absolutely. >> reporter: but manchin cast doubt when asked by cnn on sunday about the problems of a thursday deal. >> that's a heavy lift. a lot to do. a lot to talk about. >> there's a lot in that bill, the $3.5 billion reconciliation bill. tax code, social reforms. there's a lot. and people need to know what's in it. it's going to take awhile. >> reporter: the larger safety social net plan. an expansion of medicare, measures to deal with climate change, extension of the child tax credit and tax hikes on corporations and high earners to pay for it. this hour pelosi convening a closed door meeting where she'll try to get them in line and make the case her party must stay united or risk seeing everything collapse. >> failure is not an option. "d" for democrats is deliver. and we're all going to have to come together. >> reporter: all this as a potential economic catastrophe also awaits. senate republicans plan to block a bill this hour to keep the government open past thursday because it includes a suspension of the federal borrowing limit, something congress must do to avoid an unprecedented debt default by the middle of next month. will there be any chance ten republicans would vote to raise the debt ceiling? >> not ten, no. >> reporter: that last point critical because the current process in which democrats are doing to raise the debt limit would require 60 votes in the senate. there are 50 democrats and republican leaders are clear. now what do the democrats do? trying to hash out their legislative strategy to keep the government open past thursday, as well as to avoid the debt default. number two senate democrat dick durbin told me that discussion is still ongoing and i said will you keep the government open past thursday? strip out that debt ceiling increase and extend government funding for a few weeks? he said chuck schumer will make the decision and inform the rest of the caucus. >> manu raju, thanks. let's talk about all of this with democratic congresswoman brenda lawrence of michigan, a member of the congressional progressive caucus. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. if house speaker pelosi on thursday turns to you and says i tried but the reconciliation bill, the $3.5 trillion bill is not ready but still you have to vote for this bipartisan infrastructure bill, we need to deliver it for the american people, what will you tell her? >> i am also co-chair of the women's caucus, and we have been extremely firm and focused. we must get invest in our families with child tax credits, with child -- with care for our elders and early childhood, pre-k. those are things that we cannot walk away from h. i have a lot of confidence in nancy pelosi's ability to negotiate and to make sure that we are moving this forward. when you take away the dollars and talk about these programs, you can be very hard pressed to find a single member of congress who say we don't need this investment in our community and in our families. >> right. i understand the $3.5 trillion reck onciliation bill. that's big. it's important to you. but will you vote no on infrastructure on thursday if there isn't an agreement when it comes to that larger bill? >> we're getting ready to go to a closed door meeting where we're going to talk about that. i am positioned to demand that we move both at the same time. i understand that there may be some haircuts along the way. that the $3 trillion that we're asking may not be the reality but those programs need to survive. they need to survive so that we can take care of our elderly and our children and the pre-k. so i am one that knows sausage is a very difficult combination of things and that we're in the middle of making sausage. and i want to see what the climate is because i was formally a mayor and i know how important our investment is and needed for our infrastructure. the last time we did was a new deal, which was 1930. so i'm very committed to that as well. >> just to make sure our viewers watching and people listening understand what the congresswoman is saying. you when you prefer to a haircut, you're talking about the price tag coming down from $3.5 trillion. so you would be willing, if there is some sort of agreement to be had, to come down from $3.5 trillion? >> i am extremely focused on the programming on the issues and if i can get there, with a haircut, let's keep it moving and let's make it happen and take care of american families. >> when it comes to the commitment, the agreement that would need to be made before you'd vote for infrastructure, an agreement on the larger $3.5 trillion bill, what would you need from joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, the two more moderate democrats in the senate who say this bill, the reconciliation bill, is just too much money. what kind of commitment do you need from them in order to vote for infrastructure? >> you know, one of the things that i think is being discussed and it's misleading, it's not a one-time. it is over $3 trillion. it's over ten years. >> right. >> and what i want is a commitment. like i said, for early education, pre-k. we know that every other competing country, their children are outperforming us when they invest in early childhood development. care for our elderly. we know that those who are caregivers for our