President Trump denies racist tweets were racist; Booker: Trump using "bigoted, vile, dangerous language"; Biden slams "Medicare for all" as he unveils health care plan

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Booker: Trump "fanning the flames" of racial violence; 2020 candidate Booker on Trump's racist attack; Booker: The country will "rise up" to fight Trump's racism; Booker: No "equivalency" between what Dems and Trump say; Trump calls recent deportation raids "successful"; Trump admin yet to show results of deportation raids; Sanders defends "Medicare for all" amid Biden's criticism; Prosecutors push for Epstein bail denial citing severity of charges; Prosecutors: Epstein had cash, diamonds, foreign passport in safe; Airlines cancel thousands of flights as 737 Max delays continue; Beloved Louisiana civil rights activist found dead in trunk of car, police ask community for help; Soon: Dems attacked by Trump hold news conferenceTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	President Trump today denying that his racist tweets were racist. The lead starts right now.
0:07.0	Can't stop, won't stop. President Trump continuing to say Democratic Congresswomen of color should go back where they came from even though
0:15.0	three of the four he seems to be targeting are from the US and all four are American citizens.
0:20.0	The latest on yet another standard of basic decency in American values shattered.
0:26.0	Also, G. O. P. M. I. A. If you're looking for Republicans to condemn these hateful tweets, you're
0:32.1	not going to find a lot of takers
0:33.8	20-20 Democratic candidate Corey Booker will react this hour plus a shocking
0:39.2	and upsetting murder mystery the founder of an African American history museum
0:42.2	found dead in the trunk of a car,
0:44.3	what the autopsy results reveal.
0:47.0	Welcome to the lead up, Jake Tapper.
0:52.3	We begin with the politics lead. Today President
0:54.5	Trump is not backing away from his stunningly racist attack on a group of
0:59.0	minority members of Congress. Instead, he's trying to defend it denying it was racist and
1:04.2	spewing even more divisiveness.
1:07.6	These are people that in my opinion hate our country.
1:11.1	All I'm saying that if they're not happy here, they can leave.
1:14.9	They can leave.
1:16.1	And you know what?
1:17.1	I'm sure that there'll be many people that won't miss them.
1:22.3	Yesterday, Mr. Trump tweeted that progressive Democratic Congresswoman who, quote, originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, unquote, should, quote, go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,
1:35.0	then come back and show us how it's done.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.