U.S. surpasses 150,000 deaths from COVID-19; GOP Rep. Gohmert tests positive for coronavirus, was supposed to fly with Trump to Texas today; Trump had at least seven calls with Putin since intel on Russian bounty plot appeared in his daily briefing; New push to renew Voting Rights Act after John Lewis’ death
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
U.S. hits deadliest day of the summer from coronavirus; Second Republican set to meet with Trump today tests positive; Trump targets suburban voters with repeal of housing rule; Trump admits he never discussed Iran bounties on U.S. troops with Putin; Trump had at least seven calls with Putin since intel on Russian bounty plot appeared in his daily briefing; Trump plans to pull 12k troops from Germany, dozens of Republicans say move will encourage Russian aggression; Survey: nearly 50% of Brazil’s doctors feel pressure to prescribe unproven medicine as coronavirus treatment; Brazil’s president continues to tout effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine without proven success; Medical experts: “we’re failing” and to reopen U.S. need to fix testing, do two million tests per day; New push to renew Voting Rights Act after John Lewis’ death; GOP officials resist pressure to expand mail-in voting; Civil rights group: 1,688 polling places closed after Supreme Court invalidated Voting Rights Act; Texas man dies after getting COVID at father’s birthday party
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| 0:00.0 | This is on the |
| 0:02.0 | is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:08.0 | We begin with Breaking News and our health lead today. |
| 0:11.0 | The United States is on the precipice of another grim coronavirus |
| 0:14.4 | milestone, 150,000 dead in just six months, with a brand new projection today from the Association |
| 0:22.0 | of American Medical Colleges that |
| 0:24.0 | hundreds of thousands more Americans could die if the current trend is |
| 0:28.6 | not stopped. Hot Spot Florida reported today a new single day record for COVID deaths. |
| 0:34.3 | Across the country the daily death toll topped 1,200 for the first time since the end of May. |
| 0:40.3 | And Dr Deborah Burks of the White House Coronovirus Task Force is sounding the alarm about worrying |
| 0:45.2 | trends in what's known as Yellow Zone states. Those are states that are seeing between 10 |
| 0:50.2 | and 100 new cases per every 100,000 people, |
| 0:54.2 | and a positivity rate between 5 and 10%. |
| 0:57.6 | Those states could soon hit the red zone |
| 1:00.3 | without further mitigation, Burks warns. |
| 1:03.0 | 21 states are reportedly already in the red zone. |
| 1:06.0 | 28 in yellow, only Vermont is in the green zone. |
| 1:10.0 | Dr. Burks also warns that the virus is largely being spread by young adults in their 20s and 30s, |
| 1:16.0 | as CNN's Nick Watt reports from COVID-19 hotspot Los Angeles. |
| 1:21.0 | The U.S. just suffered the deadliest day of the summer so far. |
| 1:26.0 | 1244 lives reported loss to COVID-19 Tuesday. |
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