Trump acknowledges he was told 2020 election lies were false

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Former President Trump admitted that he was told the 2020 election lies were false but continued spewing the false claims to try and overturn the results. In an interview over the weekend, the former president said he didn’t respect his attorneys who told him he had lost the election and instead he “respected many others that said the election was rigged.” Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe tells Anderson Cooper if he thinks Trump undermined his own defense by saying it was his decision to go after the 2020 election results. Plus, CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward gives AC360 an exclusive look at what Wagner’s post-Yevgeny Priogozhin future looks like in the Central African Republic. The former Wagner boss died in a plane crash just two months after he and his mercenaries launched an armed insurrection on Russia.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, when does an admission amount to a confession?
0:04.7	A key question now that the former president admits that working to overturn the 2020 election
0:08.4	was, quote, my decision.
0:10.0	Also, tonight an exclusive look at the security on land and on water as war leaders, including
0:14.4	President Biden, gather here in New York for the UN General Assembly.
0:18.2	And later, another exclusive CNN's close award on dangerous ground in the Central African
0:22.4	Republic, where Russia's Wagner mercenaries are still making money, even though their leader
0:26.8	yet getting a pregozion, is dead.
0:28.6	Good evening.
0:29.6	Thanks for joining us.
0:30.6	We begin tonight with the legal and political tufer.
0:32.7	How the former president may have undermined a likely defense in his federal election subversion
0:36.7	case and potentially alienated supporters on a central issue to many evangelicals.
0:42.2	One could cost him votes, the other perhaps, his freedom.
0:44.9	Both from a single interview with NBC's Kristen Wilker, which aired yesterday.
0:49.0	On the legal side, he made it harder for his defense attorneys in the January 6 election
0:52.4	subversion case to claim that he was merely acting on advice of counsel in trying to overturn
0:57.9	the election that he lost.
1:01.0	You called some of your outside lawyers.
1:04.0	You said they had crazy theories.
1:06.3	Why were you listening to them?
1:07.5	Were you listening to them because they were telling you what you wanted to hear?
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