Soon: House to vote over impeachment after Dem rep. says Trump should be punished for racist comments; Trump suggests he will call out Dem reps at rally; WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Sources: House will likely vote to table impeachment resolution; Source: Dem leadership prefers to kill impeachment resolution; Source: Moderate Dems felt vote over Trump racist tweets backfired, forced them to defend 4 progressives; Trump hits campaign trail as GOP defends his racist tweets; Sources: Trump & WH advisers believe criticizing Dem congresswomen is advantageous in 2020; Dem congresswomen deny fracture with Pelosi but have yet to meet face to face with the speaker; Sources: Moderate Dems not happy with Pelosi's handling of attacks against four Dem congresswomen; Sanders fires back at opponents, defends "Medicare for all"; Sanders accuses Biden of lying about "Medicare for all"; Sanders, Biden, Harris spar over health care proposals; Harris: My plan does not call for eliminating Obamacare; Soon: Trump leaves for North Carolina campaign rally; Trump regularly makes 20 or more false claims at rallies; Trump's use of "sir" signals he is making a false statement; New protests in Puerto Rico as governor apologizes for chat message scandal; Scandal and protests consume Puerto Rico as governor defies calls to step downTo 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	We soon will know maybe where every congressman and woman stands on the matter of
0:06.6	impeaching President Trump. The lead starts right now. Breaking news this hour,
0:11.8	the House of Representatives could vote on an impeachment resolution against the president
0:16.0	What are Democrats saying constitutes grounds for impeachment?
0:20.9	Also this hour President Trump on his way to a campaign rally as we find out that his
0:25.3	Trump card in 2020 could well be the race card. Plus Trump's tell the one word that
0:32.4	our fact-checker says is a tell-tale sign,
0:34.5	president's in the middle of a whopper.
0:36.5	This is CNN breaking news.
0:41.6	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with breaking news. CNN,
0:43.0	I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with breaking news.
0:45.0	This hour we expect a vote on the House floor over whether to impeach President Trump
0:49.0	after Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas,
0:52.0	for whom this has been something of a cause since
0:53.8	December 2017, introduced the impeachment resolution against him, not for any
0:59.0	Russia-related reasons, but over the President's racist tweets in which the president told
1:04.4	four Democratic congresswoman of color all US citizens three of the four born in the
1:08.4	US to go back where they came from. This is about bigotry and racism and that racism that's been infused
1:15.6	into policy. Are racist tweets really a high crimes and misdemeanors? His tweets
1:20.0	can incite people to do harm. Congressman Green going a bit rogue there telling CNN that he did not speak with Speaker
1:27.4	Pelosi about this move. Pelosi saying this afternoon that she's not sure what Democratic
1:32.0	leadership is going to do with this
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