children and nursery schools and our elders and nursing homes, they are not being given the salaries and it's not a benefit and people need to have that child tax credit. those are things that are extremely important to me. >> senator sinema has been among those raising concerns about corporate tax increases to pay for the programs you're talking about. that's according to a person familiar with the matter. what would you say to her? >> i would say to her, the gift that was given in the previous administration that lowered the taxes for these large corporations, this is a time for corporations to step up and to be treated equally and their contribution to moving this country forward, increasing our economy. so, you know, you say tax the rich. you're taxing the middle class and you're taxing the poor. let's tax everyone at that same rate. and we know that that gift, that was given, created part of our deficit that we're dealing with right now in our budget from the previous administration. so i am not lose anything sleep over that. it will be a fair tax. it's one that can pay for the investment in our communities that we need. >> democratic congresswoman brenda lawrence from the great state of michigan, thank you. appreciate your time. >> thank you, jake. coming up -- one afghan woman's story of getting to safety. details on one of the most secretive operations in the afghanistan evacuation run in part by the cia. 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anything to do with white supremacy, russian disinformation and the southwest border. >> do you think this denialism affected preparedness for january 6th? >> absolutely. >> we should include and while i discuss this with my panel, this is a self-described conservative republican who came forward to describe all this. jackie, we've known former president trump didn't like information that might make him look bad, including the idea the white supremacist threat was getting stronger, perhaps partly inspired by his rhetoric and seeming support for their cause, but to hear it directly impacted the response to january 6th, that's shocking. >> and yet it isn't in a way because of what we know about -- >> shocking yet not surprising as always? >> that's kind of like the epithet for the trump administration. but i think that we know this is a president who didn't want to punish that group, who didn't want to say anything bad about neo-nazis marching at charlottesville, for goodness sake, because there were people in that movement that supported him. that didn't -- that said nice things about him. and at the end of the day that's all that mattered. look what happened in the aftermath of january 6th. he went from not saying anything to kind of supporting this failed rally that went on a couple of weeks ago on the hill p. and amanda, trump continuing his efforts to undermine democracy, setting the stage for 2024. this time defending his efforts to get state officials to audit or question the 2020 results. take a listen. >> they say i'm being aggressive, but you have to be aggressive to weed out this horrible election corruption. you have to be aggressive. in truth, they're not after me. they're after you. i just happen to be in the way. that's what's really happened. >> once again we just have to underline the president is lying. former president is lying. there was no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the election result and the only person who sought to disenfranchise legal voters was trump and his team and yet it seems like it doesn't matter that the republican base now believes this. >> this is an exercise in facts and logic. what donald trump is doing, this is a continuing act of election subversion. it's happening in arizona. i don't even like calling what's going on audits. these are partisan sham investigations meant to delegitimize the investigation and prime the base to overturn the results of a duly -- of a credible election. this is ongoing. we could fact check this all day but this is an exercise in power in the way he gets other republicans to do what he wants to do. and that's why these sham investigations are spreading to places like texas, wisconsin, pennsylvania because this isn't about votes. it's not about counting them. it's raw power and setting the stage to cancel elections that republicans don't win. >> and every time we cover trump on this show, i always hear feedback from liberals who say or progressives who say stop giving him oxygen, air. all you're doing is what he wants. but the truth is this is a continued threat to democracy. take a listen to what liz cheney said about this on "60 minutes" yesterday. >> those who think that by ignoring trump he will go away have been proven wrong. when you look at the spread of these mistruths and the spread of the disinformation, silence enables it. silence enables the liar. and silence helps it to spread. >> i don't think that factually anybody can argue with that. >> that's right. when you heard the initial results of that audit, the sham audit, the thinking was, see, even the sham audit found there was no -- so isn't that a good thing? but the truth is, as we all know, we all cover or are involved in politics, that just the fact that there is an audit raises that question and people hear what they want to