Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire agreement; Body camera shows black man tased, kicked and dragged by Louisiana troopers before his death; GOP support for Jan. 6 commission dwindling after McConnell, McCarthy announce opposition

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

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0:00.0	An off-ramp in the Middle East, the lead starts right now.
0:06.6	Breaking news, a cease-fire agreement after more than a week of carnage in the Middle
0:11.2	East and after President Biden began to take a much tougher tone publicly with the
0:15.2	Israelis and after Mitch McConnell turns tail and takes cover behind Donald Trump, will
0:20.8	enough Senate Republicans vote in favor of a commission to investigate the deadly attack
0:27.4	on their own workplace. Plus, newly obtained two-year-old bodycam video shows Louisiana
0:34.3	State troopers taising, beating and dragging a black man during a deadly arrest, none of which
0:40.6	was mentioned in their initial report.
0:48.8	Welcome to the lead object tap when we begin with breaking news, a cease-fire agreement
0:53.2	between Israel and Hamas. Israel says it has agreed to a mutual cease-fire agreement
0:58.4	and a senior Hamas leader has confirmed to CNN that the group, which the State Department
1:03.4	labels as terrorist, has also agreed. Israel says the cease-fire will go into effect at a time
1:08.7	to be agreed upon later. This comes after 11 days of deadly fighting, recovering this from
1:14.8	Israel to Washington DC. Let's start with CNN senior diplomatic editor Nick Robertson who's on
1:20.6	the ground and Ash Dodd is real. Nick, what are you learning? A cease-fire has been broken
1:27.7	by Egyptian officials. The details of it are not clear except that it's expected that the
1:33.3	cease-fire should come into effect in three hours time from now. We've just got a very short
1:38.7	statement here from Benny Gantz, Israel's defense minister and he says the security forces,
1:45.8	Israel's security forces have achieved unprecedented military achievements in the last 11 days
1:51.8	in their strength, accuracy, strategic significance in the fight against terrorist organizations
1:56.9	in the Gaza Strip. He goes on to say the defense establishment continues its readiness to protect
2:01.7	Israeli citizens and the security forces and the IDF are deployed in the field in all formations
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