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welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour a damning new report about the washington commanders nfl team and the culture of fear that the team s owner allegedly used to cover up years of sexual misconduct. plus 65 years later police have a name for the so-called boy in a box whose lifeless body was found wrapped inside a blanket in a cordboard box in 1957. philly police say they also have a theory about who killed him. and leading this hour olympic gold medalist and wnba star brittney griner is on her way back to the united states. after being released from a russian penal colony in a high-profile prisoner swap. griner was wrongfully detained in russia in february for carrying a small amount of medically prescribed cannabis oil. she was then convicted and sentenced to nine years in russian prison. after months of negotiations the white house agreed to release notorious convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout in exchange for griner s freedom. griner s wife cherelle spoke at
the media still reporting on this as if we are back in my summer not understanding the effect of the metrics have completely changed. so the white house is trapped in this because i put out these arbitrary goalpost, to make joe biden look good. people didn t comply with what joe biden wanted to do and now they are scrambling. the reality is this, hospitalization rates for cabot are very manageable. deaths per capita are down compared to the amount of cases we are seeing going up because the people who are getting affected are mostly unvaccinated people who are not in the vulnerable age areas of being plus 65 or having other health abnormalities. that s where we are. what the cdc on the white house should be doing is collecting more information and releasing that to the public with guidance for the american people, not mandates, not authoritarianism like they are doing right now. laura: congressman, great to see you tonight. we are just weeks before the september 14th election and the
13 individual appropriation s bills, two-thirds of the republican said we are not voting for this, we think it stinks, those republicans plus 65 who voted for it now have a chance in the house and the republicans in the senate to say, okay, you want to spend x out of that $320 billion, we don t want to spend that much. they have the ability and fights over the individual spending bills, we basically got rid of the caps and we said we are not going to have a needless fight over the debt ceiling until 2021 but we will absolutely have a fight over each and every one of those spending bills. chris: are you suggesting let me quickly explain, spending limits, you can t spend anymore than this and you don t have to spend that, you say we will end up having government shutdown? no i don t think so, slightly disagree with ben, a lot of legislating as people go through the appropriations bills and the test would be do republicans stand up and say we want less spending rather than more spendi
more, now we have to fight over 13 individual appropriation s bills, two-thirds of the republican said we are not voting for this, we think it stinks, those republicans plus 65 who voted for it now have a chance in the house and the republicans in the senate to say, okay, you want to spend x out of that $320 billion, we don t want to spend that much. they have the ability and fights over the individual spending bills, we basically got rid of the caps and we said we are not going to have a needless fight over the debt ceiling until 2021 but we will absolutely have a fight over each and every one of those spending bills. chris: are you suggesting let me quickly explain, spending limits, you can t spend anymore than this and you don t have to spend that, you say we will end up having government shutdown? no i don t think so, slightly disagree with ben, a lot of legislating as people go through the appropriations bills and the test would be do republicans stand up and say we want less