Biden: “more people may die” if Trump & GOP obstruct transition; Moderna: Coronavirus vaccine 94.5% effective; VP Pence speaks with governors amid major vaccine news; CNN: U.S. military told to plan for U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan & Iraq in final days of Trump administration;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Biden: Trump & GOP refusing to allow transition is “ more embarrassing than debilitating” to the country; Pandemic reaches worst levels yet as Trump denies Biden transition access to key agencies; Biden: sooner we get transition plan, sooner vaccine can move forward; Fauci: it’s “obvious” that coordination with Biden amin would be better for U.S. public health, Trump hasn’t attended task force meetings in “several” months; Ex-GOP rep: republicans “need to intercede” with Trump; Trump threatens primary challenge against GOP governor who acknowledged Biden win;
Fauci: Moderna’s COVID vaccine results “truly striking”; U.S. tops 11 million total cases; nearly 250k deaths; State officials reimpose restrictions as pandemic rages; Trump adviser: Michigan should “rise up” against virus restrictions; CA gov pulls “emergency break,” imposes new COVID restrictions; U.S. seeing record hospitalizations as pandemic rages; DOW nears 30,000 mark after Moderna’s promising vaccine news;
Oregon Gov: conversation with VP Pence “extremely disingenuous”; Oregon starts two week “statewide freeze” on Wednesday; Or Gov. institutes “statewide freeze” ahead of Thanksgiving; Violators of Oregon “freeze” could face fines, jail time;
Russia’s COVID reality not what Kremlin portrays; CNN obtains video showing hospitals and morgues in Russia overcrowded and overwhelmed; Russia’s death toll feared to be about four times higher than 33,000 reported by Kremlin; Remembering nurse and father who died of COVID-19;
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with Breaking News. |
| 0:08.0 | Just moments ago, President-elect Joe Biden just finished speaking about coronavirus and the state of the economy. |
| 0:14.0 | The President-elect calling for cooperation between his incoming administration and the |
| 0:18.4 | outgoing Trump administration which is still refusing to accept the reality of Mr. Trump's loss. |
| 0:24.8 | More people may die. |
| 0:29.0 | The sooner we have access to the administration's distribution plan, the sooner this transition would be |
| 0:34.9 | smoothly move forward. |
| 0:37.0 | More people may die, President-elect Biden says it's a stark warning as outgoing President Trump is still spreading the lie that he won the election, the election that he lost significantly. |
| 0:50.0 | And the Trump administration continuing to prevent the Biden Harris transition team |
| 0:55.5 | from officially being recognized. |
| 0:57.6 | Presidents alike Biden calling President Trump's refusal to concede embarrassing for the United States. |
| 1:04.0 | And as CNN's Jeff Zellany reports for us, now Biden is also laying out his plans |
| 1:08.0 | for how he will try to get Republicans on board if President Trump never concedes. |
| 1:14.7 | More people may die if we don't coordinate. |
| 1:18.3 | President-elect Joe Biden raising his voice today, |
| 1:20.8 | saying it's critical for his incoming administration to |
| 1:23.6 | urgently start its transition. We're going in a very dark winter. Things are |
| 1:27.8 | going to get much tougher before they get easier. It's going to be difficult |
| 1:31.1 | but it can be done. Along with rapidly rising cases of coronavirus, the economic headwinds are among the monumental challenges |
| 1:38.8 | he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will inherit in just 65 days. Biden and Harris are trying to show. that CEOs of General Motors, Microsoft, and other companies. |
| 1:53.8 | It was really encouraging, quite frankly, to get people, business and labor, together, a green |
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