V.A. heath care workers, New York City & California state employees all now facing vaccine mandates; Trump ally Tom Barrack pleads not guilty to charges of illegal foreign lobbying and making false statements; Infrastructure deal on shaky ground as blame game begins;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Biden administration will mandate vaccines for all V.A. heath care workers; Trump ally Tom Barrack ordered to wear GPS tracking bracelet, travel restricted, can’t transfer funds overseas; Hose committee prepares for first capitol riot hearing; One-on-one with Jan 6 committee member Rep. Schiff; Feud intensifies between McCarthy, Pelosi ahead of Jan 6 hearing; China warns U.S. to “stop playing with fire”; U.S. general warns of more airstrikes targeting the Taliban; Record civilian casualties in Afghanistan as U.S. withdraws; Typhoon looms off Japan, suffers totally cool with it; CNN gets rare access to U.S. surfing team as it makes history;
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| 0:00.0 | The governor of selling anti-fouchy merchandise now overseeing the biggest |
| 0:06.3 | explosion of COVID cases and deaths in the country. The lead starts right now. |
| 0:11.4 | There are plenty of COVID shots and this didn't have to happen but as the U.S. |
| 0:18.0 | averages more than 50,000 COVID cases a day again. Vaccines are now required |
| 0:26.2 | for a federal agency for the first time. The riot act over the riot provoked the |
| 0:31.8 | feud between House Speaker Pelosi and Republican Minority Leader McCarthy |
| 0:36.1 | boiling over with the Capitol Insurrection Committee set to start its work |
| 0:39.1 | tomorrow plus Tokyo now bracing for a typhoon with the Olympics now in full |
| 0:44.7 | swing. CNN spoke to the one group of Olympians who might be happy about this |
| 0:49.4 | news, the U.S. Surf Team. |
| 0:56.4 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin this hour with our health |
| 0:59.6 | lead as the pandemic spirals out of control across the United States. Again, the |
| 1:05.3 | nation's largest city, its largest state and one of its largest federal |
| 1:09.7 | agencies all announcing today that vaccines will become mandatory for |
| 1:13.8 | government workers. This started with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio |
| 1:17.0 | ordering city employees to be vaccinated by mid-September. |
| 1:20.5 | California Governor Gavin Newsom followed suit requiring proof of vaccination |
| 1:24.2 | for all state employees and health care workers. Then this afternoon an |
| 1:27.5 | unprecedented move, President Biden confirming the Department of Veterans of |
| 1:32.1 | Affairs is requiring all health care workers to get the shots. The orders |
| 1:36.6 | come as doctors and public health experts continue to raise the alarm about |
| 1:40.5 | this latest wave of increased cases, increased hospitalizations, and increased |
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