Next week. And as americans commemorate 20 years since the 9 11 attacks, are we any safer from terrorists than we were on that day when the towers fell and the nation changed forever . We want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with President Biden pushing back hard at republican critics on his new covid19 strategy. Our chief national Affairs Correspondent is at the White House for us. Jeff, the president appears undaunted by the backlash. The White House does believe it is on solid legal ground here saying it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide a safe workplace and protect workers. Now, these actions this week have gone much farther than President Biden has gone before. In fact, a reversal from previous pledges not to issue mandates. But he said he never expected the resistance to be so fierce. Thats why hes taking these steps and leaving the door open to even more. Were playing for real here. This isnt a game. President Biden Pushing back tonight on critics blasting his new Vaccine Mandates as government overreach. To republicans threatening legal challenges, biden responded sharply. Have at it. In his most agrgressive step yet, the president is not only requiring all federal workers to be vaccinated but also instructing the Labor Department to require private businesses with 100 or more employees to vaccinate its workforce and force them to weekly covid tests. Across the country republican governors are firing back. When you have a president like biden issuing unconstitutional edicts against the american people, we have a responsibility to stand up for the constitution and to fight back, and we are doing that in the state of florida. [ applause ] what the biden administration is government overreach, pure and simple. In a visit to a school in washington, the president promoted wearing masks and suggested his critics are unnecessarily politicizing the pandemic. Some of the republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier of the health of their communities. Thats not who we are as a nation, and it is not how we beat every other crisis in our history. Weve got to come together. The White House believes it is on solid legal footing, insisting the federal government has the power to protect workers from grave danger under the occupational Safety And Health act of 1970. Certainly a pandemic that killed more than 600,000 people qualifies as grave risk to workers. The changes come as concerns over covid are rising, a new Cnn Poll finds, with 70 of americans saying they are very or somewhat worried. Up 10 percentage points from last summer. The president s Approval Rating on covid is down. 56 approve of how hes handling the crisis now, down from 66 in april. The administration is trying to slow the covid case load. Now at One Million a week with about 1,500 deaths every day. The White House is not ruling out taking additional steps, including requiring vaccinations to fly. We are always looking at more we can do to protect and save lives. Well continue to look for ways to save more lives. And shortly after the president was visiting that school promoting mask wearing, a florida Appeals Court actually delivered a victory for Ron Desantis who issued a ban on any Mask Mandate, and the judge said for now the mandate can remain in place. The Governors Decision can remain in place, so there will not be Mask Mandates, at least as this winds its way through court. Governor desantis is among the republican governors leading the charge, pushing back against the White House. He focussed squarely on President Biden today and also said this. To take peoples jobs and livelihoods away from them with no force of law, just an executive edict, that is fundamentally wrong. And, so, we need to be providing protections for folks here in the state of florida. You should not lose your job just because Joe Biden is having this hissy fit. So, of course, this is The Endless back and forth over politics, but the legal experts we talked to do say that that 1970 law, the Osha Law which of course provides the safety of workers at every workplace in the country does apply to this. Of course, governors will not be the ones bringing lawsuits. It will likely be business owners. We will see if that happens in the weeks and months to come. But perhaps a Time Line for this, wolf, the Labor Department still has to write this rule. So we are talking weeks before any of this actually be implemented. But for businesses that dont follow this, theyre looking at fines of up to 14,000 per employee. This is all just getting started. Well see if it ends in the courts, wolf. Right. I suspect it will. Thank you very much. Lets bring in the former federal Prosecutor Jeffrey to toobin, along with the former baltimore city health commissioner, dr. Wen. Author of a new book. Jeffrey, what do you think these mandates are . Are they going to be going to court . I assume they will be. But will they hold up in court . Well, the lawsuits are certainty. First of all, we need to see what the regulation actually says. I think it is interesting that the biden administration is not putting them out right away. I think they want a few weeks to get companies to start creating the procedures so that this is almost afate complete when the regulation