Biden: any American who wants to come home, “we will get you home”; U.S. flights trying to move backlog of 10K evacuees at airport; 1M+ vaccines administered yesterday in the U.S.; NC man charged with threatening to use weapon of mass destruction;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Pentagon: U.S. flights resume in Kabul after pause for 8+ hours; Afghans enduring brutal conditions outside Kabul airport; Secy. Austin to House members: some Americans beaten by Taliban; Pentagon: baby hoisted over wall was treated & reunited to dad; Riot control agent deployed on Afghans outside Kabul airport; New Pentagon images show humanitarian effort of U.S. Marines; Biden: don’t know how many Americans are left or where they are; Biden: U.S. forces helped get 169 Americans to safety at airport; Roughly 30% of eligible Americans still vaccinated; At least five states at or nearing ICU capacity; Florida library turned into treatment center as hospitals near capacity; Pressure mounts on FDA to approve vaccine for children under 12; Washington State & Oregon: all schools staff must be vaccinated; NC man who threatened to bomb U.S. Capitol in court today; GOP Rep. Mo Brooks on bomb incident: “I understand citizenry anger”; Report: FBI warning tech firms about Russian & Chinese efforts to intimidate employees into spying for them; Hurricane warnings issued from long island to southern New England; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The White House now has hindsight and the Taliban now has night vision.
0:06.7	The lead starts right now.
0:08.8	President Biden attempting to shift the narrative, again, ensuring Americans that he will mobilize
0:13.5	every resource necessary in Afghanistan as the Taliban.
0:17.3	Start showing off its newly claimed U.S. weapons and Americans and Afghan allies remain stuck
0:22.1	outside the Kabul airport.
0:24.9	A million shots in a day, a recent high and an encouraging sign, yet hospitals in the
0:29.6	U.S. and their beds are filling up, plus the new spy games, a warning from the FBI about
0:35.0	where China and Russia are looking to recruit new spies in the United States.
0:44.6	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start today with our worldly President Biden
0:48.1	addressing the crisis in Afghanistan this afternoon, admitting that he does not know how many
0:52.7	Americans are left in the country or where they are located, but pledging to use every
0:57.4	available resource to get not only U.S. citizens but Afghan allies out of Afghanistan
1:02.6	in what would be one of the biggest airlifts in world history.
1:08.0	Any American who wants to come home, we will get you home.
1:12.6	I cannot promise what the final outcome will be, or what it will be that it will be without
1:18.1	risk of loss.
1:19.8	But as Commander-in-Chief, I can assure you that I will mobilize every resource necessary.
1:26.6	It is, of course, an incredibly complicated operation.
1:29.3	The Pentagon says that evacuation flights have now resumed in Kabul after being paused
1:34.6	for around eight hours today.
1:36.9	That's because the Biden administration was scrambling to try to find other countries
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