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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| 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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