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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Trump falsely claims “I won” the election; President Trump continues quest to overturn election, meeting with Michigan GOP lawmakers; President-elect Biden speeding up key cabinet decisions; Biden adds more staff to incoming administration; Michigan state lawmakers at WH for meeting with Trump; Source: Handful of alarmed Republicans discussing Trump intervention; In latest fundraising pitch, 75% of donations to legal battle go to Trump Post-Presidency PAC; Distribution of first doses of COVID vaccine could begin by mid-December, second dose by early January; Johnson & Johnson expects to know effective rate of its single-dose COVID vaccine by January or February; CNN’s Dr. Gupta talks exclusively with Dr. Birx in rare interview; Dr. Birx: “faster” and “broader” spread of COVID-19 worries me; Dr. Birx: instead of limit on guests, Americans should limit Thanksgiving to those in immediate household; California imposes 10pm curfew tonight; Parents protest over New York City closing in-person school; CDC recommends avoiding travel for Thanksgiving holiday; California shatters daily case record, adding 13,000+ cases; Fauci: “default position” keep schools open; Mnuchin declines to extend fed emergency lending programs; Sens. Romney, Sasse, Ernst, Alexander object to Trump’s tactics on transition, election claims; Vice President Pence campaigns in Georgia for senate runoff elections; Georgia’s two senate runoffs will decide if Republicans or Democrats control senate; Source: GA Gov. expected to certify votes for Biden any minute; 30-year old dies three days after testing positive; 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 CNN breaking news.
0:04.0	And welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin today with the 2020 lead.
0:09.0	Two months from today, President-elect Joe Biden will become President-
0:13.7	Biden. That's right, despite the Trump team's noise and the plotting and
0:18.5	the shambolic and incompetent attempts to overturn the election results by disenfranchising millions of Americans.
0:25.8	Regardless, two months from today, Donald Trump and his staff will leave the White House.
0:31.8	The President-elect, Mr. Biden, is meeting today. The President-elect Mr. Biden is meeting today with Vice President
0:34.8	Elect Kamala Harris and Democratic congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
0:39.6	And just last hour, President Trump came out and spoke with the press. He still is falsely
0:45.0	claiming it I don't know if it's a delusion or a lie or whatever but he's still
0:50.0	falsely claiming that he won the election and an election that he clearly lost.
0:55.0	Take a listen.
0:57.0	Big farmer ran millions of dollars of negative advertisements against me during the campaign, which I won by the way, but you know,
1:06.2	find that out.
1:08.2	Nope.
1:10.2	President Trump did not win, and he also did not take any questions from the press.
1:13.7	He is still attempting to cling to power.
1:17.1	Right now, President Trump is continuing this plot to overturn the election.
1:20.4	He's meeting with three Michigan legislators in the Oval Office.
1:24.4	Sources to see and there are discussions underway with the president about inviting
1:28.1	Republican state legislators from Pennsylvania to the White House as well.
1:32.8	The White House press secretary today called the meeting routine,
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