Trump to hold rally as he faces pandemic & protests; Juneteenth rallies nationwide amid America's racial unrest; Calls grow for Biden to pick woman of color as running mate; 8 states see highest 7-day average of new daily cases; 3,000+ doctors in AZ sign letter to mandate masks statewide;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Black lives matter co-founder on what comes next; Interim Police Chief: Hankison "blindly" fired 10 rounds into Breonna Taylor's apartment; Breonna Taylor's family attorney: There is still a ways to go before we have justice; WH Press Secy defends Trump hiring Bolton, compares to Lincoln's team of rivals; Klobuchar drops out of VP race, pushes Biden to choose a woman of color; AZ sees record cases in a single day; 3,246 new cases; AZ Gov flips on mask, allows mayors to mandate wearing masks; Phoenix implements mandatory mask order starting Saturday;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead. I am Jake Tapper and we begin today with the National |
| 0:06.2 | Lead President Trump tomorrow is making his return to the campaign trail |
| 0:10.1 | an attempt to preserve his presidency as he faces crises on multiple fronts. |
| 0:15.6 | The president is leading a country in the midst of a pandemic, a deadly one, where in many states |
| 0:20.5 | the coronavirus infections are surging in some places hospitalizations as well |
| 0:24.6 | and where the president is not leading the way his own health experts would want |
| 0:28.8 | him to, refraining from putting together a nationwide effort to conduct surveillance testing and |
| 0:34.2 | contact tracing, refusing to set an example by wearing a mask and social distancing. |
| 0:39.6 | The President is also leading a nation grappling with both recent and centuries old wounds of racism |
| 0:46.3 | with marches today celebrating Juneteenth the end of legal slavery in the United States and even many of the President's own |
| 0:53.7 | supporters are giving him bad marks on how he is handling issues related to race. |
| 0:58.2 | The President is also in the throes right now of a public relations and legal battle with his own |
| 1:03.4 | former national security advisor as Ambassador John Bolton joins a growing group of |
| 1:08.0 | top aides now telling the United States of America that President Trump is |
| 1:12.4 | unfit for office. |
| 1:14.2 | With all this as the backdrop, President Trump says that his campaign kicks off tomorrow |
| 1:19.2 | with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
| 1:21.7 | The President issued something of a threat today, |
| 1:24.4 | not just against looters and others who plan on heading to Tulsa, |
| 1:27.6 | but protesters, as the president plans to pack 20,000 supporters into an indoor arena. |
| 1:35.0 | No social distancing, no masks required. |
| 1:38.0 | What, as they say, could go wrong? |
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