State Dept.: 6,000 will soon board planes to leave Kabul; Pentagon: U.S. evacuated 7,000 from Kabul in past 5 days; Third senator tests positive for covid; One-on-one with Dr. Anthony Fauci

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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CNN: Only a small number of Afghans are making it into Kabul airport due to Taliban checkpoints; Biden suggests U.S. troops could stay in Afghanistan past withdrawal deadline to evacuate all Americans; State Dept.: 20 flights expected to depart Kabul tonight; Taliban using violence to stop Afghans from reaching airport; Biden defends chaotic U.S. troops withdrawal from Afghanistan; Sources: State Dept. urged U.S. embassy staff to head to airport, some Afghans arrived bloody & distraught; Suspect surrenders after bomb threat, standoff near U.S. Capital; Five FL counties now in defiance of DeSantis mask mandate ban; Covid hospitalizations among children hit record high; Culver City schools: Staff & eligible students must be vaccinated; Surgeon Gen. worried about safety of children in states blocking masks; Dr. Fauci weighs in on boosters and the mask debate; Washington state & Oregon require all school staff to be vaccinated; Rioters sentencing delayed after online sleuths find new evidence; At least 2,100 dead, desperate need for aid in towns isolated after 7.2 earthquake and tropical storm 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 United States now needing to trust the Taliban to get Americans and allies out of
0:06.1	Afghanistan.
0:07.1	How did we get here?
0:08.1	The lead starts right now.
0:09.1	A dozen people reportedly dead and the Taliban crushing opposition, clashing with protesters,
0:15.8	the same Taliban the U.S. is working with to try to get evacuees to the airport were
0:20.0	live in Kabul.
0:22.0	The battle over masks is escalating in the United States and booster shots going into
0:26.6	arms, but still so many unanswered questions, so Dr. Anthony Fauci will join us to answer
0:31.7	them live, plus a standoff with police, a suspect outside the U.S. Capitol today claiming
0:37.8	to have a bomb.
0:39.3	What led him to it?
0:40.3	What is his motivation, the breaking details ahead?
0:48.8	Welcome to the lead.
0:49.8	I'm Jake Tapper and we're going to start with our worldly today, the rush to evacuate
0:53.0	Americans and Afghan allies out of Kabul this afternoon.
0:56.4	The U.S. State Department announced 6,000 people are inside the Kabul airport right now.
1:03.2	All we're told, all of them are fully cleared and we're told we'll soon fly out of the
1:07.4	country.
1:08.4	Twenty flights are expected to leave the Kabul airport tonight, but there are still massive
1:12.9	issues for too many other sources telling CNN that the State Department advised thousands
1:17.6	of local employees to head to the airport yesterday, but many of them simply could not
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