Washington Week full episode, Aug. 4, 2023

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Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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For the first time, a former American president is charged with conspiring to stay in office after losing an election. But what does the most serious criminal case yet against Trump mean for him, the nation and the 2024 elections? Join guest moderator John Yang, Francesca Chambers of USA Today, Carrie Johnson of NPR, Hugo Lowell of The Guardian and Jeff Mason of Reuters to discuss this and more.

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0:00.0	For the first time ever, a former American president is charged with conspiring to stay
0:06.1	in office after losing an election.
0:09.1	Today, an indictment was unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump.
0:13.7	So if you can't beat him, you persecutive or you prosecute him.
0:17.5	After pleading not guilty, an angry Donald Trump fires back.
0:21.2	The president and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes.
0:28.0	His former vice president and current campaign opponent rebuked Trump in his strongest terms
0:33.7	yet.
0:34.7	A DC jury would indict and convict a ham sandwich if it was a Republican ham sandwich.
0:41.2	But other 2024 Republican candidates, including one of his nearest rivals, echo Trump's
0:46.4	claim that it's all politically motivated.
0:49.7	What does the most serious criminal case yet against Trump mean for him, the nation, and
0:54.3	the 2024 elections?
0:56.6	This is Washington Week.
1:04.4	Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.
1:06.3	I'm John Yang.
1:07.9	For the first time in our nation's history, a former president stands accused of trying
1:12.3	to reverse the results of an election in order to stay in office.
1:16.7	On Thursday, former president Donald Trump was back in Washington.
1:20.1	This time to appear in a federal courtroom and plead not guilty to charges that he tried
1:25.3	to undermine a bedrock of American democracy, the peaceful transfer of power after an election.
1:31.9	There are four felony counts in the indictment, conspiring to defraud the United States by disrupting
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