Trump claims coronavirus is coming to an end, Fauci disagrees; 100 fires burning nationwide; Most in California, Washington and Oregon; Trump pays tribute to 9/11 at site of United flight 93 crash; Some voters in key swing state don’t like Trump or Biden; Coping with the stress of virtual learning;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Fauci: We need to “hunker down” to get through fall & winter; Fauci: We may not get back to our normal lives until end of 2021; Operation Warp Speed Chief: race for coronavirus vaccine has “nothing to do with politics”; CDC Study: Adults who test positive for virus about twice as likely to have recently dined at a restaurant; Biden, Pence meet at 9/11 memorial in New York City; Trump: “I didn’t lie” to Americans about COVID threat, after tapes reveal he intentionally downplayed the impact; Trump distorts history to compare himself to FDR, Churchill; Trump supporter on not wearing a mask: “If I die, I die”; Trump: Israel and Bahrain to establish “full diplomatic relations”; Biden Campaign goes after Trump’s TV watching; New book: Trump bragged about secret nuke system to journalist; Trump to Woodward: “I have built a nuclear – a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before”; Biden: Trump has no idea what constitutes national security; U.S. slaps sanctions on Giuliani’s Ukrainian ally; Historic western fires to blame for at least 24 deaths including woman & grandson in Oregon; Right now: 3 of California’s largest fires ever are burning; Fire burning near San Francisco is California’s largest wildfire on record; More than 10% Oregonians evacuated due to fires;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we start today with our health lead and a |
| 0:05.2 | grim warning from Dr Anthony Fauchy who says it's time for the United States |
| 0:09.6 | to hunker down and prepare for a tough fall in winter. |
| 0:13.5 | In an interview this afternoon, Fauchy, the country's top infectious disease expert called the current |
| 0:18.1 | coronavirus trends disturbing, noting that the United States is averaging 40,000 new cases and 1,000 deaths every day right now. |
| 0:29.0 | Fauchy warned those numbers are expected to go up again as cooler temperatures force more people |
| 0:34.8 | to spend more time indoors. |
| 0:36.7 | Now despite this bad news, President Trump continues to say that he is handling the |
| 0:41.2 | pandemic well. |
| 0:43.0 | Compared to whom? |
| 0:44.0 | This is the death rate in the EU in blue, that's the United States, in orange. |
| 0:50.0 | The EU has 100 million more people than the United States, but their death rate is half. |
| 0:57.1 | The virus is not contained in the United States. |
| 1:00.0 | Testing is not available for most Americans. |
| 1:02.6 | Millions of children in this country cannot go to school. |
| 1:05.9 | Millions of Americans remain unemployed because of the pandemic. |
| 1:10.0 | The current plan is not working. |
| 1:13.6 | Dr. Fauchy also gave a striking reality check for people who think a vaccine |
| 1:18.0 | will mean a return to normal. |
| 1:20.4 | Fauchy says that even if a vaccine is ready by the end of this year and that's a big if, |
| 1:25.2 | he does not think the world can return to the same levels of normalcy as pre-Corona virus |
| 1:31.0 | until the middle or end of next year. |
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