president biden back at the white house after getting a firsthand look at the destruction from the remnants of hurricane ida in new york and new jersey and making clear the deadly disasters are a big reason that he'll turn up the heat on congress to pass his $3.5 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's infrastructure and battle the climate crisis. and he'll address the nation on thursday on his administration's plan to battle the surging covid pandemic as hospitalizations and

deaths are spiking. and the texas governor signing new voting restrictions into law. we'll see how opponents plan to fight back. i bring in now my cnn analysts. thank you both for joining. good evening. so president biden making the case today for his infrastructure bill and budget plan. with all the fallout from afghanistan, the afghanistan exit, he's trying to shift the focus back to domestic agenda. is he trying to shift the focus or just doing his job as president? if he is trying to shift the focus, is it working? >> well, you know, look, the reality is the afghanistan decision has been made. it's been executed. there are residual issues with americans and afghan allies left behind. the core challenge now is the core agenda. it was striking in his visits to the new york area, he directly linked the damage from hurricane ida to climate change which is

something even many in the media have been slow to do and use that to underscore his case for the climate components of this reconciliation bill. this will probably be scaled back, maybe scaled back significantly, but even scaled back significantly, it is still on track to be the largest democratic legislative success since lyndon johnson in the 1960s. and democrats will be betting heavily on what they're able to pass as a center piece they want to run on in 2022. >> a big problem, a problem for biden's agenda, calling on the $3.5 budget plan. i know that ron just said, it will be scaled back but he's calling for a complete pause on it for now. this is what biden said about that tonight. >> he's always been there, he's always been with me. i think we can work something out and i look forward to speaking with him. >> so to ron's point, the

sources telling cnn that manchin has been privately suggesting to colleagues that he could aep$1 this is the balancing act that biden has to do with everything that he tries to do now which is trying to bring together more moderate, in manchin's case, more conservative democrats, and progressive democrats who have very different visions of what they want the government to do and how much money they want to spend doing it. and i would say joe biden has been very good at bringing people together. which is something that he said that he was going to do as president. and i think a lot of people were skeptical about. and i think that he's going to

have to keep working on joe manchin and still trying to keep progressives happy, not feeling that everything is being thrown away, basically, when they feel like they have this opportunity to do something really big that joe manchin is trying to scale back or even some moderate democrats want to scale back. >> how can people not see the connection? you have a storm that hit the south. it was a really big storm, right? and we've been having these really ferocious, powerful storms mor. climate change, right? that's what the experts say. he had a storm that was over land for that long, right? and usually it slows. by the time it gets here, okay, the storm came in over the gulf, over land, it will be fine, we'll get some rain and then you have this. how can you not connect it and look at the infrastructure in cities like new york and what happened here and not see that we need money, we need infrastructure reform, we need

to address climate change, we need all those things. >> well, look, we're living in a country where people are getting their medical advice from tucker carlson, right? so we have a lot of people who have not completely bought on to this idea and a lot of those people are in the republican party. a lot of them have come around to say, okay, well, climate change is real but it is not manmade but there's nothing we can do about it when they used to say it didn't exist. but the point is you have a lot of people in the republican party who will not accept that any more than they will accept that you should take a vaccine, right? it is an alternative universe where they treat talking about infrastructure and climate change as being some sort of whacky left wing idea, when you said the experts say. but they have their own set of experts. >> by experts, i mean, most of the scientific community.

