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Transcripts for CNN Early Start with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs 20191219 09:36:00

Holmes, tweeted, they re entertaining holding a grenade with the pin pulled rather than facing what will happen sending it over mcconnell s wall. a split-screen moment in history, at 8:34 p.m. last night, president trump on-stage in a rally in michigan, as speaker pelosi presided over the house vote to impeachment. the president angrily mocked democrats for wanting him out. you re declaring open war on american democracy. you are the ones interfering in america s elections. you are the ones subverted america s democracy. we did nothing wrong. nothing whatsoever. you are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic. by the way, it doesn t really feel like we re being impeached. the country is doing better than ever before. we did nothing wrong. ....

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Transcripts for CNN New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman 20191219 12:05:00

Desperate way. you didn t call him. and your husband deserved all of the accolades that he got at his funeral. it wasn t up to the president. when the president says i could have given him the c or the d treatment. what would that have looked like? you know, i don t want to get into this tit for tat. that s going down to his level. he did lower the flags. and i was grateful and i told him that. and i think we just all need to really look to what s happening to the tone of rhetoric and the divisiveness in this country. i was with republican friends, very close friends when this happened last night. they were all there for me. i ve been with kevin brady already this morning. i am going back to work today focused on working in a bipartisan way for the issues that matter to the people of my district, to the people of michigan, and to americans. and we all need to start remembering we re americans first and work to protect this democracy. i hear you, but you re the person taking the ....

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Transcripts for CNN New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman 20191219 12:08:00

we re sorry that you re having to deal with this and we hear your grief. and we re sorry that you re just having to cope with this and you said it makes it that much harder. on a larger note or, i don t know, i want to get your take on impeachment. do you think that part of why the president did lash out last night is because he is having a stronger negative reaction to having been impeached? you know, i think it s a sad day for our country, sad for our democracy, sad for our constitution. it is not something i wanted to do because of the seriousness of it. tom steyer was buying ads against me and everybody was screaming for me to come out on impeachment. he read the mueller report which i ve now done four or five times, it talks about the division in this country. how they re trying to divide us ....

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Transcripts for CNN New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman 20191219 12:32:00

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Transcripts for CNN New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman 20191219 12:11:00

So i think she s just trying to make sure that our democracy is protected in what happens. and we will see what happens in the course of the next few days. it has been suggested that president trump has had his worst week. he became the third u.s. president to be impeached. and his best week with usmca which i know affects your state and michigan so much. so is that how you see it? i don t know how the president feels about impeachment, but i think it s one of the saddest weeks for this country we had to impeach a president. and i hope that we protected our national security and our democracy. i think that getting a trade agreement that will probably pass in the house today, nancy pelosi worked very hard with richie neil and others to make ....

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