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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Special Edition: At least 14 states pause or suspend reopening plans; Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion law; WH: “no consensus” in intel community on Russian bounty report;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

46 states increase or flat in new cases, just 4 states declining; U.S. death toll tops 125,000 as cases continue to surge; CA Gov: state seeing 45% rise in positive tests over last week; Florida leads U.S. in new coronavirus cases; South Florida beaches to close July 4 weekend; Jacksonville mandates masks ahead of GOP convention; Arizona hospitals at nearly 90% capacity as cases surge; Arizona reports largest one day increase in cases amid surge; W.H.O. the pandemic “is not even close to being over”;   Fauci: lack of masks, distancing are “recipe for disaster”; Fauci: Americans not wearing masks or distancing fueling surge; Shortage of contact tracers in states with cases spiking; Fauci on contact tracing: “I don’t think we’re doing very well”; Fauci: vaccine unlikely to get U.S. to herd immunity level; HHS secy: “window is closing” to get virus “under control”;   Officers charged in George Floyd’s killing appear in court, trial date set; Chief Justice Roberts sides with liberal justices to block Louisiana abortion law; White House: Supreme Court abortion ruling “unfortunate”, devalues health of mother and lives of unborn children; Chief Justice Roberts has now sided with liberal justices on abortion law, immigration and LGBTQ cases   Bipartisan congressional leaders demand answers from WH on Russian bounty intel; 8 GOP lawmakers briefed at WH on Russian bounties intel;  Pelosi demands intel briefing on Russian bounty reports; Source: Dems to be briefed tomorrow on Russia bounty intel; Source: Russian intel officers offered money to Taliban fighters to kill U.S., UK troops in Afghanistan; Trump denies being briefed on Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops; Sources: U.S. shared Russian bounty intel with UK last week; Trump admin asks supreme court to overturn affordable care act;   5,000+ people a day being admitted to Texas hospitals; Houston mayor asks Gov. for a new “stay at home” order; Inside look at how jail hotspot is now protecting detainees; After massive early outbreak, Cook County Jail tries to keep COVID case count low; Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove confederate symbol in state flag; Mississippi becomes last state to remove any confederate symbolism in state flag; Family of confederate leader: put Mississippi’s confederate state flag in a museum; Officers hit “breaking point,” retire amid rising tension; Major U.S. cities se uptick in violence amid calls to defund police; 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

This is CNN breaking news.

0:05.0

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with our health lead, the surge of new coronavirus cases so high in the United States, at least 12 states have

0:16.0

by now paused or rolled back their efforts to reopen.

0:20.5

More than half the country, 31 states, have their lines trending up, lines of new cases, Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, all reporting the highest number of new daily cases that they've ever had.

0:35.0

Only four states are seeing a decrease.

0:38.3

One month ago on Memorial Day, 18 states had rising cases compared to the 31 who have them today.

0:44.4

10 states were seeing a decline.

0:46.4

Again, only four of them today.

0:48.9

This is what a failure to contain a virus looks like, as opposed to this chart from the European Union,

0:56.5

which shows at least as of now a successful effort to contain the virus.

1:00.8

What does that mean?

1:02.0

That means European lives will be saved and American

1:06.1

lives will be lost. Now, Health Secretary Alex Azar is warning Americans that the quote

1:11.9

window is closing to get the pandemic

1:14.2

under control in the US and in a new interview with CNN Dr Anthony Fauchy the

1:19.0

nation's top infectious diseases experts said fueling the surge are Americans not wearing masks, not

1:26.3

practicing social or physical distancing, causing a quote, recipe for disaster.

1:32.1

CNN's Randy Kay is live for us in Palm Beach County, Florida.

1:35.0

That's the state leading the nation in new cases.

1:38.0

And Randy, things have gotten so bad in Florida.

1:41.0

Mayors are even shutting down beaches for the 4th of July weekend?

1:45.0

Yeah and that's not good news Jake for lots of folks here of course for a lot of reasons

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