Stocks drop as Trump tweets he’s ending stimulus talks; Republicans push ahead to confirm Amy Coney Barrett; Biden: Mask wearing, social distancing aren’t political statements; Pence team objects plexiglass barrier at tomorrow’s VP debate;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Trump’s physician: Trump reports no symptoms, doing “extremely well”; No signs Trump’s battle with coronavirus has changed his views of virus; Officials: Trump to record video message today, no plans for live address; Trump again falsely claims COVID-19 is less deadly than the flu; Critics attack Trump for maskless, balcony photo-op; Infected GOP Sen: I’ll vote in a “moon suit” to confirm Barrett; Biden speaks at campaign event in Gettysburg, PA; Long lines as early voting begins today in Ohio and Indiana; Florida extends voter registration deadline after online system crashed, “unprecedented” volume; More than 3 million ballots cast in 26 states; 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
0:01.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we continue this hour with the Breaking News.
0:08.0	President Trump, tweeting late this afternoon that he is pulling the plug on the latest
0:12.3	negotiations for a COVID stimulus relief bill
0:15.4	which would of course leave millions of Americans without help in the midst of
0:19.3	this coronavirus pandemic the markets reacting by falling the Dow just about to
0:24.5	close down some 350 or so points. Speaker Nancy Pelosi releasing a statement
0:28.9	saying quote clearly the White House is in complete disarray."
0:33.1	This comes as President Trump is battling coronavirus himself,
0:37.2	his physician releasing a new brief update
0:40.1	on the President's condition.
0:41.8	Short note saying Trump is now reporting no
0:44.3	symptoms as he battles the virus still leaving unanswered many key questions
0:48.6	about the president's fight with the virus such as his temperature, his lung scans, his current medications.
0:55.0	Meantime President Trump is saying he has overcome the virus and the country can too,
1:00.0	but of course he also saying that you can't let this lethal virus which has killed more than 210,000 Americans quote
1:07.0	dominate your lives can't let it dominate your lives the president said the comment has offended many Americans who have lost loved ones to the virus
1:15.4	who are suffering health problems not to mention all of us who of course had to
1:19.2	change our lives whether through remote education for our kids or canceled weddings and bar mitzvah's the
1:24.8	notion that this virus that has been mishandled isn't already dominating our lives
1:29.4	specifically because of the government's inadequate response is frankly insulting
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