Thats roughly 75 Million people, something needs to be done. Here to Break Down the numbers, cnn senior Data Reporter Harry enten, its almost an even split there. What about when you factor in political views. Yeah, you know, throughout this entire pandemic, both republicans and democrats, the majority got the vaccine. When it comes to mandates, were seeing a large partisan split. As you pointed out, right, 51 of americans say its acceptable to increase Vaccinations T to have a Vaccine Mandate, versus 49 who say its an unacceptable infringement on rights. 75 of democrats say its acceptable, the Mirror Image of that 76 of republicans say its not acceptable. I think we could have a real big political fight on her hands between republican governors, asa hutchinson, and Greg Abbott in texas, and the president of the united states. When you zoom in on specific events and requirements, what do the numbers show . On specific events and requirements, we see theres more back and forth. You see Attend School in person, 55 . Attend sports in person, 55 . Shop in a grocery store, 41 , but the key thing is look at the Trend Line going upwards on measures. Shop in a grocery store, a 15 point jump. Americans as the coronavirus has gotten worse have become more in favor of Vaccine Mandates. Lets talk about the key question, do Vaccine Mandates actually work, what are we learning . They do work. You know, we have some Real World examples. Forget the poll. Lets look at Real World examples. Look at the airline industry. United airlines put in place a Vaccine Mandate. 50 plus of the unvaccinated employees are now vaccinated. Delta, Employee Vaccination Rate from 74 to 78 . They were instituting a fine. Tyson, Employee Vaccination Rate from 45 to 70 , according to the u. S. Surgeon general. I look at poles for a living, the Vaccine Mandate so far has been the clearest winner by far to get unvaccinated americans vaccinated and you see it in the Real World. And that is important to know. That is the reason we have this new mandate. Thats what the government is pointing us to. A few months ago, harry when these vaccines became wildly available, people were optimistic about americas recovery. What about now . Not nearly as much. The pandemic is still going on. Thats what our poll tells us how americans think. 86 of americans say the pandemics not over. 64 say the economic Recovery Hasnt started yet, and 64 of americans say they are taking extra precautions. Even if theres a split on Vaccine Mandates, in terms of the overall views of where the pandemic is, americans are generally in agreement, its not quite over just yet. Im still wearing this thing all around the office and inside everywhere i go. Thank you. You got yours too. N95. Cant go wrong with that. Thank you, harry enten. As the administration implements new Covid Vaccine requirements, there is an ongoing debate about boosters. The white House Target Date for rolling out a third Pfizer Dose is now just one week away. Remember, the 20th. But its something the fda still has to green light, and now two retiring Fda Vaccine scientists are part of a group of efforts who say data does not support getting Booster Shots right now. Cnn medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohn joins us with this. This is the latest chapter in the debate over boosters. Walk us through it. It really is interesting. When you think about the discussion at The End of last year, about whether or not to approve a covid19 vaccine. There was no debate. Everyone was on the same side. These vaccines are a great idea. Theres a lot of debate about the Booster Shot programs. Im detecting bitterness when i talk to people involved in the decision making. Lets look at the big picture. Why would want to get a booster, you want to get a booster if the Vaccines Strength has diminished over time, or if the Delta Variant came in, and the Vaccine Wasnt designed for the Delta Variant. Theres various studies that slow whether or not a booster would be needed. An article by two fda scientists, as well as hopes from the World Health Organization and other places and that article says we have looked at the evidence, and we dont see that theres real evidence that Vaccine Immunity does wane, in other words, the two shots are doing just fine. Lets look at a quote from one of the authors of this paper. So the Lead Author of the paper says taken as a whole the currently available studies do not provide evidence of substantially declining protection against severe disease, which is the primary goal of vaccination, in other words, shes saying the point of a vaccine is to keep you out of the hospital or to keep you from dying, and two shots are just fine in that regard. Theres no Data Showing otherwise. The Data Showing the other side of this argument that boosters are needed, that boosters do help keep you out of the hospital, really that mainly comes from israel and the israel six weeks ago started a booster program. They have given boosters to about a third of their population, and they say data shows it really does work, and they have moved ahead of the united states in requiring boosters. Lets take a listen to a conversation that i had with dr. Ron