Up to 30,000 Haitians could be traveling to U.S. border; Biden urges global unity in first United Nations address; Trump critics among some lawmakers facing new threats of violence; Dems try to force vote on govt spending, debt ceiling showdowns

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

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Texas border town slammed with nearly 9,000 migrants, 30,000 more could be on the way; WH: horrified by border agents aggressively confronting migrants; Schumer calls on Biden to “immediately” end deportation of Haitians; Biden on Border as crisis deepens: were getting it under control”; Biden: U.S. shifting form “relentless war” to “relentless democracy”; Biden at U.N.: “we are not seeking a new cold war”; Soon: Biden meets with UK leader amid spat with France; NYT: GOP lawmaker who voted to impeach Trump now needs extra security for himself & family; U.S. capitol police: 107 % rise in threats against lawmakers in 2021 vs 2020; New book details Trump’s obsessions with attempts to reverse 2020 election; Memo: Trump’s legal team created six-step scheme for Pence to overturn 2020 election; New book: Pelosi believed Trump had been “crazy for a long time,” Gen Milley agreed; New book: Hope Hicks was among senior advisers who tried to get Trump to move on from losing 2020 election; Tonight: House votes to avert government shutdown; Dems locked in flight over Biden agenda; Progressives, moderates deeply divided over Biden agenda; Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: democratic moderates “want to hold the entire country’s agenda hostage:”; J&J: vaccine booster provides 94% protection against COVID; Pittsburgh hospital cites “historic” number of children patients in its emergency department; Two-thirds of Kentucky hospitals facing staffing shortages; Experts worry upcoming flu season could be severe; Hundreds of heath care employees suspended in NC for vaccine non-compliance; 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	It is a vote that could put the economy at risk.
0:05.4	The lead starts right now.
0:07.6	President Biden's agenda is hanging in the balance, and it's not just because of Republicans.
0:12.4	Coming soon, a vote to try to avert a government shutdown.
0:15.7	And a crisis getting worse by the hour on the US-Mexico border and now CNN has learned
0:21.3	up to 30,000 more migrants may start heading that way.
0:26.2	Promising news, Johnson and Johnson touting the results of a booster shot, just as
0:30.7	health experts warned about how bad things could get this fall and winter and not only because
0:35.6	of the unvaccinated.
0:42.1	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. We begin today in the national lead and the crisis on the
0:46.4	border that just keeps getting worse. These are live pictures of Del Rio, Texas. A
0:50.8	town that borders Mexico. We're almost 9,000 migrants are currently camping out.
0:55.3	Mostly refugees fleeing the political violence, poverty and earthquake devastation of Haiti,
1:01.2	up to 30,000 more could be joining them coming to the United States through south and then
1:05.7	central America. And of course, now all eyes are on the Biden administration, as border
1:10.3	patrol agents on its payroll or aggressively confronting migrants and their bosses from
1:16.0	President Biden to Vice President Harris to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
1:20.0	Mayorkas say that they are horrified at what they see. All this is the border town bursts at
1:25.6	the seams, hundreds of migrants every day, being sent 430 miles west to El Paso just to be flown
1:32.5	back to Haiti. And Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, is pleading with Biden to
1:38.4	immediately halt the deportations. CNN's Rosa Flores is live for us in Del Rio and Rosa,
1:43.6	President Biden said today, quote, we're getting it under control where you are, does the situation
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