Trump again defends his racist attacks on U.S. lawmakers; House to vote on condemning Trump's racist comments; Scaramucci reacts to Trump's racist tweets about Dem lawmakers; Dem rep throws gavel down as anger boils with GOP

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Dems to vote on resolution to condemn Trump's racist attack; Trump again defends his racist on U.S. lawmakers; House GOP leaders defend Trump's racist attacks on lawmakers; Rep McCarthy & Sen. McConnell say Pres. Trump is not a racist after Trump sends racist tweets; McConnell: president Trump is not a racist; GOP Leaders meeting with Pres. Trump this hour after spending day defending his racist tweets; House to vote on resolution to condemn Trump's racist attack; Scaramucci: Trump's tweets "racist and unacceptable"; White supremacists celebrate Trump's racist tweets; White nationalist who once backed Trump calls Trump's racist tweets "red meat"; Trump's pick for defense secretary faces confirmation as Iran and North Korea test their nuclear limits; Trump's pick for defense secretary: we do not want war with Iran; North Korea hints at resuming nuclear testing, accuses U.S. of breaching "spirit" of talks ; Trump's defense pick: we are fighting a cyber war now; Boko Haram still holding 112 schoolgirls captive;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	Was it L be L be a L bej who said if I've lost Scaramucci I've lost middle America?
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	President Trump today dig it in again, defending his racist tweets about minority
0:14.6	Democratic congresswomen and possibly revealing why he's going to keep this
0:18.1	fight alive till at least say November 2020 while a former top White
0:22.2	House aide calls the tweets racist.
0:24.5	He'll join us live this hour.
0:26.7	A different story for House Republican leaders refusing to condemn the President's
0:31.3	tweets as Democrats are about to force them to go on record
0:34.9	with a vote will any house republicans defect. Plus a new CNN poll added the first
0:40.9	primary state showing Joe Biden may not be alone at the top anymore.
0:45.0	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.
0:50.0	We begin today with our politics lead.
0:53.2	This hour, President Trump will meet behind closed doors
0:55.9	with Republican congressional leaders ahead of what could be a symbolic rebuke
0:59.7	of the commander-in-chief.
1:01.2	In just a matter of hours hours House Democrats will vote on a
1:03.9	resolution to condemn the president's racist go back where you came from
1:08.7	tweets to four Democratic House freshmen all of them women of, three of them born in the United States,
1:14.7	all of them American citizens.
1:16.6	The vote will force House Republicans to come down in support or in opposition to the proposition
1:21.4	that the president should be denounced for making racist comments.
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