ballas there. Hes an israeli health official. Israel waited for the Fda And Cdc to chime in, but you guys just did boosters without the Fda And Cdc timing in. I think there was a different level of urgency felt in the two countries. Decisions by the fda has been made and we could have followed them, but in the situation that we were at, it was obvious that action was needed urgently, decisions need to be made. Now, all of this will come to a head on friday when two israeli scientists are expected to testify to an fda advisory panel committee, a key committee. They are going to help decide whether or not americans ought to get boosters. It will be interesting to see the debate about the science. Especially with two competing factions of reliable sources. Thank you so much, elizabeth cohen. Lets bring in dr. Peter hotez, the Professor And Dean at Baylor College of medicine. What do you make of this argument coming from two top fda scientists on the their way out the door, that boosters may not be needed for the general population especially as the fda is going to take a look at this and give a recommendation one way or another, we expect. And i know those two fda scientists personally, they were outstanding scientists and o Outstanding Civil Servants in the usa. They may have access to data in the united states thats not publicly available. From the data from israel, i come out strongly in favor of the boosters, based on the way the boosters will keep people out of the hospital, prevent long covid. If you get covid, you have a good chance of getting long covid, and Gray Matter brain degeneration, and a third booster could restore Interrupting Asymptomatic transitions so in theory if every american can get vaccinated with three doses, it could halt tin the epidemic in the united states. So much of this is based on data from Company Press releases, Power Point Slide presentation, shared meetings, not the way to do science. Im hopeful that data will be presented in a coherent way to the fda and will make a good decision. Then the american people want to see that data too and get some clarity on this issue. If the boosters become available and the mandate increases vaccination rates. A big weak spot is kids are back in school. They cannot get vaccinated. A former Fda Commissioner now on the board of pfizer says that could change very soon. Watch this. Pfizer has said theyre going to have data before end of september. They could be ready to file within days of having that data. Theyll file quickly with the fda. Fda says a matter of weeks not months in terms of their evaluation of the clinical data to make a determination whether theyre going to authorize vaccines ages 5 to 11. In a best case scenario, you could potentially have a vaccine to Children Age 5 to 11 by halloween if everything goes well. That is right around the corner, doctor, it is september 13th, do you think this Time Line is realistic, i know a lot of parents are hoping it is. A lot of parents are hoping, and on the other hand a lot of parents arent. Its very much where you live. In the New Orleans where the compliance, especially among Teenage E has been excellent, 75 . A lot of parent are saying, yes, i want my younger kids to get vaccinated as well. And in the south, parents are defiant, and we have 25 uptake by Addless Septembers in the united states. Your not going to see much enthusiasm at all. I hope its warranted and hopefully the data confirm that is these work in younger kids and theyre safe. Once the authorization happens, do you see School Systems adding it to their mandatory list of vaccines . Thats been slow. So far we have not seen a lot of covid Vaccine Mandates even for the teenagers for middle schools and high schools. I think thats going to be the next step. Its going to have to happen if were going to get kids through the school year. The problem is beyond the reach of the federal government. This is done at the state level, and states and you know, in places like texas are fiercely opposed to Vaccine Mandates in the schools where there will probably be a lot of a enthusiasm. Thank you for your time and Expertise And Everything you do. Thank you part of the calculation behind the Biden Vaccine Policy is that more vaccinations make for a faster economic recovery. But the other major pieceo of Bidens Agenda is in limbo. The sweeping package with everything in investments from early education to climate initiatives, House Democrats have unveiled the key Tax Proposals and the Pay Fors Setting up a big fight, not just with republicans but within the democratic party. Cnns Jessica Dean is live at the capitol. This plan includes a reversal of the Trump Tax cuts for businesses and wealthy individuals. Walk us through this. Were just getting some of the details. These could all change as we see lobbying and negotiating taking place over the next several days. Democrats on a very tight time constraint. Theyre hoping to get this all sewn up by end with. Thst pond. Tha its monday. Thats a truncated period of time. How thoo pay for this massive package. Some items that they have floated is increasing the individual Tax Rate up to the highest being now 39. 