Trump knocks Fauci: “I inherited him,” Fauci says “we’re all on the same team”; Jill Biden: Trump’s America is “chaos”; Federal investigators: Police tased Jacob Blake twice before shooting, 88 witnesses interviewed; Trump denies health issues as new book raises more questions about unannounced trip to Walter Reed; Mail delays linked to deaths of animals in transit;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Trump on Blake shooting, says he feels “terribly for anyone who goes through that”; Trump visits Wisconsin to meet with law enforcement one week after police shooting of Jacob Blake; Giroir dismisses daily testing: “I don’t live in a utopian world”; Astrazeneca’s vaccine becomes 3rd to begin phase 3 trials in U.S.; Fauci: A vaccine should be “shown to be safe & effective”; Han says resignation is an “option” if he’s pressured to release a vaccine before it’s ready; FL Gov: Nursing home visitations resume amid coronavirus; WH Task Force warns Iowa could see a dire rise in COVID cases; Officials warn Labor Day will be key for containing COVID this fall; Fauci: Asymptomatic people can & should be tested; Trump’s COVID adviser denies pushing for herd immunity, but Trump official says he’s pushing for policies in the same vein; Jacob Blake’s family hosts community event, calls for peace as Trump visits Kenosha, WI; Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend files lawsuit against police; Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend: Charges against me were meant to cover up Breonna’s murder; Homeland Security sends letter to Portland: “No choice” but to protect Americans in Portland; New Book: Pence was on standby to “take over” during Trump’s unannounced hospital visit last November; WH doesn’t deny report VP Pence was on standby to “take over” during Trump’s hospital visit; Jill Biden says Secretary of Education will be someone who has been in public schools; House to subpoena postmaster general for withholding documents related to mail delays; Congress flooded with complaints over prescriptions being held up in the mail;
To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:02.0 | is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:04.0 | And welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown and today for Jake Tapper. |
| 0:08.0 | And we begin with Breaking News. |
| 0:10.0 | Right now, President Trump is wrapping up his visit in Kenosha, Wisconsin after defying |
| 0:14.9 | local officials' wishes and visiting the city today in the wake of the police shooting of |
| 0:19.9 | Jacob Blake. |
| 0:20.9 | Now the president is not meeting, did not meet with members of Blake's family. |
| 0:25.0 | Instead, he's been meeting and thinking law enforcement and the National Guard with Attorney General |
| 0:30.0 | Bill Barr by his side. |
| 0:32.2 | Now the president has also been touring some of the |
| 0:33.9 | damage from the unrest and claiming the city of Kenosha would have been burnt to |
| 0:37.8 | the ground without federal involvement. CNN's Caitlin Collins is at the |
| 0:41.9 | White House so Caitlin the president's message |
| 0:44.4 | primarily focused on law enforcement today, right? Yes, it did. He did not |
| 0:49.2 | actually talk about Jacob Blake unless he was asked by a reporter about it, which he was on a few occasions. |
| 0:55.1 | And at one point a reporter said, you know you're not meeting with Jacob Blake's family, |
| 0:58.4 | but what would you say to them if you were? |
| 1:00.9 | The president said, quote, I feel terribly for anybody that goes through |
| 1:04.8 | that he noted that the shooting of Jacob Blake is under an investigation and |
| 1:08.7 | said it's a complicated subject but other than that Pam he mostly stuck to his message about what's happening with law |
| 1:14.4 | enforcement and riots that we've seen in American cities. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.