Official: Biden to require vaccines for federal employees, ask many private businesses to mandate shots or testing; First flight leaves Kabul airport after Taliban cleared Americans & others to leave the country; CNN finds new campaign of torture, detention & execution in Tigray; Justice dept sues Texas over restrictive abortion law
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Fauci: Case rate needs to be 15 times lower than current rate to suppress virus; L.A. County to vote on vaccine requirement for eligible students; WH to require all federal workers be vaccinated, no testing option; Microsoft & AMEX postpone U.S. return to work plans; Army vet helps evacuate Americans out of Kabul; Source: More flights expected once Kabul airport is operational; Forensic examiner: Some victims’ corpses piled up for months; United Kingdom lawmaker: CNN findings bear “All the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing and genocide; Campaign by Ethiopia and allied forces bears hallmarks of genocide as defined by the U.N.; TX Gov responds to DOJ lawsuit: “Confident that the courts will uphold and protect that right to life”; Whistleblower: Migrant children at HHS facility burned with scalding water and lacked clean underwear; Third whistleblower alleges migrant children mistreated at Fort Bliss facility, HHS watchdog launches review
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| 0:00.0 | Biden tries to give his pandemic plan a booster shot. |
| 0:04.7 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:07.1 | Breaking news, new details on the president's plans to fight the pandemic, including new |
| 0:11.7 | vaccine mandates, new steps for schools and new requirements for many American companies |
| 0:17.6 | as President Biden continues to fail to stop the new surge. |
| 0:22.0 | Then CNN is back live inside Afghanistan as the first commercial flight leaves since the |
| 0:27.7 | U.S. pulled out where any Americans on board this flight? |
| 0:31.3 | How many Americans remain stranded there? |
| 0:33.5 | Plus, breaking today, the new challenge to the strict abortion law in Texas, how the |
| 0:38.6 | Biden administration says they're going to try to stop it, but do they have a case? |
| 0:50.1 | Welcome to the lead-on-jake tap for we begin today in our health lead in the next hour |
| 0:53.6 | President Biden will lay out his six-point plan to try to get the coronavirus pandemic |
| 0:58.7 | under control. |
| 0:59.7 | This is nine weeks after Biden declared independence from the virus that was of course a premature |
| 1:05.3 | declaration with deaths back up to roughly 1500 a day in the United States and hospitalizations |
| 1:12.7 | also rising and above 100,000 sources telling CNN that Biden's plan will include an executive |
| 1:19.0 | order requiring all federal workers to be vaccinated and the Department of Labor will |
| 1:24.9 | require all private businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure all their workers |
| 1:30.3 | are either vaccinated or tested for the virus at least once a week. |
| 1:34.6 | The big question of course is how will the Biden administration enforce this and will |
| 1:39.5 | these policies have any effect on the tens of millions of Americans who just refuse to |
| 1:44.7 | get vaccinated? |
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