6 . That would come up from 37 . That would apply to individuals making 400,000 or more or couples making 450,000 or more. It would raise the corporate Tax Rate to 26. 5 . Thats up from 21 for businesses paking more than 5 Million annually. It would raise capital Gains Tax up to 25 from 20 . It would overhaul Prescription Drug prices. So a lot of things here that they could do that are floating out there. The key is, remember, they need every democrat on board in the senate, and a three Vote Margin in the house. We have heard senator Joe Manchin say he has issues with this right now. They have a lot to hash out before they get to the Finish Line on this. And the next few days, it could all have major mooumplt. Jessica dean. Thank you for staying on it. A man with a Machete And Bayonet and swastikas on his truck, arrested near washington, d. C. This morning. 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For all its worth. An early Morning Arrest raising some serious questions in our nations capitol. Capitol police arresting a California Man with a bayonet and a machete in his truck. He was near the headquarters of the democratic national committee. His arrest comes days before a far right rally expected to draw hundreds to washington. Cnn crime and justice reporter, Shimon Prokupecz is with us now. What more are you learning about this arrest . Reporter yeah, this certainly underscores the concern that authorities here have in anticipation of this rally thats supposed to take place on saturday. Capitol police pulling over this individual. They identified him as 44yearold daniel craighead, and what they say is they found a Bayonet And Machete inside his pickup truck. They also asked him some questions. He said he was out who are on patrol. He was talking about white supremacy, and other information that Gay Concern to authorities. Hes awaiting his Court Hearing. Hes from california. Police believe he drove all the way here from california. As you said, they arrested him just after midnight, and hes now awaiting that Court Hearing sgh so di. So disturbing to see the swastikas on his truck. Joining us now, charles ramsey, former d. C. Police chief, and also served as commissioner in philadelphia. Intel officials have warned of increased violent rhetoric leading up to this rally scheduled for the coming weekend. How concerned are you about this . Im very concerned. The Capitol Police will be prepared, Metropolitan Police will be prepared but this is a dangerous environment we find ourselves in. The person arrested last night is a good example of that. These violent expremiumists are atracked about things linke this violent extremists are attracted to things like this. And the more you do to harden one target, the more others start to look a little bit more appealing, and i would argue that goes beyond just washington, d. C. We find ourselves in a very difficult situation in this country right now where these extremists feel very comfortable coming out in the open. And the rally this weekend is meant to celebrate the insurrectionists. The u. S. Capitol Police Chief, Tom Manager said today that a fence will go up around the capitol a day or two before this rally. It hopefully will come down after. Will that be enough . Capitol will be fine. It makes a lot of tense to put the fencing up. Cops should not have to be in fan to fan combat. That doesnt mean the issues and problems will suddenly go away. The topic of the rally itself, calling the January 6th insurrection as somehow their martyrs, these are terrorists, thats what they are, but now theyre being treated that way. Imagine what speeches will sound like, and how it will get people revved up, not just in washington but around the country. We have a serious problem here, and i think Law Enforcement is focusing on it now. Back to the Security Lapses that happened on January 6th, the Capitol Police union says senior leaders need to be had held accountable saying if our leaders had done their job, there would have been no breach of the capitol that day. End quote. Do you think the right people have been held accountable . Listen, i dont have the investigative File But Anyone should held accountable if through their actions it caused a Break Down and what you saw on January 6th. Clearly they arent prepared. So there were Break Downs in leadership, there were Break Downs in intelligence and communications. There was a Break Down in the Capitol Police board who has to approve these actions. You have a different board that Tom Manager is working with. Not the one in place on January 6th. There are a lot of people who own what happened on January 6th and they need to be held accountable. We learn there are six disciplinary actions. They include three cases for conduct unbecoming. One for failure to comply with directives. One for improper remarks, and one for improper dissemination of information. We dont have other specifics. Whats your reaction . Im not surprised they would find something somewhere, and to have a couple of Police Officers not doing what they should be doing is not a surprise. I havent seen a case file. I dont know if thats six officers, fewer officers but with multiple sustained cases charges against