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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Soon: key senate vote on sweeping election reform bill; NYC voting now after chaotic final 24 hours of mayoral race; Officials: Biden will miss July 4 goal of 70% of adults with 1 shot;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Key vote expected to fail tonight on election reform bill; Manchin will vote “yes” on advancing election reform bill; Dem senator thinks some in GOP may vote with Dems tonight; WH braces for defeat on election reform: “the fight is not over”; Sinema, Manchin restate opposition to gutting filibuster; Dem rep: Biden need to “lead out front” on election reform; WH rejects criticism from progressives that Biden should be more vocal on election reform bills; VP Harris to preside over senate for tonight’s vote;  NYC mayoral race: how ranked choice voting works in big test; It could take weeks to know who won NYC mayoral primary; Senator faces questions over private beach club membership;  Biden repeatedly called vaccine deadline a “goal”; Now that they won’t meet it, White House says it was “aspirational”; Biden admin turns focus to 18- to 26-year-old vaccine holdouts; One-on0one with Dr. Anthony Fauci; Fauci: “I don’t’ see any big deal” if nation misses Biden's goal of 70% with one COVID shot by July 4; Fauci: we will reach 70% goal by second or third week of July;  HHS: 14k children housed in temporary facilities, hundreds in custody 60+ days; Testimony reveals dire conditions for migrant children at border; Migrant child says staff made them wear same clothes for 15 days, spend most hours on their bed;  Kim Jong Un’s sister downplays hope for better U.S. relations; Kim Jong Un’s sister: U.S. will face “disappointment” if it tries to “seek comfort” from Kim’s new call for dialogue; Kim Jong Un says North Korea should be prepared for “dialogue and confrontation” with the U.S.;  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

President Biden bracing himself for a major part of his agenda to die on the Senate

0:08.2

floor.

0:09.2

The lead starts right now.

0:11.8

A showdown in the U.S. Senate just minutes away with the Democrat sweeping election reform

0:17.6

bill likely to fail a key vote.

0:20.5

Are there really not 10 Republicans willing to cross the aisle just to start debating this?

0:26.4

The shot clock winding down.

0:28.5

The U.S. on pace to miss President Biden's 4th of July vaccination goal.

0:33.6

So now to mix sports metaphors, Biden is moving.

0:37.5

The goalposts Dr. Anthony Fauci will join us live.

0:40.8

Plus Kim Jong-un's sister taking a swipe at the U.S. the new warning from nuclear North

0:46.3

Korea.

0:53.9

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper and we start with breaking news in our politics lead

0:58.6

and one of President Biden's top priorities about to die an ugly death on the floor of

1:04.6

the U.S. Senate.

1:05.6

In the next hour, the Senate is set to vote to advance a sweeping election reform bill,

1:11.0

the so-called for the People Act.

1:12.7

The bill would, among other things, make election day a public holiday, would expand early

1:17.0

voting to at least 15 consecutive days.

1:20.7

It would ban partisan gerrymandering.

1:23.2

Some of the other more controversial measures include expanding public financing of campaigns,

1:28.5

requiring many states to overhaul their voting and machines.

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