Breaking News: Trump: Ratcliffe no longer pick for Intelligence Chief; GOP "Gut Punch" GOP Aide; Rep. Hurd's retirement "Not Good News" for 2020; Trump's Target:
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So apparently a few guardrails remain. The lead starts right now. |
| 0:07.0 | Breaking today, an embarrassing defeat for President Trump, |
| 0:10.0 | his pick for Director of national intelligence is polled after Democrats |
| 0:14.4 | accused a potential nominee of being a yes man with a trumped up resume and |
| 0:17.9 | Republicans privately signal to the White House they don't think he's up to the |
| 0:21.1 | job. |
| 0:22.8 | President Trump trying to score political points off the body count in American city |
| 0:27.6 | as his campaign of division forges ahead. |
| 0:30.2 | And a party with serious diversity issues gets hit with another setback as the House of Representatives |
| 0:36.1 | lone black Republican announces he's retiring. |
| 0:38.9 | Why Congressman Will Heard says he's out of here. This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:49.0 | We begin with breaking news and the politics lead today, a major embarrassment and defeat for President Trump forced to |
| 0:54.1 | give up his choice for the next director of national intelligence. On Sunday via |
| 0:59.3 | Twitter the president announced he would nominate Congressman John Ratcliffe for the job. |
| 1:04.0 | On Tuesday, the leading Democratic moderate in the Senate, Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced |
| 1:08.5 | Ratcliffe would not get his vote. |
| 1:10.6 | And privately, Senate sources tell me Republicans have been signaling to the White House all week |
| 1:14.4 | that they have major concerns and Radcliffe might not survive a vote out of the Senate Intelligence |
| 1:20.2 | Committee. |
| 1:21.2 | As CNN's Alex Marquardt now reports for us, the president is blaming the |
| 1:24.3 | media for this failure and accepting none of the validity about Radcliffe's |
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