Welcome to the lead. Im pamela brown, and we begin this hour with our health lead. Momentum is building for a Vaccine Requirement as we learn sobering new details about the pandemic. More than 103,000 people were diagnosed with covid19 just yesterday. Dr. Anthony fauci has warned that number could double soon if americans dont take action. Hospitalizations have spiked more than 40 . The spikes in cases and hospitalizations being seen across all age groups, not just the elderly or the frail. The biden administration says there is a silver lining, however, more people are heeding the warnings and getting vaccinated. More than 864,000 doses reported a ministered in one day, and the majority of those were getting their first shot. The administration offering high praise for businesses, universities and Health Care systems that researchmenting Vaccine Requirements for workers or even customers. But as Cnns Nick Valencia reports, that could be much tougher for Mom And Pop businesses. Reporter the u. S. Poised to cross 100,000 average new coronavirus cases per day again, a 48 increase from just last week. Driven by the more transmissible Delta Variant, cases are continuing to rise. The these cases are concentrated in communities with low Vaccination Rates. Right now nearly 95 of the united states lives in a county where the cdc recommends masking indoors and children under 12 are still unable to get the vaccine. I think weve let our children down. As a general rule children catch this virus from an adult. They depend on those around them to protect them. The data shows at least seven states banning Mask Mandates for schools have the lowest Vaccination Rates for teenagers. In atlanta kids returning to the Classroom Today must wear masks. Some parents sending their kids back in person questioning their own decision. I am a little nervous. Are they going to wear snasks are they not . Theres a lot to consider. But in arkansas a Parents Choice to mask their child in school being debated by the legislature during a special session after the governor changed his mind about stopping Mask Mandates amid growing concern of the highly infectious Delta Variant. In nevada all teachers and School Taffe must wear masks. Virginias governor just instructed all students and staff to make up indoors. The Cdc Guide ants is that people in schools need to be wearing masks. Reporter the School District in austin, texas, getting around Governor Greg abbotts mask Map Date for schools by making children wear masks on school buses. The Education Secretary kardena Say Schools have the tools to keep kids safe in the classroom. This is preventable. This isnt Delta Variant. These policies preventing students getting to the Class Rom safely. In other parts of the country, private businesses are putting their own rules in place requiring customers to show proof of vaccine, but the white House Covid Task force indicating Business Owners are on their own when it comes to how to enforce this or get proof. We have seen a significant movement in the private sector to develop the Vaccine Verification efforts. We know that this is not something that the federal government is leading, but we are happy to see the private sector leading and taking initiative on that. Reporter the white House Covid Task force praising Vaccination Momentum saying in the last 24 hours theres been 864,000 vaccinations report administered. Over half of those were firsttime dose. Thats the most since July 1st and adding to the sense of urgency, pamela, is not only cases going up, but the Cdc Ensemble Forecast projectsizations and deaths also likely to rise. Pamela. Yeah, you often see that when cases go up. Nick valencia, thank you. Joining me live to discuss dr. Peter hote zoo, codirector of the director of vaccines at texas childrens hospital. The biden administration is wants to highlight vaccines requirements. Do you think these requirements are behind the spike in vaccinations were seeing . I think its probably a mixture of what were seeing, yes. Some mandates, particularly now that theres advanced notice that Pfizer Biontech Vaccine may be approved sooner rather than later. They may be buoyed by that but here in the south they are suddenly realizing that this Delta Thing is real. With all of the hospitalizations, especially young people, you know, its getting to the point where many, many people here in the south actually know someone who is being hospitalized, and its scary, and so i think youre starting to see a bit of an autocorrection. You know, its not ideal having to do this now during the surge because it takes time to fully vaccinate people, but better late than never. They are seeing firsthand the reality of what happens if youre unvaccinated. Youve been keeping an eye on the new Covid19 Variant that was spotted in florida. The dr. Fauci was asked today about future new variants, and heres what he said. As long as the virus continues to spread you give it ample opportunity to mutate, and when you give it ample opportunity to mutate you may sopor or later get another variant. And it is possible that that Virusant Mying in some respects worse than the already difficult variant were dealing with now. Up new poll shows 15 of americans arent likely to get vaccinated ever, so are you worried any future variants will be much worse than this one, than the Delta Variant . Well, look, i mean, weve seen this over and over again. New variants emerge