Joe Biden, Kamala Harris call for nationwide mask mandate; Trump says he’s against funding Post Office because money will be used for mail-in voting; Facebook cybersecurity chief on misinformation crackdown; Some AZ Republicans organize to defeat Trump in November;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Over 2,000 students, teachers, staff quarantined as schools reopen; CDC Director warns of “worst fall” in history; Fauci calls the upticks in positive tests “disturbing”; Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, & Oklahoma report positive cases for teachers, students & athletes; CDC Survey: COVID-19 has had a “broad impact” on mental health; Trump ties Postal Service funding to mail-in voting, says “they just can’t have it”; Biden: “Pure Trump” to link Postal Service funding to mail-in voting; Trump rails against FBI Director, pressures AG Barr to prove Obama admin spied on him; Trump calls Biden’s new VP pick a “madwoman” and “angry”; Jared Kushner confirms he met with Kanye West in CO., says they had “general discussion” about policy; Israel, UAE agree to establish formal diplomatic ties; Netanyahu: Annexation “not removed from the table”; Palestine liberation organization rejects UAE, Israel agreement; Facebook rolls out new tools to fight misinformation as Trump uses site to spread lies about mail-in voting; Doctors baffled by COVID “long haulers” who experience symptoms months after diagnosis; Months after diagnosis, COVID patients still has blood clots, seizures, tremors, memory loss; AZ Republican: I’m voting for Biden because I’m “disgusted”; Jobless claims dip below 1 million for first time since March;
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:03.4 | And welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper today. |
| 0:06.4 | And we begin with breaking news. |
| 0:08.1 | Moments ago, former Vice President Joe Biden called for every governor to mandate masks saying that |
| 0:14.4 | every American should wear a face covering for the next three months in order to |
| 0:18.5 | save tens of thousands of lives. Biden's comments come after he and running mate Kamala Harris received a of these upcoming months could be the worst fall the nation has ever seen. |
| 0:35.0 | Globally, more than 750,000 people have died and yesterday alone almost 1500 people in the United States died from coronavirus. |
| 0:45.0 | To put that in perspective, that's the highest number of deaths in one day since May. |
| 0:50.0 | Dean and Jessica Dean is in Wilmington, Delaware with a new campaign. |
| 0:54.2 | And Jessica, Biden and Harris called for this nationwide mandate, but this time they put the onus |
| 0:59.6 | on the governors to do so. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, that's exactly right Pam you know in the past back in |
| 1:06.3 | June Joe Biden expressed that he would be willing to use federal power to put a |
| 1:11.8 | mask mandate in place. |
| 1:13.2 | But remember, right now Joe Biden does not have any federal power. |
| 1:17.0 | So he's using essentially the bully pulpit of being the Democratic |
| 1:21.0 | nominee to really turn up the heat and put the pressure on the Trump administration |
| 1:24.9 | and governors in states where a mask mandate is currently not in place. |
| 1:30.0 | Listen to him in Kamala Harris today. |
| 1:44.0 | Every single American should be wearing a mask when they're outside for the next three months at Minnong. Every governor should mandate, every governor should mandate, |
| 1:49.0 | mandatory mask wearing. |
| 1:51.0 | So what real leadership looks like is Joe Biden. To speak up, |
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