tonight president biden's message to the republican governors criticizing his sweeping new vaccine mandates and threatening to sue to block them, and i quote, have at it. and as the delta variant spreads like wildfire, tonight big developments on mask mandates in schools in two states where the virus is surging. plus california's recall election hasn't even happened yet, and right-wing media is already spreading lies about the state's democratic governor, gavin newsom's potential to beat back the recall. also ahead, my interview with a prominent professor and commentator on race, telling me what he got wrong about the state of race in america after living through the trump era. you don't want to miss that interview. i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser, and national correspondent philip bump. one day i will see you in person in studio, hopefully soon.

and the reason why i haven't seen you is because of this. so, susan, president biden has a message for the republican governors looking to challenge his new vaccine mandates. as i said, it's have at it. the truth is they aren't willing to align with the best interests of public health. they are making a base play, gambling with lives. so what other choice did he have? >> well, it's interesting. you know, it took hmm a few months to get there, but i think what you're seeing is biden and the white house responding to the growing pressure really from their own base. you know, we spent four years talking about trump and his base. well, biden has a base too, and i think it's a majority of the country of adults who have gotten vaccinated, who have become more and more frustrated with the idea that we're being held hostage in effect to the politics of a sort of resisting minority of people. so it's interesting. i think for once we should be talking about the biden base and not always about the trump base, and that's really what this is about. >> can you please say that

again. i've been saying that forever. one of the smartest people i know, susan glasser. no slight to you, philip bump. again, don't you think that's a point that i think biden hasn't realized democrats as well, that people maybe should be leaning in more for what the folks who support him want. >> yeah. i think that's generally true. i mean it certainly is the case there's a lot of frustration. bear this mind more than half of republicans have also received at least one dose of the vaccine. it is however the case that most of the people who are not vaccinated are republicans according to kaiser family foundation polling. there is this overlap of politics and vaccinations that is hard to prove through the numbers but also hard to ignore. i mean it's also clearly the case that republicans are the less likely to get vaccinated, that this outbreak is occurring much more dramatically in less vaccinated places. so part of the challenge is that when joe biden needs to twist the arms of the unvaccinated, he

ends up twisting the arms of essentially mostly people who are actually republicans. i think that's part of the challenge too. >> you see, and i quote here, when biden announced his plan, you say this war over his vaccine push is mostly a contest for the approval of a vocal minority. >> yeah, exactly. i mean there's been all this rhetoric about how this is the start of a civil war, and that's because we have all these people. there's this element of the right which is very much used to having this contest who can be the loudest and most extreme voice, get the most viewers on fox news, get the most re-tweets on twitter. there is this effort to be the most outrageous person and that leads to this rhetoric on civil war and fails to recognize realities on the ground. the mandate isn't a mandate as it is so much telling businesses, hey, you have to have people vaccinated or have them test. >> one more political question. do they think that's really the

best strategy? what's best for their political interests is to kill countless americans? >> it's a really good question, and i think that the answer is that there appears to be actually sufficient insulation for people like kristi noem in south dakota, the governor there. they had tons of people die relative to the state's population and has not paid any apparent political price. so if the base continues to be loud and active and support these people who make these calls, then apparently yes. >> yeah. susan, tomorrow marks 20 years since 9/11. what are you feeling about where we're heading two decades after this horrific date that changed this country forever? >> you know, don, it does feel like an inflection point. the symmetry, if you will, a coming full circle from the taliban being back in control of kabul two decades later. it's something that, you know, it's a moment where it feels

like we're understanding that this is a different global time, that this is a moment where american hubris and overreach have perhaps, at least for now, killed off our sense of, you know, american exceptionalism. this idea that we were different and unique, that we operated in a way somehow outside of the laws of history. i feel like this is a moment of sort of looking in the mirror and saying, you know, that's not anymore the u.s. and it's a humbling moment really for the country in a lot of ways. >> are you surprised at where we are two decades later, susan? >> well, i mean i would have to say that anybody, you know, who didn't tell you that on september 11, 2001, if you told them that they would still be leaving afghanistan 20 years later, you know, yes, of course you would be surprised. that the taliban, after a u.s. war to topple them, would be back in power and that we ourselves would be tied up in

