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In the remarkably short period of ten years,

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the United States of America

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has comprehensively transformed itself

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from its long-held position of global leadership

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to a bitter, fractionalized, highly irrational land

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riddled with corruption and unaccountability

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at the highest levels of political power.

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This film documents

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that deeply mysterious
and profoundly upsetting descent

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soley through a carefully edited
series of news clips

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presented in chronological order.

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We strongly believe that they speak for themselves.

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Our country needs

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a truly great leader;

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and we need a truly great leader now.

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We need a leader

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that wrote The Art of the Deal.

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We need a leader that can bring back
our jobs, can bring back our manufacturing,

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can bring back
our military, can take care of our vets.

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Our vets have been abandoned.

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And we also need

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a cheerleader.

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You know,
when President Obama was elected,

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I said, well,
the one thing I think he'll do well,

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I think he'll be a great cheerleader
for the country.

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I think he'd be a great spirit.

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He was vibrant. He was young.

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I really thought that
he would be a great cheerleader.

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- He's not a leader.

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He's not a leader. That's true.

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You're right about that.

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But he wasn't a cheerleader.

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He's actually a negative force.

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He's been a negative force.

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He wasn't a cheerleader.
He was the opposite.

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We need somebody that can take the brand

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of the United States
and make it great again.

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It's not great again.

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We need,

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We need somebody,

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We need somebody

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that literally will take this country

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and make it great again.

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We can do that.

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And I will tell you.

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I love my life.

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I have a wonderful family.

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They're saying, dad,

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you're going to do something
that's going to be so tough.

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You know, all of my life
I've heard that a truly successful person,

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a really, really successful person,

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and even modestly successful,
cannot run for public office.

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Just can't happen.

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And yet, that's the kind of mindset

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that you need to make this country
great again.

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So ladies and gentlemen,

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I am officially running

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for president of the United States.

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And we are going to make our country
great again.

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When Mexico sends its people,
they're not sending their best.

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They're not sending you.

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They're not sending you.

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They're sending people
that have lots of problems,

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and they're bringing those problems
with us.

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They're bringing drugs.

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They're bringing crime.

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They're rapists.

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And some, I assume, are good people.

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But I speak to border guards,
and they tell us what we're getting.

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Mr. Trump, it has not escaped

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anybody's notice that you say that

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the Mexican government,
the Mexican government, is sending

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criminals, rapists, drug dealers
across the border.

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Governor Bush has called those remarks,
"extraordinarily ugly".

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I'd like you—you're right next to him—

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to tell us,

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talk to him directly
and say how you respond to that.

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And, an, you have repeatedly said
that you have evidence

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that the Mexican government is doing this,

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but that you have evidence
you have refused or declined to share.

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Why not use this
first Republican presidential debate

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to share your proof
with the American people?

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So if it weren't for me,

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you wouldn't even be talking
about illegal immigration, Chris.

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You wouldn't even be talking about it.
This was not a subject

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that was on anybody's mind
until I brought it up at my announcement.

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And I said, "Mexico is sending".
Except the reporters, because they're

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a very dishonest lot, generally
speaking, in the world of politics,

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they didn't cover my statement
the way I said it.

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The fact is,
since then, many killings, murders, crime,

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drugs pouring across the border are money
going out and the drugs coming in.

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And I said, "We need to build a wall
and it has to be built quickly."

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And I don't mind
having a big, beautiful door in that wall

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so that people can come into this
country legally.

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But we need, Jeb, to build a wall.

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We need to keep illegals out.

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Mr Trump, I'll give you 30 seconds.

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I'll give you 30 seconds

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to answer my question,
which was what evidence

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do you have—specific evidence—

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that the Mexican government
is sending criminals across the border?

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30 seconds.

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Border patrol.

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I was at the border last week.

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Border patrol people that I deal with, that
I talk to,

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they say this is what's happening;
because our leaders are stupid,

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our politicians are stupid.

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And the Mexican government is much
smarter, much sharper, much more cunning.

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And they send the bad ones over
because they don't want to pay for them.

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They don't want to take care of them.
Why should they?

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When the stupid leaders
of the United States will do it for them.

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And that's what's happening,
whether you like it or not,

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Mr. Trump,

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one of the things people love about you is

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you speak your mind
and you don't use a politician's filter.

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However,
that is not without its downsides.

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In particular, when it comes to women.

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You've called women you don't like "fat
pigs",

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"dogs", "slobs", and "disgusting animals".

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Your Twitter account...
- Only Rosie O'Donnell.

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No, it wasn't.

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Your Twitter account....

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For the record,

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It was well beyond Rosie.
- Yes., I'm sure it was.

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Your Twitter account has several
disparaging comments about women's looks.

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You once told a contestant
on Celebrity Apprentice

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it would be a pretty picture
to see her on her knees.

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Does that sound to you like

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the temperament of a man
we should elect as president?

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And how will you answer the charge
from Hillary Clinton, who is likely

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to be the Democratic nominee,
that you are part of the war on women?

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I think the big problem this country has

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is being politically correct.

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I do want to ask you about this.

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In an interview last week
in Rolling Stone magazine,

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Donald Trump said the following about you:

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"Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that?

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Can you imagine that?

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The face of our next president?"

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Mr. Trump later said he was talking about your
persona, not your appearance.

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Please feel free to

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respond to what you think
about his persona.

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You know, it's interesting to me.

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Mr. Trump said that he heard Mr. Bush

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very clearly and what Mr. Bush said.

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I think women all over this country heard
very clearly what Mr. Trump said.

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I think

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she's got a beautiful face,
and I think she's

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a beautiful woman.

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Trump's
opinions have been wildly inconsistent.

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He's been pro-choice and pro-life, for
and against assault weapon bans,

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in favor of both bringing in Syrian refugees
and deporting them out of the country.

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And that inconsistency can be troubling.

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Just this morning, for instance,

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he was asked about the fact that David Duke,
former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

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had told supporters to vote for him,
and this was his answer:

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Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke
and say that you don't

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want his vote, or that of other
white supremacists in this election?

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Well, just so you understand, I don't know
anything about David Duke, okay?

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I don't know anything
about what you're even talking about

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with white supremacy
or white supremacists.

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Honestly, I don't know David Duke.
I don't believe I've ever met him.

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I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him,
and I just don't know anything about him.

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Really?

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That's your best answer there?

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Because you definitely know who he is.

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Partly because you called him
a bigot and a racist in the past.

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But that's not even the point.

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The point is, with an answer like that,
you are either racist

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or you are pretending to be.

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And at some point there is no difference there.

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The share of Americans
who say race relations

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are bad in this country is the highest
it's been in decades,

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much of it amplified by shootings
of African-Americans, by police.

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One of you is going to have to bridge
a very wide and bitter gap.

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So how do you heal the divide?

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Secretary Clinton,
you get two minutes on this.

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Well, you're right.

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Race remains

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a significant challenge in our country.

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Unfortunately, race still determines
too much, often determines where people live,

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determines what kind of education
in their public schools they can get.

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And yes, it determines how they're treated
in the criminal justice system.

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Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use

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a couple of words,
and that's law and order.

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And we need law and order.

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If we don't have it,
we're not going to have a country.

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We have to bring back law and order.

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Now, whether or not in a place
like Chicago, you do stop and frisk,

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which worked very well.
Mayor Giuliani is here.

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It worked very well in New York.

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We have to protect our inner cities
because African-American

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communities are being decimated by crime.

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Your two minutes has expired.

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But I do want to follow up.

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Stop and frisk was ruled
unconstitutional in New York

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because it largely singled out
black and Hispanic young men.

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No, you're wrong.

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It went before a judge

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who was a very against police judge.

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It was taken away from her.

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And our mayor, our new mayor,
refused to go forward with the case.

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They would have won an appeal.

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If you look at it, throughout the country,
there are many places...

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The argument is that it's a form of racial profiling.

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No, the argument is that we have to take

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the guns away
from these people that have them,

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and that are bad people
that shouldn't have them.

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And I will tell you, you look at the inner
cities, and I just left Detroit,

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and I just left Philadelphia,
and I just—you know, you've seen me.

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I've been all over the place.

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You decided to stay home, and that's okay.

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But I will tell you, I've been all over
and I've met

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some of the greatest people
I'll ever meet within these communities.

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And they are very, very upset
with what their politicians

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have told them
and what their politicians have done.

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Mr. Trump —
— I think Donald just criticized me

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for preparing for this debate.

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And yes, I did.

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And you know what else I prepared for?

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I prepared to be president.

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And I think that's a good thing.

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Mr. Trump, for five years,
you perpetuated a false claim

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that the nation's first black
president was not a natural-born citizen.

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You questioned his legitimacy.
And in the last couple of weeks

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you acknowledge what most Americans
have accepted for years:

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The President was born
in the United States.

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Can you tell us what took you so long?

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I'll tell you — well, it's just very simple to say.

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I got him to give the birth certificate,
so I'm satisfied with it.

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And I'll tell you
why I'm satisfied with it.

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– That was in 2011
– Because I want to get on

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to defeating ISIS,
because I want to get on to creating jobs.

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Because I want to get on
to having a strong border,

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because I want to get on to things
that are very important to me

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and that are very important to the country.

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I'll let you respond, that's important.

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But I just want to get the answer here.

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The birth certificate
was produced in 2011.

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You continued to tell the story
and questioned the president's legitimacy

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2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

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and as recently as January.

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So the question is, What changed your mind?

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Well, nobody was pressing it.

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Nobody was caring much about it.

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I figured you'd ask the question tonight, of course.

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But nobody was caring much about it.

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But I was the one that got him to produce

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the birth certificate,
and I think I did a good job.

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What do you say
to Americans, particularly people of color...

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I say nothing because
I was able to get him to produce it.

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He should have produced it a long time
before. I say nothing.

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But let me just tell you,
when you talk about healing,

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I think that I've developed very,
very good relationships

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over the last little while
with the African-American community.

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I think you can see that. And I feel

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that they really wanted me
to come to that conclusion.

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And I think I did a great job and
a great service, not only for the country,

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but even for the president
in getting him to produce his birth certificate.

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– Secretary Clinton

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Well, just listen to what you heard.

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And clearly, as Donald just admitted,
he knew he was going to stand

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on this debate stage and Lester Holt
was going to be asking us questions.

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So he tried to put the whole
racist birther lie to bed,

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But it can't be dismissed that easily.

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He has really started

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his political activity
based on this racist lie

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that our first black president
was not an American citizen.

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There was absolutely no evidence for it.

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But he persisted.

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He persisted year after year
because some of his supporters,

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people that he was trying to bring into his fold,

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apparently believed it
or wanted to believe it.

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That is what Barack and I

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think about every day
as we try to guide and protect our girls

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through the challenges
of this unusual life in the spotlight.

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How we urge them to ignore those

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who question their father's citizenship

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or faith.

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How we insist

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that the hateful language
they hear from public figures on TV

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does not represent the
true spirit of this country.

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How we explain that when

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someone is cruel or acts like a bully,
you don't stoop to their level.

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No, our motto is, When they go low,
we go high.

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The scary thing is,
we have no way of knowing

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which of his inconsistent views
he will hold in office.

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Will he stand by his statement
that vaccines are linked to autism,

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or his belief
that Mexico is sending us rapists?

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Oh, and what about that plan he had to defeat ISIS?

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We're fighting
a very politically correct war.

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Yes.

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The other thing is with the terrorists,
you have to take out their families.

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When you get these terrorists,

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you have to take out their families.

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They care about their lives, don't kid yourself.

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But they say they don't care about their lives.

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You have to take out their families.

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That is the frontrunner for the Republican
nomination advocating a war crime.

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You talked about going
after the families of terrorists.

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You now reversed that.

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I didn't reverse anything.

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You would still want to go after the families of terrorists?

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No, I didn't reverse anything.

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I clarified very simply.

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We have laws.

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We have to obey the laws.

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The laws have to be widened.

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Killing the families of terrorists would be against the law.

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I didn't say kill.
We have to go after 'em, though.

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Last night I congratulated Donald Trump

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and offered to work with him
on behalf of our country.

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I hope that he will be a successful
president

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for all Americans.

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This is not the outcome we wanted
or we worked so hard for,

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and I'm sorry
that we did not win this election

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for the values
we share and the vision we hold

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for our country.

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Fellow Americans and people of the world:

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Thank you.

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We, the citizens of America,

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are now joined in a great national effort
to rebuild our country

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and restore its promise
for all of our people.

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Together, we will determine the course of America
and the world

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for many, many years to come.

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January 20th, 2017 will be remembered

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as the day the people became the
rulers of this nation again.

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He wasn't doing a good job.

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Very simply, he was not doing a good job.

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That was it.

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President Trump's verdict
this morning over his firing of

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FBI Director James Comey.

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The president's termination
letter to Comey yesterday

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said the move was necessary
to restore public trust in the agency.

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An attachment from the deputy attorney
general, Rod Rosenstein,

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faulted Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton
email investigation.

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In a tweet this morning,
the president said:

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Comey lost the confidence of almost everyone in
Washington, Republican and Democrat alike.

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When things calm down,
they will be thanking me.

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But little was calm on the other
end of Pennsylvania Avenue today.

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Vice president
Mike Pence was on Capitol Hill

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and offered a longer defense
of the president's decision.

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President Trump provided
the kind of strong and decisive leadership

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the American people have come
to be accustomed from him.

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And he took the action necessary to remove
Director Comey.

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That's why this was the right decision
at the right time.

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Meanwhile, senators face nonstop questions
about what Comey's firing means

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for the ongoing probes
into Russia's meddling in the election

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and whether the Trump campaign
colluded in that meddling.

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Democrats said the firing would lead
Americans to suspect a cover up,

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and they repeated
calls for a special counsel.

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We return now to

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the president's decision
to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.

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We want to take a closer look
at some of the claims President Trump made

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during his remarks
in the Rose Garden yesterday.

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As president, I can put no other
consideration before the well-being

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of American citizens.

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In his announcement yesterday,
President Trump gave

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several reasons why he thought the Paris
accord was a bad idea.

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The main points the President made were
that the Paris accord

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is unfair to the U.S.,
that it would hurt American workers,

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and that it won't really slow
the pace of dangerous climate change.

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So let's go through some of those claims.

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The first thing the President said was,

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we'll get out of Paris,
but maybe we'll strike a better deal.

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...begin negotiations to reenter
either the Paris accord

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or an entirely new transaction

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on terms
that are fair to the United States...

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But leaders from many of the other 195
nations in the deal

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said there was no appetite
for renegotiation.

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French President Emmanuel Macron
summed up the view of many.

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I consider that he committed an error
for the interests

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of his country, his people; and a mistake
for the future of our planet.

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We will not renegotiate a less
ambitious accord.

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There is no way.

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President Trump
also implied that the Paris Accords

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are binding on the United States,
but they're not.

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The entire accord
relies on voluntary commitments.

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So many argue that if the president
wanted to stay in and wanted

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to change the US's commitment, he's
largely free to do so.

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Another one of the main complaints
the president made.

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was that this will hurt U.S. jobs.

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Compliance
with the terms of the Paris accord,

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and the onerous energy restrictions
that is placed on the United States,

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could cost America as much as 2.7 million

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lost jobs by 2025,

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according to the National Economic
Research Associates.

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The international mining giant Peabody
Energy applauded the president's move.

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Peabody believes that the prior Paris accord
could not be followed

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without substantially impacting the U.S.
economy,

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increasing electricity costs on families
and businesses, and requiring

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the power sector to rely on less diverse
and more intermittent energy sources.

