Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan withdraws from confirmation; Trump loses hypothetical matchups against Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, O'Rourke & Buttigieg in FL; Report: most extremist murders in 2018 were by right-wing killers

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Trump's re-election rally eclipsed by defense pick withdrawing; Orlando Sentinel makes 2020 endorsement: not Donald Trump; Orlando Sentinel editorial board: "enough of the chaos, the division...and especially the lies"; Biden says campaign has raised close to $20 million so far; Prominent GOP figures attend Biden fundraiser; BI digs into Dallas gunman's background, social media; Report: most extremist murders in 2018 were by right-wing killers; Manafort avoids transfer to notorious Rikers Island after DOJ intervenes; Top tier at DOJ intervenes in Manafort's NY fraud case; Crowds filling arena for Trump re-election rallyTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, not a good time to not have a Secretary of Defense.
0:08.0	The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	Breaking news a shocking shakeup at the Pentagon as President Trump heads to Orlando right now to kick off his 20-20 re-election campaign,
0:17.0	a surprising story emerges surrounding why Patrick Shanahan is no longer in the running for the job. Not Trump. The hometown paper in Orlando says
0:27.8	President Trump would have to cure cancer for them to even consider backing him.
0:32.4	The author of the editorial will join us.
0:34.5	Plus images of guns, threats that a storm is coming, the social media posts of the man who tried
0:41.3	to shoot up a federal building in Dallas and how he may fit a new frightening pattern.
0:47.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:52.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with some breaking news. Welcome to the lead up to Jake Tapper.
0:53.6	We begin with some breaking news today.
0:55.4	Any moment President Trump is going to be departing the White House
0:58.4	and heading to his official re-election campaign
1:00.3	launch in Orlando, Florida, but he will be leaving behind some upheaval here in Washington.
1:06.0	This afternoon the President announced his Acting Secretary of Defense.
1:09.0	Patrick Shanahan is pulling out of the Senate confirmation process to become the
1:13.8	official Secretary of Defense.
1:15.4	Shanahan's final day at the Pentagon will be Friday.
1:18.8	It's yet another example of the quite turbulent Trump administration, eclipsing what campaign advisors had hoped would be a
1:24.7	blemish and drama-free day for the president.
1:27.6	The withdrawal following reports of Shanahan's combative divorce, his ex-wife Kimberly
1:32.2	had been arrested and charged with assault
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