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including those of jeffrey rosen, former acting u.s. attorney, is that donald trump was pushing across the body politic, looking for soft places where he could work his will. and it is fortunate for american democracy that where he tried and where it was most sensitive, he encountered resistance, from rosen, from people like brad raffensperger in georgia. the challenge of course is what happens next time and are republican officials facing similar pressure willing to do the same thing again that was done with donald trump. we don t know the answer to that, and the senate judiciary committee led by dick durbin, the chairman, is trying to get some answers. john avlon, we know trump was pressuring other georgia officials like the secretary of state brad raffensperger to push his bogus election fraud claims. but luckily the system worked and state officials did their jobs. what happens if there is a next time and those officials aren t there or, you know, if these new vot ....
worke suit? the other ork t t t the youth of today? a new survey suggests probably not. have pulled out. lost their lives. nearly 2,300 us troops have been killed. and over 120 thousand afghan military, police and civilians have died in the conflict. as the taliban continue to capture territory more on that in a moment the questions being asked what did we achieve and what now for ordinary afghans? our correspondent yogita limaye reports from the afghan capital, kabul. desperation on a scale not seen in decades. thousands have arrived in kabul in the past few days. people who had homes and jobs, who led dignified lives. ..forced to leave everything behind. angry that they have been left on their own no government, no humanitarian agencies. this woman s sons are in the army. she says only the poor go to the battlefield, while politicians watch. we have seen this camp grow by the hour. people have been coming in from different parts of the country, as more and m ....
approve the plan with no republican votes in the senate and pass the president s economic package which would massively expand the social safety net and advance many democratic priorities. on issues ranging from health care, immigration to climate change. let s bring in cnn s manu raju on capitol hill. so, a late night, now here we are this morning. what happens next, manu? it gets even more complicated from here on out. even as hard it was to get first the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package done, which passed along bipartisan lines yesterday with 69 votes, 19 republicans crossed breaking ranks, now it moves to the house, the separate track, larger track you described. after passing the budget resolution which actually sets the stage for moving forward on that larger $3.5 trillion plan, they have to write the details and get all democrats online in line in the senate to get this through. all 50 democrats, even though there are serious divisions about what the propos ....
1 million nearly hired last month. the infrastructure bill is a critical next step. what is indisputable now is this, the biden plan is working, boo biden plan produces results and moving the country forward. brand new reporting on how the big lie is stoking security concerns for lawmakers heading home. we begin the hour, though, with the biden white house and its kitchen sink you might call it covid scramble. today s jobs numbers are proof the economy is ready to soar, yet the new covid numbers raise the clear threat of another pandemic cliff. team biden now urgently looking for new tools to boost vaccinations and today, word it is now considering what you might call a hardball approach to federal funding. if you want your check, do more to get shots in arms. let s check in with our white house correspondent jeremy diamond at the white house on this important day. jeremy? yeah. john, we heard president biden take a victory lap as he was talking about this record ....
you that these are the darkest days of this pandemic. the darkest days of this pandemic. a rise in cases and hospitalizations so severe in louisiana that the governor just announced he s reinstating the state s indoor mask mandate effective tomorrow. he s one of many local leaders across the country now beginning to change course turning back toward masks to protect their communities. just a few hours from now, president biden is expected to speak on the administration s efforts to get more americans vaccinated. let s begin with jeremy at the white house. jeremy, some urgency here as the delta variant spreads. the vaccine is widely available and free. how does the president say he s going to get those who are still hesitant or hospitile to take t shot? reporter: we ll hear a couple things from the president later today when he speaks on the state of vaccines around the united states and around the world. we expect to hear the president will talk about progress that ....