Trump Releases Rambling Video Repeating Lies About Election Fraud

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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President-elect Joe Biden met with workers and small business owners that have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The NAACP is seeking a meeting with Biden and Harris on ensuring minority and civil rights representation in the new administration and Biden agenda. Former President Barack Obama calls on democrats to make room for new voices. Congress is under pressure to pass an economic relief bill. Pelosi and Schumer say that the bipartisan senate covid relief bill should serve as the "framework" for compromise talks. President Trump releases a rambling video, where he repeats lies about election fraud only the day after Barr says no evidence has been found that proves election voter fraud. A source says to expect a "flurry" of pardons before Trump leaves office in January. White House officials dodge questions on possible Trump pardons for Giuliani and members of the first family. New Mexico Governor LuJan Grisham emerges as the top contender to lead the health and human services. The CDC director says that the next three months will be "the most difficult time in public health history of [this] nation." The United Kingdom becomes the first country to approve the Pfizer-Biontech coronavirus vaccine; the first doses are to be rolled out next week. 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.
0:09.6	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.4	I'm Wolf Blitzer in the United States and around the world.
0:12.5	I'm Wilf Blitzer in the situation room.
0:14.4	We're following breaking news.
0:15.8	President Trump only moments ago,
0:17.8	releasing a rather rambling 45 minute video,
0:21.3	ranting about election fraud and repeating the same lies and
0:25.6	the same false claims that have been rejected by lots of courts and state officials,
0:31.0	state election officials I should say, from both parties across the United States.
0:36.4	The video comes one day after his attorney general William Barr broke with the president
0:41.6	publicly saying there's no evidence of widespread
0:44.6	fraud in the election. There's also breaking transition news we're
0:48.8	following. President-elect Joe Biden meeting with workers and small business owners impacted by the pandemic
0:55.4	and urging Congress to pass a stimulus package.
0:58.5	Meanwhile, CNN has learned that a top contender to lead to Biden's Department of Health and Human Services
1:04.4	is the New Mexico Governor Michelle Luan Grisham.
1:07.4	We're also following breaking pandemic news.
1:10.2	The strongest warning yet from the head of the CDC who says the next three months here in the United States will be and I'm quoting now the most difficult time in the public health history of the nation.
1:23.0	But in a hopeful sign, the UK has just become the first country to approve
1:28.0	the Pfizer biotech vaccine,
1:30.0	and the first doses are expected to be rolled out in that country next week.
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