knots over our own democracy internally, yeah, that's a pretty shocking turn of events. it really is, don. >> mm-hmm. philip, i'm going to give you the final word on this. here we are two decades later, and if we can put the tribute in light up as philip gives us his final thoughts here. >> i just -- the one thing i would add is that i looked today at actually where the deaths had occurred of service members who served in afghanistan, and it covers every state in the united states. it covers the territories, puerto rico. the aftermath of this also touched all of america very directly, and i think it's worth remembering that too. >> thank you both. i really appreciate it. you guys have a good weekend. thanks so much. tonight, two big developments on mask mandates in schools. a state appeals court in florida upholding the governor's ban on schools requiring kids to wear masks. and in kentucky, schools can now decide if they want mask mandates or not. the governor wanted all students to mask up, but state lawmakers

blocked him. important to note that covid is surging in florida, kentucky, and across most of the south. i want to bring in now dr. sarah ma dad. the virus is spreading like wildfire across much the country right now and rulings like these make it harder to put into practice measures that work. as a doctor, are these decisions holding back our ability to fight this pandemic? >> oh, absolutely. we know masks work, and if we're looking at multiple different studies that have now proved it even in real world, we're showing that masks are some of the most basic interventions that we can apply in this pandemic that can help curb the spread of this highly infectious disease. and as we look at the pediatric populations in schools right now, you know, as a parent myself, no one wants to see a child getting infected let alone be hospitalized. you're seeing a record number of pediatric cases, i mean just

over the last week, over 200,000 pediatric infections. high number of hospitalizations. so we can prevent a lot of these cases just by putting a mask on. >> doctors take an oath to do no harm, but unfortunately that doesn't apply to politicians, does it? >> absolutely not. i think politicians have been playing with science as a political football from the beginning of this pandemic, and it's been very unfortunate because the people that are being affected by it are all of us. you know, it's risking everybody's lives. it's very, very unfortunate, and we need to make sure science continues to lead the way. it shouldn't be politics. it shouldn't be these knee-jerk reactions. it should be science, evidence-based, to keep everyone safe. >> you know, doctor, everyone wants to see all kids back in school, but what about kids under 12 who are not yet eligible for vaccines? how concerned are you about these kids attending schools with no masks? >> i'm very concerned because as we're seeing play out right now in some of these states right

now that have very high levels of community trans mission, what you're seeing is when these high levels of community transmissions, it's reflected in the number of pediatric cases. the higher number of community transmission, lower vaccination rates, more children getting infected. so it's adults that can help children by getting vaccinated, build that bubble of immunity around children, and keep them safe. we're just not seeing it in some of these states. >> doctors and health care officials had been clear that the best way to keep kids in school and to keep them safe is to wear masks. if there are a lot of kids returning to school in these hot zones without masks, how bad do you see this getting? >> you know, right now as we're looking at where we are, you know, we're seeing a record number of infections per day. if you're looking at just comparing from last year, september 10th of 2020, we're at four times that rate now. so going into obviously schools opening with fall and winter holiday season, we're going to continue to see high number of

cases. i think right now certainly we are seeing a general decline in cases, but that may -- you know, that may change on a dime. so we just need to make sure that we're following the science. we're following these public health measures. and with the pediatric population, i think all of us certainly are waiting for that pediatric vaccine to be made available, but it's not going to be made available anytime soon. so we need to protect these children and have that bubble around them. >> i think what many people don't get, especially the critics of the masks and other forms of protecting ourselves against this virus is that it was called a novel coronavirus because it was new, and we were learning new things about it and learning new things about the science to protect and to keep it from spreading. the guidance has changed. it's even flip-flopped over the course of the pandemic. science changes as we get more data. but could the communication from officials have been better? >> oh, absolutely.

