Trump on lessons he learned from impeachment: Democrats are crooked & vicious; Trump thanks Justice Dept. for intervening in Stone case; Sanders gains new momentum with New Hampshire win; AG Barr agrees to testify before House Judiciary Cmte next month

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

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GOP Senators brush off questions over Trump DOJ interference; AG Barr agrees to testify before House Judiciary Cmte next month; Focus shifts to more diverse states after Sanders wins NH; Sanders wins New Hampshire followed by Buttigieg, Klobuchar; Biden looks to black voters in SC for comeback; Bloomberg picks up several black lawmaker endorsements despite stop and frisk controversyTo 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	Does this look like a president who has learned his lesson? I guess it depends on the
0:06.7	lesson. The lead starts right now. Unchecked, punishing witnesses and now helping felon friends.
0:15.0	How are Republican senators feeling after just one week of post-impeachment Trump?
0:20.0	Pressure campaign 2.0, Democrats now calling for another investigation after President
0:24.9	Trump Pat's attorney general on the back for intervening in that criminal case against Trump
0:30.4	Pal Rogers Stone. Plus, momentum swing. The 2020 race moves on to Nevada and
0:36.1	South Carolina with Bernie Sanders leading in votes and in polls and in money. But can
0:42.2	Sanders convince a critical group of Democratic voters who have
0:44.9	yet to really have their say.
0:47.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:52.0	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. We begin with breaking CNN with Republican senators expressing confidence at the time that they believed
1:04.1	President Trump had learned his lesson.
1:07.0	What lesson exactly?
1:08.0	Well, President Trump was just asked that very question.
1:10.6	Here's his response to the question. Have you learned your lesson? What
1:13.6	lesson is it? That the Democrats are crooked. They've got a lot of crooked
1:19.2	things going. That they're vicious. That they shouldn't have brought impeachment.
1:25.0	So that's President Trump's take on the lesson he learned.
1:28.0	Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown says there is another lesson that President Trump has clearly learned.
1:35.0	It's pretty clear the President of the United States did learn a lesson.
1:37.5	The lesson he can do whatever he wants, whatever he wants, he can abuse his office, he never ever be held accountable by this Senate.
1:47.2	Sherrod Brown the senator from Ohio saying that in the wake of President Trump now
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