hear and take away what they want to take away. it validates the idea. when you doon audit like this. even if the ultimate audit finds what we already knew which was that there was no fraud. the result is legitimate. doing it asa government body as a state board or county board legit mights an illegitimate idea. and it's taxpayer money and time and resources being used to have a discussion around things that aren't really real. and two things hanging over this, the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential elections. >> there are states passing laws that are curbing access to vote. so these things are being used to, you know, to promote that. >> and also, election officials are under attack. they are threatened on a regular basis. people who did their job who are not safe. >> michael, this headline from politico sums it up. why so many experts are concerned. what if 2020 was just a rehearsal? i don't think it was. i think they actually tried to subvert democracy and overturn a legal and fair election. but i think it is clear if you listen to liz cheney and adam kinzinger and others who care about this issue, amanda is one of them, trump is going to try again, and he's going to be better positioned. >> absolutely. if you look at what happened january 6th, the intention was to stop the vote so that then they could overturn the election. it was a coup. that was an attempted coup. and now when you look at 2022 and 2024, they are putting in place not just laws to make it ea easier but they are putting in place trump supporters in those states who are going to run those elections who people like brad raffensberger aren't going to be there to protect the election. >> a maga congressman who believes the election lie, pushes it, he's running against him. i just saw an interview with a youngking, the republican running for governor who said he would have refused to certify the votes for biden. >> i find this extremely troubling because a smart political consultant will tell you a person like youngkin who is an establishment rich guy will be the one to knight the forever trump and never trump. when he indulges this conspiracy nonsense there can be no coming together because he's indulging the worst access. this is not about staying silent. if you are not crystal clear in the fact that joe biden was duly elected, he should have been certified, the attempted coup was a disaster iand a stain on our democracy, you have no place to be there. you're giving the bad actors room to come back in and assert themselves further. >> i am surprised -- maybe you guys tell me what you think. i'm surprised how many republicans are failing this basic test. you ask them, did joe biden win the election? and it's like, yes, he did. but they don't say that. they -- half of them -- >> they say he's president. >> the other half say no and then they say, well, he is president and they play little games. >> what's the political incentive. look at congressman gonzalez. >> in ohio. >> he just decided to resign and -- excuse me, not run for re-election being challenged on the right by a maga. but his family is getting threats. there is -- if trump turns against you, in this republican party that we're currently seeing run things, there is just no path forward or liz cheney i guess will be our next -- >> youngkin told axios that he did believe that president biden had legitimately won the election. he affirmatively said that but tried to dodge on the other question since then. today our understanding is he told a local reporter in virginia, though, he wouldn't vote to certify but it's that constant tightrope, that threading the needle. a close race and understands the market that he's running in and is still constantly reassessing how to couch this answer. >> trump has spent his entire career trying to delegitimize the press and now delegitimize the government. what do we do when half the country doesn't believe our elections are legitimate? that's how you break down a democracy. >> on that positive note, thank you so much. >> happy monday. >> r. kelly found guilty. we've got the details on the 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on two of them. they found 12 of them. so that was a clear conviction right there. and then the man statutes which are the sexual trafficking on the federal level. the prosecutions but saying there was sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, coercion, forced labor, there was also the sex trafficking within the racketeering counts, and it was the emotional testimony, six weeks of trial, and the emotional testimony as an example. one young woman testified that she actually went to the state trial in 2008 in which he was acquitted. she was in high school and wanted to watch it. apparently he found her, his handlers found her and one year later, she was at his house and she was sexually assaulted. aleah who was a very famous artist, cnn has reported that she was jane doe number one. but they got her an i.d. so tay could get married fraudulently. >> how much prison time? >> may 4th. the prosecutor said during the original bail hearing he is facing decades in prison. and i think the headline today is the superstar r. kelly, for three decades, according to these jurors, amassed these acts and he is now a convicted