Frustrated GA election official debunks list of Trump’s false claims; GOP lawmakers planning to challenge election results on Wednesday; Group of frontline workers now first in U.S. to get both doses of Pfizer vaccine; FDA to consider giving half doses of Moderna vaccine;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Trump demands GA officials “find” votes to overturn his loss; Trump pressures GA officials in desperate attempt to cling to power: “I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break.”; All 10 living former defense secretaries declare election is over, no role for military, warn against involving military in election disputes;
Schiff: GOP effort to undermine election a “real low point”; house Dems demand FBI criminal investigation into Trump’s Georgia call;
Chris Christie on Trump’s call with Georgia officials; Christie urges skeptics to wear masks in new COVID PSA; Christie wants alleged killer of American journalist David Pearl to face justice in U.S.;
U.S. COVID vaccine rollout: 20 million doses promised, 15.4 million distributed, 4.5 million administered; New more contagious COVID strain found in New York; FDA to meet this week to consider half doses of Moderna vaccine for 18-55 year olds; One person dying of COVID every 33 second in U.S.; U.S. surgeon general refutes Trump on U.S. COVID death toll: “I have no reason to doubt those numbers”; Only CT, ND, SD, & TN have administered at least half of distributed COVID-19 vaccines; CDC: more than 4.5 million Americans have received COVID vaccine;
Biden, Trump & Pence campaign in GA ahead of crucial runoffs; Texas teacher known for kindness sin classroom died of COVID
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with Breaking News moments ago. |
| 0:09.0 | A top Georgia election official, one who is a long time Republican, |
| 0:13.5 | went down a list of President Trump's baseless, |
| 0:16.2 | even unhinged election fraud claims |
| 0:18.9 | and debunked, refuted, and rebutted every one of them, Gabriel Sterling, visibly frustrated at the lies |
| 0:26.0 | spread by President Trump and his allies. |
| 0:28.0 | And I will admit when I listened to the audio of the phone call and the president brought |
| 0:34.0 | it up again and I heard it on a radio ad again today. |
| 0:36.2 | I wanted to scream, well I did scream to the computer and I screamed in my car. |
| 0:40.0 | There's no shredding of ballots going on. |
| 0:41.9 | That's not real. It's not happening. No one is |
| 0:44.5 | changing parts or pieces out of Dominion voting machines. That is that's that's not a |
| 0:49.2 | real. I don't even know what that means. It's not a real thing. Secretary |
| 0:52.0 | Raffinsberger does not have a brother named Ron Raffensberger. |
| 0:55.1 | That is also not real. |
| 0:56.1 | The President tweeted that out as well. |
| 0:58.6 | Um, it's, let's see, we've got such a long list. It such a long list. |
| 1:04.0 | It is a long list. |
| 1:05.4 | Sterling's outrage is in response to the outgoing president of the United States |
| 1:09.9 | who was recorded brow-beating Sterling's boss, Georgia, Republican Secretary of State Brad |
| 1:15.7 | Raffensberger, and his general counsel over the weekend, pushing them, threatening them, |
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