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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Two Trump White House aides on Thursday’s witness list

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

A witness interviewed by the January 6th select committee goes on an extremist rant. Hear what the former Trump White House aide said after an abrupt end to his closed door testimony. Plus, the United Kingdom has narrowed down the final two candidates to determine who will replace Boris Johnson as prime minister. 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

So get this, Donald Trump still thinks he can win the 2020 election.

0:09.9

The lead starts right now.

0:11.8

Yet another stunning phone call from Donald Trump.

0:14.5

He's reportedly still trying to overturn the last presidential election.

0:17.6

It's this very kind of behavior that has a criminal investigation heating up in Georgia

0:22.4

with prosecutors now going after fake electors who were part of an alleged conspiracy to undermine

0:28.5

American democracy.

0:29.5

Plus, lashing out a witness interviewed by the January 6th Committee goes on an extremist

0:36.1

rant here with the former Trump White House aides said after an abrupt end to his closed

0:42.9

door testimony.

0:44.1

And the United Kingdom, generally known to be prim and proper, but this time it seems

0:49.1

like it could be a dragout fight to be the UK's next prime minister.

0:58.2

Welcome to the lead intake tap where we start in the politics lead on Capitol Hill members

1:02.2

of the January 6th Committee are preparing for tomorrow's prime time hearing.

1:06.2

The hearing is expected to cover the actions or lack thereof of former president Trump

1:12.2

during the three plus hours that rioters were storming the Capitol and the president's

1:16.2

activities were unknown.

1:19.2

But as committee members try to get to the bottom of the past attempt to steal the election,

1:23.9

our democracy remains under attack by the same forces.

1:27.7

Let's start in Wisconsin.

1:30.0

CNN affiliate WISN reports that Donald Trump called the top lawmaker in the Wisconsin

1:35.4

State Assembly, Republican Robin Voss, and asked Voss to overturn the state's 2020 election

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