Trump fires election security chief who debunked his fraud claims; Biden meets with health care workers about Covid response; U.S. hospitalizations at record 76,830, up 20% in one week; GA Secy of State: audit found no widespread voter fraud

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Source: HHS staffers told not to communicate with Biden team; official: Trump in “bunker mentality” as he stayed behind closed doors; Biden: if Trump keeps delaying transition briefings, our Covid response will be “behind by weeks or months”; Biden coronavirus adviser: “we will be ready on day one”; Sources: Biden considering RI, NM govs for HHS secretary; WH: Trump canceled Thanksgiving trip because he’s “hard at work”; GOP split on Trump’s decision to fire DHS official; NYC schools close due to Covid positivity rate rise; Georgia to announce election audit results tomorrow; GA Secy of State: audit found no widespread voter fraud; Great-grandmother and gospel singer dies of coronavirus; Berlin police clash with anti-Covid restriction protestors; South Australia entering six day lockdown following outbreak; 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	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the 2020 lead
0:05.2	president-elect Joe Biden this afternoon spoke with health care workers in a
0:08.9	virtual roundtable as the Biden Harris transition team prepares to lead the nation in the midst of a worsening coronavirus pandemic,
0:17.0	Biden warned that his administration will be behind when it comes to handling the pandemic if they do not get access soon to key
0:25.4	information that the outgoing Trump administration is withholding and not only has
0:31.5	President Trump's refusal to accept reality
0:33.7	meant that the transition process has not commenced. A Trump administration
0:38.1	official tells CNN today that some staffers at the Department of Health and Human
0:41.9	Services were actually instructed to ignore and report anyone from the Biden Harris transition team if they try to contact the federal agency.
0:52.8	It's an outrageous act of obstruction
0:55.4	that places the president's feelings
0:57.9	ahead of the lives of the American people.
1:01.4	To be clear, President-elect Biden will be sworn in on January 20th, and he will be in
1:07.6	charge of trying to lead the nation out of this deadly pandemic.
1:12.2	An outgoing President Trump is focusing instead of the
1:14.6	pandemic on trying to overturn the results of the presidential election. He is
1:19.6	trying to undo the clear and convincing victory by President-elect Biden.
1:25.0	Trump is doing this not with so much evidence as he is with tweets of wild and unhinged lies that he won the election.
1:33.7	He's been pushing discredited conspiracy theories and false claims
1:37.6	and purging anyone he deems disloyal to him,
1:42.1	even if that is only because the individual is loyal instead to the
1:47.3	truth and to the American public.
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