them. I dont know that. One is too many. I dont know what they found, its Nothing Parole na apparentlily that rises to corral level. Strong consideration should be given whether they should remain members of the police force. Charles ramsey, thank you so much for being with us. Were also getting new details about what was happening inside the White House the kay rioters stormed the capitol. Melania trumps given the chance to call for peace but she said no. Cnn white House Reporter Kate Ben it is here with more details. Detailed in a book by stephanie grisham, melanias trumps aide at the time. What else are you learning . This is another book from a Trump Administration official, Stephanie Gresham, being one of the alongest trump loyalists. Worked for the Trump Family and melania for more than five years. This is not so much of a surprise that Melania Trump said no. We reported at the time that she was photographing a carpet inside the White House on the day of the insurrection and telling her, hey, this is an opportunity for your husbands followers to listen to you as this insurrection is mapping. Call for peace, and she simply didnt want to do that. As were looking ear Stephanie Gresham offered a substantiate tweet that the First Lady could simply post, and it really wasn wasnt, checked out of washington, checked out of the job. Disinterested in saying anything publicly to calm or placate the mood in the country, which as we remember is very tu Mull Chow Yous Becaus and. 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Republicans and democrats are expected to grill him on what is being done to get remaining americans and afghans out of the country want joining me now is democratic Congressman Gerry connolly of virginia a member of the house committee. You will be questioning Secretary Blinken today. What is your number one priority . Reporter i guess i have two, ana. One is id like to hear his take on how did we get to this place. It didnt happen overnight. It didnt happen in late august. This was 20 years of policies gone bad that led to the fall of kabul and the kind of Evacuation Crisis that we experienced, and then secondly, id like to hear him engage in some Selfreflection And Selfcriticism about how the administration could have, should have, done better in the Evacuation Understanding that, you know, when you end a war, it is always chaotic. And i want to give them some credit for removing 120,000 people in the evacuation, but there are still Tens Of Thousands left behind, and i want to know their status and what the plans are to try to help them. You sent a letter in fact just last week to the secretary seeking answers, including how many americans remain there in afghanistan, what steps the u. S. G government is taking to continue those evacuations for americans and afghan allies. Have you gotten a response already, and do you know how many americans are left . I dont and i didnt and i intend to pursue that today as well. As you may know, ana, my office, i think, is the number one out of 435 congress mional Offices America that submitted the most names of afghan nationals seeking to be evacuated, 20,000 names in three weeks, and in addition to americans or people with american residence, legal residence, who wanted to get out. And we still need a comp hence ich comprehensive answer. When youre talking about selfreflection that youre hoping to see today, we reported at cnn recently that Secretary Blinken was sent a memo by some u. S. Diplomats in July Warning that the situation in afghanistan could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe. Some republicans on your committee have called for blinken to resign. Do you think he dropped the ball . I think he relied on intelligence and military conventional wisdom that was flat out wrong. I mean, we had a hearing with ambassador whos a hold over from the Trump Administration who led the u. S. Side of the negotiations in doha, back in 2018, who absolutely got it wrong. I mean, in may, i pointblank asked him in questioning in the hearing, arent we at risk of collapse in afghanistan once we withdraw, and he flat out said i dont think that at all. Theres no reason to believe that aversion could collapse. So do you have confidence in the Intel Community then . I think there has to be a thorough examination of what went wrong, what we relied on, what we got right. And to the extent possible to hold those who got it really wrong accountable. Speaking of then, you know wh what comes next and whether the Intel Community is up for the task at hand, the taliban Police Chief just said this Weekend Quote there is no difference between the law 20 years ago or now. With that kind of rhetoric are you confident the u. S. Will be able to keep tabs on whats happening and has a concrete Counter Terrorism Plan for afghanistan in the region. Am i confident, no, i am not. I believe that with the Taliban Takeover complete now, including the valley in afghanistan, i think sources of intelligence are going dry up. I think people are going to put themselves at enormous personal risk to cooperate clandestinely with the united states or its western allies. I think the country is probably going to be