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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We cover Thursday’s CNN presidential debate from all angles, including the topics the Trump team wants to focus on and how team Biden could respond. Also, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is set to plead guilty after leaking thousands of classified documents. Plus, protestors in Kenya storm the parliament building then set it on fire amid outrage over a new finance bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are just two days away from the biggest night of the 2024 campaign.
0:06.8	The League starts right now.
0:09.1	We're covering Thursday's debate from all angles, the three topics the Trump campaign wants to focus on and
0:14.4	how team Biden could respond. Also WikiLeaks founder set to plead guilty after
0:19.6	leaking thousands of classified documents Julian Assange's standoff with the U.S. is coming to an end.
0:24.8	I'll talk to his brother.
0:26.5	Plus, dramatic scenes out of Kenya.
0:29.0	Protesters storming the parliament building and then setting it on fire amid outrage against a new finance bill.
0:37.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Phil Mattingly in for Jake Tapper and we start today with our
0:43.6	2024 lead because of course we're just two days away from the very first
0:47.6	presidential debate of this election cycle Thursday night right here on
0:51.4	CNN president Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
0:54.4	will take the stage and try and sell voters
0:56.7	on their visions for the next four years.
0:59.0	Sources say President Biden and his advisors
1:01.0	have started mock debates at Camp David while the Trump team is
1:04.0	narrowing in on a few specific topics they want to bring up during the debate.
1:07.8	We start things off with CNN's Kaylet's at the White House and CNN's Kristen Holmes
1:11.4	down in West Palm Beach, Florida near
1:13.2	Trump's Maralago home.
1:14.6	Kila, let's start with you. Walk us through these mock debates. How's everything
1:17.8	unfolding for a very, very leak-proof operation at this point?
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