All 10 victims, suspect in boulder shooting identified; Biden calls on Congress to ban some semi-automatic weapons, close loopholes on background checks; GOP Sen. Kennedy compares gun violence to drunk driving; New video shows conditions inside Texas migrant facilities; Health officials question “outdated” AstraZeneca vaccine data; One of the architects of the big lie admits it was baseless; From Columbine to Boulder: Colorado’s dark history with mass shootings;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Witness live streams as shots ring out, bodies on floor; Biden: Gun control shouldn’t be partisan, “we have to act”; 3 crises in America all in focus today: Boulder massacre, border emergency and big lie; Police: Supermarket shooter’s motive still unclear; Officer, who was father of 7, among 10 killed in Boulder rampage; Witness: Grocery store workers kept others from danger; Arrest warrant: Shooting suspect armed with two guns and tactical vest; Obama: It’s long past time for those with power to fight this epidemic of gun violence; Sen. Cruz: “Every time there is a shooting, we play this ridiculous theater”; Hero officer was first to respond to shooting, leaves behind seven children; New data: Border patrol has detained more than 11,000 unaccompanied migrant children in the last month; Surge of migrants overwhelms Border Patrol facilities; Vaccine trial review board: “Outdated” data may have given “incomplete” view on AstraZeneca’s efficacy; AstraZeneca stands by its vaccine trial; Fauci: Drama surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine may contribute to vaccine hesitancy; Lawyer pushing the big lie now says no “reasonable” person would believe it as she faces billion dollar lawsuit; Boulder judge recently blocked bans on some types of semi-automatic rifles;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with the national lead. Today we see evidence |
| 0:05.6 | of three different national tragedies going on in the United States beyond the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:12.0 | We begin with the latest in the epidemic of gun violence in this country and the latest tragedy |
| 0:16.5 | out of Boulder, the shooting yesterday afternoon at the King's, King's Super's Market, |
| 0:21.1 | coming just a week after the killing spree at the Atlanta area spaz. Today we learned the names |
| 0:25.2 | of all 10 victims and the identity of the alleged gunmen, a 21 year old male, lived about half an |
| 0:31.1 | hour away from the supermarket where he staged his deadly rampage. One witness happened to be |
| 0:35.5 | live streaming as the shooting was happening. We want to warn you you may find the video excerpt |
| 0:40.4 | we're about to show you disturbing. He went in the store. Oh my god. Guys, we got people down inside |
| 0:49.7 | King's Super's. Look there. Holy s**t. |
| 1:00.5 | A short time ago, President Biden took part in what has become a very unfortunate sad |
| 1:05.8 | and aggravating tradition of the modern presidency, reacting to yet another American mass shooting |
| 1:13.2 | by an implored Washington that now is the time to act. I don't need to wait another minute, |
| 1:20.1 | let alone an hour to take common sense steps. I'll save the lives in the future and to urge my |
| 1:27.2 | colleagues in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons. That's not the only |
| 1:34.4 | national emergency demanding action from President Biden in his first 100 days. 11,000 unaccompanied |
| 1:40.4 | children and teens fleeing violence and poverty have flooded America's southern border with US |
| 1:45.8 | resources stretched too thin to care for them as of now. And then there's this third crisis of |
| 1:51.2 | disinformation in the United States, yet another in which freedoms in this country are pit against |
| 1:56.6 | competing issues of life and security with a Trump lawyer who preached the president's big lie, |
| 2:02.0 | now admitting in court that no reasonable person would actually believe her election fraud claims. |
| 2:07.2 | Of course, this country does not only consist of reasonable people, as we all saw in January |
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