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But others point out that study
about lost jobs that the president cited

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was written by groups that are opposed
to the Paris Accords, and that they used

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some worst case predictions that other
economists believe are unrealistic.

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Roberton Williams is an economist with

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Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan group
that studied the Paris accord.

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What we've modeled in terms of job affects,

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is that it's much more of a job shift
than it is job loss or net job gain.

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That jobs go away in coal.

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You get more jobs in some of the "green
jobs" in renewable energy.

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And small effects elsewhere.

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But it's not a big drop.

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The president also argued
that while coal jobs in the U.S.

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would suffer, other nations
like India and China, the other two

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major global carbon
polluters, would have a free hand.

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China will be able
to increase these emissions

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by a staggering number of years: 13.

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They can do whatever they want
for 13 years.

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Not us.

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But Jason Grumet said it's not true that
other countries can do whatever they want.

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The assertion that the United
States fundamentally disabled our economy

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while other countries move forward with absolutely no concern

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is just not accurate.

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The weekend began with a Friday night

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torchlight march on the historic grounds
of the University of Virginia's campus.

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The white supremacists had arrived in Charlottesville.

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The next morning, a large group gathered in a park around a statue of Robert E. Lee.

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Earlier that summer, local groups
demanded the statue's removal.

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The racists were armed with sticks
and heavy shields.

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One had a handgun.

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On the street

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a much larger group of counter-protesters
gather.

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Some of them were carrying
homemade weapons as well.

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As more white supremacists
made their way to the park

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they clashed with counter-protesters.

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What started as small scuffles,

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soon turned into a full-on melee.

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One counter-protester
DeAndre Harris, was surrounded and beaten

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in a nearby parking garage.

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Then a few moments of calm as the white
nationalists mostly fled downtown.

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Fear and hate
have been given license in our country.

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Violence, racialized violence,
has been given permission in this country.

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And we are here to stand for love.

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But one white supremacist returned.

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He drove his Dodge Challenger
through a crowd of counter-protesters.

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32-year-old Heather
Heyer was killed in the attack.

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James Alex Fields Jr.,

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the man behind the wheel, is now awaiting
trial for murder, hate crimes

00:24:49.820 --> 00:24:51.538
and other charges.

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The city was grieving.

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Much of the nation would join them.

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We condemn in the strongest
possible terms....

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Following the attack,
President Trump gave multiple responses.

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But it was two days later, in a press
conference at Trump Tower in New York,

00:25:06.333 --> 00:25:10.137
where he said that the racist groups
in Charlottesville were not all bad.

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You had some very bad people in that group,
but you also had people that were

00:25:16.075 --> 00:25:19.077
very fine people—on both sides.

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Today in the Oval Office.

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President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers
discussing immigration, when they floated

00:25:31.221 --> 00:25:34.307
restoring protections
for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador

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and African countries
as part of a bipartisan immigration deal.

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The Washington Post reports that, according

00:25:38.244 --> 00:25:41.246
to two people briefed in the meeting,
the president asked:

00:25:41.413 --> 00:25:45.016
"Why are we having all these people
from shithole countries come here?"

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The president then went on to talk about
how they needed to bring in more people

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from places like Norway.

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So here we go again, folks.

00:25:52.022 --> 00:25:54.908
President Trump
busted for making monstrous comments,

00:25:54.908 --> 00:25:57.910
this time
about an entire continent and Haiti.

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And just like every other time
he says something indefensible,

00:26:01.013 --> 00:26:03.365
Fox News sprang to his defense.

00:26:03.365 --> 00:26:04.616
President Trump said something that

00:26:04.616 --> 00:26:07.618
almost every single person in America
actually agrees with.

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An awful lot of immigrants
come to this country from other places

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that aren't very nice.

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This is how the forgotten men
and women in America talk at the bar.

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This is how Trump relates to people.

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If you're at a bar and you're in Wisconsin
and you're thinking

00:26:19.412 --> 00:26:22.831
they're bringing in a bunch of Haiti
people, or El Salvadorians

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or people from Niger,
this is how some people talk.

00:26:26.551 --> 00:26:30.121
Fox News
is the greatest improv troupe of all time,

00:26:30.221 --> 00:26:33.040
because whatever Trump says,
they immediately find a way to agree.

00:26:33.040 --> 00:26:35.875
If he declares "I'm racist!" They'd respond, "Well, so is everyone else,

00:26:35.875 --> 00:26:37.710
so is everyone else." Yeah.

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Today, waves of indignation washed over the White House.

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That is what Reverend King preached

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all of his life: Love.

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Even as he honored the words of Doctor
Martin Luther King Jr.

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No matter what the color of our skin
or the place of our birth,

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we are all created equal by God.

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President Trump

00:27:00.429 --> 00:27:04.233
ignored questions about his reported words
about immigrants

00:27:04.233 --> 00:27:07.719
from Haiti and Africa during a meeting
at the White House yesterday.

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Did you refer to African nations as "shithole countries"?

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Mr. President, are you a racist?

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He doesn't hide it, I don't know—

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part of me prefers it, to be honest.

00:27:16.176 --> 00:27:18.211
At least he's blatant about it.

00:27:18.211 --> 00:27:21.247
Although it goes against what he says in front of the cameras

00:27:21.247 --> 00:27:25.117
where he says, "I want this
immigration policy to be a bill of love.

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It's about love, folks.

00:27:26.968 --> 00:27:27.602
It's about love."

00:27:27.602 --> 00:27:30.605
And then in private, he says, "These shithole countries—

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Why do we want people from these shithole countries?

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We want people from Norway."

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You know what's funny is that Norway
is one of the richest countries

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per capita in the world.

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Those people have a great time.

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I bet the Norwegians are saying, Why would
we want to come to your shithole country?

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We got free education.

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We got free health care.

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There were fresh calls today
for the Trump administration

00:28:01.064 --> 00:28:05.951
to end its policy of separating families
at the US-Mexico border.

00:28:06.452 --> 00:28:09.154
The numbers show the scope of the crisis.

00:28:09.154 --> 00:28:12.507
According to US Customs and Border Protection's own figures,

00:28:12.507 --> 00:28:16.610
more than 650 children were separated
from their parents at the border

00:28:16.710 --> 00:28:18.862
during a two week period in May.

00:28:18.862 --> 00:28:23.483
Just today in Geneva, the UN Office
for Human Rights condemned the situation.

00:28:23.950 --> 00:28:26.952
There is nothing normal
about detaining children.

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:31.690
The US should immediately
halt this practice of separating families

00:28:31.690 --> 00:28:36.610
and stop criminalizing what should at
most be an administrative offense.

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These are the American citizens
permanently separated

00:28:41.248 --> 00:28:42.582
from their loved ones.

00:28:42.582 --> 00:28:46.018
The president sought today
to shift the focus from families separated

00:28:46.018 --> 00:28:49.688
at the border to the families of people
killed by undocumented immigrants.

00:28:49.955 --> 00:28:52.207
They're not separated
for a day or two days.

00:28:52.207 --> 00:28:56.977
They are permanently separated
because they were killed

00:28:56.977 --> 00:28:59.129
by criminal illegal aliens,

00:29:00.564 --> 00:29:05.034
As he has before, he also falsely linked the larger migrant
community to those who commit crimes.

00:29:05.501 --> 00:29:08.854
You hear? It's like they're better people
than what we have, than our citizens.

00:29:08.854 --> 00:29:10.305
It's not true.

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The White House event followed fierce criticism
of the President's zero tolerance policy.

00:29:14.676 --> 00:29:17.094
It continued
even after he ordered a halt

00:29:17.094 --> 00:29:19.163
to separating children from their parents—

00:29:19.163 --> 00:29:21.265
more than 2300 since early May.

00:29:22.399 --> 00:29:24.467
According to the Associated Press,

00:29:24.467 --> 00:29:28.754
500 of the separated children have since
been reunited with a family member.

00:29:32.657 --> 00:29:36.377
But advocates for the others say they're
desperately trying to find children

00:29:36.377 --> 00:29:40.281
who have been relocated to shelters
and foster care across the country.

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President Trump

00:29:43.316 --> 00:29:46.352
is home from Helsinki
and he is backtracking.

00:29:46.619 --> 00:29:50.756
He returned overnight to face
blistering critiques from both parties

00:29:50.940 --> 00:29:53.942
of his summit with Russia's
President Putin.

00:29:54.309 --> 00:29:57.562
I have to say,
I came back and I said, "What is going on?

00:29:57.578 --> 00:29:58.663
What's the big deal?"

00:29:58.663 --> 00:30:02.199
The president was in damage control
mode this afternoon

00:30:02.382 --> 00:30:05.385
after the storm
over his statement in Helsinki.

00:30:05.919 --> 00:30:09.305
Yesterday, he appeared to take Vladimir
Putin's word for it

00:30:09.572 --> 00:30:14.459
that Moscow did not interfere
in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

00:30:14.459 --> 00:30:16.444
He just said, "It's not Russia."

00:30:16.444 --> 00:30:17.428
I will say this.

00:30:17.428 --> 00:30:19.163
I don't see any reason
why it would be.

00:30:19.580 --> 00:30:23.734
Today, reading from a prepared statement,
he said the opposite.

00:30:24.067 --> 00:30:25.352
It should have been obvious.

00:30:25.352 --> 00:30:29.756
I thought it would be obvious, but I would
like to clarify just in case it wasn't.

00:30:30.206 --> 00:30:35.310
In a key sentence in my remarks
I said the word "would" instead of "wouldn't".

00:30:36.811 --> 00:30:38.313
The sentence should have been:

00:30:38.313 --> 00:30:43.417
"I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia."

00:30:43.417 --> 00:30:45.452
Sort of a double negative.

00:30:45.452 --> 00:30:49.172
In Helsinki, Mr. Trump had also dismissed

00:30:49.172 --> 00:30:52.958
US intelligence findings
of Russian involvement in the election.

00:30:53.275 --> 00:30:57.729
Today, he insisted he has great confidence
in the intelligence community.

00:30:57.996 --> 00:31:02.700
Let me be totally clear in saying that,
and I've said this many times,

00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:07.354
I accept our intelligence community's
conclusion

00:31:08.038 --> 00:31:14.110
that Russia's meddling in the 2016
election took place.

00:31:14.610 --> 00:31:16.862
Could be other people also.

00:31:16.862 --> 00:31:22.867
Earlier, in tweets, Mr. Trump blamed the news media
for the bipartisan shellacking he's taken.

00:31:23.317 --> 00:31:30.056
He also blames special counsel Robert
Mueller's investigation for hurting U.S.-Russian relations.

00:31:30.056 --> 00:31:32.975
Before leaving Helsinki,
he returned to the theme.

00:31:32.975 --> 00:31:38.347
They drove a phony wedge,
just a phony witch hunt rigged deal.

00:31:38.997 --> 00:31:45.453
Just last Friday, Mueller indicted
12 Russian officials for election cyber attacks.

00:31:45.453 --> 00:31:50.290
Putin, in his own interview, declined
to accept a copy of the indictments,

00:31:50.290 --> 00:31:54.544
and he appeared to defend the hacking
of Democratic Party emails.

00:31:54.544 --> 00:31:58.180
So are you saying it's okay
because it was their real e-mails,

00:31:58.180 --> 00:32:00.065
so it's okay to hack and

00:32:01.316 --> 00:32:04.318
spread this information out and interfere
with the election?

00:32:05.820 --> 00:32:08.205
Listen to me, please.

00:32:08.205 --> 00:32:11.158
The information that I am aware of,

00:32:11.158 --> 00:32:13.326
there's nothing false about it.

00:32:13.326 --> 00:32:15.094
Every single grain of it is true.

00:32:15.094 --> 00:32:17.263
And the Democratic leadership admitted it.

00:32:17.263 --> 00:32:20.399
Today, Moscow
announced it's ready to implement

00:32:20.399 --> 00:32:25.820
new agreements on boosting collaboration
with the U.S. military in Syria

00:32:25.820 --> 00:32:28.289
and on extending a nuclear arms pact.

00:32:28.739 --> 00:32:32.325
And Russian reports
voiced sympathy for Mr. Trump.

00:32:32.325 --> 00:32:35.545
But in the hours before the President
spoke today,

00:32:35.678 --> 00:32:40.048
the criticism continued
from the likes of House Speaker Paul Ryan.

00:32:40.115 --> 00:32:42.367
Vladimir Putin
does not share our interests.

00:32:42.367 --> 00:32:45.236
Vladimir Putin does not share our values.

00:32:45.236 --> 00:32:47.755
I remain astonished that

00:32:47.755 --> 00:32:50.757
the president would choose to believe

00:32:51.174 --> 00:32:54.127
the assertions by President Putin

00:32:54.127 --> 00:32:57.130
over the unanimous conclusions

00:32:57.180 --> 00:33:01.567
of his own U.S. intelligence leaders.

00:33:01.567 --> 00:33:05.336
On Monday, the president seemed to take
Putin's denials at face value.

00:33:05.520 --> 00:33:08.339
Intelligence
Director Coats quickly challenged that,

00:33:08.339 --> 00:33:12.342
saying Russian interference did happen
and it's continuing to happen.

00:33:12.342 --> 00:33:14.794
Today, Coats said he had had no choice.

00:33:14.794 --> 00:33:19.982
My thoughts there were that I believed
I needed to correct the record for that.

00:33:19.982 --> 00:33:22.834
Obviously, I wished he had made
a different statement,

00:33:22.834 --> 00:33:27.488
but I think that
now that has been clarified.

00:33:27.488 --> 00:33:33.310
Just yesterday, Mr. Trump appeared to dismiss the notion
that Russian interference is ongoing.

00:33:33.310 --> 00:33:36.146
Is Russia still targeting the U.S., Mr.
President?

00:33:36.146 --> 00:33:37.480
Thank you very much. No.

00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.048
No? You don't believe that to be the case?

00:33:39.048 --> 00:33:39.815
No.

00:33:39.815 --> 00:33:43.769
The White House later said that Mr. Trump had been misunderstood.

00:33:43.769 --> 00:33:48.306
All of this has lawmakers on both sides
asking questions and seeking action.

00:33:48.706 --> 00:33:52.142
Republican Senator Bob Corker chairs
the Foreign Relations Committee.

00:33:52.209 --> 00:33:57.030
I just feel sometimes
that, the president conflates,

00:33:58.681 --> 00:34:03.085
getting along with someone and,
you know, flattery and those kinds of things

00:34:03.085 --> 00:34:06.571
with the actual policies.

00:34:26.054 --> 00:34:29.057
This is a CBS news special report.

00:34:29.324 --> 00:34:34.178
And this is the day for nearly two
that many Americans have been waiting for.

00:34:34.461 --> 00:34:37.964
I'm Norah O'Donnell with Gayle King
and John Dickerson in New York.

00:34:37.964 --> 00:34:40.099
We want to take you now to Washington,

00:34:40.099 --> 00:34:43.486
where Attorney General William Barr
is about to speak to reporters

00:34:43.753 --> 00:34:48.707
about the special counsel's
report on Russian election interference.

00:34:49.491 --> 00:34:52.577
The Mueller report is unique
in American history.

00:34:52.810 --> 00:34:55.779
At times,
it reads like a novel, even a thriller.

00:34:55.779 --> 00:34:58.782
At other times it is dense legal opinion.

00:34:58.899 --> 00:35:01.067
So what did it find?