comes out. Anyone who tells you with certainty about whether these laws will be upheld doesnt know what theyre talking about because this is uncharted territory. Yes, its true that the 1970 law says grave danger can be addressed by the federal government. But that still raises the question of whether a Vaccine Mandate is within the gambit of the law. It also raises the question of whether the appropriate procedures are going to be followed. Will there be something called notice in common, or will this be promulgated in another way . There are lots of Law Questions that have never been addressed before. But it is clear that the biden administration just wants these vaccines to start. And i think the delay in in putting the Regulation Out is a sign that they want people starting now, because this issue is so important. Yeah. So important indeed. 53 of the eligible american population is now fully vaccinated. But we still have a long way to go. Let me get your thoughts on these republican governors who are trying to shut down the president s Vaccine Mandates. They called the new measures overreach. How do you see it from a medical, a federal perspective . Well, for the public health perspective, it is not overreach at all. In fact, i wish they came out earlier and went even further. Were in the middle of the biggest public Health Crisis of our lifetimes. We have more than A Thousand americans who are dying every single day. We, as a society, set laws that protect Peoples Health and wellbeing all the time. We have laws against drunk driving, and we need to start talking about the choice to remain unvaccinated as the choice to g out and drive untox kated. We really need to start doing even more. I wish the biden administration, for example, also put mandates on having vaccines for interstate travel. We should make the point that it is a privilege to be able to board a plane and a train and you have to be vaccinated in order to do that. And the most important thing, i wish the biden administration did is that is to issue some type of proof of Vaccination System System to what Israel And Other Countries have because otherwise i feel people will counter fit their cdc cards and that will be a significant loo loophole. Yeah, thats a very, very serious problem. Jeffrey, as you heard a florida Appeals Court just rule in favor of governor Ron Desantis reinstating his ban on Mask Mandates on schools throughout the state, where is this fight likely to go next . Well, i think the Mask Mandate in Schools Issue is really going to be fought Out State By state. That is really a matter almost exclusively of state law. California is going in the opposite direction. Florida is trying to get rid of its mandates through the governor overruling local communities. That fight between local control and the big hand of State Government is being fought out in texas, in florida and a bunch of other states. The irony here, of course, is that the republican party used to be the party of local control, and theyre the ones now telling these local communities that they are not allowed to impose Mask Mandates even if the people on the ground think it is the way to protect their community. Thats a good point. Let me get your thoughts about these two new studies on vaccines. The cdc released earlier today one study found the unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to die of covid than the vaccinated. Another study found that the Moderna Vaccine was more effective at preventing hospitalizations than the Pfizer Or J j vaccines. What is your takeaway from this new research . Well, the big takeaway here, wolf, is that the vaccines still protect you very well against severe disease. And Thats Protection against hospitalization and death. Now we know even the real world with the Delta Variant they still protect you well against those terrible outcomes. But at the same time, especially with the johnson johnson vaccine, one of the studies found it is only 60 effective against hospitalization, Versus The Moderna is more than 90 protective. So i think this should be an impetus to take a close look at the question of boosters, not just for waning immunity but also to address for people who got the J J vaccine, maybe you are not that well protected as you could be if you got a booster right now. And i hope the Fda And Cdc will really allow for individuals who got the J J vaccine to get a booster. Very important. Lets not forget 1,500 americans are dying in a sevenday average. 1,500 americans are dying every day from covid19. At The End of june, early july, it was 200 americans a day. You can see this Delta Variant is deadly, so transmissible, very, very dangerous. Guys, thank you very much. 