Trump to speak at GOP retreat in Baltimore after calling city "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess"; Source: Possible dual role for Pompeo as Natl Security Adviser; Biden, Sanders & Warren on stage together for first time;

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🗓️ 12 September 2019

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Next hour: Trump leaves for Baltimore after disparaging city; Former WH official to New Yorker: Pompeo "among the most sycophantic" people among around Trump; Democrats on Judiciary Cmte. approve impeachment inquiry rules in first vote on issue; Some freshmen democrats in swing districts push back on impeachment inquiry; Democrats split on calling impeachment proceedings an inquiry or investigation; Speaker Pelosi shuts down questions on impeachment vote; Democrats face off at third debate tonight; Biden & Warren on stage together for first time; Warren makes play for older voters, unveils plan to expand social security; Biden releases video praising Obama hours before debate; Warren makes play for older voters, unveils plan to expand social security; Politico: Israel used surveillance devices to spy on Trump in U.S.; Putin launches raids across more than 40 cities in Russia today; GOP's Graham signals support on background checks as Trump debates what he'd sign into law; Red Flag laws and expanded background checks on list of options represented to Trump today; Influential republicans split on pros & cons of red flag laws; China taking on Trump, undermining U.S. presence in Europe; Chinese police, surveillance cameras sent into U.S. ally.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	Normally you'd have to be wearing a Steelers uniform to get a reception like this in Baltimore.
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	For the first time since calling Baltimore rodent infested and disgusting President Trump is visiting
0:15.3	Charm City to hang out with Republicans as many in the majority black city are saying
0:19.8	send him back. Surrounded round three for the Democrats is tonight and for the first time
0:26.0	Joe Biden will be flanked by his two closest, much more progressive challengers.
0:30.0	Does Elizabeth Warren have a plan to attack him?
0:33.4	Plus, closer to the tipping point,
0:35.9	more than 100 business leaders now saying
0:38.6	doing nothing on guns is unacceptable,
0:41.1	as a key Trump ally on the Senate says the President might be ready to talk.
0:50.2	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper and we begin with the politics lead today.
0:53.0	President Trump is this minute preparing to leave the White House to visit Baltimore, Maryland.
0:58.0	An American city that two months ago he denigrated, mockingly calling it deadlier than Afghanistan. He said it was a place no human being
1:04.8	would want to live. He called it a quote disgusting rat and rodent infested mess.
1:09.4	It was all part of a weeks long attack on that city full of American citizens whom he represents as president.
1:15.3	The attack came within days of those other gratuitous and nasty attacks, the racist ones,
1:20.4	where he told four Democratic congresswoman of color color to go back where they came from.
1:25.8	This time President Trump went after House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings,
1:29.8	a Democrat who represents parts of Baltimore.
1:32.8	Coming subsequently invited the president to visit Baltimore after the attack.
1:36.7	The president did not take him up on that offer, but tonight, as CNN's
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