Trump falsely claims he won; Biden vows 100M vaccine doses in 100 days; U.S. tops 15 million COVID cases, record 102K hospitalizations; Senate Dems slam GOP for allowing discredited vaccine sceptic to testify at COVID hearing;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Trump falsely claims he won the election during vaccine event; NYT: Trump admin turned down Pfizer’s offer to buy more vaccine doses months ago; Source: Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis tests positive for COVID-19; Biden’s goals for first 100 days: 100 million vaccine doses, universal mask wearing, reopen schools; President-elect Biden introduces key members of his health team; Biden team to meet with operation warp speed officials Thursday; Pfizer vaccine may give some protection after just first dose; NYT & WAPO: more Pfizer vaccine doses may not be available in U.S. until summer; FDA may not be able to advise pregnant women on taking vaccine; U.S. tops 15 million COVID cases since pandemic started, one million cases added in just five days; FDA: Pfizer vaccine data meets criteria to apply for authorization, decision possible Thursday; U.K. patients now first in world to get authorized COVID vaccine; “William Shakespeare” among first in U.K. to get COVID vaccine; Former FDA commissioner: Trump admin repeatedly passed on Pfizer’s offer to order more vaccines; US getting 100M doses of Pfizer vaccine, might not get mote until summer; Who will get the vaccine after the first round?; One-on-one with anti-Trump conservative George Conway; Sen. Cruz urges Supreme Court to take up PA voting lawsuit; GOP’s Romney says “it’s nuts” for republicans to invite vaccine sceptic to testify in front of senate; GOP’s Johnson defends testimony of vaccine skeptic: people should “have an open mind”; FL state police raid house of fired scientist at gunpoint; Fmr. FL COVID data scientist: this raid won’t science me; Supreme court denies republican effort to block election certification in Pennsylvania; Biden picks retired Gen Lloyd Austin for Secretary of Defense; If confirmed, would be first black secretary of defense; Biden’s defense pick needs congressional waiver for confirmation; 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	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper and we begin this hour with Breaking News.
0:08.0	President Trump this afternoon asked about working with the next administration to get vaccines into Americans arms to save lives.
0:15.0	Falsely said that he may be leading the next administration.
0:19.2	President Trump still refusing to accept the will of the American people, not to mention preparing the nation
0:25.2	for this huge undertaking.
0:26.6	Though this could soon be happening in the US.
0:29.1	These are some of the very first vaccinations taking place in the United Kingdom.
0:33.2	Approval of the Pfizer vaccine in the US is expected in two days.
0:37.4	Also this afternoon, President-elect Biden introduced members of his health team who will
0:41.7	be tasked with getting these vaccines into the
0:44.8	arms of the American people. The incoming president is promising 100 million
0:48.3	vaccine doses in his first 100 days. So let's start at the White House where Caitlin Collins reports
0:54.2	that the Trump administration's vaccine summit quickly went off the rails into Crazy Town
0:58.9	when the president pivoted the topic to his many election conspiracy theory grievances.
1:04.6	Any questions, please?
1:07.0	A White House summit meant to tell progress on coronavirus vaccines quickly went off the
1:11.6	rails today as President Trump wrongly
1:13.9	implied he may still be in office next year.
1:17.0	We're going to have to see who the next administration is because we won in
1:21.8	those swing states.
1:23.2	Trump was asked why no members of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team were invited,
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