Biden: “No national shutdown”; CDC recommends against travel for Thanksgiving; U.S. death toll surpasses 251,000 as pandemic rages; Biden: We’re witnessing “incredible irresponsibility” from Trump; Giuliani, Trump Campaign officials try to overturn election results;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Biden to meet with Schumer & Pelosi tomorrow in Delaware; Source: MI GOP Officials asked to rescind vote to certify election after personal calls from President Trump; Source: Trump told ally he knows he lost, but wants to get back at Dems for questioning legitimacy of his 2016 win; Biden, Harris speak after meeting with governors; Biden: There’s no excuse to not share data and let us plan; Biden: Not going to rule out legal action on transition; WH testing Czar on pandemic: “This will get worse”; Death toll climbs as hospitalizations hit record high; More GOP governors issue mask mandates, COVID restrictions; Wrongful death lawsuit against Tyson Foods claims supervisor organized bets on how many workers would get coronavirus;
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:06.0 | We begin today with Breaking News. |
| 0:08.0 | We are right now standing by for two major live events that we're told will happen this hour any minute. |
| 0:13.8 | Members of the White House Coronovirus Task Force will hold their first briefing at the |
| 0:18.5 | White House in more than six months as coronavirus cases and deaths surge in the United States. |
| 0:23.8 | Plus, also any minute, we're expecting President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect |
| 0:28.6 | Kamala Harris to speak after meeting virtually with several state governors. |
| 0:33.8 | The incoming Biden administration is attempting to prepare |
| 0:37.4 | to lead this nation in the midst of this deadly pandemic, |
| 0:40.3 | which has claimed more than a quarter of a million lives in the United States so far, |
| 0:45.0 | though outgoing President Trump is blocking the Biden transition team, |
| 0:50.0 | all because Trump refuses to accept the outcome of the democratic process, putting his own personal |
| 0:55.8 | feelings ahead of American lives. |
| 0:58.9 | Earlier today, the President's legal team held a press conference where they revealed a willingness to push debunked and wild conspiracy theories about the election. |
| 1:08.0 | Chris Krebs, the now former top election cyber security official just fired by President Trump for |
| 1:14.0 | telling the truth and affirming that this past election was the most secure in |
| 1:18.6 | history. Chris Krebs took to Twitter to say of the press conference, quote, |
| 1:23.0 | that press conference was the most dangerous one hour, 45 minutes of television |
| 1:27.0 | in American history and possibly the craziest |
| 1:31.0 | if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're lucky lucky unquote. The president's plan is clear he and his legal team |
| 1:38.4 | want to disenfranchise millions of American voters in Democratic counties, a disproportionate number of them, |
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