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Tonight a newly revealed email is showing deep concern about violence just ahead of the January 6th Capital Siege and a disturbing warning to Law Enforcement to be prepared for what was called a Mass Casualty Event. Our congressional correspondent Ryan Nobles is working the story for us. Ryan, what are you learning. Reporter this email was obtained by a Watchdog Group and outlines a Conference Call that took place with more than 300 members of Law Enforcement from around the country that are a part of these Fusion Centers, a collaboration among different Law Enforcement groups to keep an eye on potential threats. This was all about the threats that could emerge as a result of the stop the steal rally, which turned out to be the prelude for the January 6th insurrection. They outlined a number of concerns they have about caravans of people coming to washington at that time and the threat for potential violence. They even went so far as to create a Hashtag On An Internal Fbi social Media Channel that would allow these different Law Enforcement agencies to keep track of events as they developed on that day. And the fact that all this information came out just a couple of days before January 6th is another example of how the officials and people in charge of keeping the capital safe on that day did not interpret correctly the threat as it emerged in the days leading up to January 6th. It is a big part of what the January 6th select committee is investigating and one of the things they hope to change ahead of another potential rally where there is concerning Coming Up on september 18th, wolf. As you know, ryan, the house select committee investigated the January 6th attack, has received thousands of pages of documents requested from telecom and Social Media Companies. What are you learning about what this phase of the probe is all about . Well, this is just about getting as much information as possible so that they can then begin the process of determining who they need to interview and bring in front of the committee for witness interviews. And the committee saying they received thousands of pages of documents from various Government Agencies and Social Media Companies they requested information from. But even though the committee seems somewhat happy with the cooperation theyre receiving, they still say they need a lot more. They made it clear to these Companies Today that they would like to see more of this information come to them. And if they dont, they said they will, quote, use all the tools they have available to them at their disposal. Of course, wolf, thats a not so subtle threat they will use that Subpoena Power at their disposal. If it comes to that, the committee has a lot of work to do. All this information will take a long time to sift through and there is no deadline. Yeah. This investigation will go on for months and months. Ryan nobles, thank you very much. Ryan is on Capitol Hill joining us now. The democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of california is a member of the January 6th select committee. Thank you for joining us. If the socalled Fusion Centers knew to make a plan in case this turned into what was called a Mass Casualty Event, why did people protecting the u. S. Capital that day so severely underestimate this threat. And are you confident they wont underestimate these latest looming threats that are out there right now . Well, in terms of your first question, why did they underestimate the threat, this is one of the questions, one of the most important questions that we are probing. What i found most interesting, wolf, about this recent disclosure by this Watchdog Group is that in one of those emails they have described one of the Fusion Associations describes a collection requirement. That means we need to collect against this. We need to know of the threat thats out there, and that may answer a question that we have been posing to the fbi in some of our very general Oversight Hearings in our individual committees. And that is, why didnt we see all of these online Threat Indicators . Because what they had been saying up until now has been, well, were not, you know, permitted under our policies just to be combing the internet looking for things. We need a predicate. These emails seem to suggest there was a predicate. So this is really the heart of our inquirety. As to your second question going forward, wolf, will we underestimate again . I have to think that the answer to that is no, that every precaution is going to be made and No One wants to to have another event like we had on January 6th, period. But we certainly dont want to be prepared. Unprepared, yeah. The new Police Chief up on Capitol Hill has told me personally they are getting ready for worst case scenarios. They will be prepared. Lets see. You are also investigating as part of this house select committee, congressman, they just put out this statement saying telecom and Social Media Companies need to provide what they call much more information. Are you running into issues with a lack of cooperation here, or is it too early to conclude that . You are absolutely right. We certainly dont want to be unprepared. In terms of the cooperation, you know, i think we can certainly tell with respect to some of those that were pursuing information from that they are cooperating, they want to be cooperative. With others, you know, frankly, because i can speak as the chair of the intel committee, we requested documents months ago that we have been getting slow walked on and now the select committee has requested those same documents and more. And, you know, were going to have to use whatever tools we have as as you mention, to compel performance if we dont get things right away. And, so, i think that is the the response has been uneven, but even