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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Biden: I think we can get to 1.5 million doses per day; Trump plotted to install loyalist as acting AG to overturn election; Moderna expects vaccine to protect against highly-contagious variants;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Biden pledges to “eliminate the vitriol”; President Biden announces plan to strengthen manufacturing in U.S.; Biden: I think we will be able to vaccine 1.5 million people per day; Senate impeachment trial to begin in two weeks; Sources: Trump wanted to replace acting AG with lawyer who would tell GA officials to halt Biden win certification; Ohio GOP Sen. Portman wont seek re-election in 2022; Pro-trump GOP mobilizing against Rep. Cheney for impeachment vote; 17 GOP senators would have to join Dems to convict Trump; Republicans call for Rep. Swalwell to step down form intel committee after being targeted by alleged Chinese spy; Election tech company sues Trump attorney Giuliani for $1.3 billion over spreading conspiracy theories; Dominion lawyer on suing Trump: “not ruling anybody out”; CDC director: “I can’t tell you how much vaccine we have”; Surgeon gen. nominee: 100M doses in 100 days is not a ceiling; CDC: 41M vaccines distributed, 21M administered, 0.97% of U.S. population fully vaccinated; U.S. averages more than 3K COVID deaths daily, new cases and hospitalizations rates down; Mayor De Blasio: NYC “urgently” needs more vaccine supply; AZ GOP censures Flake, Ducey & McCain as party tensions rise; GOP in turmoil as Trump, insurrection & election lies tear party apart; 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

And welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. You've been watching President

0:04.2

Biden at the White House moments ago. He said he's confident that the

0:07.4

administration will soon reach one million coronavirus vaccine shots a

0:11.2

day, but that he may be able to reach the administration 1.5

0:15.3

million a day if not more president bide also signed an executive order aimed at

0:19.6

strengthening American manufacturing and announcing he plans to replace the entire fleet of

0:24.7

federal vehicles with American-made electric cars.

0:28.1

Biden saying it's part of his plan to rebuild American's backbone.

0:31.1

Also part of that plan, 1.9 trillion dollar economic relief

0:35.9

package. He just said a lot a lot to chew over let's start with CNN's Phil

0:40.0

Mattingly and Phil let's start with the relief package because it's it's going to be

0:44.0

the first major test of Biden's pledge to be bipartisan and also whether or not he can

0:49.6

pass anything.

0:50.6

Yeah it's the cornerstone legislative proposal of his first year in office.

0:54.6

It's the one his administration has made very clear is the focal point of all of their efforts

0:59.0

related to COVID relief, whether on the economic side or whether on the public health side and it is

1:03.2

proposal that has been received by Republicans in some mix of either cool to ice cold

1:07.6

over the course the last several days. Here's what the takeaway was from that.

1:11.4

President Biden is not done trying to negotiate

1:14.0

with congressional Republicans.

1:15.3

And I think that is a different spot

1:16.8

than you hear from a lot of Democrats,

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