Trump has told some advisers he’ll refuse to leave the White House

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Pres. Trump has told some advisers he will refuse to leave the White House on Inauguration Day with one source saying “he’s throwing a f***ing tantrum” but “he's going to leave. He's just lashing out." Meanwhile, Trump is weighing pardons for more than two dozen people in his orbit. One source told CNN “it’s turned crazy” and there are so many requests for pardons or commutations that there’s a spreadsheet to keep track of them. CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger and CNN Political Commentator Van Jones join AC360 to discuss Trump’s final days in the White House. Plus, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor about some of his Republican colleagues’ false accusations of voter fraud and how he worries it could lead to the end of American democracy. He tells Anderson Cooper “their allegiance is first and foremost to Donald Trump” and “they’re willing to do anything to keep him in power even if it means overturning the election.” Airdate: December 16, 2020 Guests: Sen. Chris Murray Van Jones Gloria Borger 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, a former Houston police captain is charged tonight with ramming a man's truck
0:05.1	running him off the road and putting a gun to his head because he thought the man was
0:08.9	some kind of voter fraud kingpin.
0:11.3	He was not.
0:12.3	He was an air conditioner repairman.
0:14.4	The former cop said he suspected the man had three quarters of a million fraudulent ballots
0:18.3	in his truck.
0:19.7	There were none just tools and spare parts.
0:22.2	Quoting the local district attorney now, his alleged investigation was backward from the
0:26.2	start. First, the legend of crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened.
0:30.3	The incident took place shortly before the election and it's not hard to see why.
0:36.0	The biggest problem we have is if they cheat with the ballots, that's my biggest problem.
0:41.0	That's the only thing that's the only thing I worry about.
0:44.7	You don't wake up and not read a story about it.
0:46.9	Every day, this cheating with the ballots.
0:50.1	The president was wrong about the ballots, but right about the story being everywhere,
0:54.0	because repeat after me, he was spreading it.
0:58.9	That's what he was doing.
1:00.1	So where his enablers and so are his enablers on Capitol Hill and they were on full display
1:04.5	today on Capitol Hill.
1:05.9	It's become in technical parlance, a self-licking ice cream cone.
1:09.7	It's an old federal government term for a self-perpetuating system that exists only to perpetuate
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