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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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GOP leaders confident they will defeat Jan 6 commission bill today; McConnell asks senate republicans to vote no on Jan 6 commission as “a personal favor”; Manchin will not break GOP filibuster on commission bill: “I’m not ready to destroy our government”; Padilla calls for gun law reform after San Jose attack; Two arrested after alleged Anti-Semitic attack in LA; WSJ” San Jose gunman detained in 2016 by border officials who found notes about terrorism hatred of workplace; Data obtained by CNN shows interest in vaccinations increased after CDC updated mask guidance; Ohio awards first $1 million vaccination lottery prize; Nearly 40% of all Americans now fully vaccinated; Biden condemn “Escalating violence” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region; 200+ days of violence in Tigray, thousands feared killed, witnesses say young men are rounded up and executed 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	I never thought I'd live to see a day where senators would vote against forming a commission.
0:07.6	The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	Even the mother of a Capitol Hill police officer who died after the January 6th insurrection
0:15.0	has been unable to change the hearts and minds of Republican senators after they got calls
0:20.6	from Mitch McConnell telling them to bend the Trumps will.
0:24.0	Plus, the Republican divide on further display two of Trump's most loyal accolades are joining
0:29.8	forces on stage tonight as former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan heads to the Reagan
0:33.9	Library and prepares to tell his party it's time to cut and run from Trump and missed
0:40.3	signals.
0:41.3	We're just learning.
0:42.3	The killer has previously been questioned by federal law enforcement about his hatred
0:47.6	of the workplace in San Jose, so what if anything was done about it?
0:57.5	Welcome to the lead object tap where we start today with our politics lead and at any
1:00.8	moment a key Senate vote is all but guaranteed to fail, ending any hopes of a bipartisan commission
1:08.4	to investigate the Capitol insurrection to make sure such a dark day does not repeat itself.
1:14.4	CNN has learned that Senate Republicans are very confident they will defeat the vote
1:18.7	today, despite many of those very same senators calling for this exact type of investigation
1:26.0	in the days and weeks after the deadly riot.
1:29.2	Since then, of course, Republicans have largely changed their tune in fear of angering
1:33.7	Trump who support they feel they need to recapture control of the House and Senate.
1:38.4	They are invoting against the creation of the commission, breaking with decades of precedent
1:42.5	and refusing to support a bipartisan investigation into a very serious national security threat,
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