Death Toll in Venezuela, Now Closer to 1,000

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 27 June 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The devastation is getting worse two days after powerful earthquakes in Venezuela and more than 300 aftershocks. Help is on the way, but can it arrive fast enough in a window closing in to find people alive? Plus, breaking news, the US responds, hitting inside Iran after Iran's strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Is this a temporary escalation or something longer term? And in the Epstein investigation, a dramatic move by Congress trying to get a billionaire investor to talk and reveal what he knows about the dead pedophile and non-disclosure agreements and women who reportedly signed them and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.9	A dramatic jump in the death toll in Venezuela, now closer to 1,000 dead.
1:07.7	The lead starts right now.
1:09.7	The devastation getting worse two days after powerful
1:12.9	earthquakes in Venezuela and more than 300 aftershocks. Help is on the way, but can it arrive
1:19.2	fast enough in a window closing in to find people alive? Plus, breaking news, the U.S.
1:26.5	responds hitting inside Iran after Iran's strike on a cargo
1:30.6	ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Is this a temporary escalation or something longer term? And in the
1:37.5	Epstein investigation, a dramatic move by Congress trying to get a billionaire investor to talk and
1:43.1	reveal what he knows about the dead pedophile and non-disclosure agreements and women who reportedly signed them.
1:55.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news in our world lead a staggering jump in the death toll in Venezuela as we come up on 48 hours since Wednesday's devastating earthquakes. Authorities are now reporting more than 900 lives lost and hundreds of others remain missing. New video today helps explain why. This is from a drone over the state of La Guera,
2:18.9	right along Venezuela's northern coast,
2:21.2	about 15 miles north of Caracas,
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