CNN: WH directly involved in pressing scientific agency to repudiate forecasters who contradicted Trump; Biden, Warren, Sanders the only democratic candidates with double digit support; Trump administration moves to ban flavored e-cigarettes

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🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Wash post: Trump ordered staff to deal with NOAA tweet that contracted him on Alabama & hurricane; Trump denies he told chief of staff to make NOAA disavow forecasters who contradicted him; Trump's long history with conspiracies and twisting facts; CNN poll: 71% don't trust most of what they hear from WH; Trump insists he fired Bolton as National security advisor; Trump brings up his cancelled Taliban talks in 9/11 memorial speech at Pentagon; Trump on possible mtg with Iran's Rouhani: "not looking at anything"; Trump denies plans to meet with Iran's leader at U.N., Pompeo yesterday said Trump is prepared to meet; New CNN poll: Joe Biden leads field with 24% support, Elizabeth Warren at 18%, Bernie Sanders at 17%; Poll: Biden lead rests on support among black voters; CNN poll: Biden's lead among those who prioritize a candidate who can beat Trump shrinks some since August; CNN poll: 45% are "very enthusiastic" about voting in 2020; Sources: NY prosecutors interview Michael Cohen about Trump org possibly falsifying business records; Patriots' Antonio Brown accused of rape by ex-trainer; Pro Publica: RNC analytics omitting how voters feel about Trump;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	So the White House told Noah, President Trump decides the weather now.
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	Breaking news, brand new CNN 2020 polls debuting in minutes on the lead showing a
0:14.0	tightening race for the Democratic presidential nomination and the top issue may
0:17.4	be just who is best to show President Trump the door. Assault on the truth again.
0:25.0	CNN now learning that the White House played a direct role
0:28.0	in leaning on forecasters to cover for the president's lie about Hurricane Dorian in Alabama as the killer
0:36.0	hurricane threatened other parts of the US, plus with a link to deaths and a pattern
0:41.0	of targeting children e--cigarettes under fire today.
0:44.2	The Trump White House now looking for a partial ban after vaping related illnesses
0:49.7	claim another life. Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.
0:57.0	We start with the politics lead, the Washington Post reporting this afternoon that it was in fact
1:01.7	President Trump who instructed his staff to order the National
1:06.0	Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA to
1:09.4	Uncontradict the President's false forecast two Sundays ago.
1:14.0	That Hurricane Doreen was about to hit Alabama much harder than anticipated.
1:18.0	Information from the president that was inaccurate and outdated and quickly corrected by the National Weather Service.
1:24.8	The New York Times has reported that after talking to the acting White House Chief of Staff
1:28.1	McMlevaney, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Department overseas Noah threatened Noah
1:34.4	leaders with firings if they did not fix the contradiction. Now President
1:40.2	Trump has always had a tenuous relationship with facts and truth and sometimes these
1:45.1	are fringe even racist beliefs such as his campaign to suggest the first African American
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