Julian Castro questions Joe Biden's memory, record; Fellow democrats push back on O'Rourke's debate line: "hell yes" we're taking your AR-15; Felicity Huffman sentenced to 14 days in prison and 230 hours of community service; will pay $30,000 fine

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Castro, Booker retreat after questioning Biden's age, memory; Divisions on health care front and center at debate; Biden suggest playing "the record player" at home to help educate poor, minority families; TX lawmaker stands by his tweet to O'Rourke after debate; Trump rants about energy efficient light bulbs, says he looks too orange; Trump slams environmental agreements in rambling speech; Trump: we're working on "inspirational" tax cut; Seriously ill children fear deportation under Trump administration's new policy; Sick kids fighting for their lives now also fighting to stay in U.S.; Trump and GOP lawmakers consider opening Alaska forest to loggers, miners & drillers; Fears parts of the largest national forest could be torn down;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Take the needle off the record. The lead starts right now.
0:05.0	One candidate seems to accuse Joe Biden of having a senior moment.
0:10.0	And Betro O'Rourke makes a promise on guns that some in the Republican Party are calling a gift to them
0:15.0	Where last night's debate takes the 20-20 Democratic candidates going forward
0:21.0	I don't want to die I don't want to die if I go back to Honduras I will die
0:27.4	Sick undocumented immigrants facing deportation fearing death after a move by the Trump administration
0:33.7	takes away a safety net that many say is keeping them alive. Plus as the
0:39.5	Amazon burns President Trump wants to open for business the largest national forest in the
0:44.7	United States why chopping away at this natural wonder could affect all of us. Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.
0:56.0	We begin with the 2020 lead today after the third Democratic presidential debate last
0:59.6	night in Houston.
1:01.0	Today Democrats and observers are asking a number of crucial questions starting with,
1:06.0	how solid is the frontrunner status of former Vice President Joe Biden?
1:10.3	One attack on Biden in particular from former HUD Secretary Julian Castro about whether Biden had forgotten something he had said just two minutes before
1:18.0	received booze from the audience and tutting from the punditocracy moments ago Biden brushed it off
1:24.6	when asked by CNN how he viewed the attack. I don't hear it as anything I think he
1:29.7	just got his facts wrong. But the question about Biden's sharpness and his vigor hangs like the sort of
1:37.1	Damocles above the Democratic Party is the candidate who has ridden so far on
1:42.1	the mantle of electability actually going to ultimately prove to be electable.
1:46.5	And though some pundits said the debate was arguably the best of the three so far for the former vice president,
1:52.0	other progressive commentators are saying today
1:54.4	that a rambling answer Biden gave about the legacy of slavery was disqualifying.
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