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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Watchdog: Acting Intel Chief, WH & Justice Dept stopping me from providing info about whistleblower's complaint; WaPo: Trump's "promise" to foreign leader sparked alarm; Sources: White House & Justice Dept advised DNI to withhold whistleblower complaint from Congress; Wash Post: Trump's "promise" to foreign leader so troubling it sparked whistleblower complaint; Buttigieg: Trump Admin "muzzling" the Inspector General; Buttigieg: "very concerned" about escalations with Iran; Buttigieg releases new "Medicare for all who want it" plan; Buttigieg: Warren "evasive" on if she'll raise middle class taxes; Harris camp: She needs to replace top three in Iowa caucus; Klobuchar: Some 2020 ideas should stay in "faculty lounge"; Harris ramps up in Iowa campaign amid floundering poll numbers; NJ man accused of scouting terror targets for Hezbollah in NYC, DC, Boston; Canada's Trudeau apologizes again after third image surfaces of him wearing blackface/brownface; U.S. drone strike kills 16, wounds 8 in Afghanistan; Rise in deadly Taliban attacks ahead of Afghan election;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	The deepening mystery of the intelligence community whistleblower.
0:06.0	The lead starts right now.
0:08.0	Breaking news, the inspector general of the US intelligence community is sounding the alarm today saying the
0:14.6	Trump administration is keeping him from doing his job and preventing him from
0:19.9	sharing a serious whistleblower complaint about the president with Congress.
0:25.0	Dangerous drumbeater, Ron warns of all-out war as President Trump weighs an attack
0:31.0	how would a President Pete handle this crisis?
0:34.6	Afghanistan veteran and 2020 candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg weighs in this hour.
0:39.4	Also breaking today, the Canadian Prime Minister apologizing again
0:43.2	after a new image shows him in dark makeup the third such racist
0:47.6	incident could this mean curtains for North America's wokest leader. This is CNN breaking news.
0:57.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with breaking news and the politics
1:01.9	lead, an alarm being sounded today by
1:03.9	the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, saying that the acting
1:08.8	director of national intelligence is keeping him from executing two of his most important duties and
1:14.6	responsibilities. The White House Justice Department and the acting director of
1:18.7	National Intelligence have blocked Atkinson from sharing with Congress details of a whistleblower complaint which could involve communications between President Trump and a foreign leader, according to three sources.
1:31.5	Today President Trump dismissed the idea that he did
1:33.8	anything wrong. CNN's Alex Marquard kicks off our coverage.
1:39.1	It's a deadlock over an unseen potentially explosive complaint by a member of the
1:44.0	intelligence community about the president. That in communications between a
1:48.1	foreign leader and President Trump, he, according to the Washington Post, had made
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