sealed up for a period of time, and sadly and predictably, i think the taliban is going to revert to the policies that it pursued 20 years ago. You have been working so hard to get afghan allies out of there. As of last week, about 60,000 people had rooarrived in the u. As part of evacuations in afghanistan. Can the Vetting Process keep up with the demand, and do you worry about anything slipping through the cracks. Theres always a risk of something slipping through the cracks. Overwhelmingly, these people are in need. Theyre in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, theyre families who want to stay together and want to be resettled. Theres a lot of trauma having left their under under the circumstances. So and i went out to Dulles Airport where we processed as of a week ago, 30,000 of those 60,000 and to the Dulles Expo Center where they are being sort of documented and assigned a Transit Position before our Nonprofit Community can resettle them permanently in the united states. But im pretty confident that the vetting thats being done is the best we can do under these circumstances where a lot of people had to flee the country without any Paperwork Or Documentation congressman, thank you for being with us. Thank you. So many workers at one hospital quit over the Vaccine Mandate that it now doesnt have enough staff to safely deliver babies. This story, next. Today lets paint with new Behr Dynasty™. So that you can be proud of your walls. Wheres your furniture . Oh we thought it distracted from the new Behr Dynasty paint color. Let me take your coats. Because Behr Dynasty only takes. One. Coat. Behr dynasty. Go ahead, throw your wine on it. What . Stain repellent. 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Well, frankly, ana, what administrators are saying is they wish more of their staff would take the vaccine but because theyre not, theyre going to have to close down deliveries of babies in just a couple of weeks. The hospital at question here is the Lewis County Health system in upstate New York, far upstate, northeast of syracuse by about 60 miles. This is a rural part of the country, but it doesnt matter where you work in New York, if you work in health care, according to new rules, you have to have at least one shot of the vaccine by september 27th. This is a very strict mandate here in New York. There are no testing out options, theres not really many exceptions and when some of the staff at this hospital took a look at that, 30 of them quit. 20 of those people who quit are from the clinical side of things and 6, apparently, from the Ob Section of the hospital which is why the medical leaders there, the administrators there say theyre not going to have the staff available to deliver babies. This is a big concern, obviously, for this area and for this hospital, and one of the administrators talked at a Press Conference about what its like to see staff walk away rather than take the vaccine. We would like everyone to be vaccinated, but we also understand we live in a place, in a country where you get to choose certain things. And if you choose not to be vaccinated, then now you Cant Work in health care. We just simply respect. We thank for service. And then we each move forward. So look, administrators say overall staff at this hospital, about 73 of them are vaccinated. That means a lot of people still arent vaccinated and this deadline is approaching. The hospital says unless some people change their minds and get the vaccine, allowing them to reopen, things like the maternity ward, if more Staff Refuse to get it, other things besides just birthing babies could close down up there. Ana. Wow. Wow. And to think, babies are such a vulnerable population and that Staff Members dont want to have the vaccine, and theyre interacting with those babies. Evan mcmorrissantoro, i appreciate your reporting. Thank you. Well, she did it again, Pop Star Britney spears announcing she is engaged to her long time boyfriend, sam asghari. To celebrate, they showed off the big ring. This engagement comes days after Spears Father filed a petition to end his 13 Year Conservatorship over her estate. During court proceedings, britney expressed a desire to get married and possibly have another kmchild. No word yet on a date for the wedding. 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Right now, President Biden is out west just landed there in idaho. Hes in boise, idaho, this hour, where he will tour damage from the catastrophic wildfires. Hell push investments in the fight against Climate Change and then later, hell make a final stop in california to help the governor there, gavin newsom, keep his job ahead of tomorrows recall election. Here now to talk about that, cnns senior political analyst and Senior Editor for the atlantic, ron brownstein. Polling shows Governor Newsom will most likely survive this Recall Attempt so why is President Biden making that stop . It tells you its mostly a Turnout Issue for democrats and they really have brought out the big guns, one after the other, President Biden, former president obama, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, have cut ads. Whats really striking, anar, i the way they