i think the risk communication, we're 18 months in now, and i think as you have stated, as science changes, we learn more. so it's not that science has lied. it's because we've learned more, and that's why we're changing any of these public health guidances or reinstating mask mandates because we're seeing high numbers of cases. so i think as we look at science and the evolution of science, you know, it's hard for just the general citizen to understand that. that's why we need to have good science communication. that just hasn't been happening at many different levels. i think we're doing a better job, but i think we need to continuously educate the general public. we need to continue to reinforce some of these measures that work, and we need to continue to ensure that everybody understands that we are still in the throes of a raging pandemic, and that we can get out of it hopefully soon, but we just need everybody's support. i think with the biden administration's new sweeping mandates, that certainly will help. but those are more short-term

solutions. we need to also look at some long-term solutions. >> doctor, we love having you. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on. night after night we are knocking down misinformation about covid and vaccines and vaccinations. tonight a fact check about a false claim about air force pilots that went viral, viewed over a million times on twitter. >> my dad just let me know this. a text message went out last night from the secretary of defense to all the active military personnel saying, you know, by 10:00 a.m. you have to go get the magic potion, or you're going to be court martialed. so as a result of that, 12 f-22 pilots, the most highly trained pilots in the world, walked off the job. >> okay. how often do we hear something like that? people actually think it's real, right? cnn's fact checker in chief, daniel dale, is here. okay. daniel, good evening.

to you. >> good evening. >> so the man in the video says the secretary of defense sent the entire military a text demanding vaccinations by 10:00 a.m. and that pilots have been resigning en masse. what's the truth here? >> none of that is true. so there was no mass text to the military about vaccinations from secretary of defense lloyd austin. in fact, a pentagon spokesman told me today on the record that the secretary of defense has never sent a force-wide email -- sorry -- a force-wide text message about literally anything. so that didn't happen. there was no mass pilot resignation. the two military bases where this supposedly happened, both denied it on the record stren strenuously. the air force and the pentagon both say they haven't heard anything like it. it just doesn't make any sense. the air force has very publicly set a deadline of november 2nd for active duty personnel to be fully vaccinated. so it just makes no sense that there would be some text

demanding that people get it by 10:00 a.m. the next day or face punishment. it's just completely imaginary, don. >> where does this b.s. -- where does this nonsense come from? >> this came from a truly garbage website, and that's not my personal opinion. i'm not saying, oh, it's biased or i don't like it. this is a website that publishes stories saying things like tom hanks has been executed by the u.s. military. so completely imaginary, fake news in the traditional sense. it went from there, spread online on social media as usual. it was picked up by the gentleman in the video, who is a boild builder, who posted that on his instagram story. then that instagram story was grabbed by some people on maga, you know, pro-trump twitter, posted there. then it was amplified by a high-profile british radio host, some other people with big followings. and the original nonsense article was also amplified by some high-profile people, including fox nation host laura logan and others. so the article kept spreading.

this nonsense video kept spreading. i think the moral of the story is don't get your news from people who are claiming that tom hanks has been executed by the military. don't take your news from rando body builders on twitter who are saying they got the story from their dad. >> let's put that last tweet back up. i just want to look at that. this is what courage looks like. this is lara logan, i guess, from fox? >> yeah. so she's praising the pilots for their courage in resigning even though that didn't happen, and i don't know if she's deleted this in the last couple hours, but it was up for multiple hours even as people were trying to tell her on twitter that it was completely fake. >> okay. you know the difference between if that had been someone -- hopefully that would never happen to someone here at cnn. we would say someone made a

mistake, whatever, correct it. we have since removed it and apologize for the mistake. let's see if that happens from this fox news person. >> let's see. >> or as we call it, fox propaganda on this show. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. california's recall election still four days away, but over on the fox propaganda network, they're already pushing the big lie, part two. a bogus claim that the only way democrats can win is if they somehow cheat. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore. wow. so sudden. um, we're not about to have

