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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump condemns Capitol Hill violence day after telling rioters “we love you”

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Pres. Trump released a video message hours after defending rioters saying “I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem.” This comes a day after telling the same people “We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special." Democratic leadership is weighing a quick impeachment vote if Vice President Pence doesn’t use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders joins AC360 to react to the President’s latest message and says the best step is getting him out of office as soon as possible. Plus, a federal prosecutor is examining the President’s role in sparking the violence at the Capitol. Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece and author of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man” tells Anderson Cooper as inauguration gets closer, the country needs to be prepared for what Trump could do and thinks it’s “extraordinary unlikely” he resigns.   Airdate: January 7, 2021   Guests: Sen. Bernie Sanders Mary Trump   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.

0:01.0

There are a lot of developments in the wake of yesterday's failed attack on the Capitol,

0:05.2

including a new video from the president.

0:07.0

In it, he conceives the election he lost, but evades responsibility for the insurrection

0:11.4

and continues to lie.

0:12.4

We'll play that video because it's important for you to see it in a moment.

0:16.2

Among the other headlines, growing calls mostly from Democrats, but some Republicans for

0:19.5

the president to be impeached a second time or be removed on the 25th Amendment.

0:24.0

One cabinet member has resigned, along with several senior White House staffers.

0:27.6

There have also been recriminations as well over the massive security failure.

0:31.2

The chief of the Capitol police is resigning, so to the sergeant at arms.

0:35.6

The law enforcement spent much of today securing the area around the Capitol.

0:39.4

The president has been indefinitely banned, as you know, from Facebook by that company.

0:43.7

We've also witnessed today, and late last night, the attempts by some of the president's

0:47.4

enablers to rewrite history and duck responsibility for their lives and their inflammatory rhetoric.

0:53.8

Now we are all flawed as human beings.

0:55.8

We all make mistakes and we're sometimes seduced into telling ourselves we're doing the right

1:00.4

thing when it turns out later, we're not.

1:03.0

But what we're seeing now is not a recognition of that by remorseful people.

1:06.4

It seems it's people trying to save the reputations and their political careers, or trying to

1:11.7

rewrite history.

1:13.1

Exhibit A for that is Congressman Mo Brooks, the public in Alabama.

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