Trump Sues to Try and Block Jan 6 Investigation
Laura Coates Live
CNN
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
First, Chris goes one-on-one with Norm Eisen discussing Trump's efforts to block the Jan6 investigation. Then, Chris discusses the life and legacy of former Secretary of State Colin Powell with Dr. Jerome Adams. Chris wraps up the show with Wanda Cooper-Jones and Lee Merritt discussing the beginning of the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial.
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| 0:00.0 | That'll be great, Cooper. I can't wait to watch. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime. Donald Trump |
| 0:06.4 | is a big headline. Everybody's talking about it, but I think we got to get the context right. |
| 0:11.2 | Donald Trump is suing the January 6th committee and the national archives. Why? |
| 0:18.4 | We'll go into the details and the legalities are lack thereof, but here's the real answer. |
| 0:23.4 | He's doing it to delay. And before you take any satisfaction in that, it may well work. |
| 0:30.8 | The former president's not putting any muscle behind blocking ban in or any of the other people |
| 0:36.0 | the committee wants to testify. Why? Well, instead, Trump's lawyers are focusing on stopping |
| 0:42.8 | what they may really be worried about, what they call, quote, sweeping requests for documents |
| 0:48.1 | and records. Why? Because people can control what they say. They can spin. They can say they |
| 0:58.6 | don't recollect. They can explain. Documents don't. So keep in mind for all the bluster about |
| 1:06.8 | executive privilege, when it comes to ban and committee chair congressman Benny Thompson says, |
| 1:12.0 | quote, the former president has not communicated to any such assertion of privilege when it comes |
| 1:16.0 | to his conversations with a man who at the time was the host of a podcast, not a close counselor |
| 1:21.3 | as part of the government. Meaning the only legal claim of privilege we've seen from Trump |
| 1:27.8 | is about the documents. So the party that he is targeting, the national archives told him, quote, |
| 1:36.1 | absent any intervening court order they plan on handing the records over. And they should. |
| 1:42.5 | Why? Because in a statement from the White House, Joe Biden, president now is standing by his |
| 1:49.2 | decision to not assert privilege because, quote, former president Trump abused the office of |
| 1:54.8 | the presidency and attempted to subvert a peaceful transfer of power. Remember, everything |
| 2:01.2 | about how this privilege and how it has been exercised suggests it is the sitting president |
| 2:07.6 | with the power to assert executive privilege, period, sitting president. Again, why does this matter |
| 2:16.0 | to Trump? This isn't about why Biden does or doesn't want to exit. He can do whatever he wants. |
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