00:35:01.067 --> 00:35:04.670
First, that the Russians attacked the 2016
election.

00:35:04.670 --> 00:35:08.256
The Mueller report is loaded with examples
of how Russian operatives

00:35:08.256 --> 00:35:11.976
launched what they call "information
warfare" on the US.

00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:15.496
They wanted to distract and inflame
voters, to benefit

00:35:15.496 --> 00:35:18.615
Donald Trump's candidacy,
and to damage Hillary Clinton's.

00:35:18.732 --> 00:35:22.835
And while Mueller shows the Trump
campaign worked with individual Russians,

00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:26.956
he found the evidence did not show
any conspiracy or coordination

00:35:26.956 --> 00:35:28.340
by the Trump campaign.

00:35:28.340 --> 00:35:31.476
The Mueller report does not establish
any such wrongdoing.

00:35:31.910 --> 00:35:35.830
But on the issue of obstruction,
Mueller does not agree with the president.

00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:39.733
Mueller's report
lays out a long string of examples

00:35:39.733 --> 00:35:42.886
where it finds evidence,
sometimes substantial evidence,

00:35:43.069 --> 00:35:46.055
that the president
tried to obstruct justice.

00:35:46.205 --> 00:35:47.923
For example, the president asked

00:35:47.923 --> 00:35:51.710
FBI Director James Comey
to let go of one investigation.

00:35:51.877 --> 00:35:55.663
He told his White House counsel,
Don McGahn, that Mueller has to go

00:35:55.663 --> 00:35:59.917
and later told him to lie and deny
that conversation ever happened.

00:36:00.284 --> 00:36:03.336
Overall, Mueller writes,
the evidence does point

00:36:03.336 --> 00:36:07.340
to a range of personal motives
animating the president's conduct.

00:36:07.656 --> 00:36:11.626
Those include concerns
the investigation would call into question

00:36:11.626 --> 00:36:15.797
the legitimacy of his election,
and whether certain events could be seen

00:36:15.797 --> 00:36:20.267
as criminal activity by the president,
his campaign or family.

00:36:20.834 --> 00:36:24.371
But despite that, Mueller decided
not to indict the president.

00:36:24.704 --> 00:36:25.305
The reason,

00:36:25.305 --> 00:36:29.558
he said, is a Justice Department opinion
issued during the Watergate scandal.

00:36:29.675 --> 00:36:33.228
It says that a sitting president
cannot be indicted.

00:36:33.678 --> 00:36:38.899
This is internal agency policy from 1973,
not a law or court ruling.

00:36:39.233 --> 00:36:42.186
OK, so what did this investigation produce?

00:36:42.186 --> 00:36:47.023
Mueller lists all of the
court cases triggered by his probe.

00:36:47.023 --> 00:36:50.276
So far, a total of 34
people have been indicted.

00:36:50.292 --> 00:36:53.145
The vast
majority of those are Russian nationals.

00:36:53.145 --> 00:36:57.365
But the investigation also led to a
three year prison sentence for Trump's

00:36:57.365 --> 00:37:01.535
former lawyer, Michael Cohen,
on fraud and campaign finance violations.

00:37:01.819 --> 00:37:04.988
Former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort is serving

00:37:04.988 --> 00:37:08.591
seven and a half years on charges
unrelated to the campaign.

00:37:08.858 --> 00:37:13.545
Manafort's deputy, Rick Gates, and former
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn

00:37:13.729 --> 00:37:17.916
both pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
and have yet to be sentenced.

00:37:18.249 --> 00:37:21.168
Meanwhile,
another big case is heading to trial.

00:37:22.303 --> 00:37:26.056
Trump confidant Roger Stone is charged
by Mueller with obstruction

00:37:26.056 --> 00:37:29.258
and lying to Congress about his contacts
with Wikileaks

00:37:29.409 --> 00:37:32.595
and the release of Democratic documents
stolen by the Russians.

00:37:32.895 --> 00:37:36.915
The report leaves open
its most wrenching and difficult question:

00:37:36.915 --> 00:37:39.667
whether the president himself
broke the law.

00:37:39.667 --> 00:37:43.821
The report's final conclusion
is that single, complicated paragraph

00:37:43.821 --> 00:37:45.038
you may have heard before.

00:37:45.038 --> 00:37:46.490
It reads in part,

00:37:46.490 --> 00:37:49.876
"If we had confidence, after
a thorough investigation of the facts,

00:37:49.876 --> 00:37:54.530
that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice,
we would so state;

00:37:54.530 --> 00:37:59.901
based on the facts, and the applicable legal standards,
we are unable to reach that judgment.

00:38:00.351 --> 00:38:02.887
Accordingly,
while this report does not conclude that

00:38:02.887 --> 00:38:06.640
the president committed a crime,
it also does not exonerate him."

00:38:08.808 --> 00:38:10.577
The whistleblower complaint
about President Trump

00:38:10.577 --> 00:38:13.329
over an alleged promise to a foreign
leader has the president reacting

00:38:13.329 --> 00:38:17.165
today, arguing the claims are not true
and might be politically motivated.

00:38:17.349 --> 00:38:18.650
Ken Dilanian joins me now.

00:38:18.650 --> 00:38:21.169
And, Ken,
this call may have been about Ukraine.

00:38:21.169 --> 00:38:22.904
What do we know about that today?

00:38:22.904 --> 00:38:23.237
That's right.

00:38:23.237 --> 00:38:26.473
That's right Allison, the Washington Post
and The New York Times are both reporting

00:38:26.473 --> 00:38:29.176
that this whistleblower complaint
is linked to Ukraine.

00:38:29.176 --> 00:38:31.728
NBC news
has not independently confirmed that.

00:38:31.728 --> 00:38:33.829
But it's gotten the speculation rolling.

00:38:33.829 --> 00:38:37.332
And when we look back at the timeline,
there was a call on July 25th

00:38:37.449 --> 00:38:39.551
to Donald Trump
and the president of Ukraine,

00:38:39.551 --> 00:38:42.553
which is already under scrutiny
and investigation by House Democrats.

00:38:42.770 --> 00:38:45.556
The allegation is that Donald Trump
somehow dangled

00:38:45.556 --> 00:38:48.976
$250 million in military aid

00:38:50.060 --> 00:38:53.446
in exchange for
the president reopening an investigation

00:38:53.663 --> 00:38:57.616
in Ukraine that implicates or involves
Joe Biden and his son,

00:38:57.649 --> 00:39:01.069
Hunter Biden, who had a job at one point
for a Ukrainian gas company.

00:39:01.336 --> 00:39:04.205
We don't know the identity
of the whistleblower, the person

00:39:04.205 --> 00:39:08.025
who made the complaint about recent events
concerning US President Donald Trump.

00:39:08.358 --> 00:39:10.177
The whistleblower writes
that multiple U.S.

00:39:10.177 --> 00:39:14.080
officials told them that President Trump
pressured the president of Ukraine

00:39:14.080 --> 00:39:15.765
for its own political gain.

00:39:15.765 --> 00:39:19.718
He wanted Ukraine to open an investigation
into former vice president Joe Biden

00:39:19.718 --> 00:39:21.136
and his son, Hunter Biden.

00:39:21.136 --> 00:39:24.405
The younger Biden served on the board
of a Ukrainian energy company.

00:39:24.572 --> 00:39:25.406
The whistleblower said

00:39:25.406 --> 00:39:28.575
that the president was soliciting
interference with a foreign country,

00:39:28.742 --> 00:39:30.827
and sought to pressure
the Ukrainian leader

00:39:30.827 --> 00:39:33.196
to help the president's
2020 reelection bid.

00:39:34.664 --> 00:39:36.465
I'm announcing
the House of Representatives

00:39:36.465 --> 00:39:39.535
moving forward
with an official impeachment inquiry

00:39:40.752 --> 00:39:43.355
without having seen the whistleblower complaints,

00:39:43.355 --> 00:39:45.640
without having seen a transcript of the call,

00:39:45.690 --> 00:39:48.876
why are you confident, going forward
with an impeachment inquiry?

00:39:48.893 --> 00:39:50.377
Do you really think there's evidence

00:39:50.377 --> 00:39:53.380
beyond what the president has already said
publicly?

00:39:53.463 --> 00:39:56.265
Well, what the president has said
publicly is damning enough.

00:39:56.265 --> 00:39:57.900
I mean, let's look at what he said.

00:39:57.900 --> 00:40:00.102
Let's look at what his lawyer has said.

00:40:00.102 --> 00:40:03.105
They both admitted to pressuring Ukraine

00:40:03.505 --> 00:40:06.507
to manufacture dirt on their opponent,
Joe Biden.

00:40:06.524 --> 00:40:10.110
There's no rationalizing that,
no justifying that;

00:40:10.110 --> 00:40:13.263
that is a horrible abuse
of the oath of office.

00:40:13.814 --> 00:40:16.649
In terms of what language he used
at this particular call,

00:40:16.649 --> 00:40:20.469
that's only one aspect of the evidence.

00:40:20.469 --> 00:40:22.721
But here, what
the president has already admitted:

00:40:22.721 --> 00:40:26.774
the president's acknowledgment
of withholding Ukraine aid,

00:40:26.774 --> 00:40:30.961
the fact that he would not even share
with leaders of his own party

00:40:30.961 --> 00:40:34.831
like Mitch McConnell, the justification;
the fact that when this came to light,

00:40:35.015 --> 00:40:38.318
he has now given shifting explanations
for why he withheld the aid.

00:40:38.851 --> 00:40:42.104
I think all of those facts
which are uncontested at this point,

00:40:42.604 --> 00:40:46.508
compel us to move down the path
of a formal impeachment inquiry.

00:40:46.908 --> 00:40:49.710
And so we'll see
what the transcript has to say.

00:40:49.710 --> 00:40:53.280
But if it says merely what the president
has acknowledged, that's damning enough.

00:40:53.814 --> 00:40:58.301
President Trump and his allies, however,
insist this is a political attack.

00:40:58.568 --> 00:41:03.455
This is a witchhunt at the highest level,
and it's so bad for our country.

00:41:03.539 --> 00:41:06.458
This brings us to the event
at the heart of all of this.

00:41:06.458 --> 00:41:10.178
The July 25th phone call between President
Trump and President Zelensky.

00:41:10.378 --> 00:41:11.462
President Trump tells

00:41:11.462 --> 00:41:14.465
Zelensky that the United States
had been very good to Ukraine.

00:41:14.615 --> 00:41:17.801
He then says, quote,
I would like you to do us a favor, though.

00:41:18.068 --> 00:41:19.986
He goes on to say
that he would like Zelensky

00:41:19.986 --> 00:41:23.589
to look into two things:
the 2016 election and former

00:41:23.589 --> 00:41:26.942
Vice President Joe Biden and his son
Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine.

00:41:27.459 --> 00:41:31.345
Among the officials on that call, an army
lieutenant colonel named Alexander Vindman,

00:41:31.345 --> 00:41:34.832
the top Ukraine expert
on the National Security Council.

00:41:35.099 --> 00:41:36.717
He's usually behind the scenes.

00:41:36.717 --> 00:41:38.251
Now, he is central.

00:41:38.251 --> 00:41:41.404
Vindman testifies that what he heard on
the call was not proper;

00:41:41.587 --> 00:41:44.540
the president demanding that
a foreign government investigate

00:41:44.540 --> 00:41:47.526
a U.S. citizen and political opponent.

00:41:47.526 --> 00:41:48.627
President Trump has said

00:41:48.627 --> 00:41:51.629
the call was about getting to the bottom
of corruption in Ukraine.

00:41:51.629 --> 00:41:53.397
We are looking at corruption.

00:41:53.397 --> 00:41:56.733
We're not looking at politics,
we're looking at corruption.

00:41:58.769 --> 00:41:59.970
Breaking news tonight.

00:41:59.970 --> 00:42:02.705
A moment in history.

00:42:02.705 --> 00:42:05.708
The vote to impeach President
Donald Trump.

00:42:06.058 --> 00:42:08.877
Article two is adopted

00:42:08.877 --> 00:42:13.264
In Washington, a house divided—the partisan anger
and the bitter debate.

00:42:13.865 --> 00:42:15.166
That's a bunch of bunk..

00:42:15.166 --> 00:42:17.734
If we did that,
we would likely get indicted.

00:42:20.954 --> 00:42:23.973
Across America, a nation divided:

00:42:23.973 --> 00:42:26.976
protests, frustration and the fallout.

00:42:27.026 --> 00:42:29.494
The weather outside is frightful,

00:42:29.494 --> 00:42:31.379
but impeachment is so delightful.

00:42:32.180 --> 00:42:34.532
The president's supporters
line up in Michigan's

00:42:34.532 --> 00:42:37.534
15-degree (F) weather to hear him speak.

00:42:37.534 --> 00:42:41.404
I think the case has a lot of holes in it,
and I think

00:42:41.888 --> 00:42:44.557
the average American has kind of tuned
it out.

00:42:44.557 --> 00:42:47.409
His first reaction tonight
as the president headlines

00:42:47.409 --> 00:42:50.996
a Merry Christmas campaign
rally in a battleground state.

00:42:53.915 --> 00:42:56.100
This is the CBS Evening News

00:42:56.100 --> 00:42:59.787
with Norah O'Donnell
reporting from the nation's capital.

00:43:00.687 --> 00:43:03.807
And good evening
to our viewers in the West.

00:43:03.807 --> 00:43:06.826
History has just been made as we
come on the air:

00:43:06.826 --> 00:43:09.578
for only the third time in American history,

00:43:09.578 --> 00:43:13.298
the House of Representatives
has voted to impeach a president.

00:43:13.565 --> 00:43:18.335
Donald Trump has just joined Bill Clinton
and Andrew Johnson on that list.

00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:23.406
And in both of those cases, the Senate
voted not to remove them from office.

00:43:23.590 --> 00:43:26.826
Now, members in the House
have just approved on both counts.

00:43:27.009 --> 00:43:29.528
Those two counts: Abuse of Power,

00:43:29.528 --> 00:43:32.197
and the second count: Obstruction of Congress.

00:43:39.370 --> 00:43:42.372
This is an NBC news special report.

00:43:42.556 --> 00:43:44.824
The Trial of Donald J. Trump.

00:43:44.824 --> 00:43:46.576
Here is Lester Holt.

00:43:46.576 --> 00:43:50.596
Good afternoon, we are coming on the air to bring you
NBC news' live coverage of the Senate

00:43:50.596 --> 00:43:53.982
impeachment trial of President Trump,
less than 24 hours

00:43:54.166 --> 00:43:57.735
after his State of the Union speech
to a bitterly divided Congress.

00:43:58.036 --> 00:44:02.106
Today, the final act, the vote on whether
to convict and remove the president

00:44:02.322 --> 00:44:06.793
on the two counts of impeachment voted
by the House exactly seven weeks ago.

00:44:07.093 --> 00:44:10.780
Now it's the Senate's turn in an all
but certain vote for acquittal.

00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:13.866
We want to start with Kasie
Hunt at the Capitol right now

00:44:13.866 --> 00:44:17.952
with some dramatic news regarding one
Republican senator who did some soul

00:44:17.952 --> 00:44:22.323
searching, literally, and is going to vote
to convict – Kasie.

00:44:22.323 --> 00:44:26.509
Lester, dramatic is the right word for what has
unfolded here on Capitol Hill today.

