CA gov orders bars to close, no indoor dining at restaurants; WH attempts to discredit Dr. Fauci after split with Trump; Los Angeles & San Diego to restart school online only in fall; Florida reports more new cases than all but 3 countries; Trump claims to get “rave reviews” for stone commutation;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
California gov. rolls back reopening plans, orders bars to close & ends indoor dining at restaurants; Study: after infection, coronavirus immunity could decline in months;
Trump turns on Fauci as virus surges; Trump claims to have a good relationship with Dr. Fauci but doesn’t always agree with him; Trump retweets conspiracy theorist & fmr. Game show host falsely suggesting CDC is lying about coronavirus;
Trump admin insists all school reopen, offers no specifics on how to do so safely; Source: schools should not reopen in areas with 5-day increase in community spread; Nearly a quarter of all Florida cases are in Miami-Dade; Miami mayor: hospitals are at 91-92% capacity;
Roger stone vows to help Trump get re-elected after his sentence was commuted Friday night; While most of GOP remains silent, Toomey & Romney slam Trump for commuting Stone’s 40-month sentence; Muller: Roger Stone is still a “convicted felon and rightly so”; WH attacks Mueller, defends Trump’s commutation of confidant;
Sessions brushes of latest Trump insults as he battles fmr. Auburn football coach in runoff; Jeff Sessions running for his old Alabama senate seat; Trump endorses Tuberville over his former AG Sessions in Tuesday’s Alabama GOP senate primary;
Remembering Rick Rose, war vet died from COVID-19 on July 4th;
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:02.0 | And welcome to the lead. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:08.0 | We have Breaking News and our health lead. |
| 0:09.7 | California is shutting down again. |
| 0:12.6 | Governor Gavin Newsom just announced that he is closing down indoor dining, bars, and more |
| 0:17.7 | starting today a major return to stricter restrictions as that state sees the number of new cases skyrocketing. |
| 0:25.0 | Cases are surging across a huge swath of the United States in fact, the number of daily new cases nationwide |
| 0:31.0 | is now almost twice the rate of the peak in April, the previous peak. |
| 0:36.4 | It's hovering around 60,000 new infections a day. |
| 0:40.3 | And yet, despite the alarming escalation, there is no new national strategy for testing or contact |
| 0:45.4 | tracing, nothing new to try to get a handle on all this. |
| 0:49.5 | More effort appears to be going into White House attempts to anonymously trash Dr. Anthony Fauchy, the nation's |
| 0:55.1 | top infectious diseases expert who had committed the unthinkable by telling the American public |
| 1:00.5 | the truth about how bad things are currently, so bad in fact, the now even President |
| 1:05.1 | Trump's former acting chief of staff is criticizing the nation's handling of the |
| 1:09.3 | virus, writing in an op ed for CNBC, quote, I know it isn't popular to talk about in some Republican |
| 1:15.2 | circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country. |
| 1:19.6 | Mick Mulvaney then related the difficulties his son and daughter have had getting tests and it called |
| 1:25.0 | it quote simply inexcusable at this point in the pandemic. |
| 1:30.0 | You might recall Mr. Mulvaney in February said that the media was only covering the |
| 1:33.8 | coronavirus pandemic because, quote, they think this is going to be what brings down the president, |
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