Trump takes a victory lap with off-the-rails speech; Red State Dem Senator Doug Jones explains vote to convict Trump; Buttigieg & Sanders in virtual tie in Iowa, awaiting full results; China reports two newborns infected with coronavirus;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Trump: Pelosi & Schiff "vicious, horrible" people; Trump slams Pelosi, Romney at National Prayer Breakfast; Trump: Romney used his religion as a "crutch" for guilty vote; GOP Senators suggest Trump has learned a lesson, as he takes victory lap & slams Democrats; Trump attacks Romney, calls Pelosi "horrible" in ranting speech; Buttigieg & Sanders in virtual tie in Iowa, Sanders dismisses Buttigieg lead as "meaningless"; DNC Chair calls for recanvass of Iowa caucuses; Sen. Bernie Sanders raised $25 million in month of January; Candidates battle it out in NH as Iowa keeps counting; New poll: Sanders leading in NH, Buttigieg in second; Fmr VP reflects on struggle with stuttering at CNN Town Hall;Biden slams Buttigieg's lack of experience as a "risk," Buttigieg responds by touting Iowa results; Inside the digital campaign to spin headlines to favor Trump; Atlantic writer: Conspiracy theories and lies from pro-Trump groups flooded my Facebook timeline; Pro-Trump groups join forces to bombard social media feeds with misinformation; Americans quarantined on military bases & cruise ships as officials scramble to contain deadly virus; China lockdowns expand as coronavirus spreads, more than 28,000 cases confirmed worldwide; Pentagon: 11 military bases prepped for coronavirus quarantine;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	As we heard at the prayer breakfast this morning do unto others before they can do it to you
0:07.4	Amen the lead starts right now. Meet the new president Trump now acquitted
0:12.4	acquitted for life they say
0:14.8	sounding as accountability free as ever in his first remarks since 52 Senate Republicans let him off the hook
0:22.1	breaking today Bernie Sanders becomes the second Democrat to claim victory in Iowa
0:27.4	as his party has a plan that could turn this chaos into a full-on circus plus Americans stuck on military bases
0:36.0	and confined to cabins in cruise ships as a new deadly mystery virus spreads
0:41.0	now to a dozen people in the US.
0:44.0	Welcome to the lean I'm Jake Tapper. We begin today with the
0:50.9	politics lead president Donald J Trump acquitted and
0:54.8	emboldened taking victory lapse and spewing spite today first at the National
1:00.1	Prayer breakfast where he seemed to question the faith of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
1:04.8	Republican rival Senator Mitt Romney and he showed off the acquitted headline on the front
1:09.0	page of USA Today and again this afternoon showing a similar headline on the Washington Post in the
1:14.9	East Room of the White House where the president delivered a 63 minute angry and
1:20.3	rambling speech a stream of consciousness,
1:24.7	celebration of his acquittal in front of a wrapped
1:28.2	an adoring crowd, the president calling
1:30.3	Democrats such as Pelosi and impeachment manager Adam Schiff, vicious and horrible people accusing Romney of using his faith as a crutch to explain his guilty vote. The president railed against what he called dirty cops and
1:44.4	leakers and liars. He claimed the so-called witch hunt started from the time he
1:48.3	announced his campaign. It was, to say the least, not exactly an effort to heal the wounds of impeachment or to bring the nation together.
1:57.5	It was an airing of grievances and a settling of scores, a preview
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