00:44:26.526 --> 00:44:31.030
Senator Mitt Romney,
once the Republican nominee for president,

00:44:31.297 --> 00:44:35.567
announcing that he is going to vote
to convict President Trump

00:44:35.567 --> 00:44:38.670
on that first article, abuse of power.

00:44:38.670 --> 00:44:43.123
He's doing it, he says, because of his own faith
and his conscience.

00:44:43.157 --> 00:44:46.159
Let's listen to a little bit
of what Romney said this morning.

00:44:46.626 --> 00:44:49.879
Were I to ignore
the evidence that has been presented,

00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:54.066
and disregard what I believe my oath
and the Constitution demands of me,

00:44:54.767 --> 00:44:57.219
for the sake of a partisan end,

00:44:57.219 --> 00:45:00.071
it would, I fear, expose my character

00:45:00.071 --> 00:45:04.124
to history's rebuke
and the censure of my own conscience.

00:45:05.542 --> 00:45:10.213
In this article of impeachment 48 senators have pronounced
Donald John Trump,

00:45:10.213 --> 00:45:13.215
president of the United States, guilty
as charged.

00:45:13.632 --> 00:45:17.202
52 senators have pronounced him
not guilty as charged.

00:45:17.769 --> 00:45:21.222
Two thirds of the senators present
not having pronounced him guilty,

00:45:21.589 --> 00:45:25.176
the Senate adjudges that the respondent,
Donald John Trump,

00:45:25.176 --> 00:45:28.728
president of the United States,
is not guilty as charged

00:45:28.728 --> 00:45:31.714
in the first article of impeachment.

00:45:31.965 --> 00:45:35.000
On this article of impeachment,
47 senators

00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:38.270
have pronounced Donald John Trump,
president of the United States,

00:45:38.287 --> 00:45:40.005
guilty as charged.

00:45:40.005 --> 00:45:43.357
53 senators have pronounced him
not guilty as charged.

00:45:43.908 --> 00:45:47.227
Two thirds of the senators present
not having pronounced him guilty,

00:45:47.644 --> 00:45:50.864
the Senate adjudges that respondent,
Donald John Trump,

00:45:51.097 --> 00:45:54.200
president of the United States,
is not guilty as charged

00:45:54.200 --> 00:45:56.569
in the second article of impeachment.

00:45:59.171 --> 00:46:01.072
Are there words about a pandemic at this point?

00:46:01.072 --> 00:46:01.956
No, not at all.

00:46:01.956 --> 00:46:04.709
And we have it totally under control.

00:46:04.709 --> 00:46:06.494
we think we have it very well under control.

00:46:06.494 --> 00:46:07.961
We pretty much shut it down.

00:46:07.961 --> 00:46:09.580
A lot of people think that goes away in

00:46:09.580 --> 00:46:10.814
April with the heat.

00:46:10.814 --> 00:46:12.232
We're in very good shape.

00:46:12.232 --> 00:46:13.816
I think it's going to work out fine.

00:46:13.816 --> 00:46:15.668
...very well under control in our country.

00:46:15.668 --> 00:46:17.403
I think that's a problem that's going
to go away.

00:46:17.403 --> 00:46:22.807
Because of all we've done the risk to the American people remains very low.

00:46:22.807 --> 00:46:24.676
I mean, view this the same as the flu.

00:46:24.676 --> 00:46:27.261
It's going to disappear one day.
It's like a miracle.

00:46:27.261 --> 00:46:28.179
It will disappear.

00:46:28.179 --> 00:46:31.898
We are working on cures
and we're getting some very good results.

00:46:31.898 --> 00:46:34.217
We only have 15 people
and they're getting better.

00:46:34.217 --> 00:46:37.720
Now the Democrats are politicizing

00:46:38.387 --> 00:46:42.040
the coronavirus;
and this is their new hoax.

00:46:42.040 --> 00:46:45.043
If you're healthy, probably,

00:46:45.043 --> 00:46:47.261
go through a process and you'll be fine.

00:46:47.261 --> 00:46:49.363
You take a solid flu vaccine,

00:46:49.363 --> 00:46:53.250
you don't think that would have an impact
or much of an impact on corona? No.

00:46:53.383 --> 00:46:55.818
Some of them go to work,
but they get better.

00:46:55.818 --> 00:46:56.686
It'll go away.

00:46:56.686 --> 00:46:59.138
We're doing very well
and we've done a fantastic job.

00:46:59.138 --> 00:47:00.789
It will go away. Just stay calm.

00:47:00.789 --> 00:47:04.843
We have seen dramatically fewer
cases of the virus in the United States

00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.578
than are now present in Europe.

00:47:07.578 --> 00:47:08.379
It's going to go away.

00:47:08.379 --> 00:47:14.451
1.4 million tests on board
next week and 5 million within a month.

00:47:14.451 --> 00:47:16.069
I doubt we'll need anywhere near that.

00:47:16.069 --> 00:47:19.789
It's something that we have tremendous
control of, and I think we're going to win

00:47:19.789 --> 00:47:21.407
faster than people think—I hope.

00:47:21.407 --> 00:47:24.943
Parts of our country
are very lightly affected.

00:47:24.943 --> 00:47:25.877
You're going to lose

00:47:25.877 --> 00:47:28.930
a number of people to the flu,
but you're going to lose more people

00:47:29.447 --> 00:47:34.217
by putting a country
into a massive recession or depression.

00:47:34.217 --> 00:47:35.302
They have to go back to work.

00:47:35.302 --> 00:47:37.687
I think it's going to happen
pretty quickly.

00:47:37.687 --> 00:47:40.423
2.2 million deaths.

00:47:40.423 --> 00:47:44.626
If we could hold that down,
as we're saying, to 100,000.

00:47:44.626 --> 00:47:45.727
It's a horrible number.

00:47:45.727 --> 00:47:47.929
We all together have done a very good job.

00:47:47.929 --> 00:47:50.648
It will go away.
You know it. You know it is going away.

00:47:50.648 --> 00:47:53.417
We think the death will be
at a very low number.

00:47:53.417 --> 00:47:55.452
It's going to go away
hopefully at the end of the month

00:47:55.452 --> 00:47:57.971
and if not, it hopefully
will be soon after that.

00:47:59.572 --> 00:48:02.992
The bombshell revelations
come in a new book from Bob Woodward,

00:48:03.142 --> 00:48:06.228
in which President Trump says
he intentionally downplayed

00:48:06.228 --> 00:48:10.648
the severity of the coronavirus in public
to avoid triggering a panic.

00:48:10.948 --> 00:48:14.368
In his book,
Woodward writes that on January 28th,

00:48:14.368 --> 00:48:18.738
the president's national security advisor
warned him the virus outbreak in China

00:48:18.738 --> 00:48:22.692
was the biggest national security threat
you will face in your presidency.

00:48:22.708 --> 00:48:26.328
In audio excerpts released
by The Washington Post, the president

00:48:26.328 --> 00:48:30.598
revealing to Woodward on February 7th
a surprising level of detail.

00:48:30.682 --> 00:48:33.717
It goes through air, Bob,
that's always tougher than the touch.

00:48:33.717 --> 00:48:34.785
You just breathe the air.

00:48:34.785 --> 00:48:37.287
That's how it's passed.

00:48:37.287 --> 00:48:39.205
And so that's a very tricky one.

00:48:39.205 --> 00:48:41.207
That's a very delicate one.

00:48:41.207 --> 00:48:43.943
It's also more deadly than,

00:48:43.943 --> 00:48:46.795
even your strenuous flus.

00:48:46.795 --> 00:48:48.113
This is deadly stuff.

00:48:48.113 --> 00:48:51.416
On March 19th, in
another taped conversation with Woodward,

00:48:51.582 --> 00:48:54.585
admitting he was deliberately
downplaying the danger.

00:48:54.718 --> 00:48:57.354
Well, I think, Bob, really,
to be honest with you, you're.

00:48:57.354 --> 00:48:58.071
Sure, I want you to be.

00:48:58.071 --> 00:49:02.458
I wanted to,
I wanted to always play it down.

00:49:02.458 --> 00:49:04.310
I still like playing it down.

00:49:04.310 --> 00:49:06.645
Because I don't want to create a panic.

00:49:16.253 --> 00:49:17.638
I beat Bernie Sanders.

00:49:17.638 --> 00:49:18.455
Not by much.

00:49:18.455 --> 00:49:20.157
I beat him a whole hell of a lot.

00:49:20.157 --> 00:49:21.825
I'm here to stand facing you, old buddy.

00:49:21.825 --> 00:49:23.776
If Pocahontas would have left two days early

00:49:23.776 --> 00:49:26.929
you would have lost every primary on Super Tuesday.

00:49:26.929 --> 00:49:28.664
You got very lucky.

00:49:28.664 --> 00:49:31.516
I got very lucky, and I'm going to get very lucky tonight as well.

00:49:31.516 --> 00:49:33.167
And tonight I'm going to make sure....

00:49:33.167 --> 00:49:33.818
With what?

00:49:33.818 --> 00:49:39.022
Here's the deal, the fact is that everything
he's saying so far is simply a lie.

00:49:39.022 --> 00:49:40.607
I'm not here to call out his lies.

00:49:40.607 --> 00:49:42.092
Everybody knows he's a liar.

00:49:42.092 --> 00:49:44.711
But you agree...no, Joe, you're the liar.

00:49:44.711 --> 00:49:46.095
I want to make sure.

00:49:46.095 --> 00:49:48.747
You graduated last in your class, not first in your class.

00:49:48.747 --> 00:49:50.182
I want to make sure...Oh, God.

00:49:50.182 --> 00:49:51.833
Mr. President, can you let him finish, sir?

00:49:51.833 --> 00:49:53.001
No, he doesn't know how to do that.

00:49:54.235 --> 00:49:55.753
Are you willing tonight

00:49:55.753 --> 00:49:58.973
to condemn white supremacists
and militia groups,

00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:05.244
and to say that they need to stand down
and not add to the violence in a number

00:50:05.244 --> 00:50:09.014
of these cities, as we saw in Kenosha
and as we've seen in Portland?

00:50:09.231 --> 00:50:11.149
Sure, I'm willing to do that, but—

00:50:11.149 --> 00:50:12.050
Well, go ahead, sir.

00:50:12.050 --> 00:50:16.337
I would say almost everything I see is
from the left wing, not from the right.

00:50:16.337 --> 00:50:18.055
So what are you saying?

00:50:18.055 --> 00:50:20.524
I'm willing to do anything. I want to see peace.

00:50:20.524 --> 00:50:23.276
Then do it, sir.
– Say it. Do it. Say it.

00:50:23.276 --> 00:50:24.477
You want to call them...?

00:50:24.477 --> 00:50:25.311
What do you want to call them?

00:50:25.311 --> 00:50:25.878
Give me a name.

00:50:25.878 --> 00:50:28.197
Who would you like me to condemn?

00:50:28.197 --> 00:50:30.649
Proud Boys and other white supremacists.

00:50:30.649 --> 00:50:32.668
Proud Boys: stand back and stand by.

00:50:35.086 --> 00:50:36.921
This election is on a knife edge.

00:50:36.921 --> 00:50:39.907
America saw the highest turnout
in more than 100 years.

00:50:39.907 --> 00:50:42.793
Almost 67% of the voters
cast their ballot—

00:50:42.793 --> 00:50:45.161
the highest in 120 years.

00:50:45.161 --> 00:50:49.215
That's a significant political statement
that Americans have made.

00:50:49.749 --> 00:50:51.967
The counting
so far has not thrown up a winner.

00:50:51.967 --> 00:50:54.102
Millions of votes are yet to be counted.

00:50:54.102 --> 00:50:56.454
We may not have a result for days.

00:50:56.454 --> 00:51:01.008
Some states allow the ballots
to come in late, so it will take time

00:51:01.008 --> 00:51:04.628
to count all of them, to tally the figures
and to produce the results.

00:51:05.262 --> 00:51:06.763
Don't hold your breath.

00:51:06.763 --> 00:51:09.765
In some states it could take days.

00:51:10.783 --> 00:51:11.951
But this is 2020.

00:51:11.951 --> 00:51:14.052
Everything is in a fast track.

00:51:14.052 --> 00:51:16.838
Nobody likes to wait.
Definitely not the Americans.

00:51:16.838 --> 00:51:20.891
They're unsettled by the delay.
And their president is not helping them.

00:51:21.192 --> 00:51:23.260
Donald Trump is being himself.

00:51:23.260 --> 00:51:26.263
He declared victory
well before the votes were counted.

00:51:26.613 --> 00:51:27.764
And that's not all.

00:51:27.764 --> 00:51:31.484
He has accused the Democrats of fraud,
and he has said that he

00:51:31.484 --> 00:51:32.835
will move the Supreme Court.

00:51:34.269 --> 00:51:37.505
This is a fraud on the American public.

00:51:37.956 --> 00:51:40.958
This is an embarrassment to our country.

00:51:41.859 --> 00:51:44.862
We were getting ready
to win this election.

00:51:45.045 --> 00:51:48.014
Frankly, we did win this election.

00:51:48.014 --> 00:51:51.017
We did win this election.

00:51:53.102 --> 00:51:56.171
So our goal now is to ensure the integrity

00:51:57.556 --> 00:51:58.807
for the good of this nation.

00:51:58.807 --> 00:52:01.092
This is a very big moment.

00:52:01.092 --> 00:52:03.978
This is a major fraud in our nation.

00:52:03.978 --> 00:52:07.931
We want the law
to be used in a proper manner.

00:52:08.882 --> 00:52:12.768
So we'll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:52:12.768 --> 00:52:15.754
We want all voting to stop.

00:52:16.755 --> 00:52:19.624
The fact is that
there is no evidence of fraud

00:52:19.624 --> 00:52:24.412
in this election so far,
but facts are not in vogue, unfortunately.

00:52:24.412 --> 00:52:27.614
That statement from Donald
Trump has ignited a fire.

00:52:28.031 --> 00:52:31.534
Multiple American cities have witnessed
protests. In Washington, D.C.

00:52:31.534 --> 00:52:34.036
there was a scuffle between the protesters
and the police.

00:52:34.036 --> 00:52:36.939
This happened at the Black Lives
Matter Plaza.

00:52:36.939 --> 00:52:39.057
This is close to the White House.

00:52:39.057 --> 00:52:41.626
Another report claims four people

00:52:41.626 --> 00:52:45.046
were stabbed just a few blocks away
from the president's residence.

00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:47.714
What about the Biden camp?

00:52:47.714 --> 00:52:49.182
What are they saying?

00:52:49.182 --> 00:52:51.084
The former vice
president addressed the press.

00:52:51.084 --> 00:52:55.037
He said he's confident of a victory,
but he won't be the one

00:52:55.037 --> 00:52:58.023
to declare the result.

00:52:58.357 --> 00:53:00.425
You know, we could know the results

00:53:00.425 --> 00:53:03.828
as early as tomorrow morning,
but it may take a little longer.

00:53:03.828 --> 00:53:05.946
As I've said all along,

00:53:05.946 --> 00:53:10.117
it's not my place or Donald Trump's
place to declare who's won this election.

00:53:10.600 --> 00:53:13.086
That's the decision
of the American people.

00:53:13.086 --> 00:53:18.223
It's never been a controversial notion
here that in order to figure out

00:53:18.223 --> 00:53:22.093
who's won a presidential election,
you count all the votes.

