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Anderson Cooper 360

Twitter permanently suspends Pres. Trump’s Twitter account

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Twitter announced that Pres. Trump’s account is permanently suspended “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Meanwhile, the White House is in “crisis management” mode and lawyers are being consulted about a potential impeachment. George Conway, a conservative lawyer and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, has been a staunch critic of the President. He joins AC360 to react to Trump’s permanent suspension and the possibility of getting impeached again. Plus, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment if Trump doesn’t resign. Democratic Congressman Jim Himes is calling for a second impeachment. He tells Anderson Cooper the country will never get back to normal if we don’t hold people accountable.   Airdate: January 8, 2021   Guests: George Conway Rep. Jim Himes 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

Good evening, the first president since Andrew Johnson to skip his successors inauguration

0:05.1

is now on his way to becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice.

0:09.0

House Democrats are drafting articles of impeachment, including one covering quote, incitement

0:13.1

of insurrection.

0:14.6

The plans to introduce them on Monday leading up to a vote later next week.

0:18.6

Twitter, late today, permanently suspended the president's account.

0:21.4

Raising the question will a social media platform in the Anne Bringmore accountability

0:25.3

to this president and any sanction provided for in the Constitution?

0:29.0

That would be all something.

0:31.5

Late today, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski became the first Republican Senator to call

0:35.0

on the president to resign over Wednesday's insurrection.

0:37.9

She is, however, not in the mainstream for members of her party, many of whom even among

0:41.6

the GOP leadership are now trying to sweep this all down the memory hole.

0:46.2

People like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted today, impeaching the president with

0:50.4

just 12 days left will only divide our country more.

0:53.9

Or Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, he tweeted, as president

0:57.5

at Real Donald Trump stated last night, it has time to heal and move on, adding it is

1:02.6

up to president like Biden to step in and allow the nation to heal.

1:06.7

Late today, the White House deputy secretary weighed in, quoting from his statement, now,

1:10.3

as president Trump said yesterday, this is a time for healing and unity as one nation.

1:14.5

A politically motivated impeachment against the president with 12 days remaining in his

1:17.8

term will only serve to further divide our great country.

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