Drastic decline in number of daily vaccinations in U.S.; Biden says GOP is going through a “sort of mini-revolution”; Ukraine caught in the middle of U.S. political battles

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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NFL gives vaccinated fans a chance to win Super Bowl tickets; CDC director warns of a possible winter Covid surge; Former president still banned on Facebook; Facebook oversight board keeps ban on Trump’s account, forces Zuckerberg to review decision within six months; Trump, House GOP leaders back Stefanik’s efforts to replace Cheney; McConnell says he’s “100%” focused on stopping Biden admin, Harris says “we are sincere” about working in bipartisan manner; Texas bills could empower partisan poll watchers, restrict drive-thru & 24-hour voting, add requirements for mail-in voting; Ukraine’s foreign minister talks to CNN about FBI’s investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s actions; FAA: 1,300 incidents of unruly airline passengers in 3 months; Airlines see spike in confrontations involving unruly passengers 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	A start government warning today that we could suffer through another COVID surge if Americans
0:06.1	do not keep up the pace of getting vaccinated. The lead starts right now.
0:11.5	Better safe than sorry, Dr. Fauci admits that CDC guidance on kids outside at summer camp
0:16.9	might be a bit strict, but to keep those masks on anyway, at least for now,
0:22.4	still reduced to just blogging. Former President Trump remains banned from Facebook, but that
0:28.0	ban may not be long for this world. Plus, fewer people have been traveling because of COVID,
0:34.1	but more people are making quite a scene in the not-so-friendly skies. What's causing people to lose
0:40.7	their minds on planes? Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. We
0:50.6	start with our health lead today. It can be done. Today, the Biden administration insisting
0:55.3	that while the president's new vaccination goal is a stretch, they have confidence it can happen,
1:00.9	but just hours after President Biden announced his target for 70% of American adults to have
1:06.6	at least one dose of the COVID vaccine by the Fourth of July. The United States recorded
1:11.0	another drastic decline in the number of daily COVID vaccinations falling below one million shots
1:17.6	in arms yesterday for the first time in months. Now the nation's top doctors are warning,
1:21.8	and otherwise, research is still quite possible. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walinsky saying today,
1:27.1	she believes, we could see more dangerous variants emerge, and the potential winter spike in cases
1:34.2	still a possibility as CNN's Alexandra Field reports. I wanted to sit out and wait to see the
1:41.6	effects it had on everyone. It only gets harder from here. We knew that we would have a lot of
1:46.9	supply by the end of April, early May, but we also knew that this would be the time that we had
1:51.4	people who were more hesitant. Shots and arms falling to fewer than a million yesterday for
1:55.6	the first time since February, the average daily number of vaccinations under 2.2 million
2:01.4	down from highs of three to four million. Accordingly, the White House's vaccination goal,
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