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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump-Bolton Executive Privilege; Sanders Surges In Iowa; Imminent Threat; Clinton Investigation Latest

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Pres. Trump Says He'd invoke Executive Privilege To Block Bolton Testimony At Senate Impeachment Trial; Secretary Of State Pompeo's Definition Of "Imminent"; New CNN Poll: Tight Race In Iowa Gets Tighter; Vaguely Specific, And Specifically Vague; Pompeo Won't Define "Imminent" On Threat From Iran; Pres. Trump Now Claims Soleimani Targeted 4 U.S. Embassies, Without Evidence Or Explanation Of "Imminent" Threat; "Lock Her Up" Blows Up; Justice Dept. Suggests No Evidence To Support Criminal Charges Against Hillary Clinton, Clinton Foundation; New Iowa Caucus Poll; New CNN-Des Moines Register Poll: Razor-Tight Race in Iowa; New Poll: Sanders Surges Amid 4-Way Fight For First Place In Iowa; Pres. Trump's New Threat As Impeachment Trial NearsTo 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

Good evening tonight with House Speaker Pelosi saying she's ready to hand articles of impeachment

0:04.5

over to the Senate.

0:05.5

There's breaking news about the man who would almost certainly be the star witness.

0:09.0

That is, if Republicans even allow it, former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

0:13.3

Tonight though, never mind what senators might want or what Majority Leader McConnell might

0:16.6

agree to.

0:17.6

When it comes to Bolton, President Trump has just made it clear he wants him nowhere near

0:21.1

the witness stand.

0:22.1

That's what he told Fox News' Laura Ingram during an interview airing tonight.

0:26.3

She asked why not call Bolton?

0:28.3

Why not allow him to testify?

0:29.7

This thing is bogus.

0:30.7

Why not allow Bolton to testify?

0:32.5

The President replies no problem other than one thing.

0:35.3

You can't be in the White House's president future.

0:37.4

I'm talking about future.

0:38.8

Any future president's and have a security adviser.

0:41.1

Anybody having to do a security in legal and other things, but especially then Ingram

0:45.2

interjects.

0:46.2

Are you going to invoke executive privilege to which the President says, well, I think you

0:49.2

have to for the sake of the office.

0:51.7

In a moment, our legal and political team weigh in on that and what it means and how it might

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