00:53:22.093 --> 00:53:24.812
But that is now a controversial notion,

00:53:24.812 --> 00:53:28.599
after President Trump has spent months
sowing disquiet

00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:33.286
about the sanctity of America's
electoral system, falsely advancing

00:53:33.286 --> 00:53:38.741
the entirely untrue claim
that millions of ballots

00:53:38.741 --> 00:53:42.394
are fraudulently cast
in every American presidential election.

00:53:42.427 --> 00:53:45.430
That's not true. It does not happen.

00:53:45.663 --> 00:53:49.350
And now, that event at the White House last night,

00:53:49.350 --> 00:53:52.386
flanked as he was by members of his family,

00:53:52.386 --> 00:53:56.105
the vice president,
Mike Pence, the first lady, Melania Trump,

00:53:56.372 --> 00:54:00.642
declaring victory in an election
that he has not yet won,

00:54:00.642 --> 00:54:05.797
propels the country down a very,
very dangerous constitutional path.

00:54:07.515 --> 00:54:10.517
This is a Fox News special report.

00:54:11.418 --> 00:54:12.669
...can now project

00:54:12.669 --> 00:54:16.539
that former Vice President Joe
Biden will win Pennsylvania and Nevada,

00:54:16.573 --> 00:54:19.658
putting him over the 270 electoral votes

00:54:19.658 --> 00:54:22.845
he needs to become the 46th president
of the United States.

00:54:22.878 --> 00:54:24.196
Donald Trump, the 45th

00:54:24.196 --> 00:54:28.599
president of the United States,
has vowed not to concede at this point.

00:54:28.783 --> 00:54:32.619
Legal challenges will ensue
over the course of Monday and beyond.

00:54:32.853 --> 00:54:35.855
We will see what happens.

00:54:45.163 --> 00:54:50.001
Chaos at the heart of America's democracy.

00:54:50.601 --> 00:54:52.936
Unleashed by the president,

00:54:52.936 --> 00:54:57.173
Donald Trump supporters
smash their way into the US

00:55:03.379 --> 00:55:06.314
Furious over
President Trump's November defeat,

00:55:06.314 --> 00:55:10.718
certain he was cheated
and told they can reverse the result

00:55:10.918 --> 00:55:15.189
They work for us!
They don't get to steal it from us.

00:55:15.455 --> 00:55:17.841
We respect the law. We were good people.

00:55:17.841 --> 00:55:19.542
The government did this to us!

00:55:19.542 --> 00:55:22.244
We were normal, good law-abiding citizens

00:55:22.244 --> 00:55:24.096
And you guys did this to us.

00:55:24.096 --> 00:55:25.581
We want our country back!

00:55:25.581 --> 00:55:27.616
Hundreds overran security.

00:55:30.652 --> 00:55:32.920
In the famous rotunda,

00:55:33.671 --> 00:55:37.474
Capitol police tried to fight off any further incursions.

00:55:39.793 --> 00:55:42.478
And lawmakers grabbed gas masks,

00:55:42.478 --> 00:55:44.713
making a hasty retreat from the chamber.

00:55:44.864 --> 00:55:47.866
Descending the stairs
and away from any danger,

00:55:47.899 --> 00:55:53.571
those stuck inside watch on as officers
used furniture to barricade the doors.

00:55:53.971 --> 00:55:56.590
Everybody stay down! Down!

00:55:56.590 --> 00:55:59.576
Terrified and praying.

00:56:02.412 --> 00:56:03.579
And this is why:

00:56:03.579 --> 00:56:07.116
just a few meters away,
they were witnessing a final stand.

00:56:07.149 --> 00:56:10.035
Guns drawn. Officers ready to fire.

00:56:10.035 --> 00:56:13.421
Desperate
to keep the angry mob behind those doors.

00:56:14.739 --> 00:56:17.324
All around, the stream of the aggrieved

00:56:17.324 --> 00:56:20.327
continued to flow into the building.

00:56:30.619 --> 00:56:34.072
As the mob mocked their traditions
from the speaker's chair

00:56:34.272 --> 00:56:36.457
and ransacked their offices.

00:56:37.841 --> 00:56:41.478
This the nameplate of Trump enemy
Nancy Pelosi.

00:56:41.595 --> 00:56:42.612
I say yeah.

00:56:42.612 --> 00:56:45.381
They need to bring 'em out
and string 'em up.

00:56:45.381 --> 00:56:49.635
Outside, tens of thousands weathered tear gas
and applauded the invasion.

00:56:49.818 --> 00:56:51.586
A diehard American.

00:56:51.586 --> 00:56:56.957
I am tired of being a second class
citizen in my own country.

00:56:57.141 --> 00:57:00.611
I just want to get your thoughts
on what you think of that scene.

00:57:01.361 --> 00:57:03.613
It was awesome. Stop the steal.

00:57:03.613 --> 00:57:07.333
We want a ten day
audit of the entire election.

00:57:07.450 --> 00:57:09.935
Let's get it done.
Then there will be peace.

00:57:09.935 --> 00:57:11.586
Then there will be civil rest.

00:57:11.586 --> 00:57:13.605
But until then, it's treason.

00:57:13.605 --> 00:57:17.208
More than anything,
this is a show of the political force

00:57:17.208 --> 00:57:20.978
that Donald Trump
could enact on those who defy him:

00:57:21.461 --> 00:57:24.981
the Republicans that decided to stick with convention

00:57:25.298 --> 00:57:28.334
and refuse to try and overturn November's
vote.

00:57:29.151 --> 00:57:33.922
To use a favorite term that all of you
people really came up with:

00:57:33.955 --> 00:57:36.591
We will stop the steal.

00:57:38.509 --> 00:57:40.828
At a rally near the White House,
President Trump spoke

00:57:40.828 --> 00:57:45.181
to a crowd estimated in the thousands;
everyone from ordinary Americans

00:57:45.181 --> 00:57:46.633
to conspiracy theorists,

00:57:46.633 --> 00:57:48.134
Proud Boys!

00:57:48.134 --> 00:57:50.369
to members of right wing extremist groups.

00:57:50.419 --> 00:57:51.870
We will never give up.

00:57:51.870 --> 00:57:53.422
We will never concede.

00:57:53.422 --> 00:57:56.541
Trump repeated the lie that the election
was stolen.

00:57:56.541 --> 00:57:59.844
Urging his supporters
to march to the Capitol and fight.

00:58:00.211 --> 00:58:03.847
You'll never take back
our country with weakness.

00:58:03.897 --> 00:58:05.215
We fight like hell.

00:58:05.215 --> 00:58:08.634
And if you don't fight like hell, you're
not going to have a country anymore.

00:58:10.319 --> 00:58:12.721
Around 1 p.m., as Trump is wrapping up

00:58:12.721 --> 00:58:15.807
his remarks in the park,
the day turned violent.

00:58:15.807 --> 00:58:18.660
A group of his supporters
on the western side of the Capitol

00:58:18.660 --> 00:58:22.997
confront the handful of police guarding
the barriers and force their way through.

00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:27.700
What needs to happen today
is Vice President Pence needs to not open

00:58:27.700 --> 00:58:30.920
the seven state electors'
envelopes for the states that I mentioned,

00:58:31.587 --> 00:58:35.457
set them aside and send it all back
to those state legislatures.

00:58:35.841 --> 00:58:38.009
We've got to stop this steal
from happening

00:58:38.009 --> 00:58:41.362
because,if we don't,
nobody's ever going to vote again.

00:58:41.696 --> 00:58:44.098
There's not going to be any integrity
in our voting system.

00:58:46.466 --> 00:58:49.786
As the crowd
grows, clashes between Trump supporters

00:58:49.786 --> 00:58:53.456
and Capitol Police officers,
clearly outnumbered, intensified.

00:58:53.656 --> 00:58:55.491
We're not going to take it anymore.

00:58:55.491 --> 00:58:57.275
This is our country.

00:58:57.626 --> 00:59:01.546
Outside, the Capitol's west
front became a battleground

00:59:01.879 --> 00:59:04.698
inside the joint session of Congress
to certify

00:59:04.698 --> 00:59:07.701
election results was underway.

00:59:08.101 --> 00:59:12.171
The traditionally ceremonial process
is upended by Republicans,

00:59:12.421 --> 00:59:16.875
led by Representative Paul Gosar
of Arizona and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas

00:59:17.092 --> 00:59:20.161
challenging Trump's
loss, sending lawmakers

00:59:20.161 --> 00:59:22.196
to their separate chambers to debate.

00:59:22.196 --> 00:59:23.581
What does it say

00:59:23.581 --> 00:59:30.086
to the nearly half the country
that believes this election was rigged, if we vote

00:59:30.086 --> 00:59:33.089
not even to consider the claims

00:59:33.106 --> 00:59:36.108
of illegality and fraud in this election.

00:59:36.175 --> 00:59:40.645
Meanwhile, around 2 p.m., the East side
barricades are breached.

00:59:41.029 --> 00:59:44.398
Half an hour ago, vehicle barriers
that had been set up

00:59:44.398 --> 00:59:46.850
a good 100 yards away
or so from the Capitol

00:59:46.850 --> 00:59:49.219
were first breached
by a group of protesters.

00:59:49.219 --> 00:59:51.671
Capitol Hill police
retreated a little bit more,

00:59:51.671 --> 00:59:56.542
then hundreds more protesters started to stream up
this walkway in front of the Capitol.

00:59:56.926 --> 00:59:58.577
It is a remarkable scene.

00:59:58.577 --> 01:00:03.331
On the west front, the mob tore down scaffolding,
battled their way through the last line

01:00:03.331 --> 01:00:07.067
of police defense and broke
into the Capitol building itself.

01:00:09.903 --> 01:00:12.989
We'll stand in recess until the call of the chair.

01:00:12.989 --> 01:00:16.075
The Senate was called into recess and evacuated.

01:00:16.309 --> 01:00:20.395
Security footage captured the moment
Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman

01:00:20.395 --> 01:00:24.065
shuttled Republican Senator
Mitt Romney of Utah to safety

01:00:24.065 --> 01:00:28.636
before running ahead to divert the approaching
mob away from the Senate chamber.

01:00:28.636 --> 01:00:32.789
Rioters came within 100 feet of Vice
President Mike Pence,

01:00:32.789 --> 01:00:36.109
whose security detail took him to safety
from an office near the Senate.

01:00:36.626 --> 01:00:41.480
While this was happening, at 2:24
p.m., Trump tweeted from the White House,

01:00:41.513 --> 01:00:45.149
criticizing Pence for not having,

01:00:45.166 --> 01:00:46.734
"The courage to do what should have been done."

01:00:46.734 --> 01:00:50.604
Remarkably, the House was still in session
when rioters attempted

01:00:50.604 --> 01:00:52.039
to break into that chamber

01:00:54.140 --> 01:00:59.095
A police officer shot Ashley Babbitt,
an Air Force veteran from California

01:00:59.095 --> 01:01:03.298
and QAnon conspiracy theorist,
as she and a crowd tried to break into the

01:01:03.298 --> 01:01:06.718
rear of the chamber where some lawmakers
were still sheltering.

01:01:07.318 --> 01:01:09.837
According to an analysis
from The New York Times,

01:01:09.837 --> 01:01:13.590
rioters breached the Capitol
in at least eight different places.

01:01:14.124 --> 01:01:17.927
They entered the rotunda, Statuary Hall
and the Senate chamber.

01:01:18.111 --> 01:01:22.464
Some broke into the offices of lawmakers,
including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's

01:01:23.215 --> 01:01:27.185
Rioters, outnumbering law enforcement
by more than 50 to 1,

01:01:27.202 --> 01:01:30.204
attacked, dragged and beat police officers,

01:01:30.354 --> 01:01:33.357
crushing them underfoot
and spraying them with chemicals.

01:01:33.807 --> 01:01:36.209
This is our Capitol!

01:01:36.209 --> 01:01:40.796
In total, nearly 150
police officers were injured on the day.

01:01:41.247 --> 01:01:44.850
During the attack, those closest
to President Trump privately urged him

01:01:44.850 --> 01:01:48.286
to take action and tell his supporters
to stop the assault.

01:01:48.720 --> 01:01:52.673
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy
spoke with him from the besieged Capitol.

01:01:52.906 --> 01:01:56.009
His son, Donald Trump Jr, and several
Fox hosts

01:01:56.092 --> 01:01:59.729
texted White House contacts to tell Trump
to address the crowd.

01:02:00.229 --> 01:02:04.733
Hours passed before President Trump
did anything to address the insurrection.

01:02:05.117 --> 01:02:08.269
Just after 4 p.m.,
he released a video repeating

01:02:08.269 --> 01:02:11.272
unfounded claims
about the election results.

01:02:11.305 --> 01:02:14.308
I know your pain. I know you're hurt.

01:02:14.391 --> 01:02:18.111
We had an election
that was stolen from us.

01:02:18.378 --> 01:02:21.814
It was a landslide election
and everyone knows it,

01:02:21.814 --> 01:02:24.466
especially the other side.

01:02:24.466 --> 01:02:26.485
But you have to go home now.

01:02:26.485 --> 01:02:28.136
We have to have peace.

01:02:28.136 --> 01:02:31.189
Around this time,
police began to secure the Capitol.

01:02:32.490 --> 01:02:36.593
Flashbangs and tear gas were used
to clear the western terrace,

01:02:36.593 --> 01:02:39.195
the site of presidential inaugurations.

01:02:41.397 --> 01:02:45.384
Police declared the Capitol complex
secure around 8 p.m.

01:02:45.617 --> 01:02:48.620
To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol
today.

01:02:49.738 --> 01:02:51.322
You did not win.

01:02:51.322 --> 01:02:54.592
In the early hours of the next day,
January 7th,

01:02:54.592 --> 01:02:57.477
Congress finished certifying the election results.

01:02:57.477 --> 01:03:00.480
Some Senate Republicans
withdrew their initial objections.

01:03:00.680 --> 01:03:04.133
The chair declares
the joint session dissolved.

01:03:05.417 --> 01:03:07.903
A Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick,

01:03:07.903 --> 01:03:10.372
suffered two strokes and died
that evening.

01:03:10.822 --> 01:03:14.275
In the days and months
following the attack, four police officers

01:03:14.275 --> 01:03:17.277
who were on duty died by suicide.

01:03:19.646 --> 01:03:20.880
Tonight, for the second time

01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:24.901
in just over a year, the House
delivering Donald Trump a historic rebuke.

01:03:25.051 --> 01:03:28.770
Now making him the first president ever
to be impeached twice.

01:03:28.854 --> 01:03:32.607
The president of the United States incited
this insurrection,

01:03:33.107 --> 01:03:36.360
this armed rebellion
against our common country.

01:03:37.411 --> 01:03:38.445
He must go.

01:03:38.445 --> 01:03:43.199
He is a clear and present danger
to the nation that we all love.

01:03:43.500 --> 01:03:46.936
A single article of impeachment
accusing the president of incitement of insurrection

01:03:46.936 --> 01:03:50.722
in his remarks
before last week's riots began.

01:03:50.989 --> 01:03:54.926
Donald Trump is a living,
breathing, impeachable offense.

01:03:55.860 --> 01:03:56.961
It is what it is.

01:03:56.961 --> 01:04:00.881
It wasn't another country
that attacked us, but our own president.

01:04:00.897 --> 01:04:04.517
All 222 House Democrats
voting in favor of impeachment.

01:04:04.517 --> 01:04:07.636
And unlike the first impeachment
of President Trump, where no House

01:04:07.636 --> 01:04:13.491
Republicans supported it, this time, ten
broke ranks, including Jaime Herrera Beutler.

