Trump intends to choose Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Democrats to insist Trump's court nominee sit out any legal challenges to election results. Trump mocks backlash over his refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power as Biden declares "he'll leave". Also today, the White House escalates attacks on FBI Director after he contradicts Trump's claims about voter fraud. Barr briefed Trump on investigation into a handful of discarded mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. PA officials: Issue with discarded ballots caused by contractor who "incorrectly" threw them out. In COVID-19 related news, with cases rising in 23 states and the U.S. surpassing 203,000 deaths, Florida lifts restrictions on restaurants and bars. Dr. Fauci warns that the U.S. is "still in the first wave," says we should prepare for Fall and Winter. Later, Wolf goes one-on-one with an ex-White House aide who blasted Trump's pandemic response. 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 CNN breaking news.
0:07.0	We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:13.0	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:15.0	We're following breaking news.
0:16.5	Sources now tell CNN that President Trump intends to nominate conservative Judge Amy
0:21.3	Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court.
0:24.2	He's set to announce his pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
0:29.0	late tomorrow afternoon of ceremony over in the Rose Garden. This this as Mr. Trump is mocking the backlash
0:35.2	over his refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election
0:40.3	Gil Biden is firing right back tonight declaring that if he wins, President Trump will leave.
0:47.0	Also breaking another chilling measure of the coronavirus crisis here in this country.
0:51.7	More than 7 million people have now been infected roughly
0:55.5	the population of Los Angeles and Chicago combined. The US death toll now
1:00.2	rising above 203,000 as a key model predicts another 168,000 Americans could die by
1:08.9	January 1st.
1:10.6	But modelers now say more than half of those lives could be saved if most Americans simply
1:17.2	wore masks.
1:18.2	Let's go straight to our senior White House correspondent Pamela Brown with Mora, the
1:22.3	President's Supreme Court.
1:23.6	Pick Pamela, you and our special correspondent, Jamie Gangel.
1:26.9	You broke this story just a little while ago.
1:29.5	Tell us what you're learning.
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