With the second debate drawing near, the U.S. coronavirus death toll nears 221,000

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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With the second COVID-19 wave surging, both presidential candidates announce preparations for the upcoming debate. Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count ballots received after Election Day. Trump demands Attorney General Barr launch an investigation into Hunter Biden. With Election Day only two weeks away, nearly 32 million votes have already been cast. 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	This is CNN breaking news.
0:07.0	We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:13.0	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:15.0	We're following the surging second wave of the coronavirus
0:18.0	and the run-up to one of the most consequential presidential elections in US history.
0:23.2	Tonight, the death toll in this country is nearing 221,000 with more than 8.2 million
0:30.4	confirmed cases and counting.
0:33.0	President Trump will soon appear at a campaign rally and one of the states seeing cases
0:37.2	spike right now that would be Pennsylvania.
0:40.7	It's a critical battleground state in the fight for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election
0:46.3	exactly two weeks from today.
0:48.3	We're also counting down to the final debate between the president and the former vice president Joe
0:53.7	Biden that's a little over 48 hours from now. President Trump is
0:58.2	suggesting he may repeat may change his strategy after his many interruptions through the first debate into chaos.
1:05.9	But a Biden advisor says the Democrat is preparing for Mr. Trump to once again bully and deflect. Let's start our coverage this hour with our White House
1:14.9	correspondent Caitlin Collins who's covering tonight's Trump rally in Erie,
1:19.0	Pennsylvania. Caitlin before the president left for that rally.
1:22.6	He abruptly ended a television interview.
1:26.9	Tell us what happened.
1:29.8	Yeah, Wolf, it's an interesting closing message
1:32.3	that the president is making to voters
1:34.1	with these last two weeks to go before the election because just this week alone
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