Trump Grants Full Pardon To Michael Flynn

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🗓️ 26 November 2020

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United States President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. United States President-elect Biden said, "we're at war with the virus, not with one another" during a recent speech. Biden also urges people to unite in his recent Thanksgiving speech and calls on Americans to recommit to fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Fauci has "been in contact" with Biden's team. Biden also says, "I know we can and we will beat this virus." The United States coronavirus death toll now tops 261,000 with 12.7 million cases amid fear that Thanksgiving will be the "mother of all super-spreader events." New coronavirus cases are averaging 174,000 a day amid record hospitalizations. Biden is to get his first presidential daily briefing on Monday. Biden says that in America, "we have full, fair and free elections, then [we] honor the results." Biden also says that, "this is not a third Obama term... Trump has changed the landscape." Biden is open to putting a republican who voted for Trump on his administration team. Record lines are forming at food banks amid the pandemic economic crisis. The Mayo clinic is being forced to bring in workers from out of state. 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	This is
0:05.0	is CNN breaking news.
0:10.0	Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world Wolflitzer is off today.
0:14.0	I'm Jim Acosta in the situation room and we're following breaking news.
0:17.2	President Trump announcing moments ago that he's granted a full pardon to his former
0:21.2	national security advisor Michael Flynn who pleaded
0:23.9	guilty to line to the FBI. Also breaking president-elect Joe Biden urging
0:28.4	unity and calling on Americans to recommit to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
0:33.0	In a pre- Thanksgiving speech just a short time ago, he said,
0:35.8	quote, we're at war with the virus, not with one another,
0:39.4	adding we're all in this together.
0:41.4	The death toll in the US has now climbed past 261,000 people as
0:45.6	the country tops 12.7 million cases in health experts fear those numbers will
0:51.0	spike in the coming weeks with one warning that tomorrow's Thanksgiving holiday is, quote, potentially the mother of all super spreader events.
0:58.0	First, let's go straight to the White House and CNN White House correspondent, Caitlin Collins.
1:02.0	Caitlin, you're getting more information about the president's
1:04.5	pardon of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
1:07.6	Yeah Jim this was expected but if you were here in the early days of the
1:11.3	Trump administration it's still surprising to see it in this way
1:14.5	because of course Mike Flynn was only President Trump's National Security Advisor
1:18.4	for about 24 days before he was fired for what the president said at the time was lying to
1:24.0	Vice President Mike Pence though of course we did later learn that he pleaded
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