Biden plans to stem flow of firearms used to commit violence, allows cities & states to reallocate Covid funds for crime fighting; Harris makes first trip to the border as VP on Friday; Delta variant gaining steam, rising Covid cases in unvaccinated areas

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Soon: Bipartisan police reform talks drag on in Senate; Progressive Democrats urge Biden to get more involved after crucial vote fails in the Senate; Menendez wants bipartisan commission to study Covid origins; Harris to visit the southern border Friday after months of criticism from Republicans, immigration activists; New report raises more questions about Hunter Biden’s art deal; FDA expected to add new warnings to Pfizer, Moderna vaccines after cases of heart inflammation among teens; Far-right Oath Keeper first to admit guilt in riot; Emails show Biden campaign thought Facebook didn’t do enough to address the spread of election lies; Biden & Atty General address nation on rise in violent crime 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	President Biden today turned his attention to a different epidemic.
0:05.8	The lead starts right now.
0:08.3	The president to address an eruption of crime and gun violence across the United States,
0:13.3	but if Congress cannot even agree on bridges and roads, how are they going to come together
0:18.1	on the more politically complicated issue of gun violence?
0:22.4	No one else has to die.
0:23.8	The plea from the CDC for the rest of the American people to go get their shots before
0:29.4	a vicious, new variant takes hold.
0:32.6	Plus, clicking Ignore.
0:35.9	What Facebook was and was not doing as voter fraud misinformation spread, despite repeated
0:42.8	requests from political professionals, and CNN has the receipts.
0:52.7	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we begin today in our politics lead.
0:56.2	Many moments were told President Biden will lay out a plan to combat a nationwide surge
1:00.9	in violent crime.
1:02.7	Across the United States, homicide rates are up this year.
1:05.4	There have been 296 mass shootings, nearly 95 hundred gun violence deaths, all higher than
1:13.4	at this time last year.
1:14.7	And 2020 had been the deadliest gun violence here in the United States in decades, making
1:19.8	matters worse.
1:21.3	Political authorities are now warning of a brutal summer of killing that it could lie
1:25.3	ahead.
1:26.3	Now President Biden, we're told, we'll call on Congress and use executive action to try
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