felon. >> cnn's jean casarez, thank you for that. also, one crisis is over but a much larger problem remains. the before and after pictures from del rio, texas, are striking. in the space of a week the biden administration cleared out about 15,000 haitian migrants camping under a bridge. most of the migrants now face u.s. immigration courts. priscilla happens to those facing immigration courts? >> they'll go through a months-long if not years-long process w where an immigration judge will decide if they remain in the united states or whether they'll be deported. the reason this process is so long and thesis e hearings may so scattered is because the u.s. immigration court system is dealing with a backlog of more than 1 million cases. some may not have a hearing for years. >> most of these quick expulsions came because of this trump-era rule. tell us more about that. >> this is a public health authority known as title 42 put in place at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in march of 2020 and allows port authorities to turn migrants away. it's the subject of a lot of controversy. immigrant advocates and the united nations refugee agency have criticized this because it prevents people from seeking refuge in the united states. they say it's important for public health and they're not only saying that publicly but also in court when we're waiting for an appeals court to decide whether families will ultimately still be subject to this authority or not. >> priscilla alvarez, thank you. as for the haitian migrants sent back to haiti, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas said as of late july it's been safe for them to return to their home country. >> we made a determination, based upon the facts, that, in fact, individuals could be safely returned to haiti. we work closely with the haitian government. and we have provided $5.5 million in humanitarian aid to assist in their humanitarian and safe return. >> cnn's melissa bell is in haiti and reports that in reality, those returning migrants are finding haiti to be a much more dangerous place than when they left. >> reporter: here, even church is no sanctuary. the blood still marks the steps of this baptist church in the very heart of port-au-prince as sunday service began, an armed gang attacked. wounding several of the congregation and killing one man who tried but failed to stop his wife from being kidnapped. who will pay the ransom now, asked mario, a human rights advocate who explains that nothing in haiti is now sacred, and no one is safe. we are in peace nowhere, she says. not even in the president's house. he was executed. the most protected man in the country, she says, referring to the assassination of the haitian president jovenal moise in july. this kidnapping is at least the tenth in the haitian capital since tuesday. the very week that has seen thousands of deportees returned to port-au-prince. a city many had left in the fears following the 2010 earthquake, fleeing both its poverty and insecurity. now that is only getting worse. >> each time there's an uptick in the number of kidnapping, the authorities react by adding more patrol in the streets. >> reporter: you can see on the streets, that increased police presence. and yet, as visible as it's intended to be, it doesn't seem to be doing much to assure haitians that it's safe to go on the street again. it's like a boat on the ocean with no captain, she says. the country is left to its own devices. gangs rule and keep gaining ground so we're abandoned to our fate. since much of it was leveled in 2010, port-au-prince is a city that has struggled to stand up. now gang violence has forced entire neighborhoods to flee what little they had like the 219 families living inside this dilapidated building. one of the camps for internally displaced people. camps not designed to ac accommodate the returnees. >> clashes between different gangs have really ballooned out of control. and so we find persons like the idps that are here, they had to leave their permanent village or campsite which they were residing in since the earthquake in 2010. so imagine that. >> reporter: in all, the united nations says the 20,000 people in port-au-prince have been displaced by gang violence in the last year. a homeland even more dangerous to those being deported by the united states this week than the one they fled. jake, this is the city that those deportees are being returned to. and it isn't just the very obvious and painful poverty that you can see all around the haitian capital that's the problem. it's the sheer violence. you were just hearing more than half of the capital now in the hands of gangs. kidnappings that happen on a daily basis. just today, there was a kidnapping at the end of the street we were standing at. people blockaded it. so fed up with the fact police are not intervening in time or enough. another kidnapping also today at one of the slums. they live with a sense of insecurity 24 hours a day. almost doesn't matter who you are, whether you are rich or poor or what neighborhood you're in. this is not a neighborhood that feels safe at any time of day. >> melissa bell, thank you, and stay safe. getting fired instead of getting the shot. the thousands of health care workers putting their sdwjobs o the line by defining