Trump’s impeachment trial delayed until February

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 23 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that former President Trump’s impeachment trial won’t begin until February 9, giving time for the Senate to confirm Pres. Joe Biden’s Cabinet. A growing number of Republicans have expressed confidence that the party will acquit the former President. Democratic Congressman. Jim Himes joins AC360 to react to the trial delay and says “it’s the best play against a pretty tough hand here.” Plus, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is privately saying he wants Trump gone as CNN has learned that dozens of influential Republicans—including some top Trump administration officials—have been quietly lobbying GOP members to vote to impeach and convict the former President. Scott Jennings was a Special Assistant to Pres. George W. Bush and is a longtime political adviser to McConnell. He tells AC360 he thinks the GOP influence could have some impact and “any political operative could reasonably conclude it would be insane for the Republican party to continue to follow Donald Trump.” Airdate: January 22, 2021 Guests: Rep. Jim Himes Scott Jennings 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	The new president sounds a call to action, but will it only be heard by one set of years?
0:06.5	John Berman here, in for Anderson and Sheritt might have looked like an ordinary pennant
0:10.7	of plain old desk as he signed executive orders boosting food aid in the minimum wage for
0:15.1	some workers.
0:16.6	But to hear President Biden describing the huge recovery bill he wants Congress to pass
0:21.2	next, he was standing at the plate, taking a Henry Arian-sized poke at the nation's economic
0:27.0	problems.
0:29.6	The bottom line is this, we're in a national emergency.
0:34.6	We need to act like we're in a national emergency.
0:38.7	So we've got to move with everything we've got.
0:41.4	We've got to do it together.
0:43.6	We have the tools to fix it.
0:46.7	We have the tools to get through this.
0:49.2	We have the tools to get this virus under control and our economy back on track.
0:55.7	We have the tools to help people.
0:58.0	So let's use the tools.
1:00.0	All of them.
1:01.0	Use them now.
1:02.0	Folks, this is one of the cases where business, labor, Wall Street, Main Street, liberal,
1:09.8	conservative, economists know we have to act now.
1:14.9	And to a surprising extent, non-legislative voices across the political spectrum do appear
1:20.1	to agree on the act now part.
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