Biden adviser says it will be “months” before anyone who wants a vaccine can get one; Homeland Security warns of potential violence by election deniers and anti-government extremists; Biden signs executive actions to tackle climate change; Chicago teachers threaten to strike of forced to return to schools without more safety measures
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Schumer slams GOP Senators who voted to reject constitutionality of impeachment trial; Source: Kevin McCarthy to meet with Trump tomorrow in Florida; Romney: Republicans need to disavow election lies publicly; Justice Dept has charged at least 150 people in wake of Capitol riot; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing Democratic politicians in 2018, 2019; Biden signs executive actions to tackle climate change; Biden claims climate actions will create jobs, stopping Keystone Pipeline will eliminate at least 1,000 jobs; Chicago teachers threaten to strike of forced to return to schools without more safety measures; Teachers unions push for more Covid safety measures before educators return to schools; Ben Franklin portrait, MLK bust, Clinton rug added to Biden’s oval office; Biden family turns extra Trump bedroom in WH residence into a den; Source: White House resident “has life in it again”; Bidens bring back presidential pets with German Shepherds “Champ” and “Major” Biden admin officials: hundreds of WH employees received Covid-19 vaccines
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the politics lead |
| 0:05.0 | President Biden has now been in office for one week and he is quickly facing |
| 0:09.0 | the realities of the virus that has killed more than 427,000 people in the US. |
| 0:15.4 | Today, a top member of Biden's COVID-19 team |
| 0:18.1 | admitted that it will be months before every American who wants a vaccine |
| 0:22.2 | will be able to get one. |
| 0:24.0 | President Biden has previously floated spring for that milestone. |
| 0:27.4 | We shall see if he reaches it. |
| 0:29.2 | Biden is pledging that by the beginning of the fall, |
| 0:31.9 | there will be enough doses to fully vaccinate 300 million |
| 0:34.8 | people almost the entire US population so far only about 3.5 million Americans have been fully |
| 0:41.6 | vaccinated with both shots. |
| 0:43.4 | That's only about 1% of the US population. |
| 0:47.2 | Biden today focused a great deal of attention action |
| 0:49.6 | on a different crisis, the climate crisis, |
| 0:51.8 | signing three more executive actions to begin to address |
| 0:54.8 | that existential threat. |
| 0:56.3 | But as CNN's Caitlin Collins now reports for us, Biden, and leaders around the world |
| 1:01.6 | will have to do much more than that to address this issue, |
| 1:04.6 | given that the last seven years were the hottest in recorded history. |
| 1:11.9 | With an elbow bump to his climate envoy John Kerry, President Joe Biden signed a raft of executive |
| 1:17.4 | orders on climate change today while comparing the crisis to the coronavirus pandemic. |
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