in the setting of vulnerability, and when the virus starts to accelerate, you start seeing new variants, and now, of course, weve got this new one in florida that doesnt even have a greek letter appended do it yet called b1621, originally in colombia, South America and now here in florida, and its worrisome and, of course, the frustrating part is this is all preventable. The had we really accelerated throughout may and june and fully vaccinated the country, you know, at rates that resemble whats in new hampshire, if we did that here in the south, we wouldnt have to worry about this so much, but now weve created this vulnerability, and this is why were seeing a massive southern surge with similar numbers and new cases and hospitalizations doesnt look like the terrible surge that we saw last summer. I remember having a discussion with you last year, pamela, about how horrified we were that we might get to 100,000 cases a day and thats what were doing again and well get up to 200,000 cases a day as tony, dr. Fauci has said. You know, right now weve got to vaccinate as aggressively as possible, and the other thing, pamela, that im really concerned about is down here in the South School starts sooner rather than later, so a lot of schools are opening in august in louisiana where the epidemic is the worst, they are already starting next week and thats going to be an accelerant, and so what we really have to start thinking about is also and no one is talking about is vaccine mandates to schools to keep our adolescents safe in the junior high schools, middle schools and high schools, and i think well have to be forced to look at that seriously, but a now in addition to the hospitalizations were seeing Pediatric Icu admissions going up, pediatric hospitalizations and that will put a lot of pressure on governors to say where are we at with this . At what point does ideology become less important than the future of our children . Yeah. Those numbers going up on pediatric patients is really concerning. Again, we dont know at this point if this virus is just so much more transmissible in more kids or exposed to it or if it is in fact more dangerous towards children, right . Yeah. I think thats it. I dont think this virus is necessarily targeting kids or adolescents. I think whats happened is what youre seeing across the south right now is a Forest Fire and everything is getting swept up in it, including adolescents, including younger kids, and and the way you stop that is you you get as many people vaccinated, especially the adolescents, but the more you can vaccinate, you can actually slow transmission or even potentially halt transmission but the bar is high. Were talking about 80 of the population. That 80 not 80 of the adults but 80 of the population which means all of the adolescents and all of the adults and if you see thats not possible they are doing it up in the northeast thats accelerating towards that. Weve got to do that for the rest of the country. 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It is also a fact that the governor has taken steps that are counter to public health recommendations. Reporter for Days Governor Ron Desantis and President Joe Biden have feuded over covid19. Joe biden suggests that if you dont do Lockdown Policies then you should, quote, get out of the way, but let me tell you this. If youre coming after the rights of parents and florida im standing in your way. Im not going to lit get away with it. Reporter desantis went further calling biden a Power Hungry Tyrant in an Email And Press sect Jen Psaki fired back. Frankly our view is that this is too serious, deadly serious, to be doing partisan namecalling. Thats what were not doing here. Reporter meanwhile, the rising covid cases are taking a toll on president Bidens Approval numbers. A new poll finds that 53 of people approve of his handling of covid19, down from 65 in the same poll in may. This coming as the administration is facing new questions about its own covid19 data. For weeks top Health Officials have cited figures like these. Last month a study showed that over 99 of the covid19 deaths have been among the unvaccinated people. 99 . Reporter but today the Cdc Director acknowledged those numbers dont account for the highly contagious Delta Variant. Do you still stand by these numbers, and do you have government data to back them up . So those data were data that were from analyses in several states from january through june and didnt reflect data that we have now from the Delta Variant. Reporter walensky emphasizing the overwhelming majority of those hospitalized or dying of covid19 are still among the unvaccinated while not providing any updated data. A former top Trump Health Official is criticizing the cdc. The cdc was quoting data from canada, the united Kingdom And Israel because we dont have any of our own. That is a crying shame. We absolutely need to collect data. Reporter the biden administration also confirming they are considering mandating that all foreign nationals who enter the u. S. Be vaccinated. Though a Decision Isnt final, and there are no plans to lift Travel Restrictions for now. The united states will maintain the existing Travel Restrictions at this point. Reporter now, pam, we were just on the South Lawn with President Biden and reporters asked him about these latest comments from Governor Desantis saying hes going stand in the way of the federal government trying to