Barr to AP: No evidence of fraud that would change election; Biden vows to build back an economy for all Americans; Average of U.S. daily cases increased by 95% during November; Hospitalizations have doubled since Nov 1 & tripled since Oct 1;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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AG Barr appoints special counsel to investigate 2016 campaign & Russia; Trump Campaign dismisses DOJ conclusion there’s no widespread election fraud; Trump Atty says his comments that top election official should be “shot” were “sarcastic” and “made in jest”; Biden promises a new stimulus deal once he takes office; Biden introduces economic team, as 12 million unemployed after Covid; Biden says he hasn’t spoken to McConnell yet; Finding parallels between Harry Truman and Pres-elect Biden; Study: Virus may have been circulating in U.S. last December; Any moment: CDC Advisers to vote on who gets vaccine first; Airlines ramp up cargo fleets for vaccine distribution; Musician and Latino activist dies from coronavirus; To 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	This is a
0:02.0	breaking news.
0:03.0	And welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:05.0	We begin with breaking news today.
0:07.0	A new blow to President Trump's wild and baseless claims that the election was rigged.
0:12.0	That of course is a claim based on
0:13.8	no credible facts or evidence. This afternoon yet another Republican
0:17.8	official this one has been very loyal to President Trump is risking
0:21.5	Mr. Trump's wrath by making a factual
0:24.0	assertion about the integrity of the 2020 election. In this case, Attorney
0:27.8	General Bill Barr affirming this afternoon that the Justice Department has not
0:31.2	found any evidence to support the frankly insane
0:35.0	conspiracy theory that a computer program with ties to long dead Venezuelan
0:39.4	dictator Ugo Chavez was used in some manner to change the election results, that there was no
0:46.0	widespread fraud on a scale that would change the results of the November election,
0:50.1	bar asserted, which just underscores that President Trump lost fair and square
0:55.0	because 80 million Americans voted to remove him from office and president-elect
0:59.4	Joe Biden will be the president of the United States come January 20th.
1:03.6	The attorney general said today that both the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland
1:07.6	Security looked into allegations of fraud and found no such evidence.
1:12.8	Quote, there's been one assertion that would be systemic fraud,
1:16.3	and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially
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