Chaotic troop pullout of afghanistan. France yanked its ambassador to the united states after biden kept the french in the dark on a submarine deal. Thousands of haitian migrants surging over our southern border with the worst optics and realities imaginable. Big worries about inflation, the debt ceiling, delta variant and more from markets on shaky ground and democratic infighting threat espn to tank the president s big spending and infrastructure agenda. Here was president biden a short time ago. President biden: whenever possible, in partnership with our allies, u. S. Military power must be our tool of last resort. Not our first. It should not be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world. The security council adopted a resolution outlining how we ll support the people of afghanistan moving forward, laying out the expectations to which we ll hold the taliban when it comes to respecting universal human rights. Harris: republican senator lindsey graham says president b
Many have pled guilty. Speaker pelosi saying this time d. C. Will be ready. January 6th was one of the worst day in history. They have their plans to come and everybody will be ready for them. This rally is being organized by a former trump campaign official. New reports revealed that some far right extremists are urging people not to attend because they think somehow that it is a secret government plot to arrest more people involved in the january 6th riot. You cannot make it up. Officials are not worried about d. C. , dozens of j6 rallies are planned around the country without security resources with the federal government to help keep people safe. Joining me now joyce vance and katy kay and frank. Frank, tell us what you expect to see this saturday. First, i expect to see extraordinary even unprecedented security precautions. I expect to see intelligence sharing and collection and a posture across the capitol region that brings in all departments and that s all what we are seeing ri
Hello again. Thank you for joining me. A newly declassified fbi document is shedding new light on the investigation into the 9/11 terror attacks and suspected saudi government support for at least two of the hijackers. The release came on the 20th anniversary of the attacks and just a week after president biden issued an executive order to declassify the reports following pressure from victims of 9/11 victims. Now to our senior national security correspondent. Alex, good to see you again. There are a lot of redactions in the documents. That s right. The 9/11 families have told the president in a letter essentially don t bother showing up to the memorials yesterday unless you do this. Now, this report, this document was released by the fbi on saturday night following the events on the anniversary of 9/11. It is heavily redacted, but it does provide further insight into contact that two of the first hijackers, the first two hijackers who arrived in the u. S. Had with the saudi government
Second lieutenant. She will join us along with her mother who is a brigadier general who witnessed that explosion. They will share their memories 20 years later. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper and we begin today with our health lead and president biden s message to republican governors looking to challenge his new mandate on businesses to either test or vaccinate their employees. Biden saying, quote, have it. The president s new policies will affect about twothirds of the american workforce or roughly 100 million americans, forcing federal employees and federal contractors and healthcare workers, all of them to get vaccinated, even private businesses with more than 100 employees will need to make sure their workers get weekly testing or get the shot. For context, 75% of u. S. Adults already have at least one dose of the covid19 vaccine. Biden is talking specifically to the roughly 27% of eligible unvaccinated americans who are the ones keeping this pandemic going. And even though
Exceptions for rape or incest. We will bring you the attorney general s comments as soon as he starts. We re also watching the white house, where this afternoon president biden will unveil his new sixpart strategy to try to curb covid. The plan includes his executive order that requires all federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated with no opt out for regular testing. Today his chief medical advisor dr. Fauci said the pandemic is under not even modestly good control. The u. S. Is averaging 150,000 new cases every single day with the delta variant preying on the unvaccinated. We have an average of 1500 americans a day dying from the virus. Compare that to the fourth of july. The case average was about 12,000, deaths were at 200 a day. Right now nearly 100,000 americans are in hospitals with covid. Also, at the same time the president is set to speak, los angeles unified school district will hold its meeting where it s expected to approve a vaccine mandate for students, the first