01:04:13.491 --> 01:04:16.711
My vote to impeach our sitting
president is not a fear-based decision.

01:04:17.011 --> 01:04:18.295
I am not choosing a side.

01:04:18.295 --> 01:04:19.647
I'm choosing truth.

01:04:19.647 --> 01:04:21.532
It's the only way to defeat fear.

01:04:21.532 --> 01:04:24.718
The top House
Republican voting against impeachment.

01:04:24.951 --> 01:04:26.035
A vote to impeach

01:04:26.035 --> 01:04:30.406
would further divide this nation,
but also leveling this stinging shot.

01:04:30.689 --> 01:04:31.607
The president bears

01:04:31.607 --> 01:04:35.543
responsibility for Wednesday's
attack on Congress by mob rioters.

01:04:37.645 --> 01:04:40.648
The yeas are 57.

01:04:40.798 --> 01:04:43.800
The nays are 43.

01:04:43.867 --> 01:04:47.236
Two thirds of the senators present
not having voted guilty.

01:04:47.970 --> 01:04:51.390
The Senate adjudges
that responded Donald John Trump,

01:04:51.390 --> 01:04:53.442
former president of the United States,

01:04:53.442 --> 01:04:55.593
is not guilty as charged in the article of impeachment.

01:05:16.645 --> 01:05:19.630
January 6th was a disgrace.

01:05:20.531 --> 01:05:23.784
American citizens
attacked their own government.

01:05:25.102 --> 01:05:26.987
They used terrorism to try to stop

01:05:26.987 --> 01:05:32.141
a specific piece of domestic business they did not like.

01:05:32.141 --> 01:05:37.445
Fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police.

01:05:38.329 --> 01:05:40.898
They stormed the Senate floor.

01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:43.517
They tried to hunt down

01:05:43.517 --> 01:05:45.886
the speaker of the House.

01:05:45.886 --> 01:05:49.189
They built a gallows
and chanted about murdering

01:05:50.590 --> 01:05:53.476
the vice president.

01:05:53.476 --> 01:05:56.111
They did this

01:05:56.111 --> 01:06:00.565
because they had been fed wild falsehoods

01:06:01.849 --> 01:06:04.852
by the most powerful man on earth.

01:06:05.569 --> 01:06:07.337
Because he was angry he lost an election.

01:06:09.773 --> 01:06:13.876
Former President Trump's actions that preceded the riot

01:06:14.827 --> 01:06:21.466
were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.

01:06:23.267 --> 01:06:26.270
There's no question—none—

01:06:26.420 --> 01:06:29.422
that President Trump is practically

01:06:29.472 --> 01:06:32.475
and morally responsible

01:06:32.809 --> 01:06:35.544
for provoking the events

01:06:35.544 --> 01:06:37.312
of the day.

01:06:37.312 --> 01:06:40.282
No question about it.

01:06:40.282 --> 01:06:41.716
The people who stormed this building

01:06:41.716 --> 01:06:44.719
believed they were acting on the wishes

01:06:45.252 --> 01:06:47.805
and instructions

01:06:47.805 --> 01:06:50.807
of their president.

01:06:50.957 --> 01:06:53.710
And having that belief

01:06:53.710 --> 01:06:56.712
was a foreseeable consequence

01:06:57.463 --> 01:07:00.265
of the growing crescendo

01:07:00.265 --> 01:07:02.500
of false statements,

01:07:02.500 --> 01:07:06.320
conspiracy theories
and reckless hyperbole,

01:07:07.454 --> 01:07:11.274
which the defeated president kept
shouting into the largest megaphone

01:07:12.342 --> 01:07:15.344
on planet Earth.

01:07:16.312 --> 01:07:18.130
This was an intensifying

01:07:18.130 --> 01:07:21.283
crescendo of conspiracy theories

01:07:22.284 --> 01:07:25.636
orchestrated by an outgoing president
who seemed determined

01:07:26.988 --> 01:07:29.923
to either overturn the voters decision

01:07:29.923 --> 01:07:34.410
or else torch our institutions on the way out.

01:07:37.546 --> 01:07:39.465
The unconscionable behavior

01:07:39.465 --> 01:07:42.834
did not end
when the violence actually began.

01:07:46.070 --> 01:07:47.755
Whatever

01:07:47.755 --> 01:07:50.741
our ex-president claims he thought

01:07:51.258 --> 01:07:54.260
might happen that day,

01:07:54.828 --> 01:07:56.262
whatever reaction

01:07:56.262 --> 01:07:59.482
he says he meant to produce,

01:08:01.733 --> 01:08:03.535
by that afternoon,

01:08:03.535 --> 01:08:05.320
we know,

01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:08.356
he was watching the same live television

01:08:09.557 --> 01:08:12.409
as the rest of us.

01:08:12.409 --> 01:08:15.045
A mob

01:08:15.045 --> 01:08:18.047
was assaulting the Capitol in his name.

01:08:21.083 --> 01:08:24.703
These criminals were carrying his banners,

01:08:25.970 --> 01:08:28.973
hanging his flags

01:08:29.507 --> 01:08:32.509
and screaming their loyalty to him.

01:08:35.212 --> 01:08:38.114
It was obvious

01:08:38.114 --> 01:08:41.117
that only President Trump

01:08:41.267 --> 01:08:44.152
could end this.

01:08:44.152 --> 01:08:46.521
He was the only one

01:08:46.521 --> 01:08:49.457
who could.

01:08:49.457 --> 01:08:52.459
Former aides publicly begged him to do so.

01:08:53.260 --> 01:08:55.045
Loyal allies frantically

01:08:55.045 --> 01:08:56.463
called the administration.

01:08:59.148 --> 01:09:02.151
The president did not act swiftly.

01:09:02.685 --> 01:09:05.687
He did not do his job.

01:09:05.871 --> 01:09:07.689
He didn't take steps so federal

01:09:07.689 --> 01:09:10.691
law could be faithfully executed

01:09:11.742 --> 01:09:14.745
and order restored.

01:09:15.562 --> 01:09:16.496
No.

01:09:17.898 --> 01:09:23.469
Instead, according to public reports,
he watched television happily—happily—

01:09:25.487 --> 01:09:28.490
as the chaos unfolded.

01:09:30.074 --> 01:09:33.077
He kept pressing his scheme

01:09:34.495 --> 01:09:36.280
to overturn the election.

01:09:38.115 --> 01:09:40.817
Now, even after
it was clear to any reasonable observer

01:09:40.817 --> 01:09:43.819
that Vice President Pence
was in serious danger.

01:09:45.954 --> 01:09:48.790
Even as the mob

01:09:48.790 --> 01:09:51.442
carrying Trump banners

01:09:51.442 --> 01:09:54.445
was beating cops

01:09:54.528 --> 01:09:57.531
and breaching perimeters.

01:09:58.181 --> 01:10:00.884
The president sent a further tweet

01:10:00.884 --> 01:10:03.886
attacking his own vice president.

01:10:04.804 --> 01:10:06.505
Justice Story

01:10:06.505 --> 01:10:10.592
specifically reminded that
while former officials were not eligible

01:10:11.126 --> 01:10:14.128
for impeachment or conviction,

01:10:14.345 --> 01:10:17.331
they were—and this is extremely important—

01:10:17.815 --> 01:10:21.051
still liable to be tried and punished

01:10:21.051 --> 01:10:24.053
in the ordinary tribunals of justice.

01:10:25.054 --> 01:10:27.690
Put another way,

01:10:27.690 --> 01:10:30.709
in the language of today,

01:10:30.709 --> 01:10:32.193
President Trump is still liable

01:10:32.193 --> 01:10:34.745
for everything he did
while he was in office.

01:10:36.414 --> 01:10:38.048
As an ordinary citizen.

01:10:38.449 --> 01:10:41.001
Unless the statute of limitations is run,

01:10:41.001 --> 01:10:44.570
he's still liable for everything he did while he was in office.

01:10:46.188 --> 01:10:47.923
Didn't get away with anything.

01:10:47.923 --> 01:10:48.607
Yet.

01:10:50.008 --> 01:10:50.776
Yet.

01:10:52.494 --> 01:10:55.496
We have a criminal justice system
in this country.

01:10:56.164 --> 01:10:58.616
We have civil litigation.

01:10:58.616 --> 01:11:03.103
And former presidents are not immune
from being accountable by either one.

01:11:05.788 --> 01:11:07.456
Just last month—do you remember that?—

01:11:07.456 --> 01:11:10.159
Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed legislation

01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:12.511
that would have established
a bipartisan commission

01:11:12.511 --> 01:11:14.813
to investigate the January 6th
insurrection.

01:11:14.813 --> 01:11:16.948
Kind of like the 9/11 Commission.

01:11:16.948 --> 01:11:20.484
Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
is stepping in, announcing yesterday

01:11:20.484 --> 01:11:23.904
that she intends to form a House select
committee to investigate

01:11:24.054 --> 01:11:27.056
what happened on January 6th.

01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:30.492
Before I ask you a question,

01:11:30.492 --> 01:11:35.163
I'd like to show a brief video clip
of some of what you went through.

01:11:35.163 --> 01:11:39.283
I realize this can be difficult to watch,
but I think it's important for the public to see.

01:13:23.871 --> 01:13:25.639
Almost all of that

01:13:25.639 --> 01:13:28.325
was from your body camera footage.

01:13:28.325 --> 01:13:32.745
Can you walk us through
what we've just seen, Officer Fanone?

01:13:33.813 --> 01:13:39.451
Well, I believe the first portion of that video
footage from my body worn camera

01:13:39.451 --> 01:13:43.137
from the crypt
area of the Capitol rotunda.

01:13:44.105 --> 01:13:47.007
It was there that I first heard the 1033

01:13:47.007 --> 01:13:50.727
or distress call come out from the
Lower West Terrace Tunnel.

01:13:51.711 --> 01:13:52.612
Which I didn't realize

01:13:52.612 --> 01:13:55.614
at the time was, only,

01:13:55.731 --> 01:13:58.734
a few hundred yards away
from where I was at.

01:13:59.218 --> 01:14:02.454
I told my partner, Jimmy Albright,
who was there with me,

01:14:03.054 --> 01:14:06.574
that there was a 1033
coming out from the Lower West Terrace.

01:14:07.441 --> 01:14:11.578
We tried to get our bearings
and figure out which way that might be.

01:14:12.295 --> 01:14:14.180
We asked a group of Capitol Police officers,

01:14:14.180 --> 01:14:16.649
and they directed us down a set of stairs.

01:14:17.416 --> 01:14:19.468
From there,

01:14:19.468 --> 01:14:21.653
Jimmy and I walked down

01:14:21.653 --> 01:14:24.656
to the Lower West Terrace Tunnel.

01:14:24.839 --> 01:14:26.841
The first thing I remember

01:14:26.841 --> 01:14:29.843
was seeing a buddy of mine,

01:14:29.893 --> 01:14:33.380
Sergeant Bill Bogner,
who's an administrative sergeant.

01:14:33.380 --> 01:14:35.665
He used to work in my district.

01:14:35.665 --> 01:14:38.667
Now he works over at the Academy.

01:14:38.667 --> 01:14:42.654
And he was unable to see—he had been
sprayed in the face with bear mace.

01:14:43.655 --> 01:14:47.375
And I went up to him and told him, "Hey,
it's Fanone."

01:14:47.858 --> 01:14:52.779
I remember he stretched out his hand to shake my hand.

01:14:52.946 --> 01:14:57.133
That's when he told me that the guys
that were just beyond that set of double doors

01:14:57.133 --> 01:15:01.520
had been fighting there for,
I believe he said about 30 minutes.

01:15:02.004 --> 01:15:04.022
I don't think he realized what time it was

01:15:04.022 --> 01:15:07.025
because they've been fighting since around
1 p.m..

01:15:07.375 --> 01:15:08.943
It was 3:00.

01:15:08.943 --> 01:15:12.529
So those guys have been there
fighting for two hours, unrelieved.

01:15:14.047 --> 01:15:18.334
I remember looking up
through the set of double doors,

01:15:18.334 --> 01:15:23.255
there were glass panes,
and you could see the CS gas,

01:15:23.255 --> 01:15:26.424
with white powder still lingering in the air.

01:15:27.976 --> 01:15:29.460
It was at that point

01:15:29.460 --> 01:15:32.763
that I realized I probably should
have brought my gas mask.

01:15:36.199 --> 01:15:41.087
So I went through the double doors, and I saw Ramey Kyle,

01:15:41.087 --> 01:15:46.157
who at the time was a commander
with our Criminal Investigations Division,

01:15:46.157 --> 01:15:48.476
overseeing all the detectives units.

01:15:49.260 --> 01:15:53.664
Like many other officers, sergeants,
lieutenants, captains that day,

01:15:54.264 --> 01:15:59.185
he self-deployed and found himself
commanding a group of

01:15:59.185 --> 01:16:02.421
about 30 or 40 officers
there in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel.

01:16:03.939 --> 01:16:08.660
Commander Kyle was having a difficult time breathing.

01:16:08.993 --> 01:16:11.812
I remember, I followed him back out through the set of double doors

01:16:11.812 --> 01:16:15.082
into that initial hallway,

01:16:15.933 --> 01:16:20.703
as he kind of straightened himself up.

01:16:21.754 --> 01:16:23.372
I described it before,

01:16:23.372 --> 01:16:26.375
I thought he looked like George Patton.

01:16:26.875 --> 01:16:32.964
I remember he put his hat back on
and walked right back out through the doorway into the tunnel.

01:16:33.180 --> 01:16:36.183
And I followed him.

01:16:36.266 --> 01:16:39.769
It was at that point,
I think, when I started approaching

01:16:39.769 --> 01:16:43.522
that group of officers there,
defending the doorway, that I realized

01:16:43.522 --> 01:16:46.525
the gravity of the situation.

01:16:49.828 --> 01:16:51.963
My initial thought was,

01:16:51.963 --> 01:16:54.949
these guys looked like,

01:16:55.466 --> 01:16:57.351
they looked beat to hell.

01:16:57.351 --> 01:16:59.970
And,

01:16:59.970 --> 01:17:03.289
you know, maybe I could try to
get in there and get some guys some help.

01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:07.643
So I told Jimmy that we needed to

01:17:07.643 --> 01:17:10.345
get in there and try to offer assistance.

01:17:10.345 --> 01:17:12.814
And that's what we did initially.

01:17:12.814 --> 01:17:15.816
We started making our way
through the crowd of officers

01:17:16.083 --> 01:17:19.052
yelling out, "Who needs a break?"

01:17:19.052 --> 01:17:21.204
And like I said in my initial testimony,

01:17:21.204 --> 01:17:24.207
there were no volunteers.

01:17:24.240 --> 01:17:26.509
There were officers who identified

01:17:26.509 --> 01:17:29.278
other colleagues who were in need of help.

01:17:29.278 --> 01:17:31.429
And I remember, somebody yelling out:

01:17:31.429 --> 01:17:32.881
"This guy needs help!"

01:17:32.881 --> 01:17:37.468
and handed me that officer.

01:17:38.369 --> 01:17:41.671
I handed him off to, Jimmy
and told him to get him to the back.

01:17:42.655 --> 01:17:48.360
And I continued to make my way up to the front lines.

