Get all 50 democratic senators on board. The remember, one of the reasons at least this bill has been problematic is that not all democrats are on board. Senator Joe Manchin say notable holdout, opposes certain portions of the bill but supports a lot thats in there, including making Election Day a federal holiday, 15 days of early voting, automatic Voter Registration and we believe that democrats are close to Coming Up with a version that can get all 50 of their members on board. Of course, hallie, as you know, getting 50 democrats on board is not enough. They need to get 60 to clear the filibuster and that is where the Big Question comes in. Senator manchin has said he is speaking to republicans trying to get them on board, and the only one republican senator who expressed any interest in doing something major is lisa murkowski, the senator from alaska who supports the John Lewis Voting rights act, a separate bill that requires states with a history of racial discrimination to get per
The eastern Prop Vince Enough Anderson is still in the threat of another Terror Attack in kabul. Troops are before chewed Tuesdays Deadline. Two hours, ago the u. S. Embassy in afghanistan issued another Security Alert urging citizens to avoid for Airport Gates at the kabul airport. During a Morning Meeting Today with his national security team, President Biden was told another attack in kabul is likely but that measures are being taken to protect u. S. Forces at the capitol airport. Earlier today, as he spoke of yesterdays bombing, that killed 13 u. S. Service members, biden spoke of the evacuation efforts. The mission there is dangerous. It is now its come with significant loss of american personnel. But it is a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport. Evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. Tonight the White House says that since august 14th, the u. S. Has evacuated more than 109,000
Erupted at the Kabul Airport between u. S. , german and afghan forces guarding the airport and a group of unknown assailants. According to a White House official, the u. S. Has evacuated 10,400 People On Sunday alone. That, the most in a 24hour Period to date. A source close to the situation on the ground tells cnn the numbers at the airport, those waiting there, still remain close to 13,000 This Morning. Well have more on that in a moment. We are also following an imminent and major milestone in the race to vaccinate americans. Two biden administration officials say full Fda Approval of the Pfizer Vaccine could come as early as today. Once that happens, Surgeon General says more businesses and institutions will likely begin to mandate vaccinations. Another key step in the race to stem the surging Delta Variant. Were going to get to that in a moment. Lets begin, though, with the violence in afghanistan. Evacuations there, our team is tracking all the latest developments from the pentag
Last month the legislation could create close to a half million jobs by 2024. Its no wonder 65 of americans support the Infrastructure Bill according to a recent poll. Much of president Bidens Agenda is equally as popular. The same poll found 62 of americans support the 3. 5 trillion dollar democrats only reconciliation bill. Despite the broad popularity of the biden economic agenda, the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee, new York Congressman sean patrick meloni, he is warning democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that the party is in trouble. Political reports at a closed Door Lunch he warned democrats that they would lose the majority if the midterms were held today. He followed that Leak Forecast which was confirmed by multiple people familiar with the conversation, with new polling that showed democrats falling behind republicans by a Half Dozen points on a generic ballot in battleground districts. Baloney advised the party to course correct ahead of
Fatalities are up 15 , so those are all going in the wrong direction. The number of patients are unprecedented and thats in black and white. We have more patients in our hospital now than ever before. This Delta Variant Surge has been particularly intense across the south. One expert says the next few weeks will be critical in determining if that trend takes hold across the nation. We have all 50 states, the District Of Columbia seeing an increase in cases. The question will be if any of them turn out to be like were seeing in the south, then weve got a much larger problem on our hands going forward. If not, i think by the early part of the september, well see this curve come down. But in the meantime, its going to extract a tremendous amount of pain in our society. Dr. Fauci has a warning about the virus. He said the Delta Variant could bring about as many as 1,000 to 2,000 cases per day. He said, if we dont get more people vaccinated, the virus will continue to smolder through the fa