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While ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News joined CBS Evening News in gushing about John Bolton’s new anti-Trump book, The Room Where It Happened Wednesday, CBS congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes took it a step further, pressing House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D) on whether or not Democrats would pursue new impeachment charges against President Trump.
In back-to-back segments, CBS pounced on the allegations Bolton put forth and highlighted the reactions from Congressional Democrats (which lasted for a combined four minutes and 25 seconds). CBS White House correspondent Ben Tracy boosted Bolton’s claim that Trump wanted help from Ukraine and China to win the 2020 election:
TRACY: Bolton confirms President Trump explicitly linked military aid to Ukraine to investigations of former Vice President Joe Biden, the central claim that led to the President being impeached.
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TRACY: Bolton claims Mr. Trump wanted China to go even further. In 2019, pleading with Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win farm states in the 2020 election with increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat.
This seemed to be the launching point for Cordes’ report on the reaction from Democrats. “Democrats argued today that Bolton's new revelations prove what they've long said about the President,” she began.
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