have turned this race around. If you think about the arc of this contest, it got on the ballot in the first place because of the backlash in the states most conservative regions against the measures Governor Newsom put in place to fight the covid pandemic, crystallized by the hypocrisy of him dining at a fancy restaurant. Its ending with him showing there is, in effect, the Silent Majority of the vaccinated who are supportive of tough measures, the vaccine requirements hes put in place, mask requirements, that, i think, is going to be the clearest message coming out of this result tomorrow. And whats also been so revealing in this election is republicans are again taking a page out of former President Trumps playbook with top Contender Larry Alder saying, there might very well be shenanigans, end quote, on election night. Hes thrown out claims of election rigging. How dangerous is that, to make that claim without proof and even before first votes are counted . This is very revealing and very ominous because it does suggest that claiming fraud in any election that you lose is increasingly becoming a part of the playbook for republicans, and that the, you know, even though there were republican officials who stood up against the Big Lie in 2020, clearly, it is advancing through the party and republicans believe that it is in their interests to try to undermine confidence in elections and to raise these claims virtually any time they lose. It really underscores what an existential choice democrats in the Senate Face in the next few weeks. Are they going to pass legislation that would establish a nationwide floor of Voting Rights and take steps to kind of combat these attempts at election subversion, or are they going to give the republicans in the senate a veto . That is the choice that Joe Manchin and kyrsten sinema, who are resisting changing the Filibuster Face but what elder is showing them is exactly whats ahead unless they lay down safeguards against this behavior. Were continuing to watch the live images in boise, idaho, as the president arrives for his swing out west, but you know, it was the Big Lie, ron, that led to the insurrection. Former republican president george w. Bush spoke bluntly this weekend about the growing threat of domestic terrorism in this country, and he alluded to the insurrection. Lets listen. Theres little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremism at home. Theres disdainful pluralism and their drisregard for Human Life in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them. And apparently those remarks got under the skin of former President Trump because he just issued a statement a short time ago. He blamed bush for, quote, getting us into the quick sand of The Middle East and he says bush, quote, shouldnt be lecturing us about anything. What do you see as the significance of those remarks coming from george w. Bush on the anniversary of 9 11 . Yeah, twoterm former republican president. They are strong words made even stronger by the backdrop, how little of that you are hearing from other republican elected officials. I mean, you dont hear that from kevin mccarthy. Instead, you hear efforts to undermine the investigation into the January 6th insurrection and to, in effect, normalize it. You have republicans in the house referring to those being prosecuted, in effect, as political prisoners and downplaying what happened. Former President Bush has really underscored, i think, the clear challenge within the republican party, the challenge the party is facing. You know, its one thing to disagree over Tax Rates or regulation or social policy. Its another thing to kind of blur the lines between radical activity, violence, and intimidation as part of the kind of the routine political life in america. And i think were seeing the consequences of that. Look at the School Board meetings. Look at other things that are happening around vaccines. The question of whether republicans are going to draw a sharp line against this kind of extremism, i think, President Bush has put back in their lap and so far the answer from most of them is clearly no. Ron brownstein, thank you so much for the conversation. Its good to see you. That does it for me. Thanks for being with us. Were back tomorrow at 1 00. In the meantime, follow me on twitter. The news continues with Alisyn And Victor in just a moment. Iff, so you can focus on what matters most. Whether its ensuring food arrives as fresh as when it departs. Being first on the scene, when every second counts. Or teaching biology without a lab. 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Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com hello, everyone, welcome to newsroom, im alisyn camerota. Im victor blackwell. Any moment, americas top diplomat, Secretary Of State tony blinken, will testify before the house foreign Affairs Committee over the deadly and chaotic u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan. Now, we expect tough questions, frankly, from both parties over how the u. S. Failed to foresee how quickly afghanistan would collapse into the hands of the taliban. According to a preview of his prepared remarks, Secretary Blinken will