thanks for watching. "don lemon tonight," d. lemon the big star right now. >> let me make something clear rape is a crime. >> here is what i got frustrated about. forget my religion and abortion. that was so frustratingly deceptive and i'm bothered by the applause because it shows what the governor is doing is effective. forget about reproductive. he's lying about the bill, okay? the idea that hey, you're really okay with rapests not being able

to victimize twice essentially? yeah, because that's a crime so what we're going to do is get rid of the rapists and then it doesn't matter. and they applaud. >> man, nobody thought of that. how smart of him. get rid of the rapists. >> under that bill, people can roll their eyes. i'm telling you the way that bill is drafted right now if you rape someone, you are not removed from the pool of eligibility to sue someone else for helping the person you raped get an abortion. >> an abortion. yeah. so that's the reason why i pointed that out. you're right on in your -- what you're saying about this. it's just like nobody has ever thought that, you know, rapests should be a crime and that their on the street and his idea of what an actual rapist is, there are some people on the street and raping people. a lot of it happens within families and with people you know. incest. so on and so forth. and so when you can't -- so

you -- most times you can't even detect it. when it happens that way at six weeks, most people won't even know. >> that's the part i'm frustrated about. he says, you know, he made it sound like it's under six weeks under the law. it doesn't. he made it sound like that's a long time, which it isn't. >> yeah. >> and it's just -- that's what bothers me. just be straight about what you're doing and why you're doing it. >> yeah, i know people get frustrated and will be upset but the idea of separation of church and state doesn't seem to apply when it comes to this particular issue. good to see you. good to be back. >> it is good to be back. >> good to be back and it's -- >> we just started our second season of the "hand off". >> i know. right? >> not this handoff. it's confusing to people. >> we have a podcast called "the handoff" and in the podcast, we go deeper than now. we're more real or realer -- >> i'm shocked we got a second

season. >> i'm shocked at some of the things i said today because i compared life to -- >> save that for the podcast. [ laughter ] >> if you listen to the first episode of the podcast, you'll see that not only did i just do us both a favor professionally in terms of keeping this gig. it's actually a pretty funny thing he said. >> okay. i have to say it was funny. see you. love you. >> love you, too. we got a lot to cover. this is "don lemon tonight." thanks for joining us. you know what? welcome back to everyone. this is a crucial moment for president joe biden. it really is. he's facing one huge challenge after another at home and in the wake of the end of the america's longest war and chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, the pandemic and the u.s. passing 40 million cases, 40 million cases. the aftermath of hurricane ida and people dead in the gulf and 52 in the northeast and flash

floods and tornados. a dramatic picture showing how the climate crisis is ravaging america's ageing infrastructure. big picture, okay? a lot is riding on president joe biden showing he can manage all these crisis at once. and one of the biggest challenges that he faces is covid really. president planning to layout his strategy to stop the spread of delta in a major speech on thursday. but the celebrations in packed stadiums we saw over the labor day weekend may tell us a lot what to expect in the fall and with more kids going back to school. more than one in four of the weekly covid cases in this country are now in children. more than one in four of the weekly covid cases in this country are now in children. 251,781 child cases of covid reported in the past week alone. so for anybody who still thinks this doesn't affect kids, not

so. not true. never was true. and we need to get vaccinated and wear masks to protect those kids. >> we've got to get the school system masked in addition to surrounding the children with vaccinated people. that's the solution. we don't need to see a big uptick at all in cases if we do it right. >> are you listening, everyone? are you listening, florida? there is sad news out of the one of the nation's largest school districts, miami-dade. that's where 13 school employees have died of covid since made august. the union says all 13 were unvaccinated and african-american. a reminder that there are unvaccinated people in every population and there can be extra challenges in reaching some. listen to what the superintendent of erin burnett

>> this under scores the big tragedy we see occurring across america even though in my community, 98% of individuals got at least one dose of the vaccine, there is still a lag specific to individuals that represent ethnic minorities in miami-dade. this is a result of understandable historic facts that have in a certain way prejudice the understanding of these communities about the viability about the vaccine. >> that's covid. but there is also the challenge the president faces from the climate crisis, "the washington post" says one in three americans have suffered the affects of extreme weather this summer from fires to floods to tornados to hurricanes. the president traveling to hard hit new jersey and new york just today making his pitch for his infrastructure bill and broader economic agenda including fighting the climate crisis.

