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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Surgeon General: Biden to announce new COVID measures soon; Biden pushes infrastructure and climate agendas on first West Coast trip; Biden Admin to resettle 60,000 Afghans inside U.S. in coming weeks;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

New COVID cases slowly declining, deaths up 4% from last week; NYC starts vaccine mandate as schools reopen for 1 million kids; CDC director: Delta variant in kids is more transmissible & dangerous; Arkansas Gov: Biden’s mandate “hardens the resistance” to vaccines; NY hospital to stop delivering babies as staff quit over vaccine mandate; New CNN poll: growing support for vaccine requirements; CNN poll: most Americans want to keep mitigation efforts even after COVID cases drop; Former FDA head: vaccine mandates could “discourage” some vaccination; Fauci supports vaccine mandate for airline travel; Two outgoing FDA advisors say boosters are unnecessary for most; Biden heads to California to support Newsom hours before race ends; Dems give final push to keep Newsom in office one day before recall; Official: 8 U.S. bases become “small cities” to house Afghan refugees; Measles outbreak among Afghan refugees in U.S. pauses incoming flights; U.N.: Taliban increasingly violent towards protesters and journalists; Reuters: Taliban official says Afghan women shouldn’t work with men; More than $1B in aid pledged for Afghanistan at U.N. conference; Law enforcement warns of potential violence during Sept. 18 rally; Pelosi: security plan for Saturday’s rally “seems much better”; U.S. Capitol police arrest man with bayonet & machete in his truck near DNC headquarters; Bush likens U.S. extremists to foreign terrorists in 9/11 speech; Tropical Storm Nicolas hours away from Texas landfall; Tropical storm to bring torrential rain, flooding along Texas coat before moving over Louisiana; 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

So, with voluntary vaccines don't work on skeptics, and mandates don't either.

0:09.2

What will?

0:10.2

The lead starts right now.

0:12.2

New CNN polling reveals a majority of Americans support the new COVID vaccine mandates, but

0:18.6

could the new measures force skeptical Americans farther away from the vaccine?

0:23.4

Then, President Biden goes west, young man, in hopes of boosting in battled California

0:28.3

Governor Gavin Newsom Hours before the recall race ends, plus bracing for violence, but

0:34.0

hoping for the best.

0:35.4

The fencing around the U.S. Capitol is about to go back up days before a right-wing rally,

0:42.1

as police today arrest and armed neo-Nazi blocks from the Capitol.

0:51.7

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we begin today with our health lead, while President

0:55.7

Biden's new COVID vaccine or testing mandate on businesses continue to face fierce opposition

1:02.4

from some Republican governor.

1:03.4

It's a new CNN poll shows that the majority of the American people support these mandates

1:08.2

for workers, for students, and for everyday public life.

1:12.0

And now we're learning the Biden administration is expecting to make more announcements in

1:15.1

the fight against the Delta variant, as the death count keeps climbing up.

1:20.0

Now averaging 1,600 COVID deaths a day, 1,600 in the United States.

1:25.6

And more than 100,000 hospital beds are currently filled with the COVID patients nationwide.

1:30.3

Some good news?

1:31.3

Well, we are seeing case numbers at the lowest point in three weeks.

1:35.3

In New York, today's the first day that you will have to show proof of vaccination to

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