Trump claims he disagrees with chants of "send her back"; 2020 candidate Harris responds to "send her back" chants; Trump far from first politician to use strategy of division; FBI: warrant: Trump talked to Cohen amid hush money payment

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Trump claims he disagrees with "send her back" chants, despite staying silent, allowing them to continue; Trump took 13 seconds to speak after "send her back chats"; Dem Rep. Omar: Trump is a "racist and a fascist"; Sen Graham called Trump "Racist" in 2015 & now he says he's not; Trump's racist rhetoric echoes language of past leaders; Trump silent for 13 seconds during "send her back" chants; now claiming he tried to stop it by resuming speech; FBI: Trump, Hicks talked to Cohen before hush money payment; FBI: Kellyanne Conway talked with Cohen on the same day Cohen got Stormy recording; Tonight: second Dem debate lineups revealed live on CNN; House passes bill to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour; Viral photo app sparks security concerns over Russian tiesTo 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	Energizing your base with a debasing. The lead starts right now.
0:06.0	President Trump today attempting to disavow after the fact a chant from his reporters
0:11.0	a chant that many Republicans even found chilling after the president from his
0:13.0	report report,
0:14.0	after the president fired them up for days
0:16.0	with his racist attack on four congresswomen of color.
0:18.0	2020 Democratic presidential candidate
0:20.0	Senator Kamala Harris will join us to respond.
0:23.0	He's no longer just individual one.
0:25.0	Today piles of documents were unsealed in the case against President Trump's former fixer,
0:29.0	potentially showing how close Donald Trump was to the scheme to silence a playmate and a porn star.
0:34.9	Plus, Russia up to her old tricks, the warning about a viral app that makes you look old and
0:41.4	how it might give Moscow information you do not want them to have.
0:45.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:50.0	We begin today with the politics lead this afternoon.
0:52.0	We got a combination of two of President
0:54.4	Trump's more indecent characteristics, his willingness to lie to the American people, and his
0:59.2	tactic of using racist appeals to incite and excite his supporters.
1:03.2	Send her back, send her back, they chanted.
1:10.6	Now you know the backstory story the president launched attacks on
1:13.0	four Democratic Congresswoman of color earlier this week attacks that even
1:16.3	Republican members of the House and Senate called racist. The president
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