>> climate change poses a threat to our lives, to our economy, and the threat is here. it's not going to get any better. the question can't get worse. we can stop it from getting worse. >> but infrastructure faces a rough road from a member of the president's own party. joe mansion calling for a pause on the $3.5 trillion bill. president biden saying this tonight. >> the goal at the end has always been there and always been with me. we can work something out and i look forward to speaking to him. >> on the heels of texas' six-week ban on abortions and attorney general merrick garland, the state that's always red moves sharply to the right. governor greg abbott signing today a bill that puts major new restrictions on voting in one of the nation's fastest growing and diversifying states.

>> i'd be astonished if a law like this was not challenged in court. we've seen it happen wherever laws like this are passed. the first thing the democrats do is run to the courthouse and try to challenge it. i feel extremely confident that when this law makes it through the litigation phase, it will be upheld in a court of law. >> the law facing an immediate legal challenge from voting rights groups and two federal lawsuits were filed before the bill was signed so here is some of the real life effects on real people who are just trying to exercise their right to vote. okay? the bill bans 24-hour voting, which helps shift workers into communities of color, okay? communities of color. people who do shift work. under the new law voting is allowed from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. so you can exercise your rights as an american citizen only until 10:00.

10:05 you're out of luck. drive-through voting, nope. never mind it allows people to vote safely in the middle of a deadly pandemic, the law takes aim at voting mail and providing the last four digits of their social security number making it a felony for public officials to send out up solicited applications. local elections officials can't provide absentee ballot request forms to get out the vote groups. item empowers partisan poll watchers to move around at will. anybody that assists people with disabilities other than the caregivers will have to fill out paperwork and take an oath to obey limits on their assistance for voters and the secretariry of state's office has to do monthly checks on voter rolls. real life consequences of the assault on voting rights. so what do you do? how do you protect the right to

vote? president biden tweeting that we're facing an all out assault on our democracy and need to pass the for the people act achievement act to protect the sacred right to vote. i urge congress to send them to my desk immediately, that's a quote from the president. both bills face long eyes. i talked to the president about that in the town hall this summer. >> this is important for people who look like me. my grandmother would sit around when i was a kid fifth grade, had a fifth grade education. i learned that she couldn't read when i was doing my homework. she would tell me stories about people asking her to count the number of jelly beans in the jar or the soap and -- so why is protecting the filibuster, is that more important than protecting voting rights for people that fought and voted for that? >> no, it's not. i want to see the united states

congress, the united states senate pass s 1 and s of the john lewis act. the voting rights in texas and across this country is nothing less than a plan to give the gop the power to overturn the next election if they don't like the results. not about politics. it about the most sacred right as americans, the right to vote. a right worth fighting for. so like i said, a lot is riding on president biden showing he can mansion this crisis at once. up next, we'll talk to two people who have real insight into whether he could turn them into a political opportunity. >> we got to listen to the scientists and economists and national security experts. they all tell us this is code red. the nation and the world are in

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in filipino: you'll always be in my heart. crisis after crisis left president biden with an uphill climb. the president is facing a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths and the fallout from the u.s.