state vaccine mandates. stay with us. before we talk about tax-smart investing, what's new? -well, audrey's expecting... -twins! grandparents! we want to put money aside for them, so...change in plans. alright, let's see what we can adjust. ♪ we'd be closer to the twins. change in plans. okay. mom, are you painting again? you could sell these. lemme guess, change in plans? at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. what makes new salonpas arthritis gel so good for arthritis pain? salonpas contains the most 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care at new york hospitals if the state suddenly loses tens of thousands of health care professionals? >> well, it's going to obviously be affected. we've been talking a lot about potential shortages because of covid patients but really the problem is you survey around the country, including what you're surveying in new york is staff. it's a significant problem. what happens is that hospitals will oftentimes then go on diversion, meaning they're not taking anything that's not emergent or urgent. regularly scheduled operations, things that are not urgent operations, those get postponed. delays. so it has a really significant down stream effect. we're seeing that at hospitals in atlanta as well. that's part of the issue. the mandate in new york went out middle of august. they said by today health care workers needed to be mandated and that's why these numbers are now coming to light in terms of what the shortages may look like. >> new york city teachers also were facing a mandate, though right now it's on hold in the courts. mayor de blasio in new york city today said an additional 7,000 department of education employees got their shots because of the mandate. that was obviously the intent of the health care mandate as well. this comes after the cdc director said that vaccine mandates do indeed result in people getting vaccinated, more people getting vaccinated. so lay it out for our viewers. do these mandates work because the health care shortage, that seems troublesome. >> yeah, and this is a really interesting question. there's data on this that predates the pandemic because the idea of health care workers being vaccinated makes sense to the vast majority of people. if you dig into the data you're talking about in new york, 95% of nurses vaccinated. 98% to 99% of doctors vaccinated. but there's a lot of people who make up the health care workers. take a look at what was going on with flu for 2019 to 2020 flu season. what you find is across the board about 81% of people were vaccinated overall. this is health care workers we're talking about. but a significant difference, jake, in places that mandated it. that had a requirement versus did not. close to 94%, 95% in those areas that had mandates. 7 0% if it didn't exist. so this surprises people, jake. you go to the hospital, wait, 30% of your health care workers are not vaccinated, don't get a flu shot every year? that's true. that's been happening. but in places where the mandates are in place, it goes very high, mid-90s percent. it will come with some resistance or some people who will say i'm not going to continue working in this profession anymore if you mandate that i get a vaccine. we'll see at least a certain impact of that in states all around the country. >> president biden got his covid booster shot, his third shot in front of the cameras no less. does the visual of the commander in chief getting his booster shot still hold the same weight it might have done at the beginning of the pandemic or even if anybody out there knows of his history, the impact that elvis when he got his polio shot had on the country? >> you know, i think we're in a different phase of the pandemic now. i think in the beginning, there was, obviously, a lot of interest in seeing this. it was novel. i think there are three messages now. it's a different dynamic. supply of the vaccine is not an issue right now in the united states. there's plenty of supply. two, i think seeing the president now get a booster sort of, i think, does remind people that we're not through this. i don't think people need reminding of that, but this is an emdemic virus. it doesn't mean this is going to be every six months or even yearly. there are some vaccines for which you get your booster and you're covered for a long time, years if not lifetime. we'll see what happens with covid. but there's also this message, you know, which we've talked about in terms of equity around the world. people in the united states getting boosters. places around the world that don't have enough first shots yet. the president talks about this a lot saying, hey, we're trying to do our part but i think those are sort of the three messages that really stuck out to me as i was watching that. >> the ceo of pfizer says the company plans to apply within days for this fda authorization for children 5 to 11. less than half of u.s. eligible adolescents are fully vaccinated against covid. should we expect also that that insufficient number, percentage for young children, too? >> i think it might, sadly, jake, be lower. let me show you stepwise what you see as you look at age groups here for vaccination. it follows a stepped pattern down. and as you said, only about 50% have received at least one dose in that 12 to 15 range. when you look at some of the polling going younger. 