WH to donate millions of unused vaccines to other countries; One-on-one with AZ secretary of state Katie Hobbs; Justice department opens investigation into Trump-appointed Postmaster General DeJoy; WH pushes companies to take cyberattack threat more seriously
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
WH plans to distribute 80m+ doses globally by end of June; Fauci: “cautiously optimistic” about vaccinating kids under 12 by Thanksgiving; Arizona audit observers find massive security problems; Report: Trump believes he will be reinstated along with former AZ Sen. Martha McSally; Former Adviser: Trump listening to election conspiracies from “The bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel”; Trump still engrossed by big lie on election results; DOJ to start handling ransomware attacks similar to terrorism; WH says Biden will bring up criminal hackers at summit with Putin; Pentagon warns Iran against “provocative act” as warships inch towards the Atlantic Ocean; One of Iran’s largest warships sinks after fire
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| 0:00.0 | Some Americans need to be bribed with beer, but other nations, while they're desperate |
| 0:07.7 | for the vaccine, the lead starts right now. |
| 0:11.3 | A proposal to try to help heal the world, President Biden announcing 80 million vaccines |
| 0:16.7 | are going to be sent out of the United States to overseas, who is going to get them, and |
| 0:21.2 | how soon? |
| 0:22.9 | The sham recount going on by Trump supporters in Arizona, even more of a cluster than |
| 0:28.6 | we thought, who is even looking at your ballot? |
| 0:31.9 | Arizona Secretary of State will visit us to talk about the mess her team found. |
| 0:35.8 | Plus, Iranian warships possibly full of weapons seemingly headed for our hemisphere. |
| 0:41.9 | Where could they be going? |
| 0:43.1 | What is the Pentagon planning to do about it if anything? |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we begin today with our health lead and the |
| 0:54.0 | Biden administration's new plan to distribute 80 million vaccines worldwide by the end |
| 1:00.2 | of the month. |
| 1:01.2 | One source telling CNN this is expected to be a lengthy and complicated process, but so |
| 1:05.3 | far 25 million doses have already been allocated, allocated, though not yet delivered. |
| 1:10.7 | The majority of the vaccines are going to be distributed through COVAX, the World Health |
| 1:14.7 | Organization vaccination effort. |
| 1:16.8 | The U.S. is prioritizing Latin America and the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia and |
| 1:23.1 | South Africa. |
| 1:24.1 | The rest of the vaccines are going to go toward regional partners such as Mexico, Canada, |
| 1:27.7 | and United Nations frontline workers. |
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