withdrawal from afghanistan and a whole pile of legislation not sent to hiss desk. the life, the run and what matters now. thank you for joining. so let's get into this. talk about a summer of challenges and crisis and almost a year out from the midterms. how important are the next few weeks in shaping the future of biden's presidency? >> this is a crucial period, c don. he said we reached an inflexion point in which the kchoices we make now and decisions will have long-term consequences and will extend the analogy. he's at an infrex poilection po where a lot of things are going to be in a proving ground. this is the time when you'll hear him start to say things in private and in public. you earlier mentioned, don, joe mansion. there is no more important relationship right now than there is between joe biden and mansion. you're not likely to hear much

in public of joe biden pressuring the senator from west virginia but in private, that's one of the people he needs. this is sort of all of the 50 years of political practice joe biden is working on about finally coming to joe mansion and saying this is the moment. i had a conversation with managerl erarlier in the year. the truth is i want joe mansion to be a successful president. if he appeals to me directly as he did on the stimulus bill earlier in the year, i'm willing to meet him if i have my hesitations. you may see that kind of private conversat conversation but i don't expect to see him raking mansion over the coals. >> dana, the president used today's storm damage visits to sell his infrastructure plan and said he thinks he can work things out with senator joe mansion to get it done. i mean, this could be landmark legislation that defines a presidency but also a total

legislative limbo. >> it's a total legislative limbo and just like he was saying, this is going to be one of the key moments that joe biden is going to have in his presidency and a legacy defining moment where he is going to have to reach back to all of the decades that were being described to maneuver and negotiate with joe mansion. and the fact is i interviewed the white house chief of staff ron klain on sunday who said, you know, if i had a dime for everyday somebody told us this infrastructure or any kind of this agenda caenda would be sto i'd be a rich man. he talks about the ways he thinks joe mansion is persuadable all of which had to do with ways to pay for the very large price tag that joe biden

and the democratic leaders have for this just the so-called reconciliation piece we're talking about but has a lot of the biden agenda in it and a lot of what he was saying in terms of paying for this were about new taxes and it really unclear whether joe mansion or not just him but other moderate democrats who don't put themselves out there, they don't write op eds like mansion does but some of them are reluctant because they're on the ballot in purple states. >> the president is set to give this major speech in the next phases of the pandemic on thursday. and even though the current spike is because of the unvaccinated, it's happening on his watch. >> no question about it. if you can talk to him candidly about the one piece of our current reality is the degree

which people now as far into the pandemic as we are with life saving pvaccines available woul find themselves resisting for abstract political commitments and vague sense of hesitation despite the things we've heard and the evidence we've seen on the ground about the difference between being vaccinated and being unvaccinated. but, you know, i think one of the things that we're approaching now is the point at which this didn't -- even though this is happening on his watch and he has to be the one who is taking responsibility for it, he's also contending with a set of political facts that didn't happen overnight. i'm reminded of the fact, don, that trust in government, which is really sort of one of the dimensions of this vaccine issue has been eroding long before joe biden was in the presidency. in 1964, 88% of americans trusted the government. now it down to 18%. he has to try to rebuild that confidence in a hurry and that means talking about things like

inpa infrastructure and begin to rebuild some of the confidence and has to do it in a hurry. >> he's going to have to do the real thing, stufthe stuff peopl care about. the right wing media and joe biden haters can say what they want, right? that's rhetoric. he has to really, dana, have accomplishments in order to get people to continue to support his presidency and his initiative, as well. listen, the fight over voting rights is also becoming a defining issue for him and he is pushing for two voting rights bills to be passed. you just got back from texas where that restrictive voting law was signed by the governor but similar laws are being put in place across the country. is he losing on this battle? >> yes, he is. he is because this is all about whether the federal government, he and his fellow democrats in congress can somehow find a way

to enact new legislation that would either negate some state laws or put a freeze on them and it's really unclear whether that will happen and it goes back to the person we were talking about, joe mansion and other senate democrats, and talking to -- i'm working on a special about voting rights, don, and talking to democrats from texas, to arizona to georgia and even further out and wider when you talk about all of the states more than a dozen states have actually -- mostly republican led states passed laws that make it more difficult for people to vote. republicans who are in charge say it about election integrity and makes it so that the voting is more secure but the reality is that in many of these places, there was -- they're looking for -- they're coming up with a