01:17:49.912 --> 01:17:51.847
Once I got up there,

01:17:51.847 --> 01:17:57.451
it was the first time
I really came face to face with these terrorists.,

01:17:59.003 --> 01:18:02.005
They were dressed in

01:18:02.122 --> 01:18:04.924
clothing adorned with political slogans:

01:18:04.924 --> 01:18:07.109
"Make America Great Again,"

01:18:07.109 --> 01:18:09.845
"Donald Trump, 2020,"

01:18:09.845 --> 01:18:12.364
Things of that nature.

01:18:12.364 --> 01:18:14.899
They were wearing military-style clothing:

01:18:14.899 --> 01:18:17.902
Kevlar vests, Kevlar helmets.

01:18:18.719 --> 01:18:20.721
Many of them had gas masks.

01:18:20.721 --> 01:18:29.328
And quite a few had shields,
which they had taken away from law enforcement officers.,

01:18:30.112 --> 01:18:33.415
They were using them
to beat us at the front line.

01:18:34.399 --> 01:18:37.018
The first thing I told them was,

01:18:37.018 --> 01:18:41.805
"Hey, man, we got to get these doors closed.
We got injured officers in here."

01:18:41.805 --> 01:18:44.224
And that really seemed to piss those guys off.

01:18:45.492 --> 01:18:47.193
They became incredibly violent.

01:18:47.193 --> 01:18:50.513
And that's when that, surge
that you watched in

01:18:50.513 --> 01:18:53.515
some of the video, began.

01:18:54.266 --> 01:18:57.268
And you had a large group

01:18:57.619 --> 01:19:02.222
at the mouth of that, tunnel entrance
trying to push their way

01:19:02.222 --> 01:19:05.875
through the officers
who were fighting to defend it.

01:19:07.343 --> 01:19:09.212
I believe, had they done so, or had

01:19:09.212 --> 01:19:12.214
they accomplished that,
they would have trampled us to death.

01:19:12.214 --> 01:19:15.200
Most certainly
you would have had police officers killed.

01:19:19.587 --> 01:19:22.590
I fought there at the front for some time.

01:19:24.141 --> 01:19:25.759
I was yelling out,

01:19:25.759 --> 01:19:32.031
trying to inspire some of the other officers
that were up there, that were tired—

01:19:33.332 --> 01:19:37.502
telling them to dig in and push.

01:19:39.871 --> 01:19:42.873
And we started to make some progress.

01:19:43.741 --> 01:19:46.493
We push those guys out of the tunnel,

01:19:48.011 --> 01:19:54.116
out through the initial thresh way, threshold.

01:19:54.867 --> 01:19:57.869
And I remember thinking to myself,

01:19:59.154 --> 01:20:02.156
Man, it's good to get some fresh air.

01:20:03.240 --> 01:20:06.243
It was at that point
that I was pulled off the line.

01:20:07.494 --> 01:20:17.085
That initial period of time when I was pulled off that line
was kind of a blur.

01:20:18.353 --> 01:20:21.439
I just remember getting
violently assaulted from every direction

01:20:22.523 --> 01:20:26.877
and eventually found myself out,
probably about 250, maybe 300ft

01:20:26.877 --> 01:20:30.830
away from the mouth of the tunnel
where the other officers were at.

01:20:31.681 --> 01:20:38.987
And, I knew that I was up shit's creek without a paddle.

01:20:41.122 --> 01:20:44.242
I was trying to push guys off of me,
create some space.

01:20:44.859 --> 01:20:48.378
All the while,
I recognized the fact that,

01:20:48.378 --> 01:20:51.564
there were individuals
that were trying to grab a hold of my gun.

01:20:52.315 --> 01:20:55.551
I remember one of them
distinctly lunging at me

01:20:55.851 --> 01:20:58.821
time and time again,
trying to grab my gun.

01:20:58.821 --> 01:21:01.890
And I heard people in the crowd yelling,
"Get his gun!"

01:21:02.657 --> 01:21:04.559
"Kill him with his own gun!"

01:21:04.559 --> 01:21:05.910
and words to that effect.

01:21:07.778 --> 01:21:10.781
I thought about using my weapon.

01:21:11.464 --> 01:21:14.217
I believe that there were individuals

01:21:14.217 --> 01:21:17.219
in the crowd whose intentions were to kill me.

01:21:18.020 --> 01:21:20.389
And I came to that conclusion

01:21:20.389 --> 01:21:24.659
because of the fact that,
separated from these other officers,

01:21:25.259 --> 01:21:28.462
who were only trying
to defend the Capitol,

01:21:29.029 --> 01:21:32.032
I no longer posed any type of threat.

01:21:32.566 --> 01:21:37.436
Nor was I, an impediment to them

01:21:38.370 --> 01:21:41.456
going inside of the building.

01:21:42.707 --> 01:21:44.943
But yet they tortured me.

01:21:44.943 --> 01:21:46.711
They beat me.

01:21:46.711 --> 01:21:49.863
I was struck with a taser device

01:21:49.863 --> 01:21:52.849
at the base of my skull numerous times.

01:21:53.633 --> 01:21:56.219
And they continued to do so

01:21:56.219 --> 01:21:59.221
until I yelled out, "I have kids!"

01:22:00.989 --> 01:22:03.125
And I said that hoping to appeal

01:22:03.125 --> 01:22:06.694
to some of those individuals' humanity.

01:22:07.612 --> 01:22:10.131
And fortunately,

01:22:11.432 --> 01:22:13.083
a few did step in,

01:22:13.083 --> 01:22:16.069
and intervene on my behalf.

01:22:18.421 --> 01:22:19.772
They did assist me back

01:22:19.772 --> 01:22:22.774
towards the mouth of the tunnel entrance.

01:22:22.858 --> 01:22:27.745
And, other officers were then able to,
rescue me and pull me back inside.

01:22:28.162 --> 01:22:30.781
But at that point, I was unconscious,

01:22:30.781 --> 01:22:36.152
and based off the body worn camera footage

01:22:36.553 --> 01:22:39.839
it's believed that I was unconscious

01:22:39.839 --> 01:22:42.157
for approximately four minutes.

01:22:48.146 --> 01:22:52.283
In our country we don't swear an oath to an individual
or a political party.

01:22:52.766 --> 01:22:55.969
We take our oath
to defend the United States Constitution.

01:22:56.520 --> 01:22:59.205
And that oath must mean something.

01:22:59.205 --> 01:23:05.010
Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues
who are defending the indefensible.

01:23:05.877 --> 01:23:08.880
There will come a day
when Donald Trump is gone,

01:23:09.264 --> 01:23:12.266
but your dishonor will remain.

01:23:12.616 --> 01:23:14.218
The January 6th Congressional

01:23:14.218 --> 01:23:17.220
Committee is set to hold
its final public meeting tomorrow:

01:23:17.304 --> 01:23:21.707
what's expected to be closing arguments
after nearly 18 months of investigation.

01:23:22.341 --> 01:23:25.411
And the committee is expected
to take the unprecedented step

01:23:25.411 --> 01:23:28.797
of making criminal referrals,
urging the Department of Justice

01:23:28.797 --> 01:23:32.550
to prosecute former President
Donald Trump on multiple charges.

01:23:35.736 --> 01:23:39.506
I'm here today to announce the appointment
of a special counsel

01:23:39.539 --> 01:23:42.525
in connection
with two ongoing criminal investigations

01:23:42.859 --> 01:23:45.861
that have received significant public
attention.

01:23:46.078 --> 01:23:49.881
The first, as described in court filings
in the District of Columbia,

01:23:50.365 --> 01:23:54.201
is the investigation
into whether any person or entity

01:23:54.618 --> 01:23:59.606
unlawfully interfered with the transfer
of power following the 2020

01:23:59.606 --> 01:24:03.809
presidential election or the certification
of the Electoral College vote

01:24:04.193 --> 01:24:07.196
held on or about January 6th, 2021.

01:24:07.996 --> 01:24:10.849
The second is the ongoing investigation

01:24:10.849 --> 01:24:14.302
involving classified documents
and other presidential records,

01:24:14.869 --> 01:24:17.871
as well as the possible obstruction
of that investigation

01:24:18.138 --> 01:24:20.840
referenced and described in court filings

01:24:20.840 --> 01:24:23.843
in a pending matter
in the Southern District of Florida.

01:24:24.110 --> 01:24:27.713
Based on recent developments,
including the former president's

01:24:27.780 --> 01:24:31.099
announcement that he is a candidate
for president in the next election,

01:24:31.700 --> 01:24:35.603
and the sitting president's stated intention
to be a candidate as well,

01:24:36.203 --> 01:24:41.091
I have concluded that it is in the public
interest to appoint a special counsel.

01:24:42.025 --> 01:24:44.477
Today, I signed an order appointing

01:24:44.477 --> 01:24:47.480
Jack Smith to serve as special counsel.

01:24:47.997 --> 01:24:51.450
The order authorizes him to continue
the ongoing investigation

01:24:51.867 --> 01:24:54.686
into both of the matters
that I've just described,

01:24:54.686 --> 01:24:58.756
and to prosecute any federal crimes
that may arise from those investigations.

01:25:05.695 --> 01:25:08.697
This is an NBC News special report.

01:25:08.964 --> 01:25:10.649
Here's Lester Holt.

01:25:10.649 --> 01:25:15.286
Good evening, we are coming on the air
with breaking news set to rattle the 2024

01:25:15.286 --> 01:25:18.839
presidential campaign
and our country's legal landscape.

01:25:19.073 --> 01:25:22.676
Former President Donald Trump
has just posted on social media

01:25:22.676 --> 01:25:25.979
that he has been told
by the federal government that he is

01:25:25.979 --> 01:25:29.181
being indicted
over what he calls "the boxes hoax".

01:25:29.482 --> 01:25:32.484
That is special Counsel
Jack Smith's investigation

01:25:32.601 --> 01:25:36.437
into alleged mishandling
of more than 100 classified documents

01:25:36.654 --> 01:25:40.074
discovered at his Mar-A-Lago home
in Florida last year.

01:25:40.341 --> 01:25:44.478
It comes months after he became
the first former president in U.S. history

01:25:44.478 --> 01:25:46.829
to be arrested for criminal charges.

01:25:46.829 --> 01:25:50.249
That was for a separate
New York state case when he pleaded

01:25:50.249 --> 01:25:53.752
not guilty for his alleged role
in hush money payments,

01:25:53.752 --> 01:25:56.821
toward the end of
his first campaign in 2016.

01:25:57.805 --> 01:26:03.010
Today, an indictment was unsealed,
charging Donald J. Trump

01:26:03.010 --> 01:26:06.062
with conspiring to defraud
the United States,

01:26:07.247 --> 01:26:10.249
conspiring to disenfranchize voters,

01:26:10.249 --> 01:26:13.285
and conspiring and attempting
to obstruct an official proceeding.

01:26:15.053 --> 01:26:16.621
The indictment was issued by a grand jury

01:26:16.621 --> 01:26:19.607
of citizens
here in the District of Columbia,

01:26:20.007 --> 01:26:23.010
and it sets forth
the crimes charged in detail.

01:26:23.577 --> 01:26:26.580
I encourage everyone to read it in full.

01:26:28.014 --> 01:26:30.049
Tonight,
the new charges against Donald Trump

01:26:30.049 --> 01:26:33.802
after his fourth indictment
in a sweeping election probe in Georgia.

01:26:34.103 --> 01:26:36.588
The former president,
charged with 13 counts,

01:26:36.588 --> 01:26:39.807
including racketeering
and multiple conspiracy charges.

01:26:40.158 --> 01:26:41.576
The Fulton County D.A.

01:26:41.576 --> 01:26:45.862
accusing him of leading
a criminal enterprise to overturn his 2020

01:26:45.862 --> 01:26:47.297
loss in Georgia.

01:26:47.297 --> 01:26:52.818
18 co-defendants also charged,
including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows.

01:26:54.687 --> 01:26:57.689
His arrest and arraignment
playing out live—

01:26:58.073 --> 01:27:01.976
Mr. Trump treating his court
appearances almost as campaign events.

01:27:03.294 --> 01:27:06.346
The sole mugshot taken in Fulton County.

01:27:06.497 --> 01:27:11.034
Another surreal first, along a steady stream of attacks...

01:27:11.634 --> 01:27:14.670
The attorney general of this state
is a disgrace

01:27:14.837 --> 01:27:18.356
...against the prosecutors, judges
and witnesses against him.

01:27:18.540 --> 01:27:19.908
I did nothing wrong.

01:27:19.908 --> 01:27:22.760
And everybody knows it;
I've never had such support.

01:27:22.760 --> 01:27:26.146
But with each passing indictment,
his poll numbers have grown,

01:27:26.480 --> 01:27:29.182
his fundraising numbers—through the roof.

01:27:29.182 --> 01:27:32.552
Yet his legal woes have become
increasingly complicated,

01:27:32.902 --> 01:27:36.422
with several alleged co-conspirators
pleading guilty in Georgia

01:27:36.655 --> 01:27:39.658
and now cooperating with prosecutors.

01:27:40.558 --> 01:27:42.810
You say they've weaponized
the Justice Department.

01:27:42.810 --> 01:27:44.278
They weaponized the FBI.

01:27:44.278 --> 01:27:46.347
Would you do the same if you're reelected?

01:27:46.347 --> 01:27:47.548
Well, he's

01:27:47.548 --> 01:27:51.735
unleashed something that we've
all known about for 100 years.

01:27:51.751 --> 01:27:54.020
We've watched other countries do it.

01:27:54.020 --> 01:27:55.705
And in some cases, it's effective.

01:27:55.705 --> 01:27:58.007
And in other cases,
the country is overthrown

01:27:58.007 --> 01:28:00.208
or it's been totally ineffective.

01:28:00.208 --> 01:28:03.861
But we've watched this for a long time,
and it's not unique,

01:28:03.861 --> 01:28:05.813
but it's unique for the United States.
Yeah.

01:28:05.813 --> 01:28:08.148
If they do this, they've already done it.

01:28:08.148 --> 01:28:10.434
But if they want to follow
through on this,

01:28:10.434 --> 01:28:13.887
yeah,
it could certainly happen in reverse.

01:28:13.887 --> 01:28:15.688
It could certainly happen in reverse.

01:28:15.688 --> 01:28:18.140
They've done indictments in order to win
an election.

01:28:18.140 --> 01:28:20.575
They call it "weaponization".

01:28:20.575 --> 01:28:22.794
And the people
aren't going to stand for it.

01:28:22.794 --> 01:28:26.080
But yeah, they have done something
that allows the next party....\

01:28:26.097 --> 01:28:28.282
I mean, if somebody—
if I happen to be president—

01:28:28.282 --> 01:28:31.468
and I see somebody who's doing well
and beating me very badly,

01:28:31.468 --> 01:28:35.188
I say go down and indict them...

01:28:35.371 --> 01:28:38.357
That would be, you know,
they would be out of business.

01:28:38.491 --> 01:28:40.309
They'd be out.
They'd be out of the election.

01:28:46.547 --> 01:28:49.033
It was the state of Florida that put Donald J. Trump

01:28:49.033 --> 01:28:52.102
over the top as the Republican nominee for president

01:28:52.102 --> 01:28:52.903
of the United States.

01:28:52.903 --> 01:28:56.539
The moment happening just a few moments
ago—his son, Eric Trump,

01:28:56.773 --> 01:29:00.859
was on the floor of the convention
in order to announce Florida's delegates.

01:29:01.777 --> 01:29:02.711
But let me just ask you –

01:29:02.711 --> 01:29:03.562
– You might ask here that question...

