Far, though outgoing President Trump is blocking the biden transition team, all because trump refuses to accept the outcome of the democratic process, putting his own personal feelings ahead of american lives. Earlier today, the president s legal team held a press conference where they revealed a willingness to push debunked and wild conspiracy theories about the election. Chris krebs, the now former top election Cyber Security official just fired by President Trump for telling the truth and affirming this past election was the most secure in history, chris krebs took to twitter to say that press conference was the most dangerous one hour of television in American History and possibly the craziest. If you dont know what im talking about, youre lucky, unquote. The president s plan is clear. He and his legal team want to disenfranchise millions of American Voters in democratic counties, a disproportionate number of them black americans. They want to do this based on lies and innuendo. No
3 2. 1 million doses have been administered. One epidemiologist is warning that things are so bad its time to stop talking about surges and waves because we are inside a, quote, viral tsunami. Yesterday alone the u. S. Set two more devastating records. More than 3,700 deaths and nearly 125,000 people hospitalized from this virus. President trump per usual has had nothing to say about these horrible new statistics, about people he once swore an oath to protect, mainly focused today on golf and tweeting nonsense about the election. The president did offer one tweet about the virus, a pass the buck tweet in which he blames states for Vaccine Distribution failing to meet the promises he and his administration made. You may recall the president promised the vaccine would be ready by election day, which did not happen. As cnns nick watt reports for us right now, Health Officials in colorado have now found a more contagious strain of covid19 here in the u. S. For the first time. Reporter its
Living it seemed until he took his life himself. Today the cnn family and fans around the world mourn the sudden senseless awful loss of Anthony Bourdain. Good afternoon, welcome to t to the lead. Im jake tapper. And were reaching out to traditional american adversaries such as north korea and today russia. This afternoon President Trump met with members of the g7 including the leaders of canada and france whom hes been attacking on twitter over various issues doing with trade in a note those on capitol hill found on the way to the summit this morning. He suggested that russia should be allowed membership again in this group of industrialized nations. For those who dont know, russia was a member of the g7 and called the g8 until 2014 and as san antonio reminded us in a statement. Vladimir putin chose to make russia unworthy of membership but invading ukraine and annexing crimea. And nothing has changed that fact. The president has shown or adversaries the deference sandest meme reserve
Especially of that timing, jake. It is supposed to go into effect once again on september 1st. That is right in the middle of backtoschool shopping. So that could hit American Consumers really hard because that tariff will hit those Consumer Products and clothing and American Companies are caught right in the middle, jake. Allison, how long how much longer should we expect to see this market volatility . And that is why youre seeing this kind of move today. Especially with the dow down over 700 points. Because there is no end in sight. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin promised there could be a solution to the deal by the end of the summer and that looks highly unlikely and ips and investors are thinking there is not going to be a solution to the trade deal this year soo that puts a lot in question and increases the volatility to investors are repricing stocks because they expect Corporate America to get hit hard. Thank you, alison kosik. To our national lead, a nation devastated and to
Tonight. Were just hours away from the first democratic debate of the 2020 president ial race with senator Elizabeth Warren coming in hot and with a target on her podium. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead, quote, does it ever stop . That question coming from President Trump after finding out that special Counsel Robert Mueller is being forced by congress to testify publicly on july 17th in what may be the most anticipated testimony of the Trump Presidency so far. Mueller will answer questions from the members of the house judiciary and Intelligence Committee after being slapped with a subpoena. Now mueller made clear in his view his 448page report was his official statement and the only one he wants to give but House Democrats are eager to question the special counsel about the evidence he uncovered and whether he would have charged the president with obstruction of justice but for Justice Department precedent that a sitting president cannot be indict