solution in search of a problem. and until and unless the federal government does something to get back some of the 1965 voting rights law, which the supreme court chipped away at in two separate decisions, there is nothing that the federal government can do and they don't have the votes now, the democrats despite fighting really hard to get the majorities. >> dana, look, as we know, according to all facts and all studies and all -- and everyone involved not in the court of the way i feel, this is the most secure the 2020 was the most secure election in the nation's history. you're right. it was a solution that didn't have a problem. so, you know, hey, we're here because of people feeling that the election wasn't secure, not that there are facts that show it. evan -- >> because they were told. >> because they were told, right. i want to say with eben, when you talk about the attacks on

the institution for the past 40 years, it certainly didn't help with the last administration attacking institutions as much as the trump administration and folks did and do as well. when justifying -- back to biden. when justifying, this is for you, justifying afghanistan, the withdrawal there. the president said it was what the american people wanted. if the president stays focused on what voters want, do you think that will pay off for him in the long run? he has to accomplish some things. if he stays focused, will that pay off for him in the long run? >> yeah, and focus is the word. in a 340moment like this, presidents are inundated with poll itical advice and instinct and i'll dash here and try to meet whatever the short term political incentive might be. you didn't see him do that on afghanistan. the reality was that was a painful episode difficult for him but you saw him stay

committed to the policy which he believed was in the long term interest, the vital national interest as he says of this country and americans, by in large in polls support the decision to end the war in afghanistan. so you are likely to see him return to this idea that you'll see this later in the week when he talks about the need to get the covid pandemic behind us. the reality is whatever people believe politically and line up on the partisan distinction, the fact is people need to get this pandemic behind us and i think you're going to hear him appeal to the messages in liberal terms and conservative terms and say it time to turn the page. this is going to take all of his political skill because the last administration stacked the deck in a way that made it very hard for people to put a bet on joe biden. this is the moment it arrived. >> for those of us hold enough, so glad we had this time together. i'm tugging my ear. thank you very much.

i'll keep dana. before you go, let's talk about your new cnn podcast premiering tomorrow "total recall california's political circus." it takes a hard look at the last recall election in the state and you actually talk to the man who won that election arnold schwarzenegger, what should we expect? >> a really deep dive into what happened almost 20 years ago. it hard to imagine. a lot of people don't remember that arnold schwarzenegger became governor because of a recall and we're on the cusp of another election. very different circumstances on a whole host of issues, particularly the very different candidates, governors, gray davis back then, gavin newsom now but i did talk extensively to arnold schwarzenegger and one of the things we talked about is that there is a similarity when it comes to the anger

californians are feeling now. listen to this. >> there is millions of people out there that are dissatisfied maybe the way the coronavirus was handled and the fires and dissatisfied with the plaqblack. >> dangerous for gavin newsom. >> absolutely. you have to take this seriously. for too long they didn't take it seriously but now they do take it seriously. >> >> we know they're taking it seriously for a lot of bits of evidence that show that, not the least of which kamala harris, the former senator from california, now the vice president is going to campaign with gavin newsom and one of the biggest challenges they have is that the anger that arnold schwarzenegger is talking about that very much exists is propelling people who are willing to go to the polls to go because they want to recall gavin newsom and the challenge for the democrats is to get the

passion out there and to basically stoke fear in a lot of californians who might not want what the democrats are determining a trump governor. so you got to get out there and you got to vote and vote no on the recall. that's what the new ssom messag is. as schwarzenegger said, it took a little bit for them to realize that this could be a big problem. >> yeah. >> yeah, but this podcast is very, very interesting and to look at not just the similarities and the differences but more importantly, how much of our politics today, don, was born or at least was foreshadowed in the 2003 recall. >> i was going to say, history doesn't often repeat itself but it rihymes so it very similar what is happening now to then. thank you very much. can't wait to hear the entire podcast and good to see you. check out dana's podcast "total

