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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Moderate Sen. Manchin on Harris pushing relief bill with local WV media: “that’s not a way of working together”; WH says they are in touch with Sen. Manchin after he slams VP Harris for doing interviews with WV media; Funding for state & local govts a sticking point in stimulus talks; GOP Sen. Ernst: Trump holds “some responsibility” for Capitol attack, but concerns over trying ex-president; WH: ramping up production of first fully at-home COVID test; NYT: 9 top health officials quit over tensions with Gov. Cuomo, NY health commissioner pushes back; New cases, hospitalizations dropping after deadliest month; Vaccine experts suggest delaying second vaccine doses to give as many first doses as possible to those 65+; CNN: Trump lawyers left him over disagreement on legal strategy; Reality at border as Biden promises changes on immigration; Citizenship for dreamers, reunite separated kids, end wall construction among Biden’s proposals; Biden expected to propose task force to reunite 600+ migrant children with families; Judge temporarily blocks Biden’s attempt to pause deportations; Texas rancher: border wall was “hostile takeover of my property,” Trump admin was “fine and dandy” with it; Aung San Suu Kyi detained in Myanmar coup, now under house arrest as Biden considers sanctions; Three brothers served in Afghanistan; Only one survived; Ret. marine Beau Wise shares story on bravery & sacrifice; Wise has two brothers in military who died in Afghanistan; Remembering 57-year-old television writer Marc Wilmore; 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 I'm Jake Tapper and we begin with our politics lead in the next hour
0:05.1	President Biden and Vice President Harris are going to meet with 10 Republican senators.
0:09.4	The GOP senators are pitching to the Biden administration a slim down COVID relief bill a
0:14.2	600 billion dollar counter proposal to the president's 1.9 trillion dollar plan.
0:19.0	The Republican bill is not substantively different from the Biden proposal.
0:22.8	It is significantly less in funding though,
0:24.8	including no funding for some Democratic priorities such as funding for
0:27.8	states and cities.
0:29.0	This will be the first major test of President Biden's
0:31.8	pledge to work across the aisle.
0:33.8	And a Biden administration source tells CNN that while the president is open to working with
0:37.0	Republican, $600 billion will not be enough to do the job with the nation in crisis.
0:41.6	This challenge also comes as the
0:43.1	Biden White House is facing blowback from Vice President Harris's interviews
0:47.3	pushing urgent action on economic relief with West Virginia news media
0:52.2	of a move seen as pressure on moderate West Virginia
0:55.4	Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. Manchin was put off by the move, which to many
0:59.1	political observers seemed rather ham-handed. As CNN's film Mattingly reports,
1:03.1	the White House this afternoon
1:04.2	says President Biden is not worried about going too big
1:07.4	with the bill.
1:08.0	He is worried about going too small.
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