99.9% of the scientific community. >> exactly. right. but what does tucker carlson think? that literally is how a lot of people in this country are operating, they're going to people like joe roggin's podcast to figure out how to treat covid. why are you going to him to find out how to treat covid? people are getting medical advice that don't have any knowledge people are giving advice about the climate, they don't have any knowledge. >> i'm going to those people you said just for some expert advice. i never really think about. that hey, let me ask you. i have to get this in. i want to talk about the president, texas calling it an all out democracy. you said without calling it a filibuster. this is thoughts and prayers for the vote,. >> the objections by manchin to

the reconciliation bill disfact are the core question involving manchin and sinema, whether they are willing to create a carveout from the filibuster completion would create a floor in every state and undo. of what republicans are doing on a party line basis, very important in state after state. biden has said he supports a new kind of floor of federal voting rights and democrats have worked very assiduously to negotiate a new bill with manchin that met the objections he had to the bill that passed the house. and we are coming up to krumplg time. the democrats will create some exemption to the filibuster and create a response to the restrictions passing in the red states, or they are going to allow republicans to block this. as i pointed out to you before, the standard that manchin and sinema are setting on this, that it should only be done if the

other party agrees in washington, by that standard, the 14th and 15th amendments of the constitution and most of the civil rights law in the post civil-war era would not have passed because democrats then supporting the democratic allies in the former confederate states refused to vote for any of them. so this is the core issue. are manchin and sinema going on give republicans a vito and allow them, mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans to run air cover for this ground offensive that is underway in so many red states, rolling back the right to vote with tremendous implications for 2022 and 2024. >> thank you both. we were talking about people who actually deal with what's happening with the weather. let me get tom now. the death toll from hurricane ida is rising. two more people have died from the storm, bringing the official total in the state to 20 people. that's on top of the 52 people who died in the northeast. in the middle of the flooding

last week, the mayor of passaic, new jersey, told me about one of those losses as the storm ravaged his city. >> unfortunately, an elderly gentleman of 70 years have age was unable to be rescued. the car was overtaken by water. firefighters were under the vehicle and it became almost impossible for firefighters to reach the vehicle as the waters rose above six and seven feet in that one area. >> so the mayor was one of the local officials to meet with president biden today in new jersey and he joins me now. thank you, mayor. how are you doing? >> thank you. i'm doing well. relatively well. how are you? >> i'm okay. i'm sorry for everything your community is dealing with. how was your meeting with the president today? what did you discuss? >> well, i want to say it was extremely encouraging. the fact the president took time

to be here with us, to walk our communities, to hear firsthand the impact, the devastating effects of ida in our community, it means so very much to our residents in our state and obviously, in the city of passaic, that i was able to sit with him, have a conversation along with other mayors, with our governor, phil murphy, with congressional representatives, with his administrator of fema, with county officials. it was extremely, again, i'll reiterate, encouraging. the emotion that he conveyed. it was so genuine. when i shared with him the account, the heart-breaking account of a father's last image in terms of what he saw before he left this world, his wife and his son being rescued and unfortunately, that wife and son looking back and seeing their father and husband not being able to make it. i could see it in the eyes of

the president. this wasn't a photo op. he engaged, he asked questions, he was genuinely and sincerely interested in what we're facing within our communities, what challenges, unique challenges. obviously, each community is different. >> let me talk to you about that. there are people in your community with some urgent problems right now, missing relatives, homes destroyed, little food and water. i know you said that he was, he seemed extremely interested and genuine. did he tell you what his plans were to get these people the help that they need? >> well, that's what i was speaking about. when he asked the mayors, like the mayor from hillsborough, what is the biggest concern you have and we all had similar concerns, we can't keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. there are homes in the flood zones that should either go

bought out or changed. we can't just keep expecting that every flood, we'll send and rescue individuals and home they can recover their lives. we talked about real challenges like the supply lines. it is one thing to receive money. if you can't even get access to water heaters, if you can't get material that you need to recover, what are you doing with those resources? and like you mentioned, and you're right. look, in my community, we have so many who have so little and have lost so much. it is devastating. this week, children were supposed to be getting happy and excited about returning to school and they've lost their materials, basements are washed out, homes were flooded. i have families have nowhere to go right now. a boil water alert where we don't even have access to water for a lot of areas in our city. so yes. the president, and he pointed to his administrator for fema to make sure that we have communication. specially in a community with a large latino population.

