Biden: U.S. will share 20M more vaccines with other countries; Deadliest day yet as scenes of horror unfold in Israel, Gaza; House to vote Wednesday on commission to investigate January 6 insurrection;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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U.S. record lowest number of new daily cases since March 2020; CDC’s abrupt reversal on mask guidance sparks confusion; CDC director: new mask guidance relies on “honor system”; CVS joins other major retailers in dropping mask requirements for fully vaccinated customers; CDC director: working on updated summer camp guidance; NY to drop mask mandate for fully vaccinated people; Largest nurses union in U.S. slams CDC mask guidance; NJ keeps indoor mask mandate despite CDC guidance; Hamas officials: death toll increases to 212, 1305 injured; Israelis flee to shelters as sirens warn of incoming rockets; Biden faces angry rift in own party over Israeli-Hamas conflict; WH says “quiet and intensive” diplomacy is more constructive than public call for ceasefire; 25+ senators demand immediate ceasefire to Israel-Hamas conflict; GOP leader McCarthy faces possible subpoena over conversations with Trump on January 6; Rep. Cheney: republicans McCarthy & Stefanik are complicit in Trump’s lies; GOP Rep. Crenshaw downplays his role in legal challenge to Trump’s election loss; U.S. investigates 2nd suspected case of mystery syndrome near WH; More stations have gasoline but shortages persist; 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	Some governors and health experts now saying, do not put away your mask just yet.
0:07.2	The lead starts right now.
0:09.3	The CDC says more information is coming about masks, but frankly, confusion has already
0:14.6	set in with state cities, even businesses all doing their own thing, and too many American
0:19.7	adults still unwilling to get vaccinated then.
0:23.2	No end in sight for the violent clashes in the Middle East as Israel pounds Gaza with
0:28.1	the air strikes, Hamas fires back with rockets, and the U.S. does not fall for an immediate
0:33.4	ceasefire.
0:34.4	Plus, new details about a mysterious phenomenon plaguing U.S. officials near the White
0:38.7	House, including one victim on the president's national security team.
0:48.2	Welcome to the lean-on-jake tap, or we strung it today with our health lead and President
0:52.2	Joe Biden this afternoon announcing that the United States will share at least 20 million
0:56.7	additional doses of coronavirus vaccines with other countries that's in addition to the
1:02.0	60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that the White House has already pledged to
1:06.0	send.
1:07.0	There's also good news in the fight against COVID here in the U.S. this nation recorded
1:12.1	only 16,864 new cases of coronavirus yesterday.
1:17.3	That's the lowest level since March 2020.
1:20.0	For comparison, there were periods during this pandemic when the infection rate was more
1:23.9	than 300,000 new cases every day, but there does remain much confusion about the CDC's
1:31.4	abrupt reversal on mass guidance announcing Thursday fully vaccinated people no longer need
1:37.2	to wear masks.
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