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the u.s. passing 40 million confirmed covid cases, more than 4 million in the last four weeks alone. the american academy of pediatrics warning one in four of cases were in children. an alarming number when millions of children are back in school and experts are warning we could see a huge post labor day surge in cases. joining me now to discuss cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. school is in session with kids making up more and more of a share of new cases now. how concerned are you about children and deallta? >> i'm concerned because the numbers are so high when you raise the denominator of cases that high, more kids are going to get infected. that's the concept behind herd immunity. it a concept than a number. you get enough people vaccinated to protect those that can't be

vaccinated but the cases are rising and rising. i can show you, don, last year compared to this year, 3.5 times the number of cases right now compared to this time last year, 2.5 times the hospitalizations, nearly two times the number of deaths. if you ask me a year ago what these numbers meant this year, i would have said it means we don't yet have a vaccine, that we didn't get yet the vaccine and yet, we have a vaccine and these numbers are what they are. the thing about kids, the more virus that is circulating, especially a contagious virus like this the more kids will be at risk, especially the ones that aren't and can't be vaccinated. >> this is where we are now. first day back for many folks. we saw massive crowds gathered at football games this weekend. not every outdoor event becomes a superspreader but dr. fauci is saying today it's not smart to be in a crowded outdoor event without a mask right now. what's the risk? >> well, i think one thing about

this delta virus is that it's just much more unforgiving. you know, there was a study that came out over the summer saying look at football games from last year and limited attendance. they did not seem to be these spreading veevents but there is not limited attendance. these are fully packed as you point out and the delta virus is that much more contagious. you get to look at what is going on in the area. what is vaccination rates like? what is transmission rates like. that game is an auburn, alabama. we know the transmission is very high there, much higher than the rest of the country. we know that the vaccination rates are really low there. so that's obviously a problem. on top of that, you have to sort of put that together. you say i'm sitting next to the same people for a couple three hours, there is lots of shouting getting on and virus getting into the air. previously outdoor transmission wasn't much of a problem but in situations like that it can be.

there is no magical answer here. people want outdoor is totally safe, indoors is not. it's not going to be that easy when you have viral transmission the way that it is. these are the things you got to pay attention to and almost have to imagine, don, if you could see the virus, if you could just see the virus like a rain shower, you'd get an idea time to pull out the em umbrella, ta cover. that's the problem. >> let turn to the administration's booster strategy. d dr. fauci says a third dose may be part of the regimen. listen? >> it looks very much like it isn't as if two doses of a vaccine are failing, it's that the proper regimen will very likely as we look back will be that three doses is what you should be getting of an mrna. >> would that be it? no annual booster like a flu

shot? >> i mean, that is i think the expectation here. you know, flu shot is a little different because it's not an annual booster as much as it is a new vaccine because the flu virus does change that much year to year. what is interesting here, don, is that the message all along is the vaccines work well and that's still the message because they do work well. dramatically lower the risk of you getting severely sick, needing hospitalization or dying. at the same time administration says based on what we think is happening in israel and this country, we think a booster will be necessary. what dr. fauci is saying in that clip you played is that kind of was the plan all along. most vaccines, adult vaccines require boosters. take a look, don, we pulled this for you. if you look at hepatitis vaccines for example. you look at herpes. you look at human pappaloma

require three shots. what struck me about this conversation, which is a heated conversation about boosters and the scientific community, if that was the plan all along, you need a booster at six to eight months they probably should have said that because it left people with the idea vaccines aren't working as well. they are but a booster would give it longer, more durable protection. >> dr. gupta, appreciate the time you give to us. want to know why? because you're so busy. i tell everybody to make sure you check out sanjay's upcoming book. there it is on your screen. "world war seat lessons from the covid-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one" out on october 5th. wish you well on that. thank you, dr. gupta. >> thanks, don. any time for you, sir, thank you. a huge unexpected turn in b britney spears' legal battle. her father agreeing to end her

