Fauci says WH efforts to undermine him were "bizarre"; CDC estimates 20m cases in the U.S., when only 2m were diagnosed; Is it safe to send your kids to school in the fall?; Mary Trump: the president paid someone to take the SAT for him

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Trump backs away from attacking Dr. Fauci after advisor pens op-ed saying Fauci is wrong about Covid; Hospital data will now be sent to Trump admin instead of CDC; Alabama becomes the 36th state to require masks in public; Miami-Dade testing positivity rate at more than 30%; Walmart mandates masks at all stores starting next week; CA reports 2nd highest one-day increase in cases & deaths; New poll shows Biden widening lead on Trump, as Trump's job approval drops to 36%; CDC estimates 20m cases in the U.S., when only 2m were diagnosed; Seven months into pandemic, questions remain on immunity, symptoms, and how it spreads; Study: nearly 25% of all U.S. teachers have conditions making them more vulnerable to coronavirus; Fauci clarifies remarks comparing Covid-19 to the 1918 flu pandemic; Florida surpasses 300,000 total Covid cases, 10k added today; 1 in 3 children tested for Covid in Florida tested positive; Deaths in Florida top 100 per day for third time in one week; Disney opens more parks in FL today as virus worsens in state 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	This is CNN breaking news.
0:05.0	And welcome to the lead.
0:08.0	I'm Jake Tapper.
0:09.0	We begin today with the politics lead.
0:11.0	The White House War on science and medicine, has only gotten worse, but today
0:16.0	the nation's top infectious disease expert is punching back amid new attacks from the White
0:21.8	House, or more specifically from Trump Trade
0:24.0	Advisor Peter Navarro who wrote in a USA Today op-ed that Dr. Fauchy has
0:29.2	been wrong about every coronavirus issue they have discussed. A claim that seems quite difficult to believe
0:35.7	for any sentinate being who has been following this story.
0:39.9	This afternoon, Dr. Fauchy responded.
0:43.0	I can't explain Peter Navarro.
0:45.0	He's in a world by himself so I don't even want to go there.
0:49.0	The White House Communications team claims that they did not approve Navarro's op-ed.
0:57.0	Though of course the criticism of Dr. Fauchy, the attacks are of a piece.
1:01.0	It comes after weeks of President Trump criticizing Fauchy, months of the White House
1:05.8	refusing to let Fauchy do interviews with say me. More pointedly and recently, White House
1:12.0	Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this bizarre and nasty
1:16.5	anti-Fauchy cartoon on Facebook.
1:20.1	And of course, the White House Communications Shop put together what amounts to an opposition research document on Dr. Fauchy.
1:26.5	Now President Trump this afternoon claimed he believed that the op-ed should not have been published.
1:30.5	He also claimed he has quote a very good relationship with the top doctor.
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