with that, we have gotten a wealth of materials and were just beginning to go through. You will be getting a lot more material i suspect fairly soon. The House Minority Leader has threatened these companies, as you know, not to comply with your select committee investigation. What do you expect in terms of legal challenges to these records requests . How legally are you prepared to go after these records . Well, we are prepared to go after them vigorously and we will do it through lawful means. We consult with the house General Counsel who is an outstanding lawyer and the head of a team of outstanding lawyers to make sure were on very solid ground with everything that we request. And were going to continue to do that. These are really not unprecedented things in terms of congress seeking records from agencies, from Social Media Companies, from telecommunications companies. There is a lot of precedent for it, and well be careful to follow the precedent. But we all understand the importance of this task. And, you know, frankly, that we have another rally Coming Up on the mall and more worries about security. Only further validates how important it is that we get our work done and we expose what went into January 6th and the american people and the steps we need to protect ourselves going forward. Adam schiff, thanks so much for joining us. Good luck. Thanks, wolf. Coming up, the surging Delta Variant is dragging down President Bidens Approval Rating. We will bring you our exclusive Cnn Polling results right after the break. Tato pay. Where oreida golden crinkles are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this. With this. When kids wont eat dinner, Potato Pay them to. Oreida. Win at mealtime. announcer carvanas had a lot of firsts. 100 online car buying. Car vending machines. And now, putting you in control of your financing. 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Tonight cnns exclusive new Poll Shows President Bidens ratings are taking a hit as americans worry about the pandemic and the future are on the rise of the pandemic. Our political Director David Chalian is here to break it down for us. Overall Approval Rating still at around 52 . Thats not too bad. But there are some warnings signs in this new poll. There are, indeed. First up, put up the Approval Rating you mentioned. You say hes at 52 now. Hes at 48 disapproved. You noticed the hike in disapproval. So thats one area of concern. There is no doubt about that. What we have also seen is that if you look inside, hes lost ground with independents. Hes down five points. And the rise of covid, the Delta Variant, thats having an impact. Its Issue Number one. Far and away the most important issue to voters. And Take A Look at his Approval Rating on handling coronavirus. The president is now at 56 approval. Again, majority approval. Look at where he was in april. He was at 66 approval on covid. Again Issue Number one, hes down ten points. I think it is that information why you saw the robust, aggressive response from the president in his remarks Last Night to try to reset the path forward for the country. Yeah. So important indeed. Standby for a moment, david. I want to welcome a new member of the cnn family, anchor and chief national Affairs Analyst Casey hunt is joining us here in the situation room. Thanks very much. Were glad to have you here. Lets talk a little bit about this new poll. The overall success of this presidency is clearly going to be tied at least in the short term to his handling of this pandemic. For sure, wolf. And thats been true since the day that he walked in to the Oval Office for the first time. As president , one thing im hearing from Members Of Congress and other sources im talking to that stood out to me as i was reading this poll and the information we learned from it is how the pandemic ties in to the economy and the fact that people were expecting to get back to work, to get back to school. Parents were expecting to be able to get back to the office and not have to worry about their Travel Care concerns. That number ticked up here. 62 told us this time around that the economy was doing badly. Thats up from 45 in april. Im really starting to hear that from people going home from their districts. Members of congress have been there throughout the summer. Theyre saying things are tough here. That is a huge problem for democrats. It is why it was one of the pillars in the president s remarks Last Night. What is the solution . People getting vaccinated. The pandemic. If you are President Biden right now, what message do you take away from these numbers . I have talked to folks. You know, this is an american population, wolf, where concerns are on the rise. Not just about the virus. Also about the economy. Also about crime. We have just seen a significant uptick in concern and worry about some of the most major issues facing the country, and that certainly would give any white House Sort of its Marching Orders of what the challenges are. You have heard all these republican Governors Today say theyre going to fight this with every instinct, every breath that they have. Is the president ready for this battle with all these republican governors . It is clear theyre trying to ready what they can, marshall what resources they