Trump Defends Association With Conspiracy Theorist
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Donald Trump took questions, but his answers only raised more. |
| 0:07.0 | The lead starts right now, from his close ties to a far right firebrand to his repeated racist debunk conspiracy theories about migrants, Donald |
| 0:15.8 | Trump was pressed on it all, but his responses likely won't silence his critics. |
| 0:21.7 | Plus a stunner from the Pope weighing in on the presidential election sharing his |
| 0:26.2 | opinion on both Trump and Harris, but will this take, will this change any minds? And CNN's rare interview today with Supreme Court |
| 0:36.4 | Justice Katandi Brown Jackson, what she says the High Court is really |
| 0:40.0 | concerned about behind the seats. Welcome to the lead, I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper. |
| 0:51.0 | 53 days until the 2024 presidential election in the campaign trail |
| 0:55.9 | today is lively. |
| 0:58.2 | Former President Donald Trump just about an hour ago wrapping up a Q&A with reporters in California and he continued to |
| 1:04.1 | reference in Springfield, Ohio vowing in a second term to enact large |
| 1:10.3 | deportation starting in that town. |
| 1:13.6 | A reminder for you, they are there legally. |
| 1:17.0 | He claimed that 94% of his Republican allies |
| 1:19.7 | said he won the debate. |
| 1:21.6 | A number one can only assume was made up right on the spot given |
| 1:24.8 | many Trump allies including Senator Lindsey Graham and Robert F. Kennedy |
| 1:28.6 | Jr. have gone on record saying Trump's performance left something to be desired. |
| 1:33.9 | And CNN's Kristen Holmes also asked the former president about the controversy surrounding |
| 1:38.0 | far-right activist Laura Loomer, who often travels with Trump and has made racist posts that have been disavowed this |
| 1:44.7 | week by Trump allies including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. |
| 1:50.3 | What would you say to your Republican colleagues or your allies who are concerned about your close relationship with Laura Loomer? |
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