Trump says he wants to fix "loopholes" in background checks; Trump calls Danish PM "nasty" for shooting down Greenland sale; Jewish groups, 2020 Dems slam Trump for claiming Jews who vote for Democrats are "disloyal" to Israel

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🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Trump repeats NRA talking points as he hedges on gun control and background checks; Trump denies telling NRA that universal background checks were "off the table"; Trump all over the place on gun background checks; New CNN Poll: 60% favor stricter gun control laws; Danish PM Trump called "nasty" doesn't think she's been "blunt or harsh"; Danish politicians: Trump's snub "disrespectful" & "insulting"; Former ambassador to Denmark responds to Trump's snub; Sanders: I'm a proud Jewish American who votes Democrat; Israeli Pres: Link between U.S. & Israel is about values; Trump has long history of making offensive comments to Jews; Trump repeats 2018 pledge to consider ending birthright citizenship; Trump unveils plan to detain migrants indefinitely; Poll: View of economy drops for 1st time in Trump presidency; Community members "concerned" over MI steel job layoffs; Trump claims he's "the chosen one" to take on ChinaTo 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	President Trump looks to the sky and declares,
0:03.7	I am the chosen one.
0:05.6	So does that make Greenland the promised land?
0:08.8	The League starts right now.
0:11.8	Flip, flop, and flip again.
0:14.0	After supporting and then caving on background checks,
0:18.0	for guns, President Trump today says he hasn't changed positions at all.
0:21.0	So is being all over the place actually a policy.
0:25.0	Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
0:28.0	President Trump snubs this staunch US ally pitching a fit because they scoffed at his interest in buying Greenland.
0:34.8	Today he follows up, calling the Danish Prime Minister's comments nasty.
0:39.2	Plus the President's latest outburst aimed at Jewish voters, doubling down on his accusation that Jewish Democrats his anti-Semitic Trump. Welcome to the lead.
0:57.0	I'm Erica Hill in today for Jake Taffer and we start with the politics lead.
1:01.0	President Trump all over the map today I'm getting controlled even
1:04.3	questioning his own move saying he wants to quote fill in loopholes on universal
1:09.4	background checks but then moving on to NRA talking points which question that very idea.
1:15.0	But we also have to remember the gun doesn't pull the trigger, a person does.
1:21.0	I don't want to take away people's Second Amendment
1:23.5	rights. We're talking about background checks that all of a sudden we're talking
1:27.8	about let's take everybody's gone away. This just one day after according to a source President Trump told the NRA's
1:35.0	executive vice president Wayne La Pierre that universal background checks
1:38.6	were quote off the table. As CNN's Boris Sanchez reports the president's flip, flop, and flip again come as a new CNN poll
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