can to make sure theyre prepared to fight this in court. But it lays down clear, political battle lines. They are making a Big Bet that most americans want people to have to be vaccinated. One person i talk to sometimes on twitter, political strategist from florida, im sure you know Steve Shell very well, but he was looking at numbers that showed in florida overwhelmingly people say, yeah, you should have a vaccine if you want to go back to school, if you want to ride on a train with other people. But people want to be protected. I think thats going to be the question. Are democrats ready to explain to the angriest and loudiest people that show up at these Town Halls why theyre doing what theyre doing. We have all gotten accustomed to getting vaccines for all sorts of diseases. You have a vaccine to deal with covid and it becomes a big, political issue. We saw the Plioint Casey mad. The White House understand majority of americans are in favor of the vaccine. So this political battle with the republicans, it may give republicans an opportunity to fundraise, to fortify their base. It is hard to see right now, and this is the bed the White House is making, that this will be a winning persuasive argument to the major tof the country. Listen to governor desantis. To take peoples jobs and livelihoods away from them with no force of law, just an executive edict, that is fundamentally wrong. And, so, we need to be providing protections for folks here in the state of florida. You should not lose your job just because Joe Biden is having this hissy fit. What do you think . You know, it is remarkable to me how much, you know, he is one of the new faces of the republican party, right . Republicans typically used to be the party of big business. What do businesses want right now . They want to we liability be able to open back up with workforces that are vaccinated. Republicans are fighting big businesses In The Name Of this Freedom Mantra we have heard as the slogan emerging there. I think it is very interesting sort of Narrative And Trend that they are on the opposing side of that. I think that at The End of the day they know that this is where former president trumps base is, and they cant get away from that. And desantis is clearly rallying. But i think the Big Question at The End of the day is, is it more than 30 of the narrative . Some of this rhetoric were hearing from these republicans is outrageous, making comparisons to the gus stop poe. He said bring it, right . He was making the argument, once again, it is what we heard in the inaugural. It is what we heard in his remarks about september 11th. He was yet again today pleading with the country that this should be a moment of unity, right . Thats the whole Joe Biden theme. And hes challenging these republicans to say you could bring all this criticism you want, but this is actually a moment the country needs to come together to put this virus behind us. Thank you so much. 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Nic robertson is joining us from kabul tonight. For the second straight Day Passenger Air krafl has taken off with americans onboard. Update our viewers on the latest. 158 people, wolf, got out on that plane to qatar, americans, canadians, dutch, germans, french, belgium. 59 french citizens got out by plane. It is not clear if that was the plane. But 59 french got out of the country. 21 americans made it out of the country. 19 on that aircraft. But 2 u. S. Citizens and 11 legal permanent residents of the united states left by a land border crossing. That still leaves a lot. That 100 figure is still a big figure to get out on aircraft. And the expectation is that the taliban are going to keep to their word and allow all those with proper documentation to be able to leave the country. But the number of aircraft is not there yet, wolf. I have to say, being here in Kabul On September the 11th when those attacks took place compared to today, i think back to all that time ago and the expectations here in the country that the united states was going to arrive here to chase out alqaeda and the taliban. That happened. The expectation was the country could be made a better place. In many ways it is. Now were looking at a city with the taliban back again. That for a lot of people in the City Tonight and over the past few weeks it is a deep concern and it is not clear to them in which direction this country is going, wolf. Hard to believe 20 years ago the taliban was in control of afghanistan. Now 20 years later the taliban once again is in control of afghanistan. Hard to believe after 20 years. Nick, be careful over there in kabul for us. Lets discuss whats going on with jay jeh johnson. Thanks so much for joining us. 20 years after this attack on 9 11, did you ever think you would see the taliban controlling afghanistan with the united states grappling with domestic terror here at home . It does seem as though things have come Full Circle in a 20year ark, doesnt it, wolf . But circumstances are different. I was down at ground zero, the World Trade Center today, this morning, and i will be there again tomorrow for the observance. I try to go every year. Each year i go, which happens to be my birthday, it feels as though things have never changed. I am working today in the same Law Firm in private Law Practice that i was in 20 years ago, and i watched the Towers Collapse from our midtown office that i work from now. Things are very different. 