the declaration went a long way, declaring our county obviously as an area of disaster. and i commend our governor phil murphy for reaching out and advocating on our behalf and i'm glad, i believe it will be expanded to even more areas because we were devastated. the issues we're facing are extremely difficult. >> you're going to need all of that. and there's a concern new jersey is part of flash flood watch for tomorrow afternoon. so we'll be keeping a close eye on that. thank you. we wish you well and we'll see you soon. hopefully with better news. thank you. >> thank you. >> i want to bring in now the former mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu. i was worried about you. i was texting you, how bad is it, i haven't heard from you. you lost your cell for a while. your cell phone service as a lot of people did there. i'm glad you're okay.

these crazy storms aren't stopping, you know, one storm crushing the gulf coast all the way to the east coast. this is evidence of the climate crisis, infrastructure crisis all around us. so what is the president going to do to convince his own party? what does he have to do to his own party to do something? >> well, thanks for thinking about me and my family. i just got my electricity back a couple hours ago. lots of electricity out for people across louisiana still today. as you know. this is your area. everything that is lower than baton rouge. you think of the area that i drove through the other day. seven feet of water in all the houses. i've been down to the different areas. the man that was just speaking, i don't know the gentleman but he just as soon could be describing how decimated the little towns and the cities are in and around new orleans. jefferson parish right next on new orleans for the most part is still out of electricity.

so one of the things that blows my mind, i've been listening to your program. on the issue of voting rights, there can't be a more nonpartisan issue in the united states of america than having access to the ballot. that's what democracy is about. likewise, there can't be more of a nonpartisan issue than roads and bridges are broken. not only in the south but the northeast and the midwest and on the west coast. that you have not, you have a lack of access to food. you have all these things going on that for the life of me affects every american equally. we saw it 16 years ago with katrina and then shortly there after, sandy. and then this particular week, we had ida and then right after that, we had another storm in the northeast. this is affecting everybody in the country. >> let's not forget what happened this winter. do you remember what happened this winter? you had texas. look at the power grid. >> well, think about this. you had harvey, michael.

you just look at all this stuff. this is what i know. i know that everybody, republican, democrat, white flag, blue, green, gay, straight, whatever, when you don't have power, it's rough. when you don't have a bridge to go across, you can't get across. when you don't have water, you can't take a bath. and all i'm saying to the people of america is, if you want something to be nonpartisan. this is as nonpartisan as it gets. given what we've gone through, the infrastructure package is small. the civil engineers, a nonprofit organization tells you we have about a $5 trillion infrastructure deficit and i can't think of a more unbelievable example than just what happened with ida, as up. it was with us for 16 hours. that storm stayed with us for a long time. do you know what? there will be more storms. you can argue about what's causing them. i don't want the fight. i know it is climate change.

it doesn't obviate the fact that the consequences are during. you have to be able to not see and hear and taste to understand that's what's happening with us. every american in this country knows the roads are tough to drive on and the bridges are tough to cross. and that the electric grid is compromised which puts us at risk from a terrorist attack, too. so i would say, the president can only speak the truth. people don't want to hear or see, that's one thing fwuflt leaders in congress, both democrats and republicans, need to understand that there is an imperative in order for this country to not only be able to survive but progress and that's basically infrastructure. and then voting rights. both of those are critically important. they should be nonpartisan. they should get on with it. the storms won't quit coming. nor are the fires, nor the tornadoes. >> i want everyone to read this. i will put it up there on the screen so folks can see it.

this is a piece that mayor landrieu put up. of the many communities being affected right now, the poor face the greatest hurdles. they will need more help and for longer. until we collectively deal with racial inequity, we will continue to grapple with historically marginalized communities being disproportionately hit over and over. we do need to address it. i have to run. >> i'll let you go but let me say this. resilience and toughness is good but there's nothing that beats completely changing the structures of society so we don't continue to put those people in those desperate circumstances repetitively that they cannot sustain. so yes, they're tough and fantastic. if this keeps happening and we don't give them a net to stand up on, they don't have a chance. >> amen. >> they don't have a chance. >> good to see you. i'm glad you're okay. thank you, brother. texas' new restrictions on

voting sure look tailor-made to make it harder for black and brown people to vote. why is a state that is getting more and more diverse moving farther and farther to the right? >> i believe ultimately, it will come back to bite him. so you can go from saving... to living. ♪ let's go ♪

