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Trump claims he doesn’t know Proud Boys after name-checking them at the debate

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

President Trump says he doesn’t know the far-right group, Proud Boys, a day after he told them to “stand back and stand by” and refusing to condemn white supremacy at the first 2020 Presidential debate. Susan Bro lost her daughter, Heather Heyer, three years ago when a self-professed neo-Nazi plowed through a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia at the “Unite the Right” rally. Trump said back then there were “very fine people on both sides.” She tells Anderson Cooper she gasped when she heard what the President said at the debate but wasn’t surprised by Trump’s comments. Plus, Susan Rice, a former Ambassador to the United Nations and President Obama's former National Security Adviser, joins AC360 to react to the debate and says, “we have a racist-in-chief in the White House.”   Airdate: September 30, 2020   Guests: Susan Bro Susan Rice 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

Good evening, thanks for joining us.

0:01.6

The day after the debate debacle and the question tonight really is now what?

0:05.8

73 million people witnessed last night's so-called debate and it's pretty clear this is

0:09.9

the way it's going to be from here until at least election day.

0:13.0

The nonpartisan debate commission, which are the people in charge of these presidential

0:17.0

debates every four years, they made a statement today saying last night's debate made clear

0:21.4

that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to

0:25.0

ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.

0:30.1

They don't know what to do.

0:31.2

They didn't put out any specifics.

0:32.8

They're not sure, you can't cut off the person's mic.

0:35.3

You can still hear the president as Chris Wallace pointed out in an interview with New York

0:38.9

Times today.

0:39.9

You can still hear him off mic.

0:41.4

They can try to construct additional structures, as they say, but it's not going to make much

0:46.0

of a difference.

0:47.0

Don't Trump is what he is.

0:48.8

It's not going to change.

0:50.3

It's like his history of racism and his father's history of it too.

0:53.5

Sure, once or twice he's made perfunctory statements sort of condemning something vague,

0:58.1

but we all know what he is doing and why he's doing it.

1:01.1

I mean, it's just very clear.

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