Trump brings U.S. to brink on immigration & Iran then pulls back deportations, retaliatory strike; Author accuses Trump of sexual assault in the 90s; Dems churn out policy proposals ahead of debate

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Trump imposes new "hard-hitting" sanctions against Iran; Trump denies author's sexual assault accusation from 90s; Trump: U.S. does not seek military conflict with Iran; Sources: U.S. launched retaliatory cyber attack on Iran; Buttigieg confronts racial tensions ahead of first debate; Buttigieg admits lack of progress in solving long-standing racial issues in South Bend; Sanders would cancel all $1.6 trillion of student loan debt; Beto O'Rourke proposes "war tax" as part of veterans' plan; CNN Exclusive look at Warren campaign's policy-making machine; Axios: Vetting found red flags on many Trump admin members; Trump: Biggest mistake was making Sessions attorney general; RNC researcher to Axios: Vetting process for Trump was a disaster, s***-show; Trump's pick for border czar calls out DHS Secy: McAleenan is on "wrong side"; Pence refuses to answer if he thinks climate emergency is a threatTo 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	Leaked White House vetting documents that raised more red flags than the club promoter
0:06.0	dating your daughter.
0:07.2	The lead starts right now.
0:09.8	President Trump returns to Washington as the crisis with Iran takes another dangerous turn and it's not
0:14.8	nearly the only crisis at home or abroad commanding the president's attention right now.
0:19.3	New sanctions coming down on Iran as another acting Secretary of Defense takes charge at the Pentagon
0:25.8	will maximum pressure on the regime lead to the negotiating table or to tomahawk missiles.
0:32.0	Plus it all begins again this week. table or to tomahawk missiles.
0:32.5	Plus it all begins again this week, 2020 Democrats in training for the first debates of
0:38.4	the presidential election season, as one candidate's day job threatens to derail his upstart campaign.
0:45.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:50.0	We begin with the politics lead, President trump careening from crisis to crisis as he escalates
0:55.2	tensions threatens harsh action and then suddenly
0:58.0	pulls the US back from the brink today president Trump
1:00.9	announced new quote hard-hitting sanctions against Iran.
1:03.8	The move coming after the US apparently came within 10 minutes of a retaliatory strike
1:10.1	against Iran last week according to President Trump before calling it off.
1:14.3	The president is also now putting off large-scale deportations of undocumented immigrants
1:19.5	for now he says.
1:20.5	He's giving Congress just two weeks to change asylum laws so as to alleviate
1:24.4	the number of undocumented immigrants coming to the US. The New York Times
1:28.6	Peter Baker refers to this trend as a variation on Teddy Roosevelt.
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