CDC director: Delta variant now represents 83% of cases; Trump ally Tom Barrack arrested, accused of acting as foreign agent; Pelosi won’t say if she’ll veto GOP commission picks;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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WH tries to tamp down on spread of vaccine misinformation; WH confirms discussions with Fox News over vaccine coverage; Delta variant fuels COVID spike, as vaccinations lag; Pediatric group: more than 23,000 kids got COVID last week; Fed judge rules Indiana University can require students to get vaccine; Psaki says there have been breakthrough cases at the WH; Pelosi says how republicans voted on January 6th is “not a criterion for service” on the committee; Tom Brady jokes about election deniers at WH ceremony; Trump plans to meet with Cheney’s primary opponents; Amazon’s Jeff Bezos & crew complete 10-minute flight to space; Bezos calls launch & landing of his spacecraft “best day ever”; Bezos becomes second billionaire in nine days to launch private rocket into space; Bezos: “road to space will help keep this gem of a planet”; 30 dead in Baghdad market attack, ISIS Claims responsibility; Suicide bomber attacks Baghdad market ahead of religious holiday; 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	Can't wait to see the Trump Tweet, Trashing Tom Brady.
0:05.4	Oh wait, the lead starts right now.
0:08.6	A shocking explosion in COVID cases related to the highly contagious Delta variant, feeding
0:14.4	off low vaccination and misinformation in the U.S. as the summer surge threatens to
0:18.3	wipe away so much of the progress the U.S. has made with the pandemic.
0:23.5	Same day, the library Amazon founder Jeff Bezos travels to the edge of space and back
0:27.5	in seats are available for future light flights if you have the stomach and the bank account.
0:33.2	And who knew Tom Brady could dunk too?
0:35.7	The election joke he cracked in the White House rose guard about something he has in common
0:39.4	with President Biden.
0:45.4	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today in the health lead where the
0:48.6	summer COVID surge is showing no signs of slowing right now the United States is averaging
0:53.8	about 35,000 new cases a day which is almost up 50% from last week 50% and the CDC director
1:02.0	today said the more contagious Delta variant accounts for more than 80% of all those cases.
1:08.2	By more than one account it appears that the United States of America is going backwards
1:12.7	when it comes to the pandemic the debate over mask mandates has returned.
1:16.8	Investors are worried that the resurgence will threaten the economic recovery.
1:19.9	Now this information is one of the main problems and while it's not just a problem of
1:25.5	mega resistance to the vaccine it is also just empirically true partisan politics specifically
1:31.6	Republican leaders and affiliated media spewing lies about the vaccine that is getting
1:37.0	in the way of science and health.
1:39.6	One recent poll found 47% of Republicans said they were not likely to get vaccinated that
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