get involved in his response to covid19 in florida, and this is what President Biden said. Plbd he was using your words and he was saying i am in the way to block too much interference from the federal government. Your response, plbd . Governor who . Desantis. So pam he says, governor who, thats my response. There you have it. Kaitlan collins live from the White House, thanks very much. U. S. Intelligence agencies are digging from mounds of data that came from a lab in wuhan, china and could be key for uncovering the origins of covid19. So what exactly is in . What are these teams looking for in this data, kate . Reporter bottom line. Intelligence officials are looking for clues to try to determine whether or not this virus originated naturally in the wild or whether or not it might possibly have escaped or leaked somehow from this lab in wuhan, so specifically what they are looking for is they are looking for genetic blueprints of viruses that are similar enough, that are a close cousin enough to Sars Cov2 as we know it today that scientists might be able to create a sort of genetic history how the virus evolved, but this is a big ask because were talking about a lot of data here. So its a little bit like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It is. And some of the scientists we spoke to in the course of reporting this story told us, you know, look. We dont really believe that there is a lot of viruses that that the lab in wuhan was working on, that we researchers work on this stuff all the time didnt already know about and even more, making this even tougher for the Intelligence Community, even if they do find a Virus Sample that is essentially a Kissing Cousin to Sars Cov2, they are still going to need a lot of other Context And Information to be able to reach a high Confidence Assessment about the pandemics origins. Right. So it wouldnt necessarily be a Smoking Gun if they did find something that was that close, and as you point out oftentimes intelligence communities, labs they know about what other labs are doing because they post it online. Of course, the wuhan line took off their their Data Sequencing and so forth in September Of 2019 so its unclear, right, if this is that, but theres so many challenges beyond just going through all and sifting through it. Exactly. So the two big problems that the Intelligence Community has to overcome here is, one, computing power. They have to allocate the massive computers at the national labs to be able to process this huge swath of data. Number two, they have to have specialists who are both the right kind of scientists, have the Security Clearance and they have to speak mandarin and not any mandarin but technical man trinh. Wow. Thats a lot. That will be hard to find. Thank you so much. Excellent exclusive reporting. Its all adding up a look at the Lengths President Trump and his allies went to try to attempt a coup. Thats next. Oh, focaccia ah, theres no place like panera. Enjoy the toasty, saucy Chipotle Chicken Avocado melt on freshly baked bread. Panera. Order on the app today. Get ready our most popular battery is even more powerful. The stronger, lastslonger energizer max. Welcome to allstate. Phone Notification where weve just lowered our Auto Rates. 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We now know a top Justice Department Official was ready to resign over what he said were trumps direct instructions to use the department to push the Big Lie, and trump told the acting Attorney General to, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me, and trumps Chief Of Staff sent several emails in December Urging The Ag to look into Conspiracy Theories about the election. Lets discuss all of this with our panel. We have a robust panel today. Evan, im going start with you. You cover the Justice Department. Youre talking to sources. This is really remarkable. Right. Because what were seeing emerge now is a Paper Trail Evidence of an attempted coup by not only the former President Of The United States but also his allies. What is the current Justice Department going to do about this . Well, i mean, one of the things that that we can tell from the fact that these documents that were that weve now all seen in public, that they have been turned over to the to the congress, it tells us a lot. It tells us that the Justice Department isnt treating this as a sensitive law enforcement matter. That tells us that they are not doing an investigation. Theres not any charges that are going to be brought against these people for this, or at least not that we can tell at this point, and i think thats going to create a reaction certainly from some of the critics of the former president , but it also tells you that they want congress to deal with this because in The End i think they see this as a political matter, and if you look at those emails. These are lawyers. They wrote things in a way that perhaps covered themselves in, a way that would make prosecution difficult, and if you think about this administration, i think one of the things that they want, they want to focus on their own priorities. They dont want to spend all their time relitigating the past four years which i know is going to upset some of the current president s supporters. What do you say to those democrats who want the biden administration to do more, who want doj to do more . I would say youre right, evan. I think what President Biden wants to do more