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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 ....
women. his lawyers attacking an investigation by the state attorney general as flawed and biased just as one of governor cuomo s accusers files a criminal complaint against him. also tonight with the number of new covid-19 cases surging to nearly 100,000 per day, hundreds of thousands of bikers gathering for the giant sturgis motorcycle rally in south dakota, which experts fear will be a superspreader event. we re going to hear from some of the bikers just ahead. and new focus tonight on a trump ally at the doj pushing the big lie and trying to overturn the election by claiming, without evidence, hacking by chinese intelligence. i want to bring in now cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, good evening to you. so we are hearing more each day about what trump ally jeffrey clark was doing within the doj to overturn the election. this latest development may be the most wild of all of them. it involves listen to this a bogus claim about special thermom ....
don lemon tonight. i owe you 40 seconds but the 40 seconds the audience got with that kid is a griift, brother. it s so rare somebody can reinforce the blessing and curse of this life and fragility of h hu human. i didn t know her story. it s agt, right? america s got talent, i m not a watcher but you introduced her to them and you also introduced what s happening in this country right now and the fragility of life, how fragile life is and how we have to live our lives but we must do what is right in order to continue to live our lives in the right way, which is relatable as it comes to this pandemic and the delta variant and getting a vaccine. i think it s all related. live your best life and the best way to do that is follow the science. i mean, the idea of watching that kid and her i know she s not a kid. i know she s a full grown adult. i know that. i m just saying i m old. anybody who is under 30 is a kid to us. but, you know, to hear her talking abou ....
that trump subpoenaed apple for records of more than 100 accounts. among them, two democrats, adam schiff and eric swalwell including their staff and family members, including a minor. there wug a gage order that expired three times after trump left office. this was all part f an effort by president trump to find out who was behind the reports of contacts between trump associates and russia. i can t go into who received these subpoenas or whose records were sought. i can t say that it was extraordinarily broad, people having nothing to do with, you know, the intelligence matters that are at least being reported on. it just shows what a broad fishing expedition it was. okay. so two top democrats are now calling on president trump s former a.g.s bill barr and jeff sessions to testify about this. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez has been digging into this story. what do we know at this point, evan. part of what we know happened is the inspector general ....
consequence. tomorrow he caps the first international trip with a staredown. vladimir putin may choose not to listen but the list of complaints is very long from let s get straight to geneva, our moscow correspondent matthew chance. set the stage for us, this very important meeting. reporter: it is a very important meeting indeed, it s the first time that president biden will be meeting in his presidency with president trump, it s their first summit, and of course there s a list as long as your arm, john, of outstanding fraught issues that the two leaders need to discuss, whether it s arms control, whether it s returning ambassadors to each other s countries, neither have an ambassador in each other s countries at the moment. ransomware attacks, continued malign cyberactivity carried out by russia against the united states or whether it s alexei navalny, and the broader crackdown by the russian state on the opposition in that country. joe biden, u.s. president, sayi ....