Reviewing the damage today, President Biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. Climb change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. The threat is here. Its not going to get any better. The storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. We have to listen to the scientists and the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation and the world are in peril. That is not hyperbole, that is a fact. President biden speaking today, again, on this trip to New York and new jersey. What, of course, hes proposing to do on climate is whats in his build back better plan, the big Infrastructure Bill that democrats are trying to pass. One thing to sort of have in mind over the next few days is that by The End of this week, we may not know definitively, but we should have a pretty good idea by The End of this week as to whether or not theyll be able to pass this Infrastructure Bill, as to whether or not President Biden is going to be able to effectuate mos
In their second week, without power. Amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions. Conditions that get more and more challenging, with each day passing. With the power still not returned. Reviewing the damage today, President Biden said quote, the evidence is clear. Climate change poses an existential threat to our lives to our economy. The threat is here. Its not going to get any better. The storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. He said quote we have got to listen to the scientists and economists in the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation in the world are in peril. That is not hyperbole, that is a fact. President biden speaking today, again on his trip to New York in new jersey, of course what is he proposing to do on climate, is whats in his build back better plan. The big Infrastructure Bill. That democrats are trying to pass. One thing to sort of have in mind over these next few days, is by The End of this wee
Official who has negotiated with the taliban. Plus, sevenmonthold twins swept out of their fathers arms. They are among the 21 dead after floodwaters in the u. S. Unleashed disaster in a matter of minutes. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we begin today with the Health Lead and the major development in the fight to end the Coronavirus Pandemic eight months after the first shot was given under Emergency Use protocols, pfizers covid vaccine has now been fully approved by the Food And Drug administration, or fda, opening the door to more Vaccine Mandates in businesses, in government agencies, and in universities across the country. In fact, minutes after the fda news, the pentagon announced it is requiring all of its 1. 3 active Duty Service members to be vaccinated. Today President Biden urged americans who have been waiting for full approval from the fda To Go get vaccinated now. And he reiterated his call for private and public sector leaders to implement Vaccine Requirements o
only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor k
Possible. here we are two years out and now this is what we have in washington, kaitlan. yeah, it s remarkable to see this playing out on the two-year anniversary. we ll see president biden speaking today, don, obviously happening on capitol hill, lawmakers are going to resume with still no speaker in place and without a speaker, the house cannot convene and cannot begin official business. that means among other things that no classified briefings for lawmakers who oversee the nation s national security agencies and there are some of them who are raising concerns about what that means for the period of time that we re in right now. technically, i don t have a clearance. i m a member of the intel committee, i m on the armed services committee, and i can t meet in the skiff to conduct essential business. my point is, we have work to do. that we couldn t do right now. one of our three branchs of