5 to 11 years old, you basically have a situation where about a quarter of parents being polled say they'd absolutely get it right away. and about a quarter say definitely not. and they are pretty polarizing, 25% in each of those categories. then the middle. 40% wait and see. that's what you hear for the 5 to 11-year-old parents. and only if required going back to the mandates. about 9%. this is all -- these are questions, you know, polls given to these parents ahead of any kind of authorization. they tend to change as we saw with the adult vaccinations as well. once the vaccine is actually released and authorized. but my guess it's going to be lower. it's going to continue that function. >> don't miss sanjay's new book "lessons from the covid-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one" coming out october 5th. cnn spoke to one woman who was able to escape. her stunning story, next. with one element securing portfolios, time after time. gold. agile and liquid. a proven protector. an ever-evolving enabler of bold decisions. an asset more relevant than ever before. gold. your strategic advantage. ready to turn your dreams into 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american who worked for the afghan government and on a u.s. funded project. born in afghanistan and moved to the u.s. at 13 years old. she returned as an adult spending most of the past four years working with local organizations. now she's back in denver after taking part in one of the most secretive operations in the entire evacuation, which a u.s. official tells cnn was in part run by the cia. >> the airport was absolute chaos. it was as of -- if we would have had to go through death valley in order to make and survive. >> she was in her apartment when she got a call from an american. i said who is this, i'm a u.s. government official! no details about who he worked for. >> nothing at all. >> the american wanted barashk to leave but she said she wanted to bring afghans with her. >> she said my priority is you, i understand that you feel this responsibility towards the people that you have worked with. but unfortunately my priority is you. >> reporter: hours later, she changed her mind after a friend who was evacuated convinced her. >> i grabbed my passport and head downstairs. >> reporter: a drive in toyota corolla picked her up but didn't know exactly where to go. tell me where you are, the american texted, she shared her location as they drove through the dark and taliban check points. >> the taliban came and smashed the front of the car, and waved, and said don't move, stop right here, and our driver said i'm not going to listen to him. >> reporter: the american official was tracking them. i see you, just follow the road until you see a gas station, then you will see my guys. >> i wasn't scared because i didn't have the time to be scared. being scared was not an option. >> reporter: they went the wrong way. the american texted, you missed left turn. around midnight, they finally arrived at eagle base, a cia base just east of kabul, located by "the new york times" where helicopters were ferrying people inside to the airport. barashk was met by afghan special forces and then americans, including the american guiding her. i mentioned his name, and said is that you, he said, yes, that's me, there was a sigh of relief at that point. we made it. there's no more check points. >> reporter: on the base, their phones were taken away. they were asked not to reveal the base's location. the next day they were flown to kabul airport and out of the country to safety. what do your friends and colleagues who are still in kabul, stig stll in afghanistanl you about what they think the future is going to be like? >> they say afghanistan is a body without a soul, seeing the way that everything that they had worked for the past 20 years has been just shattered in front of their own eyes. the promises of the international community never leaving them behind and now they're left with nothing. >> reporter: she says she and others like her are now suffering from significant survivors guilt. >> to this day, i'm still processing the information and processing the reality on the ground. it just feels like it's a ongoing nightmare that i haven't been woken up from. >> and she told me she felt blessed and privileged to have been evacuated the way that she was, as she says, jake, without a scratch. she knows that is not the case for so many people who tried, and some who did get out from the airport in kabul, and others, many thousands of others, who still want to get out of afghanistan! >> does the state department have an idea of not just how many american citizens, legal residents, green card holders want to get out. do they have a number? >> they have a firmer number about those who have expressed desires to get out less so in the overall population, so they say no, today, state department officials said there are around 100 americans and legal permanent residents who are ready to leave. that number is constantly in flux because people are changing their minds. there are many more american citizens who live there who don't want to leave, many 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