than everything is for people to focus on his agenda. Theres so much to do, and they are they literally have so many things on their plate, but ill say this. This information i think should terrify everyone. We were on the verge of losing our democracy, and if it wasnt for Jeffrey Rosen who stood up to the president and said no, were not doing this and then perhaps resigning a bunch of people never even heard about it. Exactly, right. We came so close to our Democracy Melting down. Now the biden administration is going to focus on their agenda, but what is part of their agenda . Voting rights, and Voting Rights is completely connected to this episode because if it wasnt for the ridiculous Big Lie and all of the insane laws that republican legislatures are trying to pass, then we wouldnt be in this situation, and by the way, those laws should be just as scary as the documents that we are reading in the Justice Departments new trove now because now you have laws where if they go through and they are deemed constitutional, which i hope that they are not, the party in power can overturn an election if they dont like the result. In some states like georgia and so forth. Come on. I think the Attorney General Merrick Garland is in a very tricky position especially as more of these revelations come out. Now, on the one hand, if it hadnt been for the Justice Departments decision not to exert Executive Privilege over these conversations, we may not have known about a lot of this conduct and the efforts by former President Trump to directly use the Justice Department to try and overturn the election, but if you think about the mandate that garland came in with, it was to restore the integrity to the Justice Department, and once again try and at least in the eyes of the public reinforce that this is an independent institution, and that is part of why when hes been asked about whether or not theres going to be a comprehensive investigation into the previous administration hes pointed to the Departments Inspector general investigating some of these matter, including efforts to overturn election, but he says he does not want the department to real be behind that kind of comprehensive review because it risks politicizing the work of the Career Officials there. At the same time though because they have said that a lot of their mandate is about restoring the rule of law, theres some critics who want this Justice Department to make it more clear through some some kind of consequences that no one including a former president is above the law. Bill, youre being very quiet. What do you think . Hes bent over backwards not to go along with certain political wishes of the left and people in the White House and be very strict about the Justice Department, but he made the key decision, without which we would not any of this, probably wouldnt know any of this, which is to say were not going to exert, to defense the claim of Executive Privilege for this particular these particular events, postelection trump white House Interference in the attempt to to overturn the election which is extremely unusual. Right. I left the White House in january of 1993. There was no thought obviously the Justice Department was going to defend the confidentiality of the bush administration, White House contacts with the Justice Department just the way they did with their own. Thats a key step. And the Attorney Generals as you know, you cover justice, the Attorney General said no. This is exceptional. Were they can say people dont have to testify or they can fight that out with congress. Again, whats happening but what were learning is a twofold thing and its a powerful combination. A congressional committee with subpoena power, with the ability to get people to testify under oat and possibly compel the testimony on the one hand and no claim of Executive Privilege to clock the testimony on the other, and you put those two together. We learn a lot. But do you not think . Youve been an outspoken critic of former President Trump. Do you not think doj should be doing more, or do you agree with what officials have been telling evan that this is more of an issue for congress . Yeah. Look, if theres a crime, people have an obligation to if theres clear evidence of criminality they have no case to pursue it. Let sunlight in and let Congress Act as it chooses and if theres other issues the u. S. Attorneys office can deal with it, but i think the Attorney General has handled this very well. I was going to say we might very well find out Something Else, right, in the coming days . I was talking to a source earlier today who said there is a lot more that was happening behind the scenes in the White House and so forth that we dont even know about despite all the books and so forth. There is more to Unpeel Burks as we put this in a context, i want to end with you, evan. The effort to minimize and normalize what happened on January 6th is laying the grownwork for a potentially more successful Coup Attempt the next time around. The reality is that Donald Trump right now is the Gop Front Runner for 2024. He could be win and be more emboldened. Yeah. What do you hear from officials that youre talking about the concern moving forward . Look, i think that is a concern. I think the concern is that if there are no consequences, and certainly if the political part of our government doesnt deal with this, then were going to be back where we were. I mean, our