Biden admin facing surge of unaccompanied children at border; AstraZeneca: vaccine 79% effective against COVID symptoms, 100% effective against severe cases; Fmr prosecutor: sedition charges likely against some rioters;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing U.S.-Mexico border continues to rise; New images show conditions for kids inside border facility; DHS secy: Border “closed but still accepting unaccompanied children; DHS chief won’t give timeline for facilities capable of handling surge of accompanied children; Biden says he’ll visit border “at some point”; Biden officials travel to Mexico amid surge of unaccompanied minors crossing border; 4,900 unaccompanied migrant children in federal custody at border; Woman who was inside border facility describes conditions to CNN; One-on-one with white house press secretary; Psaki: Biden doesn’t believe situation at border is acceptable; WSJ editorial board: Biden policies making border crisis worse; Biden, Harris promoting stimulus del with trips this week; AstraZeneca chief: plan to apply for emergency use authorization for COVID vaccine next month; Biden has not said if U.S. will meet may 1st deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan; Spring breakers flock to Miami as U.K. variant spreads in Florida; Miami beach extends 8pm curfew to control massive spring break crowds; CDC director: we are at a fork in the road, could have another avoidable surge; Split on potential fourth wave: CDC director worried, fmr FDA commissioner calls it “unlikely”; Fourth U.S. vaccine could be on the way as AstraZeneca data shows vaccine is 100% effective against severe disease; Arizona expands vaccine eligibility to all 16+; Fmr top prosecutor: Trump may be “culpable” for insurrection; Trump endorses GOP challenger to GA secy of state after incumbent refused to overturn election results; Trump lists DeSanctis, Hawley, Cruz, Paul, Sanders and Noem as the future of the GOP; Trump: I’ll decide “sometime later” on running in 2024; Trump plans to return to social media on his own platform; NYC high schools reopen for in-person learning; Philly superintendent worried about long-term effects of online learning in kids: “the regression has occurred”; Philadelphia lets some kids return to classrooms 2x a week; Philadelphia high schooler describe mental health struggles after a year of remote learning; Dallas Bishop known as a peacemaker dies of COVID-19; 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	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the National Lead, a humanitarian
0:06.6	crisis in this country growing more severe by the minute as thousands of migrant children
0:11.1	without parents or guardians are overwhelming facilities at the U.S. Mexico border.
0:16.6	As a new administration struggles to explain how it is going to better handle this influx
0:21.0	humanly while also discouraging future migrants.
0:25.0	These photos released today by Democratic Congressman Henry Quayar's office show conditions
0:29.7	inside one of those border control facilities in Donna, Texas over the weekend showing
0:33.8	what appear to be mostly teenagers crammed together wrapped in mylar blankets, not all that
0:39.3	different from heartbreaking images we saw during the Trump years or for that matter during
0:43.7	a similar crisis when Barack Obama was president in 2014.
0:48.1	Today we saw this rare look inside these facilities since the Biden administration has
0:51.7	not granted a news media access to the facility citing COVID restrictions despite the president's
0:57.9	promise and his inaugural address to always level with you blocking access to the news
1:03.1	media is not leveling with the American people, Mr. President.
1:06.6	Now politicians in some in the news media often frame this problem superficially but the
1:10.8	reasons for this influx of migrants, well they're complicated.
1:15.0	Some of the Exodus from Central America is because of poverty and crime and natural disasters
1:20.1	there and would have happened who whomever was president after all there was a similar
1:24.2	spike in 2019 under President Trump despite his draconian policies.
1:30.1	And the numbers of arrests at the border began rising in 2020 after that precipitous decline
1:35.0	due to the pandemic prompting border closures.
1:37.7	But it is also true experts say that some of this crisis is because President Biden has
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