Manchin floats $1.5T price tag for package, progressives want $3.5T; Congress passes bill to avoid government shutdown; More Republicans are embracing a racist conspiracy theory; Facebook grilled over its platforms’ negative impact on kids

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Congress passes bill to avoid government shutdown; Biden’s own party threatens to blow up his domestic agenda; California health care workers face deadline to get vaccinated; NY gov pushing to include all health care workers in vaccine mandate; CDC forecasts new Covid deaths will fall over next month; GOP congresswoman blasted for pushing “replacement theory;” Senator creates fake teen girl Instagram account, says app then promoted “self-injury & eating disorder” accounts; Facebook grilled over its platforms’ negative impact on kids; FBI returned to Laundrie family home today 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	Is Speaker Pelosi about to make a $1.3 trillion bet?
0:07.8	The lead starts right now.
0:10.1	Moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin finally makes his counteroffer public and no one
0:15.2	knows what's going to happen next.
0:16.7	Will there be a vote on this huge piece of Biden's agenda or is this all going to come
0:21.8	crashing down?
0:23.2	Plus, one Senator says Instagram is like cigarettes designed to get teens hooked.
0:30.2	While another Senator creates a fake account to show the destructive influence that the
0:34.0	popular amp can have on children.
0:36.4	Plus, some Republican lawmakers are now openly pushing a wild racist conspiracy theory,
0:44.2	the latest dangerous lie to make its way from fringe message boards to mainstream Republicanism.
0:50.6	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper.
0:58.8	We start today with breaking news in our politics lead.
1:01.1	There is no deal and there is no framework, but there is a major development on Capitol
1:05.8	Hill today.
1:06.8	The moderate Democratic contingent has finally publicly made a counteroffer to the progressives
1:12.6	$3.5 trillion proposal to expand the social safety net.
1:16.8	West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a key voice in the Democratic negotiations, what
1:21.0	in front of the cameras today to announce his top line number, $1.5 trillion, he says.
1:26.6	Now progressives have for weeks been urging moderates to make a counteroffer, but $1.5 trillion
1:33.2	is less than half of what the progressives want and hearing it out loud.
1:36.4	Well, that might make it even more likely that the planned bipartisan infrastructure bill
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