system i think whats emerging from that these documents and from what were going to hear from the interviews, some of these people are willing to testify, by the way. Former trump officials arent going to tefrks and what youll hear is that our system was stretched to its ultimate limit. Yeah. And i think we we kind of got a hint of that, but i dont think i think any of us really appreciates how much of this was going on. Not only among people at the Justice Department and even people like Pat Cipollone at the White House who were trying to serve of as guardrails around the president , the former president. Really individuals. Individuals. That were stepping in. Thank god. Thats chilling. They all wrote memos and thats helpful. And a lot is being turned over. Notting everything, but a lot is being turned over thank you all so much. Sabrina, maria, bill, evan. And coming up, we went to one of the least vaccinated states where more people are actually now getting the shot. So what changed . [music plays. ] at usaa, weve been called too exclusive. Because we were created for officers. But as weve evolved with the military, weve grown to serve all whove honorably served. No matter their rank, or when they were in. A marine just out of basic, or a petty officer from 73. 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Joan chang, mom to 2yearold samantha, 19 years married to joseph millwood, 13 weeks pregnant with their son and last week she got her first coronavirus vaccine shot. It has got to a point where no one is wearing masks, okay, and then youre hearing about this variant. The highly contagious Delta Variant now taking hold here. Alabama has one of the lowest Vaccination Rates in the country. Nearly every county experiencing a high level of community spread, and most worrying hospitalizations are shooting up statewide at a rapid rate. This virus, it doesnt know race. It doesnt know gender. Age. So it its very its very scarey. Joseph who works in Health Care and knows too well what covid19 can do to the Human Body was vaccinated nearly a year ago and says hes been encouraging his wife to get it, too. Shes not worried about the Vaccines Effect on her unborn son. She just didnt see the point in getting it. Ive been working in a home since last year, march, so i dont really go out, but it got to a point where you turn around, people are getting sick. People i know are getting sick. Reporter uab hospital, The States largest, was putting thousands of shots into arms daily in the spring. A month ago it dropped to less than 100 a day. Today its a couple of hundred. They are starting to worry about their kids going to school. They are going back into the office and they are going back into the classroom and so parents are worried. Reporter as life gets back to something resembling normal, businesses reopening, masking and social distancing fading. The 20yearold Ellen Norris says the vaccine gives her the confidence to reengage in the world. Yes, yes. Im ready for everything to be close and back to normal. I dont think anything will ever be completely normal. I think that that will take a while. I think the more we take our part in doing this, then we can get close to doing that. Reporter Keith Snow says going on vacation is even enough to get the shot. Me and my wife is getting ready To Travel, so she tell me that we will need it in order for us To Travel, so here i am. Reporter casey, 23, says between her Nursing Job and the economy opening up, it was time to get vaccinated. Covid is not officially gone so now that the Mask Mandate is gone, i feel like if i was not going to be wearing my mask anymore i should probably still protect myself. Reporter now, look. I dont want to overstate it. There is a hard Core Number of people in The State of alabama that are never going to get vaccinated no matter what, but as the economy opens up, as people start to engage in the world again, as that Delta Variant spreads, weve got a lot of people who are finally making the decision to get the shot. The only hope now is that the trickle of new vaccinations will turn into a torrent. Pamela . 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Republican Congressman Doug Lamalfa represents that area and got emotional when he called on leaders in washington to help. Theres no words. We havent been able to get the job done. Weve got to stop this and get d. C. To pay Attention And Sacramento to pay attention. Forgot the politics. Forgot the nonsense. We have to stop making this happen by inattention to what is obvious. Josh Catch Bell just arrived in that area and joins me live from chico, california. This fire is on a destructive path, josh. Are people taking up the Evacuation Orders there . Reporter yeah. Pamela, sadly not everyone is evacuating despite the warning from authorities. Were told by officials that they were going Door To door in this area warning people to leave and some opted to stay behind and were waiting for an update. Take it a look at this video from greenville last night. This was a town that was completely destroyed, ravaged, homes, businesses, completely gone, and although it was tough to get out of that town, it was also tough to get in. Look at this video we got from San Diego fire and rescue, one of the many agencies providing mutual aid here. You can see this convoy working its way towards the Greenville Fire really shows you the bravery of the firefighters, working through