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what the organizer is claiming to cnn. plus, the fda about to decide whether you need another covid shot. and it is expected to get contentious with dueling data and a president who already tipped the scales. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with heartbreaking and sobering and, frankly, infuriating testimony on capitol hill. four star u.s. gymnasts talked about how the fbi grossly mishandled the case. but they also made it clear there is a long list of adults who failed them. to be clear, i blame larry nassar, and i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. today i ask you all to hear my voice. i ask you please do all that is in your power to ensure that these individuals are held responsible and accountable for ignoring my initial report, for lying about my initial report, and for covering up for a child molester. this is arguably the biggest scandal in the history of athletics. a justice department inspector ....
live from cnn center, this cnn newsroom. with robyn curnow. u.s. president joe biden is vowing to bring every american home from afghanistan if they want to leave. one problem, though, nobody knows how many u.s. citizens are in the country or their circumstances. the u.s. state department says it is actively trying to track down as many as possible. here s what the president had to say on friday. any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. i cannot promise what the final outcome will be, what it will be and whether it will be without risk of loss. but as commander in chief, i can assure you i will mobilize every resource necessary. so evacuation flights resumed on friday after a lengthy pause. officials had to scramble to line up more countries willing to take in thousands of afghan refugees, even temporarily. the pentagon is now confirmed that 169 americans were brought to the airport by helicopter from a nearby hotel because large crowds had b ....
live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of the viewers here in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. u.s. president joe biden is vowing to bring every american home from afghanistan if they want to leave. but nobody knows how many u.s. citizens are in the country. the state department says it s trying to track down as many as possible. meanwhile, the taliban published photos showing their fighters armed with u.s. weapons seized from the afghan national army. while it s menacing images like these and the taliban s history of brutality that makes many afghans scared to stay in the country. on friday, the pentagon confirmed it had flown 160 helicopters from the hotel to the airport, after the taliban blocked the gatesing it s the first known rescue of americans outside the airport perimeter. the first flights of evacuees have begun arriving in the united states. now, we don t know how many america ....
plus, the new spy games. a warning from the fbi about where china and russia are looking to recruit new spies in the united states. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start today with our world lead. president biden addressing the crisis in afghanistan this afternoon admitting that he does not know how many americans are left in the country or where they are located, but pledging to use every available resource to get not only u.s. citizens but afghan allies out of afghanistan in what would be one of the biggest airlifts in world history. any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. i cannot promise what the final outcome will be or what it will be or that it will be without risk of loss. but as commander in chief i can assure you i will mobilize every resource necessary. the pentagon says that evacuation flights have now resumed in kabul after being paused for around eight hours today. that s because the biden administration was scra ....
early this afternoon. it comes amid frustratingly slovak evacuation process from kabul. the united states has the capacity to evacuate 9,000 people a day, but instead we ve evacuated just 9,000 total in a week. that includes 350 americans who were flown out in the last 24 hours. but that is just a fraction of the 15,000 americans who may be stuck in afghanistan right now. in fact the pentagon admitted yesterday that they are not even sure how many americans are still there. and then there are tens of thousands of afghans also trying to get out of the country, nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel has that story. reporter: we are in doha and we took one of the evacuation flights from the kabul airport. that is the only way out of the country right now, the only safe way. the civilian airport is closed and all of the land crossings to other countries are controlled by the taliban. it was a long flight, it complicated journey and for many life-changing. this is ....