First Lady tweets Barron Trump tested positive, but since has tested negative; No state trending in the right direction with Covid cases; CNN: Feds chased suspected foreign link to Trump’s campaign cash for three years; Sen. Kamala Harris questions Trump’s Supreme Court pick
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
NIH directors: the president is “not infectious for anyone else”; Trump to suburban women: “will you please like me?”; Trump to hold rally in Iowa as state reports 100k+ virus cases; Wisconsin opens field hospital as Covid cases surge; W.H.O.: most Covid transmission happening in households; No state trending in the right direction with Covid cases; Poll: African Americans more reluctant to try a Covid vaccine; Mystery probe of Trump campaign cash revealed; WaPo: Justice Dept. will not charge Obama officials after GOP complained about “unmasking” requests; Trump retweets false conspiracy theory promoted by Qanon about Bin Laden raid
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper with just 20 days until election day. It's this map that is most concerning for these candidates in the country |
| 0:08.5 | 36 states showing an upward trend not one state currently headed in the right direction. |
| 0:14.8 | Wisconsin's new cases are up 138% from last month. |
| 0:18.3 | New Mexico up 324%. |
| 0:22.2 | Across the United States, the U seeing its highest average of new coronavirus cases for the first time in two months now, |
| 0:28.0 | more than 50,000 people are getting infected every day. |
| 0:33.0 | Dr. Anthony Fauchy has a clear warning. |
| 0:35.0 | If the percent positivity rate continues to rise, he says, |
| 0:39.0 | there will be a resurgence of COVID and ultimately more deaths. Among the states seeing the highest |
| 0:44.6 | positivity rates? Iowa, where President Trump is headed right now and where he will |
| 0:49.6 | host another reckless rally on his campaign comeback tour. |
| 0:54.1 | If the past two nights are any indication, we can expect packed crowds, few masks, and |
| 0:59.2 | almost no social distancing, potentially exposing his own supporters and their loved ones and |
| 1:04.7 | those with whom they come in contact to the deadly virus. |
| 1:08.1 | And as CNN's Caitlin Collins reports for us now, the President will continue to tout his |
| 1:11.8 | handling of the virus despite the evidence and the facts and the fact that virtually every poll tells us the vast majority of Americans think otherwise. |
| 1:22.0 | Tonight President Trump will hold his third rally in three days, this time in |
| 1:26.9 | Iowa, a state he won comfortably four years ago but is now locked in a dead |
| 1:31.7 | heat with Joe Biden. |
| 1:33.2 | You damn well better vote for me. |
| 1:35.2 | Trump and Biden won't meet on the debate stage is scheduled tomorrow night, |
| 1:38.9 | but will instead go head to head in dueling town halls |
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