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legal rights group as well as two federal lawsuits filed before the bill was even signed, including one from harris county election administrator isabel longoria who by the way joins me now. thank you for joining us. how are you doing? >> howdy. well, things could be better in texas. >> amen. i agree with you. what kind of impact will this have on your state? >> i can speak to harris county. we did all of this back in july of last year. the pandemic was coming. he was asking ourselves, what can we do to make voters feel safer and still access their fundamental constitutional right to vote? things like drive-through voting. you go get your groceries, why not vote? the same exact manner as if you walked in. the only difference is you used wheels instead of feet. what about mail ballot voting? in texas we don't have online applications. how can we get those mail ballots to folks who, for example, after storms, after pandemics, lose their job, the

internet, they don't have printers. just mail it. mail these applications to seniors. when you turn 65, you don't turn less than 65 tomorrow. you are always eligible to vote by mail once you turn 65. 24-hour voting. thinking about our medical work here's didn't want to risk infecting people in those peak hours in the middle of the day. those shift workers. we've got the port of houston out all night. what we found from that is that latino voters, black voters, asian voters and women tended to use drive-through voting more, 24-hour voting, the mail ballots. the implication is that it will prevent the people who we know are leading the growth of texas from voting. >> let me make it very clear. a plain question. do you think this law was designed purposefully to make it harder for people of color to vote? >> i think absolutely it is in response to everything that we did in harris county to make it

easier for people to vote. and you can't unlearn something. we've made it clear. we've shared the information with all the state representatives and senators in the harris county area. once you learn something helps minority voters, helps women voters, you can't step back and say that must have been a fluke. you have to do everything you can to protect it. so initially, it may not have been the kaflts once learn that it does protect minority voters, it is hard to see it as anything but an attack. >> this is what governor abbott said about the lawsuits like yours today. >> i would be astonished if a law like this was not challenged in court. we've seen it happen whenever laws like this are passed. the first thing the democrats do is they 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. >> do you think you have a real

shot in court? >> i think the courts are there to be a check and balance on legislators and legislative bodies, right? that are running amok. contrary to what the public citizens want. the law and the judicial section, lawsuits, are that checks and balance. i think if you're writing laws, as the governor might have hinted with the idea they will be going to court, it may not be about policy. it has to be about something else. we wouldn't be challenging it. we wouldn't have five suits, i wouldn't be joining a suit if we didn't think we had a credible shot at winning. >> thank you for your time. thanks. the u.s. now hitting more than 40 million total covid cases. experts warn we could be seeing another surge as we go into winter. your sales rep lisa has to send some files, like asap! so basically i can pick the right plan for each employee... yeah i should've just led with that... with at&t business,

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there's no way to sugar coat this. the covid pandemic is getting worse. the u.s. now surpassing 40 million cases since the outbreak more than a year and a half ago. children now accounting for more than one quarter of new weekly covid cases nationwide. tonight sources telling cnn that president biden will make a major speech on his administration's plans going forward. the co-director is here of the texas children's hospital center for vaccine development. thank you for joining us. so schools and universities are reopening. stadiums were packed with fans over the weekend. hospitals are overwhelmed and running out of icu beds. meanwhile the daily case average is three time higher than it was this time last year and the ways to control the pandemic have

become politicized. are we going to see a spike in cases after this labor day weekend? >> well, we will certainly continue to see this firestorm progress. what we're seeing now is, you know, we've had a terrible summer here in the southern united states and more than 1,000 people have been dying daily. now what is happening is the case numbers are starting to slowly go down in the south with a pretty long tail. now it's moving. it is going up into west virginia, into ohio, pennsylvania. it is going, spreading laterally into south carolina, west, where i am here in texas. and we're seeing a second noted develop after that in the west. i think what we'll see is confluence between those two areas and pretty soon, exempt for the northeast and maybe some parts of michigan and minnesota, and the west coast. i think we're going to see the numbers continue to climb and it

