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at the white house and on capitol hill, folks are trying to navigate crises all of them coming to head in the next few days and weeks. there s covid, where president biden is planning to lay out a new plan tomorrow to get through the delta variant. there s afghanistan, where the secretary of state is preparing for a grilling on capitol hill in multiple hearings. there s the threat of a government shutdown at month s end unless congress acts and the potential for a debt default just a few weeks after that. all as democrats continue to spar over the size, scope, timing and political strategy surrounding the president s overall agenda and what s referred to as that massive reconciliation package which has been tied to biden trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill. the latest drama comes after joe manchin reiterated he will not support a $3.5 trillion deal. nowhere close to it. he s reportedly signaling he might only back a bill that s less than half that size or hal ....
he s expected to land at jfk airport at any moment. the president will tour the damage from last week s historic flooding in the northeast that killed at least 52 people in six states. biden s visit coming just days after he travelled to louisiana to see destruction there from hurricane ida. the president first plans to go to central new jersey today which w which was inundated with torrential rain last week and then he heads to queens where a dozen people died most of them trapped in flooded basements. meantime new york city officials plan on going door-to-door to make sure that residents apply for federal relief. president biden approving new major disaster declarations for parts of new york and new jersey to help with the recovery. let s go to john harwood now live at the white house with a preview of the president s visit. john, as we anticipate president biden will land at any moment. he s also expected to deliver remarks later in the day from queens. what are we e ....
in response to the committee asking telecom companies to preserve the phone records of at least 11pro- trump lawmakers like marjorie taylor greene, kevin mccarthy released a statement warning the companies if they comply, quote, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the united states if companies choose to violate federal law a republican majority will not forget and will stand with americans to hold them fully accountable under the law. da-da-da. a fact check here, companies are not breaking the law by complying with a congressional request for records. the january 6 committee responded to mccarthy s attempt to bully private companies by saying this. quote, the select committee is investigating the violent attack on the capitol and attempts to overturn the results of last year s election. we have asked companies not to destroy records that may help answer questions for the american people. the committee s efforts won t b ....
we re going to bring in latasha brown, co-founder of black voters matter, who is right now at the lincoln memorial in washington, d.c. latasha, are you with me? all right. we re going to stand by for latasha. she will be joining us as soon as she s mic d. we want to check in. are you with me yet? can you hear me? i can t. can you turn it down a little bit? okay, we can hear you. we re going to see you in just a second. i want to make sure that you can hear me. latasha, do i have you? i can hear you. great. we ll see you there you go. we see you. we see you, and we hear you. okay. the peril of live tv. we re happy to have you. hi. you look great. let s get into it. i want to know what is the point of this march, and what exactly are you hoping to accomplish? you know, today we re doing this make good trouble march because what we rally because we need to make good trouble. you know, we are right now in 2021, we have less voting rights now than we had in ....
day. tropical storm henri is tracking to make landfall in the northeast. what the federal government is doing right now. plus, imminent approval. a source telling cnn the pfizer vaccine could get full approval as soon as next week. what that could mean for efforts to get more americans vaccinated as hospitalizations among kids reach their highest levels yet. and desperate to leave. look at these pictures here. thousands of afghans camped out at the airport in kabul. what we re learning this morning about those evacuation flights and the efforts to get americans back home. good morning and welcome to your new day. we re grateful to have you this saturday, august 21st. good morning, christi. good morning, boris. good to see you. this morning there are more than 5 million americans in the northeast that are getting ready for what could be the first hurricane to hit new england in 30 years. it s a tropical storm right now. warnings for that have been issued for ne ....