Trump unleashes chaos on his way out the door; December on track to be the deadliest month of the pandemic; House GOP votes against raising stimulus checks to $2,000; Health care workers spend holidays on the front lines;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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CNN: Trump has told people Pence isn’t fighting hard enough for him; Dingell: Trump “doesn’t give a damn” about people needing relief; Trump throws nation into turmoil: Pardons allies, upends relief for Americans, vetoes defense bill; New pandemic air travel record with nearly 1.2M flyers Wednesday; U.S. heads into Christmas with 1M+ vaccinated; IHME Model: 567,000+ Covid deaths by April, up from last week; Growing gap between vaccinations delivered vs. administered; Trump sends Congress into scramble over stimulus relief, defense spending, possible government shutdown; Attorney General, CIA Director among Biden’s final posts to name; Birthday wishes pour in for Dr. Fauci’s 80th birthday; Fauci on retiring: “I don’t see that right now” in my future; Nurse treated members of her own family who were hospitalized with COVID-19; NORAD tracks Santa’s trip for 65th year; 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	Welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown and for Jake Tapper on this Christmas Eve and we begin today with the politics lead.
0:08.8	President Trump is using his final days in office to unleash chaos.
0:13.0	The president has thrown into question much-needed economic relief
0:16.6	for American families just before Christmas,
0:19.2	though it's still not known whether he will even sign the bill
0:22.0	and the legislation is being flown to
0:24.0	him in Florida just in case. President Trump is also risking a government
0:28.6	shutdown, vetoing the annual defense bill and delivering gifts in the form of dozens of
0:33.8	pardons many to his own allies.
0:36.6	CNN is learning that the president is frustrated that his vice president is
0:40.5	not doing more to overturn the election.
0:43.4	That's what sources tell me and my colleague Kevin Liptack,
0:46.3	and despite the President's official schedule saying
0:48.7	he would be, quote, working tirelessly,
0:51.2	the President today is golfing as CNN's Joe Johns reports.
0:57.0	President Trump teeing off his Florida holiday vacation today on the golf course
1:02.0	despite this schedule sent from the White
1:04.2	House press office saying he will continue to work tirelessly for the American
1:08.3	people. His schedule includes many meetings and calls.
1:13.0	Moments after the Trumps landed in Florida,
1:15.2	the White House announced 26 new pardons,
1:18.2	including two more men targeted by Robert Mueller's
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