Cheney calls out Trump’s attempt to push big lie conspiracy; U.S. begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border; India experiencing the world’s worst COVID outbreak; Emotional funeral for Andrew Brown Jr. in North Carolina;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

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Romney booed while speaking at Utah’s GOP convention; Trump: nice to see “stone cold loser” Mitt Romney booed; Rep. Cheney’s future with GOP unclear as criticism mounts for speaking out against Trump & the big lie; Cheney: spreading the big lie is poisoning our democratic system; Source: McCarthy “furious” at Cheney for Trump criticism; Trump issues new statement attacking “big-shot warmonger” Liz Cheney; Four families separated at border under Trump to be reunited this week; Border apprehensions spiked in March, including a record number of unaccompanied minors; Source: Biden set to raise refugee cap to 62,500 after criticism; Crisis in India: CNN goes inside crowded ICU as PPE, oxygen are scarce, doctors short staffed & families watch loved ones die; India PM Modi faces criticism for slow response to 2nd COVID wave; Family lays to rest Andrew Brown Jr. while demanding police accountability & access to full body cam videos; Coast guard: “severely overcrowded” boat capsized near San Diego killing three people; Coast guard ramped up patrol, warned of border crossings at sea just days before boat overturned; Bill and Melinda Gates divorcing after 27 years; 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	Republican Congressman Liz Cheney risking it all to challenge her party to stop with the
0:07.7	lying. The lead starts right now.
0:11.3	He's tweeting the truth about the big lie as the war within the GOP escalates.
0:16.6	How will the party of Trump and his sick offense respond?
0:21.7	Hospital hell, the COVID crisis in India is so bad that sick people are now begging to
0:26.7	escape hospitals and re-united finally the Biden administration making a handful of migrant
0:33.9	families whole again after hundreds were torn apart at the border, hundreds, hundreds
0:38.5	more waiting.
0:39.5	I'll ask the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security how much longer this painful
0:43.3	process could take.
0:49.7	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin with the politics lead the Rift between
0:54.0	Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming who insists on telling the truth about the
0:58.9	election and the January 6th insurrection and the Republican party leaders and officials
1:04.2	who insist on lying about those issues to the American people.
1:08.6	That Rift is hitting a boiling point today, taking direct aim at yet another false claim
1:14.4	from President Trump about the election.
1:17.5	Congresswoman Cheney tweeted, quote, the 2020 presidential election was not stolen.
1:23.0	Anyone who claims it was is spreading the big lie, turning their back on the rule of
1:27.3	law and poisoning our democratic system.
1:31.7	Cheney had already upset Republican party leaders for criticizing Trump's months of lying
1:37.7	about the election, for voting to hold him accountable for the insurrection incited by
1:42.1	those lies and for refusing to back down despite criticism.
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