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okay, so there is a new twist in the britney spears conservatorship battle. her father jamie spears has filed a petition to end the 13-year arrangement. earlier this summer, the singer alleged conservatorship abuse sparking an outpouring of public support. let talk about this now. cnn entertainment reporter chloe is here and civil right the the attorney areva martin is here. as said to you during the break, is this a jedi mind trick? are you learning about this petition tonight? >> i mean, i think that the free brittany movement and people all over the world have been waiting for someone to file a petition to terminate and here it turns out to be her father, first time in 13 years but remember, britney spears' new attorney has

been filing petition after petition putting pressure on jamie spears to resign, to step aside, you know, and there was that potential that judge brenda penny would be suspending jamie spears at the next hearing on september 29th. i want to read you part of the statement telling cnn this filing represents another legal victory for britney spears, a massive one and vindication for ms. spears and he can sit for, don, get this, a sworn deposition and answering other discovery under oath. remember, britney spears said twice over the summer at two different hearings multiple times she wants to charge her father with conservatorship abuse. could that happen? >> hmm. areva? [ laughter ] >> absolutely that can happen, and you're right, don, this is an incredible turn of events. this say huge legal victory for

britney and it is vindication -- >> let me read this in part. recent events have called into question whether circumstances have changed to such an extent that grounds for establishment of a conservatorship may no longer exist. go on. maybe that was the key to turning it arabound. sorry to interrupt. >> that statement is dramatically different than a statement made just several days ago but jamie spears when he pushed back on the petition to have him removed and he claimed he was still in the best position to be the conserve tore and wanted what was best for his daughter and fighting the p petition filed by her new attorney to have him removed. things are moving quickly. one thing chloe said, this new attorney that just got involved in this case in july is incredibly aggressive in filing

petitions and making it clear he would do a very thorough investigation to determine if there is financial maismanagemet and served jamie spears with a deposition notice to show up, give testimony under oath and answer other discovery that has been served on him by the new attorney. so i think we were about to start to see some light of day, some transparency with the way this conservatorship was handled and the attorney said with this new filing, this request to terminate the conservatorship, he'll continue efforts how this was hand led for the last 13 years. >> you remember when her net worth was 6 $0 0 million dolla. i said wait a minute, what happened to her money. when someone started as a kid with disney, a mousekateer. >> the mickey mouse club. >> and hit after hit after hit and i think some of it she

wrote, you know, zest been performing. she had -- what do you have when you're in vegas? >> residency. >> you make tons of money on that. she should have made $60 million alone from that. anyway, she has been under conservatorship since 2009. how soon could this change go into effect. what happens next? >> i mean, it's pretty much over. i mean, i think it just kind of, you know, all there has to be is the hearing on september 29th, judge brenda penny has to set the hearing. we'll see that in the next couple days and then essentially, it's over. but right, there are still things that have to be taken care of like, you know, some loose ends with the money. britney spears' father says he's owed nearly $2 million. half a million dollars for a salary and all this money for legal fees. so it's not going to be over and you have him saying we're not going to pay the $2 million and britney spears' medical care.

she's under supervision of joe d -- jody montgomery and a team of doctors and nobody wants anything to happen to britney. that has to be put in place, as well. essentially, don, we'll see the free brittany movement in full effect outside of the los angeles county superior courthouse. incredible. >> i'll be there. i'll be there. >> areva, this is really following the money. that's what the new attorney is doing and the dad is -- yeah. >> yeah, you're right, don. this has always been about money unfortunately, and that's why so many people railed against this type of conservatorship for someone like britney that's been able to perform in las vegas and be a judge on a competition show -- >> forget about that one. >> normal activities but to be under conservatorship for so long is appalling and i couldn't be more elated. the court will have the final say on whether the

conservatorship is terminated. the court has to make a determination that britney has the mental capacity, the ability to take care of her own affairs or health affairs or financial affairs but this filing by the father saying he wants to or believes the conservatorship should be terminate definitely the father saying he believes the conservatorship should be terminated is a big step in the right direction. >> thank you both very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. in other celebrity news, i had the pleasure of meeting the next person i'm going to talk about once here in the green room at cnn. and you could not have met a better person. just conversing with him every once in a while by text on some wonderful project that he did. now this. social media is lighting up. yesterday and today with words of praise and touching tributes

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