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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 22:32:00

Committee wanted to see this from the beginning. i understand that everybody says they wanted to find the facts and sort through it all. but there was clear intention at the start on what they wanted the outcome to be. we ll wait and see what the doj does. yes, just like anyone else in this country, if laws were broken, prosecutions should be is warranted and should come full stop. but we have to let the process play out. i m not going to see we didn t see this coming. we heard it through the intention of the january 6th committee, comments made in public throughout the hearings. we saw this coming. it s not completely a surprise. so congressman kennedy, black voter turnout was down in the midterms. democratic strategists are panicked that black turnout being lower and actually republicans doing better with latinos and asian americans and black americans could hurt the party in 2024. how concerned are you? look, i there s two ways to run for office, unopposed and scared. the fa ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 20:21:00

chances of that happening in the senate are slim to none, as key moderate democratic senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema signaled they are not going to change filibuster rules. congressman kennedy, the biden administration is banking on picking up two more senate seats to get this done, which seems something of a tall order, to be honest. midterm prospects for democrats are looking dismal. fair to say democrats should be bracing for a letdown this november? uh, jake, obviously the economic or the political head winds have been clear for a while. and history tells us that. everybody knows, history is replete with surprises when it comes to election day. the comments you just heard are a recognition that there are structural aspects of our ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 20:27:00

More opgss. so they re not having to make the choice between keeping and ending a life. congressman kennedy, kentucky s louisville newspaper reports that biden cut a deal with mitch mcconnell to appoint an anti-abortion rights judge in kentucky in exchange for mcconnell agreeing to let biden s future judicial nominations through the senate. there isn t a judicial position open in kentucky right now, but what do you make of this? look, i don t know the details of it, jake. i saw the reporting. there i think both sides obviously understand the importance at the moment of federal judges. and the extent to which republicans are going to try to impede that process to get selections by joe biden on this court, obviously that s deeply concerning. i would come back to say, i would hope that a democratic majority here would be able to get those people in place. but, again, we saw the challenges, the news breaking ....

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