Week Of Revelations For January 6th Committee

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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We now know whose phone sent that message to Mark Meadows suggesting state legislatures ignore the voters of three states while votes were still being counted. It turns out the phone belongs to a former member of Donald Trump’s cabinet. Former police officer Kim Potter, who has said she mistook her firearm for her taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop near Minneapolis, broke down on the stand Friday. Will her tears impact the jury? 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	A text message pitching an aggressive strategy to undermine American democracy.
0:09.0	The lead starts right now.
0:11.2	Breaking news.
0:12.8	We now know whose phone sent that message to Mark Meadows suggesting state electors
0:18.3	or state legislatures rather ignore the voters of three states while votes were still being
0:24.2	counted.
0:25.2	It turns out the phone belongs to a former member of Donald Trump's cabinet and will
0:29.3	tell you who in a sec.
0:31.8	A viral blizzard, the new warning about COVID, as Radio City cancels its Christmas spectacular
0:37.7	and then Times Square New Year's Evecrowns, while they might be next and former police
0:43.2	officer Kim Potter recalls the moment she shot and killed Dante Wright.
0:48.2	I remember yelling teaser, teaser, teaser, and nothing happened and it told me I shot
0:59.9	them.
1:01.5	Will her tears impact the jury?
1:09.8	Hello and welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper.
1:11.7	We begin with breaking news this hour.
1:13.8	In fact, we are breaking it for you right now.
1:17.6	We are learning more about that text message to former president Trump's then chief of
1:21.5	staff, Mark Meadows, one that outlined a way to deliver the election to Trump before the
1:26.6	votes had even finished being counted.
1:30.4	Three sources.
1:31.4	Tell me in my colleague Jamie Gengel, the members of the bipartisan House like committee investigating
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