Vaccination rates down 41% from last week; Biden makes his case for $3.5 trillion in new spending; Admin: Afghans to be flown out by end of July, not clear where; New book reveals how much Facebook knew about Russian election interference & how little the company did to stop it
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Pop star Olivia Rodrigo visits White House to urge young people to get vaccinated; Tennessee fires vaccine manager after she says it’s ok to vaccinate children; Report: Michigan GOP leader resigns after saying election not stolen; Jan. 6 select committee eyes July 27 for first hearing; Biden admin launches plan to evacuate Afghan allies; Federal Reserve chair: prices will keep rising before cooling off
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| 0:00.0 | One state reaching a whole new level of anti-vaccine insanity. |
| 0:07.8 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:10.2 | With young and unvaccinated people fueling this new explosion in COVID cases, the government |
| 0:17.2 | of the state of Tennessee caves to anti-vaxxers and ditches all vaccine outreach to kids. |
| 0:24.0 | Just for the COVID vaccine, how deadly might this ascientific move prove to be? |
| 0:31.8 | A ticket out as the Taliban hunts them down, President Biden gives a timetable for |
| 0:36.4 | beginning to get Afghan allies who help the U.S. military safely away from Taliban guns. |
| 0:42.2 | Okay, but when will the flights begin and what's the actual plan? |
| 0:46.6 | Plus, backpacks, notebooks, new kicks, lunches, why back to school season could have parents |
| 0:53.1 | paying more and punching the air. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome to the lead object tap where we start today with our health lead and a surprising |
| 1:04.2 | and dismaying move to stop all vaccine outreach to children despite the growing number of |
| 1:10.6 | coronavirus cases among the unvaccinated. |
| 1:13.6 | The decision made by Tennessee health officials just one day after firing their vaccine |
| 1:18.7 | chief because she tried to promote shots for teenagers. |
| 1:23.8 | The move coming as the COVID situation in the United States continues to get worse, not |
| 1:28.1 | just in Tennessee, but across the country. |
| 1:30.3 | The U.S. now averaging roughly 24,000 new cases per day. |
| 1:34.2 | That's a 75% jump from last week and a whopping 93% spike from two weeks ago while vaccination |
| 1:41.3 | rates continue to go way down, 41% down from just last week. |
| 1:46.4 | A big chunk of this problem is that far too many Republican leaders in the United States |
| 1:53.1 | have decided to spew what conservative writer Jonah Goldberg calls a quote, geyser of |
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