Florida hits single day death record from COVID-19; Utah man dies in line waiting for coronavirus test; Trump’s coronavirus approval rating hits all-time low; Trump: More white people are killed by police than black people;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Trump in April: Cases going down, we hope to be under 100K deaths; 37 states increasing rates; 7 states flat; 6 states declining; More than 20 states pausing or suspending reopenings; Cuomo: U.S. will be “talking about” what NY did for “decades”; CDC Dir: Southern explosion in cases not because of re-opening; Adm. Giroir: U.S. “not there yet” but light at the end of this tunnel; Sen. Graham defends Fauci, says trying to undermine him “is not going to be productive”; Infectious disease experts rally behind Fauci, call campaign to undermine him “disturbing”; Source: Fauci staying on coronavirus task force despite WH attempt to discredit him; CDC Director: Most counties are in a position to reopen schools; NC schools to open for in-person and online learning in fall; Trump: Children and parents dying by keeping schools closed; Surge in cases causing long lines for tests; delays in results; Utah hospital chief warns of “unsustainable” rise in cases; Leading test lab: Surge in cases causing delays in test results averaging 7 days; Walmart considers mandatory mask rule at stores nationwide; Best Buy joins Costco, Starbucks requiring masks in stores; Coin shortage forces stores to limit payments to exact change or credit & debit cards; Trump Administration reversing policy, won’t deny intl students visas if colleges are all online; 49-year-old nurse dies after weeks-long battle with coronavirus; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the lead. I am Jake Tapper and we begin today, of course with our Health Lead and the
0:06.3	coronavirus pandemic which continues to escalate across the United States of America.
0:11.6	Today Florida is reporting a record high number of
0:14.9	deaths in one day. On the other side of the country the mayor of Los Angeles said
0:19.2	that that city is on the verge of having to return to the strictest level of stay-at-home orders.
0:24.6	The Great City of Philadelphia is cancelling all large city events until March 2021.
0:31.6	And Dr. Anthony Fauchy is warning that we have not even begun to see the end of this pandemic.
0:37.0	While, of course, the White House is conducting a bizarre campaign to undermine Fauchy, the nation's top infectious disease expert.
0:45.0	White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavina this week posting this deranged cartoon
0:50.0	attacking Fauchy, putting this on Facebook. And as the President is set to speak next hour,
0:56.4	let us take stock of another time that President Trump addressed the nation from the Rose Garden
1:01.3	to talk about the coronavirus, specifically three months ago today,
1:06.2	April 14th, when the president at the coronavirus Task Force briefing made a series of assertions that were not true then and continue to be
1:14.8	flat-out wrong, starting with the spread of the novel coronavirus.
1:19.6	But in almost all cases it's all starting to come down.
1:25.0	It is certainly not starting to come down.
1:30.0	Not then, not now.
1:31.0	Infections are skyrocketing.
1:33.0	We're averaging 60,000 new cases a day compared to the peak of 36,000 back in April.
1:40.0	Here's President Trump on the death toll, which three months ago was just over 25,000.
1:46.0	The minimum was 100,000 deaths, and I hope to be substantially under the minimum meaning we all hope Mike right we all
1:56.6	hope to be substantially under
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.