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Laura Coates Live

Trump Rebukes McConnell, GOP War Intensifies

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

First, David Gregory and Charlie Dent join Chris to discuss Trump's statement attacking Mitch McConnell. Then, Kaitlan Collins joins Chris to preview President Biden's first town hall of his presidency coming up on CNN. Chris wraps up the show with Rep Bennie Thompson on the lawsuit he filed against Trump over his role in the Capitol riot. 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

All right, thank you, Aaron.

0:01.9

I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

0:03.9

Your clock's right.

0:04.9

I'm in Coops slot tonight.

0:06.9

Why?

0:07.9

Our big man, Anderson Cooper, is in Wisconsin for the big CNN town hall with President Joe

0:13.4

Biden.

0:14.4

It begins one hour from now, but we've just received word that the president has landed

0:20.0

in Wisconsin.

0:21.4

Now, the big question is obviously about the big challenge.

0:25.9

When President Biden get the country on the same page about the pandemic, he's there

0:31.9

now.

0:32.9

This will be his first official trip as president for weeks in.

0:36.3

He's taking the pitch for his $1.9 trillion relief plan on the road.

0:41.4

Wisconsin, battleground state, helped secure Biden's victory, also hard hit by the weather,

0:48.2

hard hit by the economy, hard hit by the pandemic.

0:51.4

Now this is all a lead up to the House vote that is expected on the package next week.

0:57.1

The Biden presidency will be defined in large part by his job on the pandemic, but also

1:04.3

whether he can help us move past the pain of division.

1:08.4

His predecessors' ghost is still haunting us post impeachment.

1:12.7

Trump's silence was strategic.

1:15.1

The trial is over, so is the silence.

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