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Laura Coates Live

Tom Friedman on Trump’s Attempts to Undermine Election

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Chris goes one on one with New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman on President Trump’s debate performance and attempts at undermining the legitimacy of the election. Then, Chris goes one on one with Senator Ted Cruz on his shifting stance on President Trump. Chris wraps up the show with the Lead Prosecutor in Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office Andrew Weissman who discusses the safety of the 2020 election.  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, Anderson. Thank you very much. Hey, everybody. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to

0:04.1

prime time. Tonight, my opinion, not a night to talk about who won. The only clear outcome

0:10.3

is that you lost. Now, partisans can spend their time comparing who was worse and why

0:14.9

or who was better and Biden was this? No. Just focus on what's obvious. Trump won't

0:20.5

debate. He refuses to be tested. He will not make a case to you. He intentionally wants

0:28.1

you to quit on this process if you're not for him. He doesn't want you to hear anyone

0:34.5

else to compare plans or to do any kind of fair comparison. Bottom line, he does not want

0:41.0

to debate. He wants to debase words that are one letter different, but a world apart.

0:48.6

Trump thinks he looks better when he makes everyone and everything else look bad. So

0:54.1

what does he do? Well, you watched it, right? Cheap in the event, the moderator, the

1:00.4

opponent, and most of all, the legitimacy of that forum. It's absurd. It's a joke. Don't

1:08.0

even pay attention and forget about the election. Make it all terrible. Trash your expectations

1:14.6

of anything legitimate, anything better. Proof. Tell me one positive thing he said about

1:20.9

the future of this country last night. Tell me one message he had about how great we

1:25.8

will be and why and how. I submit to you, it is the first time you've ever had an incumbent

1:33.1

sell you on his reelection by saying vote for me. The other guy is worse. Usually the metric

1:40.4

is you better off than you were four years ago. He can't play that. So he has to say, as

1:46.2

bad off as we are, Biden would make it worse. As little as you think of me, think less of

1:53.2

him. Now, I think the only part that really mattered last night was the one time the president

2:01.0

was measured. What was that about? His false premise that absentee ballots are rigged

2:07.4

and that bad things may happen. And in relaying that fate, he was very gentle with his worst

2:16.0

followers, white hate groups, specifically the Gateway crew, the proud boys. Today he said,

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