Tonight: 7 GOP presidential candidates face off in 2nd debate

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Tonight, Republican presidential candidates will fight for second place in GOP polling as the frontrunner, Donald Trump, skips the debate. Our panel discuss what messaging, positions, and strategies the candidates may take on key issues. Plus, in an effort to avoid a government shutdown, a new short-term bill was outlined by Speaker McCarthy which would include provisions for the border. 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	Trump's excuse today, you should never have believed me in the first place.
0:08.4	The lead starts right now.
0:11.1	The latest ruling against Donald Trump gets at the core of his entire identity, a judge
0:16.7	finding him liable for fraud ruling his real estate empire was built on a lie.
0:22.8	Trump responds this morning on social media noting, a clause saying that nothing in his
0:28.2	financial statement should be accepted as fact in other words, I told you I was lying
0:33.3	people and new bank records in Hunter Biden's criminal case, including wire transfers from
0:40.8	China.
0:41.8	This House Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry and try, try to connect
0:47.6	President Biden to his son's activities, plus formerly a wall US soldier Travis King
0:53.9	back in American custody, just why did he run across the DMZ into North Korea and did
1:01.2	the US cut some sort of deal with the communist nation to bring him back.
1:11.9	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, we're going to start today with our law and justice
1:16.0	lead.
1:17.0	Donald Trump is set to go on trial on Monday, but I'm not talking about any of the four
1:23.0	criminal cases he's facing, the 91 criminal charges laid out in those four indictments.
1:27.5	I'm not talking about the Manhattan district attorney's case about hush money paid to
1:33.4	a porn star.
1:34.4	I'm not talking about the special counsel's case in Florida about Trump's handling of classified
1:41.0	documents.
1:42.0	I'm not talking about the special counsel's case in DC about Trump attempting to subvert
1:48.0	the constitution by trying to overturn the election.
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