New Trump admin. rule targets poor, less educated immigrants; Former WH communications director Anthony Scaramucci suggests Trump should be replaced at top of 2020 ticket; Source: Epstein was not checked on for hours before his death

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Cuccinelli: New rule doesn't target any specific group; New immigration rule makes legal immigration harder; New rule means green cards, visas could be denied if immigrants have used Medicaid, food stamps; Immigration chief: Immigrants must be able to "stand on their own two feet"; Scaramucci: Every day Trump is getting worse and worse; Trump shares conspiracy theory to 63 million Twitter followers; Federal prosecutors: Dayton shooter's friend bought high-capacity magazine, body armor used in deadly shooting; Democratic candidates focus on gun control; Biden mistakenly says he met with Parkland survivors while he was VP; Biden pens op-ed "banning assault weapons works"; U.S. official: Deadly explosion at Russian military site "likely" caused by new nuclear missile; U.S. official: Russia blast likely caused by "skyfall" missile test; Trump admin. moves to weaken endangered species protectionsTo 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	And now they're focusing on limiting legal immigration.
0:05.0	The lead starts right now.
0:07.0	The Trump administration wants immigrants who are willing to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
0:12.9	That's the message today.
0:14.4	As the White House announces a new immigration rule
0:16.9	that could impact hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.
0:21.6	The motive remains a mystery, but today new answers on how the Dayton
0:25.9	killer got his arsenal including a high-capacity magazine thanks to a friend who
0:30.8	also says he used to get hind with the killer many times a week.
0:35.0	Plus it could be one of the worst nuclear accidents since Chernobyl.
0:41.0	Why Russia's evasive explanations about five scientists killed in a military
0:45.6	test site are setting off alarm bells for national security officials around the world.
0:51.2	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and our politics lead today this morning
0:57.6	the Trump administration announced it is seeking to change the rules for legal immigration, seeking to make it harder to get into this country
1:06.2	legally.
1:07.2	Specifically, the administration is targeting immigrants who are low income and less educated
1:11.8	and thus more likely to rely on food stamps or
1:14.8	of other government benefits. The Trump administration claims it is merely
1:18.9	trying to restore integrity to a broken system but today's announcement is being interpreted by critics as an attempt
1:25.2	to discourage immigrants who are poor and uneducated, potentially flying in the face of that
1:30.2	famous Emma Lazarus poem at the Statue of Liberty, which a reporter asked
1:34.6	Trump administration immigration official Ken Kucinelli about earlier today.
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