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
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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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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