President slams Biden, defends border patrol and insists citizenship question will be included in 2020 census; Exclusive: former VP Joe Biden sits down with CNN; Biden: vast majority of dems are where I am on the issues; Harris campaign raises less than $

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🗓️ 5 July 2019

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Trump falsely claims citizenship question often included; Source: justice dept to pursue census citizenship question; Sources: Trump frustrated with commerce secretary Ross; Trump: border detention centers are "run beautifully"; Former VP Biden defends his record on busing; VP Biden defends himself: "Look at my record"; Biden on Harris's attack: I didn't want to get into that scrum; Biden: I wasn't prepared for Harris to come at me like that; Joe Biden insists "People know who I am"; Biden: I've never been accused of being unable to spar; Biden: Trump is "The bully that I knew my whole life"; Biden: Trump is dissing allies, embracing thugs; Biden: There will be no NATO if Trump is re-elected; Biden: Trump gave Kim Jong Un legitimacy, got nothing back; Biden: idea that trade war benefits anyone is "ludicrous"; Exclusive: Biden on health care, college costs & debt; Biden: people shouldn't have to give up private health plans; Biden expresses skepticism of Ocasio-Cortez's mass appeal; Biden: I will raise tax rate to 39.5 %; Biden: undocumented immigrants should get access to healthcare; Biden: I don't think crossing border should be decriminalized; Biden: would be great to have female VP or pres if I lose; Biden doesn't commit to picking female vice president; Biden: a president's role is to persuade not just fight;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	July 4th is over but the fireworks between Biden and Harris don't seem to be ending.
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	The entire CNN exclusive interview with Joe Biden this hour.
0:15.0	He's surprised by Senator Kamala Harris's attack and unmoved by progressives like AOC.
0:21.0	Plus, Biden says he's ready to spar with the president calling Trump the school bully
0:26.0	he'd smack in the mouth.
0:28.1	Plus President Trump, fresh off his July 4th event, returns fire.
0:37.0	Welcome to this special edition of the lead. I'm Dana Bash in for Jake.
0:39.0	We begin with the politics lead.
0:41.0	President Trump is now at his New Jersey golf club but
0:44.3	before departing the White House a venting session on the North lawn attacking
0:48.9	Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and insisting a citizenship question will be added to the 2020
0:55.2	census after all. The president says the administration is looking at a number of
0:59.2	options to make that happen including an executive order. CNN's Abby Philip kicks off now from
1:05.8	the White House. President Trump signaling he may use an executive order to
1:12.2	force a citizenship question onto the
1:14.3	2020 census. We have four or five ways we can do it. It's one of the ways that we're
1:19.0	thinking about doing it. Having lost in the Supreme Court and as the forms are being printed without the question,
1:24.6	Trump seems undaunted.
1:26.6	So we can start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision.
1:32.2	Arguing history is on his side.
1:34.0	If you look at the history of our country,
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