Biden: Will meet goal of 100M shots in 100 days tomorrow, on day 58; Asian American communities on edge after shootings; FBI releases new videos of insurrectionists assaulting officers; Putin invites Biden to virtual talks, after Biden calls him a killer; CNN follows migrant children along U-S Mexico border;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Biden touts progress as U.S. nears 100M shots under his presidency; Official: CDC is expected to update physical distancing guidance for schools to three feet instead of six feet tomorrow; Biden admin considers sending AstraZeneca doses to Canada, Mexico; Fauci: We are in a race between vaccines and variants; Dr. Fauci, Sen. Paul get in tense exchange over masks; Atlanta Police “don’t have a position” on if shootings were a hate crime, say “nothing is off the table”; Cherokee County Sheriff’s spokesman allegedly posted racist, anti-Asian photo online; House holds hearings on hate crimes against Asian communities; GOP Rep. Roy invokes lynching in hearing on hate crimes; FBI asks public to help identify suspects who violently assaulted officers on January 6th; McCarthy claims he never backed Trump push to overturn election; Putin wishes Biden “good health” without “irony” after Biden calls Putin a killer; Biden’s un-Trumpian approach to taking on Russia and China; Diapers, children’s clothing litter path to border crossing;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the health lead moment to go |
| 0:05.5 | President Biden touted the progress that the Biden administration has made in vaccinating |
| 0:11.0 | Americans against COVID-19 the nation is closing in on his goal of 100 million shots earlier than |
| 0:17.7 | the 100 days Biden initially promised. I'm proud to announce that tomorrow 58 days into our |
| 0:26.5 | administration we will have met my goal of ministering 100 million shots to our fellow Americans. |
| 0:36.0 | That's weeks ahead of schedule we have gone from one million shots a day that I promised in |
| 0:42.6 | December before we even sworn in to an average of two and one half million shots a day. |
| 0:50.0 | When he took office they were almost at one million shots a day we should note. Right now 12% |
| 0:55.7 | of the population is fully vaccinated experts estimate we need that number to be 70 to 85 percent |
| 1:02.6 | in order for the U.S. to achieve something like herd immunity the president is also still standing |
| 1:07.9 | by his promise of enough vaccine supply for every American adult by the end of May and those |
| 1:15.0 | lifesaving vaccines could not come soon enough progress and bringing down coronavirus cases |
| 1:20.0 | is stalling more states in the U.S. are actually seeing cases on the rise right now than a decline |
| 1:25.6 | in new infections and president Biden is warning against dangerous variants of the virus also |
| 1:31.6 | today some major news that could likely mean more children in classrooms sooner and officials |
| 1:37.8 | tell CNN that the CDC is expected to update its guidance for physical distancing in schools |
| 1:43.0 | tomorrow changing the guidelines from six feet of distancing to three feet. We're covering all |
| 1:49.5 | angles of the developments in the pandemic today with our correspondence let's start with our |
| 1:54.0 | chief White House correspondent Caitlin Collins of Caitlin as Biden is touting this major |
| 1:58.6 | accomplishment we're also learning the White House is also considering sending some vaccines |
| 2:04.1 | to our neighboring countries. Yes they are but first on those remarks this afternoon that you |
| 2:09.6 | saw from president Biden you know he's really touting this citing their use of the defense |
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