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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Trump repeats baseless, debunked election conspiracies; Biden names econ team, picks Janet Yellen for treasury secy; Biden announces all-female senior WH coms team; Arizona certifies Biden’s win, as Trump lawyers fight results; Former DHS official debunks Trump’s election fraud claims; Republicans encouraging Trump to consider attending inauguration; McConnell refuses to answer questions on Biden’s win; Who will President-Elect Biden pick for defense secretary?; Biden pick to lead OMB slammed by progressives, conservatives; NYT: Biden picks raise concerns over ties to consulting, investment firms; Moderna applying for emergency use approval from FDA for vaccine; How will vaccine distribution work?; 4.3 million new COVID cases in U.S. in November; Nearly one-third of all cases; TSA: highest number of travelers since start of pandemic; Experts fear post-holiday surge; ER doctor asks people to make sacrifices: “be a hero”; Record 93k Americans hospitalized with COVID-19; U.S. sets new record for COVID-19 hospitalizations; California sets new pandemic record for hospitalization; Exclusive: leaked Chinese documents reveal early mishandling of COVID-19; Exclusive: Chinese documents show chaotic early COVID-19 response; Iran: remote-controlled machine gun, self-detonating car used in assassination; Iran blames Israel for scientist assassinated, vows revenge; NYT report: Nike, Coca Cola among companies lobbying against bill to ban imports of products made using slave labor in China; 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	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the 2020 lead a key
0:05.8	milestone for the Biden presidency today president-elect Joe Biden and vice
0:10.4	president-elect Kamala Harris today are receiving their first presidential daily brief.
0:15.8	That's the highest level of intelligence about the threats facing the United States and its
0:20.9	allies. It's a vital step as President-elect
0:23.2	Biden prepares to take office in less than two months. The transition process
0:27.3	of course delayed by outgoing President Trump's refusal to accept that he
0:31.8	lost.
0:33.0	Outgoing President Trump is continuing his baseless lies about the election, even as
0:37.6	Chris Krebs, the former Cybersecurity czar at the Department of Homeland Security is now publicly
0:42.4	debunking many of the Trump team's
0:44.5	allegations, but it is not just Krebs, official after official Democrat, Republican,
0:50.2	nonpartisan experts finding themselves responding to the deranged claims made by
0:55.2	President Trump at his team. Here's Georgia election official Gabe Sterling
0:59.5	a Republican earlier today.
1:01.3	The ridiculous things claimed that some of these lawsuits are just that.
1:07.0	They're insanity.
1:08.0	It's fever dream, made up, internet, cabal.
1:12.0	I can't, however many words I can do to say how crazy some of these things are.
1:17.0	Nonetheless, President Trump and his team continue to push forward these lies, with state and
1:22.0	local officials doing the lion's share of
1:24.2	standing up for the facts and the truth and congressional Republicans essentially
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