will look a little bit like england where it went up, started going down a little bit but then started going up again. >> you mentioned that part of the country. you've had so many storms and now people are in confined places and not able to be in their homes. it doesn't help when we see our own elected members of congress promoting anti-science messaging and targeting doctors like dr. fauci, fighting the covid-19 pandemic. you called out representative jim jordan for a tweet calling vaccine mandates unamerican. what is most dangerous about that time of rhetoric? >> well, this is on top of several other members of congress coming from the conservative right consistently trying to discredit vaccines. of course, this was the pinnacle of this was at the c-pac conference where vaccines we were told were political instruments of control. they're using it to take our guns away and our bibles away. and unfortunately, people

believe that. here's the evidence. cynic april, may, 100,000 americans have lost their lives. 100,000 unvaccinated americans despite the fact that safe and effective vaccines were available. these are 100,000 unnecessary deaths. people who believed the disinformation coming from the political right. so this is absolutely devastating. and it is unconscionable for members of the united states congress, the house of representatives and senators, making these anti-vaccine statements as people are losing their lives on a daily basis. 1500 death as day now. >> according to the american academy of pediatrics, children now represent more than aer qua of the weekly u.s. covid cases. meanwhile, kids under 12 still aren't vaccinated. they can't be vaccinated. how can we keep kids safe? >> one of the ways you do that is you vaccinate anyone eligible to be vaccinated. what we're not seeing, we're not seeing a lot of pediatric

hospitalizations in the northeast why. ? all the did you think and most of the ad less rents vaccinated and kids are getting their vaccinations from the unvaccinated parents and adults they interact with. down here in the south, we're looking at maybe 25% of the adolescents vaccinated. not much better for young adults. what you're seeing are unprecedented numbers of pediatric hospitalizations. the centers for disease report reported a five fold increase in pediatric hospitalizations over the last month or so. and this is going to continue now that schools are open again. this is why i don't think the surge will end. unfortunately, the kids will get disproportionately infected and get hospitalized and get long covid. so once again, this is an unforced error. a self-inflicted wound coming from people who are pushing the

anti-vaccine disinformation. >> we appreciate you joining us. thank you. we'll see you soon. let's hope next time it's better news. >> thank you. chaos at school board meetings on everything from mask mandates to critical race theory. some of it even leading to violence. what is behind the anger? you might be surprised, next. michael: find their stories. gigi: at ancestry.

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for bringing in, this is my personal opinion, bringing in more people for their agenda. >> vaughn is right. >> yeah. my constituents are pissed. we're seeing 500 to 1,000 people attending school board meetings couldn't draw a crowd of 20 to 30 people prior to covid. >> the republican state representative spencer row. is thrilled that mask mandates are bringing new people in to the crusade against public education. >> i never used the word public school. i use the term government school. it should be looked at in the same contexas government housing or government health care. i think this anger -- >> you mean like there should not be government schools? what are you saying? >> i think as a parent, you should do everything possible to avoid having your child in a government school. >> he doesn't support mask mandates. what he is really over is control over classrooms. >> whether you're talking about

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counties, or who supports mandatory masking of school children. >> he says the momentum from the masking fight could put fundamental changes to florida schools within reach. >> so really, when we're hearing from school board members that they're worried, people are coming the dismantle the public school system, they're not wrong. you do want to do that. >> they're not wrong. the government school system right now is a monopoly. >> that kind of language is what vaughn means when she says there's a hidden agenda in the mask debate. >> it angers me. it appalls me. it saddens me. >> does it scare you? >> yes. you know, i taught english. i taught literature. one of my very favorite books to teach to my seniors was orwell's 1984. i see many orwellian aspects in what is happening. >> cnn, new york. >> tennessee is one of the

