tonight president biden s message to the republican governors criticizing his sweeping new vaccine mandates and threatening to sue to block them, and i quote, have at it. and as the delta variant spreads like wildfire, tonight big developments on mask mandates in schools in two states where the virus is surging. plus california s recall election hasn t even happened yet, and right-wing media is already spreading lies about the state s democratic governor, gavin newsom s potential to beat back the recall. also ahead, my interview with a prominent professor and commentator on race, telling me what he got wrong about the state of race in america after living through the trump era. you don t want to miss that interview. i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser, and national correspondent philip bump. one day i will see you in person in studio, hopefully soon. and the reason why i haven t seen you is because of this. so, susan, president biden has a messag
the chilling messages he s getting just for doing his job. let s go outfront . good evening. i m erin burnett. all hands on deck. capitol police are calling on all officers to be prepared for an upcoming right wing rally on the capitol grounds as cnn obtains an internal memo warning of an alarming uptick on violent rhetoric, the rally that will be september 18th. a rally that is in support specifically of the january 6th insurrectionists and the violent rhetoric includes images used by white supremacist and details that one leader of the extremist proud boys group is encouraging followers to attend the rally. speaker nancy pelosi tonight for one is sounding the alarm and demanding security briefings. we intend to have the integrity of the capitol be in tact. these people are coming back to praise the people who were out to kill. out to kill members of congress. america, of course, watched in horror. we all did together on january 6th as trump supporters stormed the cap
the obama administration in exchange for the u.s. army sergeant bill bergdahl back in 2018. maybe they were picked up in afghanistan but they were picked up all over the world. they are terrorists and enemy combatants are not prisoners of war. greg: and so you have a catch and release game with maniacs, it s okay to let them go because they will come back. it s awfully insane. who is not gora gorgeous truth teller? then there s the taliban s new interior minister who was wanted by the fbi with a $10 million bounty on his head and he s said to be holding least one american hostage. and this, there was no hostage like situation stopping them from leaving. anthony lincoln is now changing his tune. as of now the taliban are not permitting the charter flights to the park. they claimed that some of the pastors do not have the required documentation. both whites need to be able to depart. we will work every day to make sure that they are able to do that. we will continue to pr
it was the way the story might go. the men who risked their lives to bring her to safety say that honestly the federal government had very little to do with getting them out. you are in the faulkner focus . i m martha maccallum in for harris today. army veteran corey mills led a team into afghanistan to rescue this american mother and her three children. shortly after they escaped the country the state department released a statement claiming that it had facilitated their safe departure. any notion the federal government deserves the credit for this operation is in his opinion quote absolute nonsense. the in-country state department officials are eager to help. there is a cooperation there but this is politics being played out by the state department. they are the issue. there are major concerns whether the military can properly vet the thousands of afghan refugees coming to the united states. we ll talk a lot about this process of how they figured out who should come an
listen in. mike: mike emanuel and jacqui heinrich in washington as we witnessed the dignified transfer of our fallen service members killed in the suicide attack at cobble airport, a very difficult ceremony to watch one can only imagine what the families are going through as a transfer cases are arriving at dover air force base in delaware, being greeted by the president and first lady and military brass heartbreaking scene to witness. jacqui: absolutely you think about how young these service members were and you remember their ages 20, 22, 23 immense sacrifice that they had made and that their families have made on behalf of our country and our values and protecting our liberty, let s watch some more. mike: with this president biden becomes a fourth u.s. commander and chief to bear witness to the return of fallen service members from the afghan war, a powerful, powerful moment to see the remains of these young fallen heroes brought back to dover airbase our thoughts and p