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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Biden, Harris, Pence make Labor Day visits to battleground states; Labor Day crowds drive fears of new virus spikes; CA breaks record for acres burned statewide in a year; U.S. performed 740,000+ COVID tests in the last week;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Trump accuses Biden, Harris of undermining science as he teases a vaccine by election day; Harris says she would not trust Trump on a vaccine, Trump says Harris should apologize for “anti-vaccine rhetoric”; Trump: will have vaccine “very soon, maybe even before a very special date… you know what I’m talking about”; Biden says se wants effective vaccine regardless of election consequences; Biden: “if I could get a vaccine tomorrow I’d do it … if it cost me the election I’d do it”; Biden: would heed advice of scientists on COVID vaccine; rump: report of disparaging troops “totally made up”;  Trump claims military officials dislike him for trying to end wars; WSJ: vaccine makers will promise not to rush approval process due to political pressure; Data shows vaccine trials still not enrolling enough minorities; 16 of the largest school districts start tomorrow, most online; Northeastern dismisses 11 students for breaking virus protocols, won’t refund tuition payments; Device used a gender reveal party sparked wildfire; National forests closing in parts of CA due to fire; CA sees record temp highs, other parts of U.S. brace for snow;  Sean Penn’s non-profit expands testing in Georgia; Sean Penn on GA testing initiative: we will test “every essential worker, symptomatic or asymptomatic”; Teacher packs meals for 150 families per week struggling to put food on table due to coronavirus; Maryland teacher packs meals for 100+ families struggling with layoffs, kids learning from home; Portland sees 101 straight days of protests and violence; Trump says Rochester had “bad night” despite first night of protest with no arrests or violence; Rochester mayor vows police reform, rejects calls to resign; Jake Tapper reports: Donald Trump’s presidency; 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.

0:05.0

And welcome to the special edition of the lead.

0:06.8

I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper today,

0:09.2

and we begin with our 2020 lead.

0:11.8

It's now the final stretch of the presidential campaign

0:14.4

and Joe Biden, Kamala Harris,

0:16.5

and Mike Pence, the vice president,

0:18.6

are all in battleground states today.

0:21.0

President Trump is here in Washington defending his record on

0:24.2

coronavirus and attacking comments, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden made about a

0:28.2

coronavirus vaccine.

0:31.1

He is very liberal running mate, the most liberal person in Congress by the way.

0:37.0

It's not a competent person in my opinion.

0:40.0

It would destroy this country and would destroy this economy.

0:43.9

Should immediately apologize for the reckless anti vaccine rhetoric

0:48.6

that they are talking right now, talking about endangering lives and it undermines science.

0:57.0

Well all of this is happening as follow-up continues over that Atlantic article which claimed

1:04.3

President Trump had called fallen U.S. service member suckers and losers as

1:09.6

CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.

1:13.4

Today President Trump seizing on Senator Kamala Harris's vaccine comments, calling on Harris and

1:19.1

Joe Biden to apologize.

1:21.3

Biden and his very liberal running mate should immediately apologize for the reckless

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