but the taliban is warning the u.s. will face consequences if troops stick around past the 31st deadline, calling it a red line. and later this hour, the president will join an emergency meeting with world leaders to talk about all this. they re expected to put pressure on the president to extend with their own citizens as well as tens of thousands of americans and our afghan allies still scrambling to get out. and growing fears of more violence around the airport. 20 were killed in the past week. the u.s. evacuated 63,000 in july. geoff bennett is at the white house, courtney kube at the pentagon, we start with ken delanian. what do we know about the cia meeting? sources tell me that the cia director welcome burns met face to face with the taliban de facto leader in what amounts to the highest level contact between the biden administration and the taliban. the irony is that he is a man the cia helped to capture and jail in 2010, he was kept in pakistan eight years. during
afghanistan. as the pentagon chief and other top leaders head to capitol hill to brief house members. good morning. i m garrett haake in for hallie jackson. lots to get to this hour. we start with courtney kube, kelly o donnell and john hudson, national security reporter for the washington post. courtney, walk us through what we re hearing from your sources about that decision expected from the president today and why he has to make it now with the deadline not actually until next week? remember, even if the deadline is august 31st, it s still going to take several days, somewhere potentially in three to four days to get the nearly 6,000 u.s. troops out of kabul international airport. and then there s also the equipment that s there. the u.s. has artillery, mraps, aircraft, helicopters. if they were to get all those people and equipment out it will take several days. you have to back time from the deadline of august 31st until, you know, three or four days back. that pu
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. good news this morning, breaking news, the fda has granted full approval to the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. this is a key step in getting more americans vaccinated. it comes more than nine months after the first dose of the pfizer vaccine was administered in this country. the decision could motivate millions of americans who still have not received a vaccine to finally get the shot. the data is behind it. it saves lives. it keeps people out of the hospital. according to the surgeon general, this could also open the door for businesses, universities, other institutions to impose or enforce vaccine requirements. this breaking news about the pfizer vaccine comes as vaccination rates are slowly starting to tick up. again, three days in a row of more than a million vaccines in a day. let s start with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen as well as dr. paul sax, clinical director of
in a defamation suit brought by two georgia election workers. political advisers saying giuliani was wrongly accused in the matter. up next, though, a civil trial that could see trump s former personal attorney held financially liable. joining me now from fulton county is blayne alexander. what more can you tell us about the upcoming arraignments and what this separate motion means for the trial as trump s attorneys, they re seeking to completely sever his case from the other codefendants. well, alex, let s start with the arraignments. we know that september 6th, next wednesday at 9:30 a.m., the former president will not be appearing before a fulton county judge. he s waived that arraignment appearance as is his right, and he s entered a not guilty plea, so that certainly answers a lot of questions we had as to whether or not we would see the same kind of extraordinary show of him coming down to georgia, going instead inside a courthouse, and facing a judge we will not see.
Miles blamed the previous administration for bad financial practices. The district’s budget gap has grown to $528M, which Miles says is the reason jobs and expenses had to be cut