Trump team fires pollsters over leaked data, reportedly hides details of US cyber attacks on Russia from Trump; Expert: Alaine Chao's use of transportation dept. is a violation; US releases new photos, claims they're proof Iran is behind oil tanker attack

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Source: firings of pollsters about pacifying Trump; NYT: intel officials hesitant to tell Trump about ramped up operations against Russia; Campaign: Buttigieg canceling events through Wednesday after deadly police shooting in South Bend, Indiana; Biden slams Trump for trying to "divide the country"; Biden: if I'm Dem nominee, I plan on winning GA, NC & SC; NYT reveals youngest known child separated at border; Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95 after battle with cancerTo 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	How is your father's day? I hear Mick Mulvaney got some Maricola. The lead starts right now.
0:07.0	Kue the golden escalator, President Trump set to kick off his 2020 campaign as a new report warns his own
0:14.4	national security aides are afraid to tell him about fighting back against the
0:18.2	Russians and cyberspace. Coming to a boil Iran now threatening to violate the nuclear deal that President Trump began to unravel last year.
0:27.0	How close to the brink of confrontation is the United States with Iran?
0:32.0	Plus, the latest Trump Cabinet Secretary
0:34.8	accused of a conflict of interest,
0:37.0	and she also happens to be the wife of Senate
0:39.4	Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
0:47.0	Welcome to the Lean, I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with the Politics lead as President Trump prepares to kick off his 20-20 campaign
0:51.7	launched with a rally tomorrow in Orlando, Florida.
0:54.0	His campaign is simultaneously making some major personnel changes
0:58.0	as a nod to the president's difficulty hearing negative news about himself.
1:04.1	The president's re-election efforts have been overshadowed in recent days by some bad internal
1:08.6	poll numbers for the president and a cascade of lies about those bad numbers.
1:14.0	President Trump again today warning his followers on Twitter, not to believe any quote fake polls showing him trailing any of the Democrats,
1:21.0	but the president's definition of fake polls apparently
1:24.6	means polls he does not like. Sources tell CNN the president's been angry for days
1:29.8	over the leaking of internal polling data from March showing the president trailing
1:34.0	Joe Biden in hypothetical match-ups in key battleground states, the New York Times first reported
1:39.4	the existence of these ugly numbers followed by CNN which was then followed by this lie.
1:47.0	There were fake polls that were released by somebody that is it's ridiculous.
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