Key model predicts 410,000 Americans will die by January; Trump denies calling U.S. war dead “losers” & “suckers”; Biden calls on Trump to apologize, calls his comments “disgusting”; Trump has the biggest job losses of any U.S. president since World War II; Judges order Kanye West off Arizona and Virginia ballots; 7 Rochester officers suspended, video emerges five months after killing of Daniel Prude;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
FDA rejects coronavirus therapeutic pushed by Trump-supporting MyPillow CEO; Sources: Trump pressuring FDA for silver bullet by election; Limit data on Russia’s vaccine released; Model projects 3,000 Americans a day will die in December; Trump attacked McCain in 2015: “He’s not a war hero”; Trump’s long history of attacking military families; NYT: Bolton says he didn’t hear Trump insult fallen troops in France; Trump lies while denying report he disparaged service members; 1.4 million jobs added in last month, but still down 11.5 million jobs since pandemic hit; 1.4 million new jobs in august, unemployment rate falls to 8.4%; Analysis: Daniel Prude’s daughter: Officers involved in my father’s death deserve to be in jail; Protests in Rochester, New York latest to call for justice and racial equality across U.S.; Protesters in Kansas City mark anniversary of March on Washington; New calls for justice, racial equality after lifetime fight from John Lewis; Kanye West on 11 states’ ballots, can’t mathematically win; Republican operatives help West’s presidential bid; Source: GOP operatives believe they have Trump campaign blessing to help West campaign; Trump campaign denies ties with Kanye West’s Campaign;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the special edition of The Lead. I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper and we |
| 0:05.1 | begin with the Health Lead. An influential model now predicting the coronavirus |
| 0:10.1 | death toll in the United States could reach 400,000 people by the end of the year. |
| 0:16.0 | Now at the peak, a 9-11 level of loss every day. |
| 0:19.6 | 3,000 Americans could die every day in December. Health experts are on edge fearing |
| 0:26.2 | another surge in cases as we head into a holiday weekend. Right now more people |
| 0:31.0 | are flying now than ever during the pandemic. |
| 0:33.5 | Let's get right to see and it's Alexander Field. |
| 0:35.4 | And Alex, we've just got news that the FDA has rejected |
| 0:38.6 | an unproven treatment for the virus. |
| 0:40.4 | What are you learning? Pamela, it's called Oleandron. |
| 0:45.0 | The FDA rejected it as a dietary supplement citing significant safety concerns. |
| 0:49.5 | The FDA made no mention of using it as a treatment for COVID-19 |
| 0:54.4 | that's despite the fact that the My Pillow CEO Mike Lindel who has a stake in the company |
| 0:59.1 | has been touting it as a possible therapeutic saying he even went to the White House to discuss its use |
| 1:04.1 | with President Trump over the summer. All of this as we are seeing dire new predictions |
| 1:08.9 | about how this virus will spread across the country. |
| 1:14.0 | A stunning 410,000 total American deaths by New Year's. |
| 1:19.3 | The latest projection from a group whose predictions so far have been accurate if not more conservative |
| 1:24.2 | than actual figures. And the new model shows many more deaths if we abandon safety |
| 1:29.3 | protocols and far fewer if everyone wears a mask. |
| 1:33.3 | There are public health intervention. |
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