the embers and hot zones in order to try to get there, to try to save property, to try to save lives. Of course, they still have a lot of work ahead of them. Of course, pamela, this fire only 35 contained. Just awful to see those images, and the fire exploded overnight and burning another 40,000 acres in just 12 hours. What is making it grow so quickly . Reporter in short, heat and wind. Its incredibly hot here. The Red Flag warnings remain in effect. You can look over my shoulder. This is the plume of that fire as it continues, just incredibly massive, and what we can see from this from this column here, the fact that its fractured shows us that this is still largely a winddriven event. Were told that the wind there on scene, about 30 to 40 knots. This system is so intense its creating it own weather system. Can you see the clouds that are enveloping above this fire that continues. Over 300,000 acres burning right now. Again, only 35 contained. No wind in sight here. Officials just gave us a warning a short time ago of new Evacuation Orders that are going out to other parts of this area. Again. Sometimes these fires can be hard to preverdict. They are trying to get people to heed these warnings as they go Door To door, warning them about whats coming their way. Josh campbell, thank you so much. Turning to the war lead, an american imprisoned in russia mysteriously gone. The State Department says it does not know where Trevor Reed is being held after the russian government sentenced him to nine heres in prison last summer. Cnns Moscow Correspondent mass two chance joins me live. Reeds family thinks he may have been transferred to a prison camp. Is there any way to confirm that . Reporter well, theres a way of confirming it, yes, which is that you speak to the russian prison authorities which weve done and they decide whether or not they want to answer you, and they decided on this occasion they are not answering us. They have not answered american diplomats who have also been lobbying them to try to get the whereabouts of Trevor Reed and they ever not answered his family as well who have been desperately trying to get some kind of an answer. The fact is when a prisoner in russia is moved from one facility to another one as Trevor Reed has been, been in a Ed Hog Facility in the Capital Moscow and hes been moved apparently 400 miles away from moscow to a penal colony in Mull Dovia which i think, you know, sounds just as bad as it actually is, prison authorities dont have to by russian law tell anyone until a certain amount of Quarantine And Isolation has has passed, and so i think thats what were in the middle of now. Its been three weeks stlinss been any Kwon Tact with Trevor Reed, and theres a lot of concern about his welfare because a couple months ago Trevor Reed was very ill with covid19 inside a russian prison in moscow, and there were concerns, real concerns about his health. But, you know, well see what happens over the coming days. I mean, the expectation is well eventually emerge which penal colony this former u. S. Marine has been taken to to serve of out the rest of his sentence. 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A top Industry Analyst tells me this could hurt Spirits Reputation in the short term, but in the long term it will really not have much of a business impact. He says eventually people will forgot all of this if the Ticket Price is right. Pamela . I hope that Junior Olympian gets to where he needs to be for that. Pete, the timing, of course, only makes matters worse, right . More people are starting To Travel again right now. So many people are coming back to flying, pamela. Its the peak of the Summer Travel Season and in a Way Spirit says that is working against them. Their planes are already full making it harder for people on cancelled flights to find an empty seat on a different flight and get to where they need to go. Pete, thanks so much. And moment ago, President Biden took a Victory Lap around the white House Lawn in an electric jeep. The right after announcing a lofty goal of making half of all cars in American Roads either electric or hybrid by The End of the decade of the well, todays Executive Order targets the biggest share of u. S. Greenhouse gas emissions. That would be transportation. The but the youth climate Activist Group Sunrise movement doesnt think Bidens Goal comes close to crossing the Finish Line saying fdr didnt set a goal to half win the War And Jfk didnt set a goal to get halfway to the moon. If we are still selling cars cars in 2030, they will on On The Road for another 10, 15, 20 years. The united states largest maker of electric vehicles, tesla, was not invited to todays event. The White House suggesting the snub was because of an ongoing battle over a workers union. Well, Im Pamela brown in for jake tapper. Follow me on twitter pamelabrowncnn. Coming up Cnns Wolf Blitzer will talk with Cdc Director dr. Walensky. Our Coverage Starts now. Happening now, covid confusion grips the nation as the u. S. Records more than 100,000 new cases in a single day. Deaths are up as well. More than 600 americans lost their lives on tuesday alone. Officials say its still unclear whether the Delta Variant poses a greater threat to fully vaccinated americans than previous straps of the virus. Also tonight, were learning new information about a u. S. Justice Department Official who aided former President Trumps attempted coup. Could they