Now: House GOP meeting, may decide fate of Reps. Cheney & Greene; 100,000+ Americans have already died from Covid-19 in 2021; TSA: 493k passengers passed through U.S. airports Tuesday, near six-month low; Biden tells House Dems to “stick together” in Covid relief push
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Study: younger adults are the biggest Covid spreaders in the U.S.; CDC director: teachers don’t need to be vaccinated to safely reopen schools; Study shows Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine might help stop virus transmission, rather than just preventing illness; CNN analysis: pilots blame being “rusty” in at least 26 incidents since start of pandemic; In first interview, Biden vows family won’t have role in admin, after brother touts relationship in firm AD; Biden: “I think we’ll get some Republicans” to support Dem plan; Biden tells House Dems to “stick together” in Covid relief push; McCarthy condemns Rep. Greene’s statements but blames Dems for raising the temperature; Once popular GOP Rep. Newhouse at risk of losing reelection in 2022 after voting to impeach Trump; Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick laid to rest at Arlington cemetery;
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with breaking news. |
| 0:08.1 | Right now, House Republicans are set to meet in a private session that may very well determine |
| 0:13.6 | the future of the Republican Party. |
| 0:16.2 | The meeting centers on two Republican Congresswomen, the first Congresswomen, Liz Cheney of Wyoming. |
| 0:22.5 | Cheney could lose her party leadership position, House Republican Conference Chair, because |
| 0:27.1 | she was among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump last month for |
| 0:31.0 | inciting the violent insurrection on the Capitol. |
| 0:34.3 | The second is Congresswomen, Marjorie Taylor, green a Trump ally who, in social media posts |
| 0:38.2 | before her election, supported assassinating Democrats and pushed conspiracy theories about |
| 0:44.3 | QAnon and Pizegate, about mass shootings in 9-11 being faked. |
| 0:49.4 | Green shared a video that claimed Jews are pushing migration to breed white people out |
| 0:53.5 | of existence. |
| 0:54.8 | She mused on Facebook that rich Jews used lasers to set forest fires to make money. |
| 1:01.5 | Lies and bigotry about which Congresswomen green is unapologetic. |
| 1:05.9 | She stands by it all. |
| 1:07.8 | The questions the Republican face with her is, should there be any consequences for someone |
| 1:12.4 | who continues to spread lies and bigotry into arranged conspiracy theories and calls for |
| 1:16.7 | violence in the post-January 6th era, when we all see what that can do. |
| 1:23.2 | This afternoon, Democrats announced there will be a full house vote tomorrow on whether |
| 1:27.1 | green can keep her spot on the education committee and the budget committee, which suggests |
| 1:31.6 | that Republicans, especially Republican leaders, are not willing to take those actions themselves. |
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