Calling your Vaccine Requirement an overreach. Challenging it in court. Have at it. Plus Gavin Newsom using the covid crisis to frame a Recall Campaign question. Do you want california to look like florida or texas . And 20 years after 9 11, a look back at the day that changed the world. Well talk to a reporter who was in that Florida Classroom when President Bush was told america is under attack. And then aboard Air Force one as officials debated whether it was safe for the president to return to washington. We begin with a frustrated president and a big Policy Shift he calls necessary to reset the countrys covid trajectory. President biden visited a local school in washington. He said the mandate will keep the children in the classroom and he said republicans who disagree are putting Americas School children at risk. I am so disappointed that particularly some of the republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids. So cavalier with the health of their communi
There is still a massive crutch of people who need to get out. Theyre waiting. Clarissa ward has been at the airfield and says not one flight has left kabul in the last eight hours. Lets get to kylie with the Breaking News. The u. S. Is pretty urgently examining other locations that they can fly out the Evacuation Flights. Because most of them have been going to qatar. They are now close to capacity there. So theyre looking at other locations. Including in europe, including potentially germany for the flights to go. What this tells us is that capacity is hampering these evacuations. You cant get these people out if these flights have nowhere to go. Of course, telling that on the ground Clarissa Ward hasnt seen any flight take off from the Kabul Airport in the last eight hours. One thing complicating this is the fact that the u. S. Was in discussions with multiple countries to relocate afghan sieves. Thats just one group of the afghans theyre going to be flying out of the country, becau
Look, i respect the importance of masks, but if we want to make a comparison, a mask is a Pea Shooter and the vaccine is a cannon. Lets be clear. The thing that will make a difference is the vaccine. As we speak, the First Lady is on her way to tokyo for the olympics as another Team Usa Athlete tests positive and cases spike in japan. We start with the new mandate from new York City. The mayor says disinformation about covid and vaccines has, quote, poisoned this country. Now hoe e wants his city to up ante to protect the most vulnerable among us. Elizabeth cohen joins us. A lot of cities and municipalities around the country are all grappling with what to do about masks and this Delta Variant. Right. The reason why theres such grappling about what do we do, require masks, require vaccination, is that for the vaccine for several months you could say, lets give people time to get vaccinated, lets give them time to get the right information. As mayor De Blasio of new York City said, its
let s start calling in now. phone lines are open. republicans, it s (202) 748-8001 . democrats, it s (202) 748-8000. independents, it s (202) 748-8002. you can catch up with us on social media, at twitter on twitter its @cspanwj. and on facebook it s facebook.com/cspan. talking about the dual programming last night during the first hour of washington journal, we begin here at the white house correspondents dinner last night. this is the president of the white house correspondents dinner association addressing the dinner and the president s absence. [video clip] his don t want to dwell on absence. it s not his dinner, it s ours. but in the years as a reporter, i have been spit on by both parties. i have been told by that i will never work in washington again. and there was a brief moment in afghanistan where a soldier said he would shoot me dead for taking a picture inside of a presidential palace. yet i still separate my career of 2017 andfebruary what came afterwards.
done, but his biggest priorities are stalled because democrats cannot work out their differences. and wall street likes the new federal reserve plan to fight inflation, but how might tim pact you? we begin though with the coronavirus and with the big question. what does the rapid spread of the omicron variant and a sudden wave of major covid disruption tell us about the winter just ahead? president biden meets with his covid team today to discuss this moment s public health triple threat, the delta variant already causing a case surge and a health care system strained. new omicron variant cases are climbing exponentially and the third piece, the flu now making an unwelcome comeback. disruption is again way too easy to find. cornell and princeton and nyu among the colleges and universities shifting back back to online learning and several broadway shows now closing for the same reason. plus, the nfl, the nba and the nhl all seeing star players sidelined and games postponed. cn