President Trump: "Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back"; Restrictions eased in parts of New York, Maryland, Virginia; 48 states to phase in reopen plans by Monday; Tensions rise between U.S. and China over coronavirus response;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Defense Secy: We'll deliver a vaccine by end of year; Trump: I gave staffers choice to wear masks in Rose Garden; VP Pence again skips Trump's events today to be cautious; Trump: Hope to have vaccine for entire public by January; Trump: Ramping up production of vials, needles, syringes in anticipation of mass vaccine distribution; Trump admin racing to avoid supply shortage for administering possible vaccine; Trump says hardest hit states may get first access to coronavirus vaccine; Michigan Gov: Capitol protests essentially a political rally; Texas reports biggest one-day jump in coronavirus cases; Some CA beaches open; New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware to reopen beaches Memorial Day weekend; Trump ramps up attacks on Chinese Govt's handling of coronavirus, says it "should have been stopped from China"; Trump threatens to cut off relationship with China; Postal Service's future in doubt, as Trump ally takes over agency and Congress debates funding; House rescue package includes $22 billion for Postal Service; Veterans among most vulnerable to coronavirus, V.A. criticized for not doing enough to protect them;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	This is CNN breaking news.
0:06.0	And welcome to the lead today.
0:08.0	I'm Jake Tapper.
0:09.0	Today as the death toll from coronavirus nears 87,000 people in the US.
0:14.0	President Trump is announcing more details of what the administration is calling
0:17.6	Operation Warp Speed.
0:19.4	This is the effort to develop a vaccines for coronavirus.
0:22.4	The president today saying he hopes a vaccine
0:24.5	can be achieved by the end of this year and the new head of the effort Moncef
0:29.2	Sloi formerly of the Pharmaceutical Giant Glaxo-Smith Klein,
0:33.4	as well as Defense Secretary Mark Esper,
0:35.6	well, they went even further.
0:38.4	I have very recently seen early data
0:42.4	from a clinical trial with a coronavirus vaccine and these data
0:47.6	made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020.
0:57.0	We will deliver by the end of this year a vaccine at scale to treat the American people and our partners abroad.
1:08.8	We all certainly hope so and yet at this event announcing the leaders of this vaccine effort, President Trump seemed to undermine the very importance of a vaccine in some ways.
1:20.0	Vaccine and no vaccine vaccine we're back.
1:25.0	But how are we back?
1:28.0	The U.S death toll continues to rise.
1:31.0	It remains likely that we could lose more than 60,000 more Americans
1:34.6	over the next two months. Not to mention of course the hundreds of thousands
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