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kids wearing masks was verbally threatened by angry people opposed to it as he tried to drive away from a school board meeting last month. his name is michael miller, and he's back with me tonight. thank you, michael. i wish we were talking again under better circumstances. you and i spoke after that meeting about how terrifying that wad. now you are back and despite your sixth grade son wearing a mask he has tested positive for covid. how do you think this happened, and how is he doing? >> thank you. first of all, my son is doing okay. we're very fortunate. his symptoms have been mild compared to those some of his classmates have endured. he's in a school where -- he's in a middle school, sixth, seventh, and eighth-graders. and in his class, his sixth grade class of about 300 students, roughly 20% have tested positive in the last two weeks. so the viral load in the air must be excessively high is what i would guess. he takes his mask off to eat lunch and he's careful about

when he does that. or maybe in the band room when he's playing his instrument. that's it. sop even with a great kf- 94 mask when you're in an environment like that there's not much you can do probably. >> and not -- in the school is there an opt-out? >> of course there is. so there's actually two levels of opt-outs. williamson county when the mask mandate was enacted for grades k through 5 back on august 10th they passed -- they honored the system they used last year, which is a medical and/or religious exemption. as of august the 16th governor lee here in tennessee passed executive order 84, which mandates any school with a mask mandate must have an opt-out clause. and to quote the superintendent of my schools, it's an "i don't want to opt out." which is honestly as a parent

one of the most appalling things i've ever heard. >> it's just i don't want my kids to wear a mask and that's the opt out. >> i don't wanna. >> you told me one of your son's class mase ended nupt hospital for five days with covid pneumonia. >> yes. >> we can't confirm definitively where your son or his classmate was exposed. you're worried that it's going to spread to even more kids? >> oh, absolutely. it is. it's spreading to the elementary schools. and what happens is it starts -- when the mandate was passed for k through 5 the middle and high schools were left unprotected. and it gradually -- it kind of rocketed right through the high schools as one would expect for those who are unvaccinated and into the middle schools. and we're starting to see that spread continue into the elementary school. the numbers have started to tick up. and what we've also seen is the number of exemptions have grown over the last several weeks as well. the school district publishes both case counts as well as exemption counts by school. >> is anyone having a change of

heart after all these kids are testing positive and as you say one of them ending up with pneumonia in the hospital? are parents now saying hey, maybe we should get our kids to wear masks to protect not only them but others? >> the answer to your question, on august 26th they had another emergency school board meeting here. and in that meeting they actually extended the mask mandate to go grades k through 12. fortunately. now, again, with all the exemptions still in place. the -- what my son indicated to me in sixth grade was that he saw the rate go from about 35% of his classmates to over 70%. 70% to 75%. so a marked difference overnight with just a mask mandate. and one of the big drivers of that in talking with a lot of parents, what we learned was there are a lot of kids out there who will wear a mask, their families tell them to wear a mask, they get sent to school with a max, they don't dare put it on because he this don't want to be teased. not that anyone's openly teasing them but they're just not even

going to take the risk. because their friends aren't wearing masks so they're not doing it. >> because their parents have told them they don't have to wear masks and they shouldn't. >> yeah, there are parents who have been very clear about do not wear a mask. now, the principal at the middle school has done everything in his powers. he's done an amazing job. they have bowls of masks literally on the inside of the atrium there as the kids go in. if the kid forgets the mask or maybe there's pressure at home to not wear a mask the child can take a mask and put one on. it's widely encouraged. all the teachers are wearing masks now. which was something that initially was not happening. >> well, we wish everyone the best, especially your son. and really all the students there and the teachers. be safe. this is craziness. are you going -- i've got to run. are you going to keep your kid in school or are you going to k take him out? >> i'm going to keep him in. i have no choice here. there's no way to go online at this point. the governor's banned that. there's no switch. >> wow. thank you, michael. be well. best of luck to you. >> thank you. >> thanks for watching,

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