01:29:03.562 --> 01:29:04.479
– You were the president.

01:29:04.479 --> 01:29:06.264
You were watching it unfold on television.

01:29:06.264 --> 01:29:09.266
It's a very simple question, as we move
forward toward another election.

01:29:09.517 --> 01:29:13.420
Is there anything you regret about
what you did on that day? Yes or no?

01:29:13.420 --> 01:29:15.238
I had nothing to do with that.

01:29:16.039 --> 01:29:18.524
I was at the Capitol on January 6th.

01:29:18.524 --> 01:29:20.926
I was the vice president elect.

01:29:20.926 --> 01:29:23.929
I was also an acting senator. I was there.

01:29:24.262 --> 01:29:29.267
And on that day, the president
of the United States incited a violent mob

01:29:30.351 --> 01:29:33.353
to attack our nation's capitol,

01:29:34.488 --> 01:29:36.639
to desecrate our nation's capitol.

01:29:36.639 --> 01:29:42.294
On that day 140 law enforcement officers were injured,
and some died.

01:29:43.278 --> 01:29:46.214
And understand, the former president

01:29:46.214 --> 01:29:50.384
has been indicted and impeached
for exactly that reason.

01:29:51.085 --> 01:29:54.021
But this is not an isolated situation.

01:29:54.021 --> 01:29:56.773
Let's remember Charlottesville,

01:29:56.773 --> 01:30:00.943
where there was a mob of people carrying
tiki torches

01:30:01.460 --> 01:30:04.463
spewing anti-Semitic hate.

01:30:04.930 --> 01:30:08.199
And what did the president,
then, at the time say?

01:30:08.750 --> 01:30:11.235
"There were fine people on each side."

01:30:11.235 --> 01:30:14.121
Let's remember that when it came

01:30:14.121 --> 01:30:17.124
to the Proud Boys, a militia,

01:30:17.274 --> 01:30:18.258
the president said,

01:30:18.258 --> 01:30:21.260
the former president said,
"Stand back and stand by."

01:30:22.011 --> 01:30:26.148
So for everyone watching,
who remembers what January 6th was,

01:30:27.282 --> 01:30:30.285
I say, we don't have to go back.

01:30:30.385 --> 01:30:32.803
Let's not go back. We're not going back.

01:30:32.803 --> 01:30:34.638
It's time to turn the page.

01:30:36.356 --> 01:30:40.076
The Fox News decision desk can now officially
project

01:30:40.076 --> 01:30:45.798
that Donald Trump will become the 47th
president of the United States.

01:30:52.337 --> 01:30:54.505
The fight
continuing in the courts now over

01:30:54.505 --> 01:30:58.108
whether or not to release special counsel
Jack Smith's findings

01:30:58.308 --> 01:31:01.828
from two criminal investigations
into president elect Donald Trump.

01:31:02.128 --> 01:31:06.232
As Bradley Blackburn reports,
this comes after Smith's resignation.

01:31:06.949 --> 01:31:09.951
The resignation of Jack
Smith was widely expected

01:31:10.068 --> 01:31:13.037
and made official Saturday
in a court filing, where federal

01:31:13.037 --> 01:31:16.790
prosecutors revealed Smith had "separated from the department."

01:31:16.790 --> 01:31:20.544
Smith had been leading
two criminal investigations into president

01:31:20.544 --> 01:31:24.747
elect Donald Trump, focused on the alleged
mishandling of classified documents

01:31:24.747 --> 01:31:29.418
after he left office and alleged election
interference related to January 6th.

01:31:29.601 --> 01:31:32.537
It was fueled by lies.

01:31:32.537 --> 01:31:34.339
Lies by the defendant,

01:31:34.339 --> 01:31:37.725
targeted at obstructing
a bedrock function of the US government:

01:31:38.776 --> 01:31:41.328
the nation's process of collecting,
counting

01:31:41.328 --> 01:31:44.781
and certifying the results
of the presidential election.

01:31:45.081 --> 01:31:48.200
The cases were closed
after Trump's win in November,

01:31:48.200 --> 01:31:51.236
and the findings are now in the hands
of the Department of Justice.

01:31:56.841 --> 01:31:59.360
Special counsel
Jack Smith says he's confident

01:31:59.360 --> 01:32:04.247
that President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted
if his election interference case went to trial.

01:32:04.247 --> 01:32:07.466
Smith's final report was released
by the DOJ overnight.

01:32:07.783 --> 01:32:13.438
WGN's Eric Rong has more on the report's
findings, and the president-elect's reaction.

01:32:13.438 --> 01:32:15.957
The report comes just days before

01:32:15.957 --> 01:32:19.326
Trump is set to take office
for his second term.

01:32:19.343 --> 01:32:24.564
It is likely also the last report
on this dark chapter of American history.

01:32:24.864 --> 01:32:30.202
Special counsel Jack Smith's final report
to the DOJ concerning Donald Trump's

01:32:30.202 --> 01:32:35.206
presidential election interference case
comes in at close to 150 pages.

01:32:35.573 --> 01:32:38.059
But it is very blunt in its findings.

01:32:38.059 --> 01:32:41.795
Smith writes, "The thoroughline of all of Mr. Trump's

01:32:41.795 --> 01:32:43.797
criminal efforts was deceit.

01:32:43.797 --> 01:32:47.750
Knowing false claims of election
fraud and evidence shows that Mr.

01:32:47.750 --> 01:32:50.936
Trump used these lies as a weapon
to defeat

01:32:50.936 --> 01:32:54.506
a federal government
function foundational to the United States

01:32:54.856 --> 01:32:59.243
lies that led to the deadly insurrection
at the Capitol on January 6th,

01:32:59.510 --> 01:33:03.030
as Congress worked to certify
President Joe Biden's victory."

01:33:05.065 --> 01:33:08.034
He also accuses Mr. Trump of using social media

01:33:08.034 --> 01:33:11.821
as a means to intimidate
witnesses, prosecutors and federal judges.

01:33:12.021 --> 01:33:16.708
Smith secured multiple indictments
against Trump in August of 2023.

01:33:16.908 --> 01:33:19.494
But despite his confidence
and a guilty verdict,

01:33:19.494 --> 01:33:22.496
just getting to trial
wasn't going to be easy—

01:33:22.496 --> 01:33:25.515
made even tougher when the conservative
majority Supreme Court

01:33:25.649 --> 01:33:28.635
significantly broadened
presidential immunity.

01:33:28.635 --> 01:33:34.923
His team dismissed the case entirely
after November's election due to the long-standing DOJ policy

01:33:34.923 --> 01:33:38.660
that sitting president
cannot face federal prosecution.

01:33:38.927 --> 01:33:42.980
Trump responded to the release of
the report on social media saying:

01:33:43.230 --> 01:33:47.067
"Jack is a lamebrain prosecutor
who was unable to get his case tried

01:33:47.067 --> 01:33:50.069
before the election,
which I won in a landslide.

01:33:50.186 --> 01:33:52.221
The voters have spoken."

01:33:52.221 --> 01:33:55.424
Smith writes, "Indeed, but for Mr. Trump's election,

01:33:55.424 --> 01:33:58.260
and imminent return
to the presidency, the office assessed

01:33:58.260 --> 01:33:59.727
that the admissible evidence

01:33:59.727 --> 01:34:03.764
was sufficient to obtain
and sustain a conviction at trial.

01:34:04.098 --> 01:34:08.568
Many of the details of Trump's efforts
to undo the 2020 election result

01:34:08.785 --> 01:34:13.139
have been public for years—Trump saying
he was a target of a politically motivated

01:34:13.139 --> 01:34:16.125
prosecution by the DOJ and White House.

01:34:16.158 --> 01:34:19.110
Smith called those claims "laughable".

01:34:19.110 --> 01:34:24.148
Trump did try, unsuccessfully, to get the courts
to block the release of this report.

01:34:24.165 --> 01:34:28.068
There is also a separate report out there
that focuses on Trump's

01:34:28.068 --> 01:34:32.205
classified documents case
that has not yet been made public.

01:35:33.106 --> 01:35:35.124
On the evening of his inauguration,

01:35:35.124 --> 01:35:38.677
President Donald Trump, not wasting any time
getting down to business.

01:35:39.044 --> 01:35:40.879
He has just returned to the White House

01:35:40.879 --> 01:35:44.299
and is signing a series
of executive actions in the Oval Office,

01:35:44.632 --> 01:35:47.385
where he is pardoning some 1500

01:35:47.385 --> 01:35:50.387
January 6th rioters
who have been convicted

01:35:50.504 --> 01:35:53.707
for participating in the attack
on the Capitol four years ago.

01:35:53.990 --> 01:35:55.308
The president is speaking now.

01:35:55.308 --> 01:35:56.809
Let's listen in.

01:35:56.809 --> 01:35:57.410
Yes, sir.

01:35:57.410 --> 01:36:00.429
First, we have a list
of, of pardons and commutations

01:36:00.429 --> 01:36:03.432
relating to events
that occurred on January 6th, 2021.

01:36:04.249 --> 01:36:06.517
Okay. And how many people is this?

01:36:06.517 --> 01:36:09.520
I think this order will apply
to approximately 1500 people, sir.

01:36:10.638 --> 01:36:13.123
So this is January 6th.

01:36:13.123 --> 01:36:18.411
And these are the hostages,
approximately 1500 for a pardon.

01:36:19.095 --> 01:36:19.595
Yes.

01:36:19.595 --> 01:36:20.296
Full pardon.

01:36:23.148 --> 01:36:24.132
Full pardon or commutations?

01:36:24.649 --> 01:36:26.317
Full pardon.

01:36:27.218 --> 01:36:29.453
We have about six commutations in there.

01:36:30.638 --> 01:36:33.307
Where we're doing further research.

01:36:33.307 --> 01:36:36.309
Nice to see you again.

01:36:41.897 --> 01:36:44.900
So this is a big one.

01:36:45.517 --> 01:36:47.685
Anything you want to explain about this?

01:36:48.486 --> 01:36:50.571
We hope they come out tonight, frankly.

01:36:51.605 --> 01:36:54.641
They're expecting it.

01:36:57.310 --> 01:36:59.445
Approximately 1500 people.

01:36:59.445 --> 01:37:01.480
Six commutations.

01:37:01.480 --> 01:37:04.716
Are there any cases who did not deserve a full pardon?

01:37:04.716 --> 01:37:07.002
We're looking at different things,

01:37:07.002 --> 01:37:10.154
But the commutations would be
the ones that we'll take a look at.

01:37:10.722 --> 01:37:14.541
Maybe it'll stay that way
or it'll go to get the full pardon.

01:37:14.892 --> 01:37:17.811
And the order does require
the Bureau of Prisons to act immediately

01:37:17.811 --> 01:37:20.797
on receipt of the pardons
and commutation orders.

01:37:21.130 --> 01:37:21.998
Sir, this is a...

01:37:21.998 --> 01:37:25.250
Why don't we get that down so they can get 'em going right now?

01:37:25.250 --> 01:37:27.019
Yes, sir. Yep. Absolutely.

01:37:44.800 --> 01:37:49.204
Many Americans tell themselves that
what's happening now in their country

01:37:49.204 --> 01:37:51.289
is a temporary crisis

01:37:51.289 --> 01:37:54.725
caused by a particularly intense
political divide.

01:37:54.842 --> 01:37:57.361
That over time, tempers will subside

01:37:57.361 --> 01:38:00.363
and things will go back
to the way they used to be.

01:38:01.147 --> 01:38:03.332
They're wrong.

01:38:03.332 --> 01:38:07.236
The USA may
well lead in future military conflicts,

01:38:08.053 --> 01:38:11.056
but it will never again lead morally.

01:38:12.674 --> 01:38:14.225
For the rest of the world

01:38:14.225 --> 01:38:17.077
the word "American" has long conjured up

01:38:17.077 --> 01:38:20.230
images of bold, future-thinking idealists,

01:38:20.764 --> 01:38:23.766
anchored by a fundamental human decency

01:38:23.850 --> 01:38:26.769
and fueled with a sense of self-belief
n

01:38:26.769 --> 01:38:31.189
that consistently propelled them to accomplish
what no one else thought possible.

01:38:33.308 --> 01:38:35.476
But over the past ten years,

01:38:35.476 --> 01:38:38.545
that image has been comprehensively
shattered,

01:38:39.746 --> 01:38:41.581
replaced with one of a society

01:38:41.581 --> 01:38:44.984
dominated by an all pervasive
tribal irrationality

01:38:45.234 --> 01:38:49.505
that's impervious to any logical argument
or objective evidence

01:38:49.788 --> 01:38:53.391
that runs counter to the deliberately
inflammatory, hate-filled,

01:38:53.391 --> 01:38:57.261
false propaganda
that's being relentlessly spewed forth,

01:38:58.946 --> 01:39:05.702
You don't return easily to saner,
more reasonable times from such a point.

01:39:08.020 --> 01:39:11.106
America is not simply a nation in decline.

01:39:12.274 --> 01:39:16.027
It's a nation that has, bizarrely
and inexplicably,

01:39:16.594 --> 01:39:20.614
opted for a sudden act
of collective national suicide

01:39:21.031 --> 01:39:24.034
by willfully betraying its
founding ideals,

01:39:26.019 --> 01:39:27.336
many of which

01:39:27.336 --> 01:39:32.257
have long been adopted by other countries
who'd grown accustomed to turning to it

01:39:32.507 --> 01:39:35.510
for leadership.

01:39:35.927 --> 01:39:40.631
It's one of the most stinging ironies of history
that a majority of Americans

01:39:40.831 --> 01:39:44.901
steadfastly ignored
what made their country actually great,

01:39:45.802 --> 01:39:50.006
opting instead
to spontaneously destroy that greatness

01:39:50.389 --> 01:39:53.542
by slavishly
following a power hungry demagogue

01:39:53.992 --> 01:39:59.197
who promised to reinstate what had never, in fact, been lost—

01:40:00.598 --> 01:40:02.449
until now.

01:40:03.450 --> 01:40:09.605
Because the genuine greatness of America didn't
simply lie in its economic productivity

01:40:10.239 --> 01:40:13.926
or technical
sophistication, or military might

01:40:15.594 --> 01:40:21.215
No, it's truly exceptional achievement
was the fact that it created all of those things,

01:40:21.215 --> 01:40:23.150
and many more besides,

01:40:23.717 --> 01:40:27.887
while building a dynamic,
knowledge-driven, cosmopolitan country

01:40:27.887 --> 01:40:32.741
based on the rule of law,
the likes of which we'd never seen before.

01:40:33.842 --> 01:40:38.680
A place, in other words—its own, as it happens—

01:40:38.680 --> 01:40:42.400
to vigorously engage
in the pursuit of happiness,

01:40:43.617 --> 01:40:47.304
to tangibly demonstrate
that abstract moral principles

01:40:47.704 --> 01:40:51.374
could be transformed
into genuine political reality

01:40:51.808 --> 01:40:56.612
through their direct and corporation
in the governing laws of the land.

01:40:59.014 --> 01:41:03.284
For well over 200 years, despite its many faults,

01:41:03.934 --> 01:41:09.673
the United States of America
has consistently offered the world this shining ideal,

01:41:09.673 --> 01:41:14.126
inspiring us all to dream of a better future.

01:41:16.195 --> 01:41:19.197
Many of us still have that dream.

01:41:21.716 --> 01:41:24.068
But America is no longer in it.