Kabul thursday. State department spokesperson says 39 americans were invited and 11 lawful permanent u. S. Residents made the trip. Members of congress demanding to know, what do we know about how many americans are still in afghanistan and plans to get them out. A former flight attendant speaking out over her discrimination complaint against alaska airlines after she said she was fired for questioning the company s support of the quality act. First, as the biden administration unveiled its path out of the pandemic plan, polling shows 44% of employees stated they would quit if their job require the vaccine. White house correspondent kevin corke is here to take a look at the mandates and stiff penalties. The remarks today the white house by president biden were just as divisive as they were illustrative. That is to say if you approve of government mandates and companies requiring vaccines regardless of your individual health circumstance word choice, you may have loved what he had to sa
Will face the biggest hurdles. And france is set to hold its biggest trial ever on the 2015 terror attacks. We re live outside the paris courthouse. Good to have you with us. U. S. President biden is making an aggressive pitch for a legacydefining domestic agenda. The white house is struggling to contain the resurgence in the coronavirus pandemic with now more than 40 million cases. The president is also focused on the destruction left by hurricane ida and the wildfires in the western united states to push for funding for infrastructure and to fight the climate crisis. But he is facing opposition to the multitrillion dollar price tag and with the taliban new hard line government announced, the biden administration remains under fire for leaving americans and afghan allies behind. The white house is asking for billions in funding to help afghan refugees and the evacuation process. On thursday president biden will give a speech outlining the next phase of his administration s plan to fig
Visiting towns and neighborhoods that days ago looked pristine and now completely still flooded out all the while making the hard sell on his domestic agenda trying to offer his infrastructure and budget plans as solutions in preventing future death and devastation. We got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the nasa security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation and the world are in peril and that s not hyperbole, that a fact. It s a bipartisan plan to modernize our physical ins infras infrastructure, our roads. How many bridges i went through in new jersey that had been over flown by the river because the next time disaster strikes, the flood is contained, the fire doesn t spread as widely and power stays on. Not to mention those investments save lives, homes and create good paying union jobs. President biden making a hard pivot to his economic plan as you heard there trying to turn the page on crisis that have consumed his white house in recent weeks
World. Wolf blitzer is off today. I m jim acosta, and you re in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. And let s go straight to cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz. Arlette, we just heard from the president a few moments ago. What did he have to say? reporter: president biden spent a little over an hour on the ground in queens, new york, meeting with those people whose homes and personal lives were devastated by hurricane ida. But the president also spoke to the urgency of the threat of climate change saying that the situation in this country and around the world is a code red. President biden issuing a warning on climate change today as he saw firsthand the damage brought by hurricane ida. Climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy, and the threat is here, it s not going to get any better. The question, can it get worse? we can stop it from getting worse. Reporter: it was the second time in four days that the president toured the devastatio
The civil war after senate republicans blocked the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to examine the origins of that day s violence. And that block is just another result of the political gridlock holding up legislation in congress on issues like badly needed infrastructure. Republican senator shelley moore capito heading to the white house again today to try to find a bipartisan path forward but with a 5050 balance in the senate and 60 votes needed to get anything to the floor, compromise looks hard to find here. That same grid lock threatens president biden s push for a voting rights bill to counter republican efforts in states like texas where, among other things, drivethrough voting and 24hour voting would be banned. Absentee voting would be limited. And partisan poll watchers would be granted new power. Joining us now is republican texas state senator brian hughes. He s one of the lead authors of the controversial texas senate bill 7. It s up in the air right now, si