Cuomo accuser calls impeachment inquiry cynical and corrupt; Atlanta shooting suspect charged with eight counts of murder; 14 states report new cases at least 10% higher than last week; Biden: Putin “will pay a price” for undermining 2020 election

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🗓️ 17 March 2021

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Cuomo response to Biden: that’s true, if you committed a crime you can be prosecuted; CDC director won’t say if she believes President Trump is responsible for 500,000 American Covid deaths; Biden on vaccine hesitancy: “why don’t you be a patriot and protect other people?”; 14 states report new cases at least 10% higher than last week; CDC: strains first detected in California are “variants of concern”; Biden to would-be migrants: “don’t come… don’t leave your town”; Migrant children staying on mats on the floor, some children have not seen sunlight in days; Biden reiterates pledge to raise taxes on Americans making $400k+; Asian-Americans on high alert after Atlanta-area shootings; Sheriff: suspect was “at the end of his rope,” had a “really bad day”; Shooting suspect charged with eight counts of murder; Biden: Putin “will pay a price” for undermining 2020 election; U.S. intel: Russia used Trump allies to influence 2020 election; Minnesota pipeline sparks environmental concerns, already 40% built; Climate activists call for Minnesota pipeline to be shut down; 36-year-old hospice nurse dies from coronavirus 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	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we begin today with the politics lead moments
0:06.4	ago, Democratic-Nier Governor Andrew Cuomo tried to downplay the various, very serious
0:12.5	statement from President Biden about the myriad allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate
0:18.0	behavior that have been launched against Cuomo, President Biden on air this morning, said
0:23.0	that if the allegations of sexual harassment against Cuomo are proven to be true in the
0:28.3	investigations going on, then Cuomo should resign.
0:32.0	And then Biden, bringing up on his own, with no prompting, said, quote, he probably
0:37.0	will end up being prosecuted, too, unquote, were that to happen.
0:41.9	Governor Cuomo moments ago attempted some rank revisionism on what Biden said.
0:49.5	If you committed a crime, you can be prosecuted, that's true.
0:55.4	So what President Biden said was, we should do an investigation.
1:01.1	The question to President Biden starts with, do you think the governor should resign or
1:09.3	do you think there should be a review first?
1:12.1	And the president said, there should be a review.
1:16.7	That's not what happened.
1:18.7	Here's what President Biden told ABC News, George Stephanopoulos.
1:22.0	I know you've said you want the investigation to continue.
1:25.9	If the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should he resign?
1:30.3	Yes, I think you probably end up being prosecuted, too.
1:35.6	Quite different.
1:36.6	CNN's Brent Jim Grass joins me out from Albany and Brent, you listened to the Cuomo news
1:41.1	conference in addition to the revisionism that he attempted.
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