Transcripts for CNN Don Lemon Tonight 20210922 06:00:30 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
so i m not admitting of any possibility other than getting this done. i ve got get your i want to ask you about this new book by bob woodward and robert costa. it s called peril. their reporting says john eastman wrote a memo tried to overthrow the election by throwing out electors from seven states. what s your reaction to this memo? they all understood they lost the election. and this memo, along with other work of the trump campaign was designed to overturn the clear results of the election. they just didn t care. they don t care about our democracy anymore. apparently all that matters is staying in power. so they ll they ll pass voter suppression laws around the country. they ll strip independent election officials of their powers and give them to partisan boards to help them succeed where they failed to overturn the last election, and yes, they ll write memos saying hey, here is a way we can subvert the will of the voters if we can just get the vice president to ignore h
well, it s a bill very much like the sweeping post watergate reforms that were designed to address the abuses of the nixon administration. here we attack the politicization of the justice department, the way the former president used it as his private law firm and used it to go after his political enemies. we protect whistle-blowers. we protect inspector generals from being fired except for good cause. we make it clear that a president who commits crimes can be held accountable. we told the statute of limitations so they don t escape justice by staying in office. we give enforcement mechanisms to the hatch act so that a president can t use the federal workforce as his campaign manpower. we also provide a way to enforce the emoluments clause so that the president can t enrich themselves by having gulf nations rent hotel rooms and not even occupy them as a way of currying favor, and about a dozen other reforms that were
of a century ago of inhumanity. that s why you don t watt it. you know as a son of immigrants, that everybody wants to come into the country, right? that folks who come here voluntarily, they want to come in and they want to close the door behind them, right? they want to come in, and they don t want to let the other folks in. is that fair? no, it s not fair. once you get in it s also not fair about my family. you know what i m saying. that s the story of this country. everybody seems to not like how they re treated and then they treat the people next just like it. yep. that has been a problem here. but look, that s why it s an experiment. all i m saying is no issue bothers me the way this one does. yeah. in terms of where if you sit people in a room, they re going to agree on 80% of the issues that come up on it. you know, do you want a wall or no wall? i don t want a wall. do you want the border protected the way we can protect it where it needs to be protecte
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