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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump meets with lawmakers to push election fraud claims

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Pres. Trump is meeting with lawmakers to push his false election fraud claims. Some in the White House fear the finals days of the Trump presidency saying “no one is sure where this is heading.” Conspiracist lawyer Sidney Powell, who was dumped from his official legal team, along with fired national security adviser Michael Flynn and onetime chief strategist Steve Bannon have found themselves in the Oval Office or on the phone advising the President on how to reverse his election loss, even floating the idea of declaring martial law. Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff,  Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, joins AC360 to react to the President’s last-ditch effort to overturn the election results and says if Trump can stay in power through stealing, lying, and cheating, he will do it. Plus, the U.S. has surpassed 18 million Covid-19 cases as a new coronavirus variant was discovered in the United Kingdom. Dr. Peter Hotez is the Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He joins AC360 to discuss whether or not Americans should be worried about the new variant.   Airdate: December 21, 2020   Guests: Rep. Adam Schiff Dr. Peter Hotez 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

So, let's not mince wards here.

0:02.9

This is not a drill.

0:04.5

The president of the United States is weighing the kind of action you see in dictatorships.

0:09.3

John Berman here in Feranderson.

0:11.2

So more than a month ago, with the president refusing to accept his election defeat, a

0:15.0

senior Republican official, Astro Reporter from the Washington Post, and I'm quoting now,

0:19.5

what's the downside of humoring him for this little bit of time?

0:23.2

After all, this official said, it's not like he's plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from

0:27.3

taking power on January 20th.

0:30.0

Tonight, the evidence is growing that he is.

0:33.3

And another official told CNN today, quote, no one is sure where this is heading.

0:38.3

For the third time that we know of since Friday, attorney Sidney Powell was at the White House

0:42.4

today.

0:43.4

She's the conspiracy theorist you will call who was kicked off the president's election

0:47.1

team after making allegations to wild even for them.

0:51.1

She now wants the president to order the federal seizure of voting machines in swing states.

0:56.9

So does the president's fire national security adviser and pardoned admitted felon, Michael

1:01.6

Flynn.

1:02.6

He and Powell met with the president Friday.

1:04.7

Here's what he told Newsmax Thursday about the president's options.

1:10.4

He could immediately on his order seize every single one of these machines around the country

1:15.6

on his or he could also order.

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