WH Adviser: Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State was “crazy” and a “mistake”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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A top Georgia election official methodically shot down a list of election conspiracy theories Pres. Trump aired in a phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In the one-hour call Trump is heard pressuring Raffensperger, who is also a Republican, to “find” votes to overturn the election in Georgia and touted baseless election fraud claims multiple times. Democratic Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy joins AC360 to react to the President’s efforts to overturn the election he lost. Plus, over the past week one American died every 33 seconds from Covid-19. December was the deadliest month of the pandemic as the CDC says about 15.4 million vaccine doses have been distributed in the U.S. but only 4.5 million people have received their first doses, falling short of the 20 million Operation Warp Speed had hoped to have vaccinated by the end of 2020. Rick Bright is a member of President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Board and is also an immunologist and vaccine researcher. He tells Anderson Cooper there hasn’t been a federal coordinated vaccination plan and program. Airdate: January 4, 2021 Guests: Sen. Chris Murphy Rick Bright 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.
0:01.0	The president is in Georgia tonight ahead of tomorrow's Senate runoff there.
0:05.1	He'll be in the city of Dalton, asking voters to take part in the final act of an election
0:08.7	that he has spent most of the last two months publicly challenging, and now we know privately
0:13.2	tampering with.
0:14.5	We also know he'll likely won't be spending much time actually campaigning for the two
0:18.2	candidates because that would get in the way of him airing his own grievances and casting
0:22.4	doubt on the vote.
0:23.9	We are in a very dark and dangerous place in this country right now, with the president
0:27.4	in the United States just having been exposed by a tape phone call over the weekend to be
0:31.0	leading potentially criminal, if not impeachable, effort to steal the election.
0:35.5	At the same time, some of the Republican lawmakers, now covering for him on that, are just
0:40.1	two days away from launching an insurrection of their own, seeking to invalidate the votes
0:44.5	of tens of millions of Americans.
0:46.9	Washington's mayor is telling people to stay away from demonstrators who are expected
0:50.3	to descend on the Capitol for that, fearing violence from right-wing extremists.
0:54.6	Like every single living former defense sector, including two Trump appointees, have just
0:59.4	issued a warning, reminding those in uniform and those in command to quote, refrain from any
1:04.0	political actions that undermine the results of the election.
1:08.2	Did you ever imagine seeing anything like that after an election that saw a massive turnout
1:13.2	that was conducted in accordance with the law and with no evidence of widespread voter
1:16.9	fraud?
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