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Transcripts For CNNW CNN Tonight With Don Lemon 20180821 06:00:00

A recap of the day s news.
mr. trump, helped along by aras and amon. it s clear from the very beginning the information being offered to the trump campaign was coming from russia. and it was clear that the information being offered was dirt on clinton. it s the first thing they said. despite trump junior s initial claim the meeting was about the adoption of russian children. that claim coming in a statement we later learned was dictated by president trump himself. after white house press secretary sarah sanders claimed he didn t. how did we learn about the president s statements? well, his own attorneys acknowledge it in a letter to robert mueller in january. it s all right there in front of your face. it s all in writing. this is an administration that has tried to distract and deflect from the facts literally from day one when then press secretary sean spicer, remember, tried to claim that president
trump s inauguration crowd was the largest ever. and kellyanne conway do ....

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Transcripts For CNNW CNN Tonight With Don Lemon 20180821 02:00:00

A recap of the day s news.
truth is a choose your own adventure kind of thing because he can t explain away the following fracts. so listen, write dedown if you have a pen, if you have your phone on record it. so the white house counsel don mcgahn sat down for 30 hours of interviews with robert mueller s team and the white house doesn t know exact lewhat he said. the fact that in a matter of days the president s former attorney and so-called fixer michael cohen could face criminal charges related to possible fraud and campaign finance violations. the fact that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is on trial on charges that could land him behind bars for the rest of his life if convicted, and the fact that so far the special counsel robert mueller has brought a total of 191 criminal charges against 35 defendants. there have been five guilty pleas. those are the facts. that is truth. and the president cannot
distract and deflect from that. facts matter. now i want t ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180821:02:28:00

susan, a president does have broad powers, but do you think he understands the how much power the how much executive powers, his own executive powers? look, i think that he is threatening the mueller investigation with increasing intensity. you have him for the first time in tweets in recent days personally attacking special counsel mueller and calling him disgusting not just the rigged witch hunt investigation, going after him personally. and he s still going after his attorney general jeff sessions. i think all of it is a piece in recent days where you really see the president s obsession growing so much with the mueller investigation. perhaps it s his own escalating sense of personal jeopardy. you now have not only the white house counsel we talked about extensively cooperating with mueller investigation. we don t know what that means, ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180821:06:28:00

In his tweets in recent days personally attacking special counsel mueller and calling him disgusting, want just the rigged witch hunt of the investigation, but personally going after him. by the way, he s still going after his own attorney general, jeff sessions. he put quote marks around his so-called justice department in a recent tweet. and i think all of it is a piece in recent days where you really see the president s obsession growing so much with the mueller investigation. perhaps it s his own escalating sense of personal jeopardy. you now have not only the white house counsel we talked about extensively cooperating with the mueller investigation. we don t know what that means, but of course you have his own former personal attorney, michael cohen, in what appears to be in increasingly legal jeopardy. at the same time his former campaign chairman is on trial on multiple charges, both this alexandria case and there s an upcoming court case in ....

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