jim jordan and i. in hindsight what i realized what she means by that now is that we were prepared to ask questions no one else has asked. and at the white house a bumpy road ahead for the bipartisan infrastructure deal. lawmakers are hammering out the final details of what is in the bill this weekend. republicans are increasingly skeptical about how it will be paid for as top democrats push for an even larger package to be passed along with it. a very important category for me is how all of this will get paid for. this is completely out of hand. there are people who think this is monopoly money, but it s not. building the human infrastructure is a part of building the physical infrastructure. that s why we will have something further to add. and some new polling this morning from abc shows as president biden marks six months in office, 55% of americans say they are pessimistic about the direction of this country, and that is down nearly 20 points since april. we re g
the description from his officers is how they thought they were going to die that day. the threat has not gone away an that one point the republicans sitting on the committee went from laughter to tears at one point describing why was so important for him to stand up i the face of what happened. the house minority leader has submitted five republicans to the panel. kevin mccarthy told the rest of the. we saw a lot of very dramatic video that we saw initially played during the insurrection on january 6th. if you are watching you saw compelling at times damning emotional testimony from these four officers that held the lin to try to protect the capital and the lawmakers inside. for anybody watching and watch the videos their testimony abou that day and thought it wasn t violent think it s an eye-opener. we talked about january 6th a lot in the time since then but putting it all together and seeing it again is jarring. listening to these officers say how they wanted to fight a
safe at last. the first flight of afghans who risked their lives to help american troops arrives in the u.s. but what will happen to thousands more with taliban targets on their back? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start today with the health lead and the new data backing up what top health officials had been warning about for weeks, the delta variant is aggressive. the delta variant is highly contagious. even among those who are fully vaccinated. the new data out today is some of the same data that prompted the cdc to change its mask guidance earlier this week. its pivotal discovery centers on a covid outbreak in massachusetts where vaccinated people were still infected. the though we need to emphasize, the vaccine can keep serious illness at bay. but those individuals can still become very contagious to others. cnn s athena jones joins me now live from new york. athena, what else are we learning from this alarming new data? all of this data really raises
but still, just over half the u.s. population is fully vaccinated and thus not fully protected against the virus. one former health official warns, those who aren t vaccinated or haven t already have covid will almost certainly get it now. the delta variant is that transmissible. even though prevention measures and new mask mandates seem to be cropping up across the united states with new york city considering new mask guidance tomorrow, one covid hot spot is doing just the opposite. in florida, coronavirus cases are absolutely surging. the state accounts for nearly 1 in 5 new cases in the u.s. and yet, florida s governor, ron desantis, is flying in the face of cdc recommendations on masking in schools. issuing an executive order to prevent school mask mandates. cnn s randi kaye joins me from rif riviera beach, florida. you ve been all over the dynamics here. talk to us about the rising numbers but also the latest order from desantis and what it all means. well, first, phil
answered away from being vaccinated. that s ultimately the answer to this pandemic, is getting as many people vaccinated as we can. i just thought it was blown out of proportion and healthy people don t get sick. i proved that wrong. i m phil mattingly in washington in for pamela brown. welcome. more americans rolling up their sleeves and buying into the most simple of truths about the pandemic, the vaccines work. the number of new shots given is still rising. the cdc now reporting that 700,000 americans got a dose of vaccine every day the past five straight days. still, just shy of off the country is now fully vaccinated. but tens of millions of people still unvaccinated are vulnerable to the more contagious delta variant and new cases are climbing. take a look at this map. all of those states in dark red have new cases jumping at least 50% compared to the week before. hospitalizations, deaths are also surging. so health officials are stressing this number. more than 99.