President Biden touts “shots in arms and money in pockets”; Growing number of Dems ask Biden to make urgent changes at border; NYC mayor: Cuomo scandals “making it harder to get things done”; CDC: 1 in 5 Americans has gotten at least one vaccine dose;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Biden announces former economic official Gene Sperling will lead implementation of $1.9T stimulus package; Biden, Harris & spouses sell stimulus on “help is here tour”; Biden: local doctors, leaders would be more effective at convincing skeptical Americans about vaccine than Trump; CNN poll: 46% of republicans say they will not try to get a vaccine; Ex-Trump testing czar: Trump and Pence should tell supporters to get a vaccine; U.S. averaging 2.4 million vaccine doses administered per day; Some Trump-era CDC guidance was not grounded in science and free from undue influence, agency review finds; Ex-Trump testing czar: Biden has done some “very good things” but built on “foundations” from Trump admin; Migrants describe dire situation at southern border, including packed facilities full of mothers & children; Migrants entering U.S. say they slept under a bridge while waiting for transportation to an immigration facility; Lawyers: kids detained at overcrowded Texas shelter are “distraught” and haven’t been able to contact their parents; WH pressed on why Biden is touring U.S. to promote COVID relief deal but hasn’t visited southern border; Psaki won’t call border surge a “crisis” or “disaster”; Sen. Johnson says capitol rioters didn’t scare him, but BLM protesters would; Majority of NY congressional leadership call for Cuomo to resign, Biden and Pelosi do not; Reports: Gov. Cuomo’s vaccine czar called NY county officials to gauge loyalty; Cuomo accuser meets with investigators for more than four hours; Two men charged in assault of U.S. capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who died in January 6 attack; DOJ: two men seen on body cams spraying a toxic chemical at three officers including Sicknick; Positive signs in fighting COVID: daily cases, deaths decline as CDC says 1 in 5 are at least partially vaccinated; Maskless spring break crowds threaten pandemic progress; CDC considering changing guidelines for physical distancing at schools from six feet to three feet; Spain, Italy, Germany, France join countries pausing AstraZeneca vaccines; CDC Dir: U.K. variant will be dominant in the U.S. in weeks; Generation of Syrian children scarred by 10 years of war; Young girl lost leg after bomb explosion near her Syrian home; Many Syrian children babies sick, malnourished after years of bombings, poverty and now pandemic; Prize winning physics teacher dies of coronavirus; 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	Welcome to the lead-up, Jake Tapper, and we begin today with the politics lead.
0:06.7	This afternoon, President Biden laid out his plan to implement the massive $1.9 trillion
0:11.5	relief package called the American Rescue Plan.
0:14.2	The president saying soon there will be more vaccines in arms and more money in pockets.
0:18.9	Amidst criticisms and concerns that the huge package is insufficiently targeted and could
0:23.9	potentially cause inflation.
0:25.9	President Biden also announced that a former top economic official for Obama and Clinton,
0:30.4	Gene Spurling, will lead the effort to maximize every penny of the stimulus.
0:36.1	The president, vice president, and their spouses hit the road today from Vegas to near
0:40.8	Philly for what the White House is calling the help is here, tour, touting the massive
0:46.6	legislation.
0:47.6	This comes as President Biden is sending new goals for the nation to begin the path out
0:52.4	of this pandemic and to help reach those goals.
0:55.4	The Biden administration is now devoting $250 million to try to encourage skeptical Americans,
1:00.7	many of them Trump supporters, to get the vaccine.
1:03.8	As CNNs filmatically now reports, shots in arms and money in pockets.
1:11.2	With stimulus checks already hitting bank accounts, President Biden now in an all-out sprint
1:15.7	to promote the $1.9 trillion COVID relief law.
1:19.2	The American Rescue Plan is already doing what it was designed to do.
1:23.6	Make a difference in people's everyday lives.
1:26.9	And ensure there are no errors as it's put into place.
1:30.5	The devil is in the details.
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