20 years ago there was no department of homeland security. Bin laden was alive. Since then, we created a department of homeland security. I ended up leading it for three years. We got Bin Laden in 2011. Alqaeda has been degraded. Theyre no longer in the view of many, including myself, available to launch another largescale attack on our homeland and here in the united states. But the Terrorist Threat has evolved. The taliban is back in control. There is now an organization called isisk that is rising in prominence. And most of the Terrorist Threat here at the homeland, wolf, is domesticbased. Right wing violent extremism. If you were to ask me today what are the top Security Threats to our nation, wolf, i would say global warming, global warming, global warming, and that is the top priority, along with Cyber Security, cyber attacks on our nation on a daily basis and domestic violent extremism. And we have to stay one step ahead of those threats. Every year on 9 11 i believe we should mourn and remember those who died that day, the courage showed by passengers on flight united 93, for example, and never forget. But the world has changed. The threats against our homeland have changed. You are the former secretary of homeland security. Do you feel that the homeland is safer today than it was 20 years ago . We are safer today from foreign Terrorist Organizations and their ability to launch a largescale attack on the homeland. As a result of our Counter Terrorism efforts over the last 20 years. Where we are now challenged is global warming, Cyber Security and domesticbased violent extremism. Those are the top Security Threats in my judgment today. And in that respect, we are less safe. We are more safe when it comes to the type of terrorism we saw 20 years ago tomorrow. And as you say, you were in new York City on september 11th, 20 years ago, watching all of this unfold from your office. The response to that attack clearly shaped your career and the world for that manner. How are you reflecting, mr. Secretary, on this 20th anniversary . When i watched the Towers Collapsed on 9 11, i had left the pentagon. I was General Counsel of the Air Force during the clinton administration. I was back in private Law Practice for eight months. My first reaction is, i got to get back in there. I want to be in washington. I want to be at the pentagon. I wanted to devote myself to national security and had a chance to do that in the Obama Administration beginning in 2009. I was there in the Command Center at the pentagon may 1st, 2011, which was probably my single finest day as a public servant, the day we got osama Bin Laden. And for me, as well as a lot of others, a lot of new yorkers, a lot of americans, there was a feeling of some closure when we got Bin Laden as a result of what he inspired on 9 11. The threats are new. A lot has happened in 20 years. You and i are a little older, a little grayer, the threats are new and we have to stay one step ahead of them, wolf. You certainly do. Thanks so much for your service. Thanks so much for joining us. 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He was arrested when the plane landed in salt lake city. It was not clear if this incident is related to the rules on wearing masks on Passenger Flights but out of more than 4,000unruly passengers reported by the faa, three quarters involve disputes of mask wearing rules. Its gotten so bad that President Biden has announced the tsa will now double the fines passengers will have to pay if they break the rules. [ applause ] reporter the president getting personal, sounding exasperated. By the way, show some respect. The anger you see on television toward Flight Attendants and others doing their job is wrong. Its ugly. Reporter could the new fines curb this behavbehavior. . I think it potentially could the airlines and Flight Attendants unions calling for harsh penalties want to see criminal prosecution, not just civil fines. Reporter more and more Flight Attendants say they fear for their safety, the head of a prominent flight Attettendants Union weighing in. People are coming in combative. They believe the Safety Precautions in place are a political issue rather than a public Health Necessity and it has created this atmosphere that weve never seen before and what can very quickly turn into a mob like behavior. Reporter but one Industry Analyst sites other factors, people letting lose after not being able to fly and alcohol intake. People frustrated or stressed out because flights are delayed and had to deal with the extra precautions because of covid, maybe, Airport Restaurants being closed, fewer services on board and people ending up at this higher Stress Level that ends up boiling over. Reporter Analysts David Slotnick says he worries if another Covid Variant starts spreading leading to stricter rules that could lead to more unruly incidents but stricter rules could be coming anyway. White house officials saying theyre not ruling out mandating Covid Testing or requiring proof of vaccination for domestic flights. Wolf . 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