Jake’s one-on-one with Joe Biden; Trump blames Woodward when asked why he lied to American people; Biden says Trump “waved a white flag” and “walked away” from COVID-19, calls his handling “almost criminal”; 28-year-old teacher dies 3 days after COVID diagnosis;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Trump defends telling public COVID-19 was like flu, after telling Woodward it was much deadlier; Trump tries to defect blame onto Woodward after downplaying virus; Joe Biden on Trump concealing coronavirus threat: “It’s disgusting”; Biden says Trump has no concept of what constitutes national security after Trump claimed U.S. is developing secret nuclear weapons system; Biden: Trump shouldn’t be Commander in Chief of the U.S. military; Biden: Middle class voters were “taken for granted” in 2016; Biden reaching out to blue collar voters in battleground states; Biden now says he was against NAFTA, after voting for it; Blames GOP for not renegotiating the deal under Obama; Biden: “It’s in our interest that China be stable, it’s not in our interest China take advantage of us”; Biden says he’ll tax companies that move jobs overseas; Biden: I’d make the changes on the corporate taxes on day one; Joe Biden pledges to be transparent about his health; Poll: Majority of Americans think political pressure will lead FDA to rush vaccine approval; Astrazeneca halts vaccine trial for second time; U.S. weekly average of new cases at lowest since June; NFL returns tonight with limited fans in stadium;

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0:00.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper and we start with breaking news in our politics lead in just moments a CNN exclusive
0:06.1	my interview with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden one-on-one in the crucial battleground
0:11.2	state of Michigan but first of course we just heard from
0:13.2	President Trump speaking in the White House briefing room praising his own
0:16.8	handling of the coronavirus pandemic which I believe the current status is
0:21.4	191,000 Americans have died from and growing.
0:26.6	Even as CNN has obtained the tapes where President Trump admitted in February that he knew
0:31.2	how dangerous and deadly coronavirus was early on, even though he spent
0:35.8	the following weeks and even months publicly downplaying what he knew and the threat to the
0:40.9	American people. Today President Trump said he was trying to project calm when he was down playing the virus
0:46.4	and he continued to blame legendary journalist Bob Woodward who was on the other end of those tapes,
0:51.6	saying if what he said was so bad,
0:53.2	Woodward should have reported it earlier,
0:55.9	which doesn't really make a whole lot of sense
0:58.3	in terms of trying to shift the blame.
1:01.3	Let's go now to Caitlin Collins who is in the briefing room and can talk more about what we just heard and Caitlin the very fact that you have to wear a mask while standing in the White House briefing room is a testament to the fact
1:15.3	that the federal government has failed to contain this coronavirus in a way that other Western
1:21.0	wealthy nations have not failed and yet President Trump
1:25.3	still refusing to acknowledge any mistakes, any blame at all even with these
1:29.5	new tapes.
1:30.5	Well also Jake the idea that we did not start wearing mask and were not encouraged
1:34.3	by the CDC to start wearing mask until April when we now know that the president
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