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The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Biden suggests Justice Dept look into GA voting law; Georgia law restricts voting, Fox sued for $1.6 billion as Trump whitewashes MAGA mob; Kemp defends GA voting law: “It wasn’t a voting rights bill, it was an election security bill”; Black Georgia legislator arrested for knocking on door during governor’s bill signing; “Covid War: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out” airs Sunday at 9pm; Fauci agrees COVID-19 was likely spreading in China “a month or more” earlier than reported; Fmr CDC Director to CNN: COVID-19 originated in Wuhan lab, but he has no evidence; NC Gov vows to fight GOP efforts to restrict voting; Gun shop owner: Shooting suspect passed background check; Estimated $400M lost in trade every hour cargo ship blocks Suez canal, U.S. Navy might reroute an aircraft carrier; Study: Winter is “vanishing” from Lake Michigan due to rising temps;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with the National League |
| 0:04.8 | Tensacles from former President Trump's big lie about the election. |
| 0:09.4 | Continuing to squeeze American society, there are those fighting back. |
| 0:13.5 | Dominion voting is now suing Fox for $1.6 billion for pushing that garbage that helps send |
| 0:20.4 | the January 6th writers into a froth. |
| 0:23.3 | But that channel continues to allow the lies to be spread. |
| 0:26.6 | Former President Trump was given a huge chunk of prime time last night to further disseminate |
| 0:31.9 | these toxins telling us that the murderous Maga mob on January 6th was all about peace |
| 0:37.6 | and love. |
| 0:38.6 | Look, you can decide for yourself whether his words match what we all saw and heard |
| 0:43.8 | that day because the images from that day are certainly graphic and disturbing. |
| 0:50.6 | It was zero threat. |
| 0:51.6 | Look, they went in and they shouldn't have done it. |
| 1:03.7 | Some of them went in and they're hugging and kissing the police in the guards. |
| 1:15.3 | You know, they had great relationships. |
| 1:18.8 | A lot of the people were waved in and then they walked in and they walked out. |
| 1:26.7 | Hugging and kissing, how about stomping and killing? |
| 1:31.2 | Fix that for you. |
| 1:32.2 | It's the former president's latest attempt at whitewashing, pretending he does not have |
| 1:36.8 | blood on his hands. |
| 1:38.5 | For one of the darkest days in American history in which five people, including Capitol |
| 1:42.6 | Police Officer Brian Siknik, died, it's a dangerous alternate reality that Trump continually |
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