Trump Meets With Lawmakers To Push Election Fraud Claims

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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President Donald Trump is meeting with lawmakers to push election fraud claims. Some people in the White House fear Trump's final days as president as Trump also turns to conspiracists. "It's scary" says a source about outside advisers influencing Trump. A source also says that Trump appears to be "obsessed" with scenarios that could overturn his presidential election loss. Barr says that Russia appears to be behind a hack as Trump downplays it. Trump's attorney general, who agrees with Pomeo, contradicts Trump by saying Russia appears to be behind a massive hack of the United States government agencies; Trump points to China. A Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes a Russian agent into revealing details of the poisoning meant to kill him. A source says that the White House is testing a requirement for travelers from the United Kingdom as a new covid variant sparks fears and as the United States tops 18 million cases. 20 million covid vaccinations is expected by the year's end and may go into early 2021. An official says that 1 in 64 L.A. County residents are infected with coronavirus. Congress is starting to vote on a $900 billion coronavirus stimulus plan after months of waiting by struggling Americans. President-elect Joe Biden gets his first dose of the covid vaccine. 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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0:31.6	Outfront next breaking news, the president with a new push to overturn the election.
0:36.4	Tonight, several members of Congress just
0:39.1	leaving a meeting in the Oval Office. Plus, a new form of coronavirus, one that may be more
0:44.5	contagious causing concern tonight. It's impacting holiday travel. A number of countries and airlines
0:50.3	are taking action. And also, breaking news, the House, moments away now from voting
0:56.2	on a long-awaited and long-overdue coronavirus relief bill.
1:02.4	Good evening, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin, in for Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, breaking
1:06.6	news. The president holding a meeting with members of Congress at the White House this evening
1:10.8	to promote his election fraud conspiracy further.
1:14.8	The president's chief of staff tweeting moments ago this.
1:18.5	Several members of Congress just finished a meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump,
1:23.0	preparing to fight back against mounting evidence of voter fraud.
1:26.9	Stay tuned. To be clear, there is no such
1:29.6	evidence or what would have been presented in court. The president has tried and failed to present
1:34.5	any evidence at dozens of court hearings. This is just the latest example of an unraveling
1:40.6	situation at the White House, quite frankly, multiple senior Trump advisors and people close
1:45.0	to the president telling CNN they fear Trump's final days. One administration official saying
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