel prosecutors question witnesses about chaotic oval office meeting after Trump lost 2020 election
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
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🗓️ 8 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on 360, to indict or not with special counsel Jack Smith looking at Trump's meeting |
| 0:05.8 | where Marshal Law and seizing voting machines were discussed, we talk with Trump's former |
| 0:10.3 | national security adviser about how close we came to a constitutional crisis. |
| 0:14.9 | In Ukraine, the latest in the battle around Bacmoud as President Biden decides to send cluster |
| 0:19.2 | munitions to the fight, and Florida's new Republican pledge of allegiance, just to get |
| 0:24.4 | on the GOP presidential ballot in the state candidates now have to promise in writing |
| 0:28.7 | to support the nominee no matter who it ends up being. |
| 0:32.5 | Good evening, we begin tonight, digging deeper into the December 2020 Oval Office meeting |
| 0:36.8 | that sources tell us special counsel Jack Smith's team has shown a renewed focus on. |
| 0:41.3 | Now, there are two reasons for that. |
| 0:42.9 | First, we have the perspective tonight of someone who knows the cast of characters in |
| 0:47.1 | the meeting and has worked with many of them over the years. |
| 0:49.7 | And secondly, it's worth another look simply because of how unprecedented that meeting |
| 0:53.7 | was in the Oval Office in terms of what was on the table and what followed just hours |
| 0:58.1 | later. |
| 0:59.0 | The former president tweeting, quote, big protests in DC on January 6th be there will be |
| 1:03.9 | wild. |
| 1:04.9 | Now, that tweet, which would later be seen as Exhibit A for allegedly inciting the mob |
| 1:09.1 | that day, now looks like the action he chose to take instead of the even more atlandish |
| 1:14.3 | ideas that were discussed during the meeting, such as seizing voting machines in the states |
| 1:18.9 | he lost and invoking martial law. |
| 1:21.5 | Former Trump campaign manager Bill Steppin told the January 6th committee he referred to |
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