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. Im 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. Thats because the biden administration was scrambling to try to find other c
Workers have turned down jobs to stay on unemployment. We discuss the decline of hard work with the rise of free government handouts. And lawrence. Big losses at the olympics for Team Usa as americans break streaks that they probably didnt want to break, and viewers are tuning out. So what is happening to the competition this. Were going to try to answer that. But first, to the crisis at our southern border. A new report out from a group of republican senators finding that 2 Billion of your tax dollars are going to the biden administrations efforts to stop construction of the Border Wall. 2 Billion. Thats 3 Million spent every single day to prevent the wall from being completed. Meanwhile, the biden administration also spending money to bus migrants to their chosen destination in the u. S. All Joe Biden had to do was nothing, and he could have just sat back, and it would have been finished, it would have been completed. But you have these small sections of wall where you have the suppl
Welcome to our viewers in the united states and Around The World. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim acosta, and youre in the situation Room. We begin our coverage this hour with cnn chief national Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny over at the White House. Jeff, the biden administration is trying to get its arms around this growing Covid Crisis which is hammering up vaccinated americans. The what additional measures are they considering at this hour . El, jim, President Biden just a few moments ago taking questions from reporters in the Roosevelt Room here at the White House and was asked that question exactly, and he said were still following the science on this, not answering directly if there is going to be some new guidance on masking. Of course, thats really the underlying question here. We do know from our reporting that White House officials and top health officials are discussing, you know, the possibility of revising those Mask Guide lanes for the vaccinated, but, jim, i can te
Global Health experts are trying to reassure anyone who has received tHe Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine that tHey do not need a Booster Shot, at least not yet. THere has been confusion after pfizer said it sees waning immunity from tHeir vaccine. Now tHe worlds top Health authorities are scrambling to put togetHer a unified message based on science and hard fact. Elizabeth coHen breaks it down for us. Reporter tHeres been a lot of confusion following statements from pfizer and from tHe u. S. Government about wHetHer people need to get a third shot, a booster of pfizers covid19 vaccine. Pfizer put out a Statement Saying that tHey think tHeres waning immunity, and tHeyre going to ask tHe fda next month for Emergency Use Authorization for a third shot. However, tHe federal government says that third Shot Isnt necessary. So lets take it from what pfizer has to say. Pfizer didnt cite any new data or any particular study to show that tHeres waning immunity. Instead, tHey pointed to just some new
Look, im not going to go into it now, but i used to you know, theres noncompete clauses or people running the machines that lay down asphalt. If, in fact, you get offered a job and you have a, you know, youre in arkansas doing it, a lot of specific examples, you cant take a job in West Texas to do it. What in the hell does that have to do with anything . No, im serious. Or there were clauses in mcdonalds contracts. You Cant Leave Burger king or go to mcdonalds. Come on. Is there a Trade Secret about whats inside that patty . No, but im serious. You all, i dont know whether you do know. I didnt know until five years ago the incredible number of noncompete clauses for ordinary people who are done for one reason, to keep wages low. Period. Look my Executive Order will limit noncompete agreements. Let workers choose who they want to work for. Im also calling on the ftc to do away with certain occupational licensing requirements. Do you realize if you want to braid hair and you move from on