Pelosi: “Don’t Embarrass Joe Biden”
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Speaker Pelosi's final pitch to Democrats don't embarrass Joe Biden when he's overseas. |
| 0:07.2 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.2 | President Biden acknowledges that his presidency could be on the line and he calls on Congress |
| 0:13.5 | to get his agenda done, but one progressive congresswoman says she feels bamboozled and |
| 0:18.7 | she will join us. |
| 0:20.1 | Next, fears that the world is on the precipice of a global energy crisis, perhaps the worst |
| 0:25.2 | in decades. |
| 0:26.2 | What might that mean for you and your family as we head into winter? |
| 0:30.4 | The Santa Fe sheriff, now revealing whom investigators are focused on as they try to |
| 0:34.4 | get to the bottom of that fatal on-set shooting. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, we're going to start off with the politics lead today. |
| 0:46.2 | Air Force One is in the air and so is President Biden's entire domestic agenda up in the |
| 0:51.2 | air. |
| 0:52.2 | He's en route for a major foreign trip and leaving behind, frankly, a mess of Democrats |
| 0:55.8 | own making here in Washington over his agenda. |
| 0:58.2 | Just hours before departing for Rome, Biden portrayed a done deal for that legislation, |
| 1:03.7 | the Build Back Better Act, social safety net programs you've heard so much wrangling |
| 1:07.3 | over. |
| 1:08.3 | Take a listen. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm pleased to announce it after months of tough and thoughtful negotiations, I think |
| 1:16.9 | we have an historic, I know we have a historic economic framework. |
| 1:20.6 | Yes, without question, there's been progress. |
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