Buttigieg: I'm worried Trump would take foreign dirt; Trump on foreign info: "Of course you have to look at it"; Source: Before tanker attack, Iran shot at U.S. drones; Trump predicts he'll run against Biden, Sanders, or Warren

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🗓️ 15 June 2019

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Buttigieg: I'm worried Trump would take foreign dirt; McConnell to Dems: Time to move on, "The case is closed"; McConnell: I'm the "Grim Reaper" when it comes to Dem agenda; Warren, O'Rouke, Booker face off in first night of debates, with Biden, Sanders, Harris, Buttigieg set for night two; Justice dept. to weigh in on subpoena for Trump's tax returns; Warren releases minority business plan as she rises in polls; Trump predicts he'll run against Biden, Sanders, or Warren; Trump campaign acknowledges Trump trailed Biden in key states in internal polling in March; Outrage from Flint residents as all charges are dropped against officials accused of causing water crisis; Flint Mayor reacts to charges being dropped against officials charged in water crisis; Some Flint residents "Re-Traumatized," "Horrified" over charges being dropped against officials for water crisis; Trump: "I'm not going to fire" Conway over hatch violations; Trump: "I'm not going to fire" Kellyanne Conway over hatch act violations, "she's a terrific person";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	On the matter of taking foreign dirt, President Trump just made things a whole lot
0:07.3	mudier.
0:08.3	Lead starts right now.
0:10.3	If you don't listen to the dirt, how do you know it's bad?
0:13.0	That's what President Trump is now saying to justify his argument
0:17.0	that taking information on his opponent from foreign governments
0:20.0	and not calling the FBI necessarily is not a bad thing.
0:23.0	Is President Trump telling Putin,
0:25.3	call me maybe?
0:26.8	Then, Kelly and Conway under fire
0:28.6	an independent government agency recommended
0:30.4	that she be fired for politicking on the taxpayer dime the president just
0:34.6	weighed in what did he have to say? Then they were told their drinking water was
0:39.3	safe despite massive contamination and now the wheels of justice seemingly at a standstill
0:45.0	as all of the charges against Flint City officials are dropped.
0:49.1	The city's mayor will join us live. Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:56.1	We begin with our politics lead, President Trump bringing in his 73rd birthday at the
1:00.4	White House today, gifted with 50 minutes on his favorite channel of at the Happy birthday Mr. President. The President taking the opportunity to try and clean up that statement that even many Republican officials found wrong and outrageous that he would theoretically openly welcome and accept dirt on a political opponent provided by a foreign
1:24.4	government and that he would not necessarily call the FBI. National security
1:28.9	experts from both parties, as well as a bipartisan chorus on Capitol Hill condemned the sentiment behind the
1:34.4	president's remarks. Though other Republicans including the Senate majority leader
1:37.7	Mitch McConnell acted as if it's no big deal for the President of the United States
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