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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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If you thought it would be easier to fly than paying soaring gas prices this weekend, brace yourself. Flights are so overbooked and the schedule is so precarious that one airline is offering $10,000 for passengers to give up their seats. Plus, sources reveal who may have tried to influence Hutchinson’s testimony to the January 6th select committee. 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	Pack your bags and prepare to hurry up and wait.
0:06.1	The lead starts right now.
0:08.5	Well, if you thought it would be easier to fly than paying soaring gas prices this holiday
0:13.8	weekend, brace yourself.
0:15.9	Lights are so overbooked and the schedule is so precarious that one airline is offered
0:20.7	and get this.
0:22.2	$10,000 for passengers to give up their seats.
0:26.2	Yes, I said $10,000.
0:30.6	And major developments in the January 6th hearing, CNN with new information about who may have
0:35.0	tried to intimidate star witness Pasadie Hutchinson before she testified.
0:41.2	And then, the loved ones of the Eubaldi shooting victims are sick of waiting for answers.
0:47.4	We're sitting here just listening to empty words, that's all it is, empty words.
0:55.9	My sister died protecting her children, her students.
1:02.2	Why the mayor claims he can't tell them anymore.
1:10.3	Welcome to the lead.
1:11.3	I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper and we begin with our politics lead and breaking
1:16.0	news as we follow the repercussions from Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell testimony before
1:21.2	the January 6th committee.
1:23.1	He and Ryan Nobles has the very latest.
1:26.8	Witness intimidation has become a serious focus of the January 6th select committee.
1:32.2	CNN has learned that both instances the committee presented as examples of possible witness
1:37.1	intimidation during their hearing on Tuesday were directed at their witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
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