Some 2020 Democrats slam Biden for comments about segregationists; Hope Hicks refuses to answer questions about her time at WH; At least 10 top Trump admin positions filled in acting capacity; Warren grabs Sanders' attention as she soars in new poll

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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McConnell: U.S. dealt with sin of slavery by electing Obama; Biden recalls his working relationships with segregationists; Biden campaign defends comments: Biden didn't praise segregationists, but there was civility involved; Nadler: Dems would "destroy" WH immunity argument in court; Hicks about to wrap closed-door testimony on hill; Trump returns to WH after 2020 rally filled with 2016 attacks; Warren grabs Sanders' attention as she soars in new poll; Sanders tells corporate America: "I welcome your hatred"; Warren campaign: "we don't pay much attention to polls"; Trump delivers on coal promise, rolls back Obama-era policy; "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot testifies on Boeing 737 Max airliner, says he had trouble landing in simulatorTo 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	Corey Booker this afternoon demanding Joe Biden apologize for his comments about segregationists.
0:07.0	Happy Juneteenth everyone. The lead starts right now.
0:11.0	Joe Biden says a racist senator never called him boy as an example of a time
0:15.6	when there was civility in the Senate the major Democratic backlash today on the
0:20.5	2020 campaign trail. What year is it?
0:24.0	President Trump heading back to Washington right now
0:26.0	after kicking off his campaign by rehashing his bashing of Hillary Clinton.
0:30.0	As a woman who had his ear for years refuses to talk about the past. Plus, burning
0:36.4	questions the EPA rolling back a plan that the agency once said could
0:40.6	prevent thousands of people from dying early.
0:43.6	They're doing so in order to keep a Trump campaign promise.
0:47.0	Welcome to the lead up, Jake Tapper.
0:51.7	We're going to start with the 2020 lead today and Joe Biden under attack from many members of his own party and outcry today
0:58.0	over his comments last night at a fundraiser, the former vice president who was in the US Senate for almost 40 years before
1:04.5	that recalled his working relationship with segregationist senators bemoaning
1:09.2	that while he disagreed with them on racial issues, at least there was some civility.
1:14.3	A former Senator James Eastland, a Democrat of Mississippi who once called African Americans
1:18.9	an inferior race, Biden said, quote, he never called me boy, he always called me son of another segregationist,
1:25.6	former Democratic Senator Hermann Talmadge of Georgia, Biden said, quote, we didn't agree
1:29.8	on much of anything, we got things done, we got got it finished but today you look at the
1:34.2	other side and you're the enemy today many of Biden's 20-20 rival senator
1:38.9	kory booker New York City Mayor Bill de blaseo are calling
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