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gavin newsom is voter fraud. >> reporter: that's a new narrative on the right that's sounding all too familiar. fox news star tomi lahren diving deep into voter fraud conspiracy. >> pay attention to the voter fraud going on in california because it's going to have big consequences not only for that state but for upcoming elections. >> reporter: she's directing her warning at the democratic governor of california, gavin newsom, who is fighting to keep his office in next week's recall election. >> the ballot harvesting that democrats will do -- >> reporter: this is an emerging story line on fox. a prebuttal to the election, baselessly claiming the democrats can only win if they somehow cheat. it's the big lie playbook flown from d.c. to sacramento. and let's be clear. there's been no evidence of widespread voter fraud. but the trusted voices on fox, like tucker carlson, have been issuing veiled warnings for weeks, which are false. >> non-citizens can vote. >> reporter: as the old saying goes, history never repeats

itself, but it often rhymes. trump's tactics last winter now seem to be applied to the recall. with newsom's chances of surviving looking pretty good, fraud is presented as an excuse to explain away any future republican loss. the leading gop candidate to replace newsom, larry elder, is know joining in. >> all sorts of reasons why the 2020 election in my opinion was full of shenanigans. and my fear is they're going to try that in this election here in the recall. >> reporter: the key context here is that the majority of early ballots returned have come from democrats in of course, a heavily blue state. new elder's campaign says it is gearing up for legal action. >> we have a voter integrity board all set up. most of these are lawyers. so when people hear of things, they contact us. beer going to fail lawsuits in a timely fashion. >> reporter: this "l.a. times" columnist offering a timely response, saying only election losers cry voter fraud.

>> well, loser, win, we will find out about larry elder's status next week. but this big lie playbook, it is bigger than california. this disinformation strategy is clearly now a part of the gop, and it's here to stay, don. >> brian stelter, thank you very much for that. so i have an update now to a segment from last night about the cleanup in louisiana from hurricane ida's devastation. in my conversation with cedric richmond, a senior adviser to president biden and director of the white house office of public engagement, he said he had been talking to officials at state farm about covering additional living expenses for policy holders who evacuated their homes ahead of the hurricane. we reached out to state farm, and they responded with this statement, and i quote. state farm stands with our customers to help them recover in those states impacted by hurricane ida. our hearts go out to all those impacted. significant additional living expenses have been and will continue to be paid in louisiana in accordance with the terms of the policy. state farm reviews every claim

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virginia. it's just the latest elbow in the battle of racial inequality playing out in schools and public spaces around this country. my next guest says removing memorials may not be the right way to reckon with our past. joining me to discuss is randall kennedy, a professor of law at harvard university and the author of "say it loud: on race, law, history and culture." so good to have you on. good evening to you. >> thank you very much. >> i'm talking about this robert e. lee statue. it was up for 131 years. richmond was the capital of the can fed rassy. for many people of color it meant a lot to see it come down. what did it mean to you? >> well, number one, i'm glad that people were mobilizing against racism and are mobilizing against racism. so i applaud the people who organized to, you know, have it taken down. i do have some cautionary notes,

though. one, you know, no monument, no symbol has to mean just one thing. before they took it down, you can take a look at that picture. the graffiti on it gave it a different meaning. you could have a robert e. lee statue and have it mean something different than a glorification of the confederacy. you could have a statue and leave it alone and say, you know what? we want it to be here as a reminder of our nation's history. you could do that. i think people ought to be a little bit careful about overinvesting in any particular, you know, campaign. there are lots of things that we need to fight against. >> i get your point. just a couple of points here,

though. i know there's lots of things we need to fight, and i've heard statues are not the most important thing, but it's one. i mean we can walk and chew gum at the same time. i understand what you're saying. if you look at it with the graffiti and the statue, it's become a different piece of art. but wouldn't it be better served in a museum where there can be some explanation about this statue and about what it meant? >> listen, again, i'm not fighting the people who have made this change. i am applauding them. i'm simply saying that, you know, frankly i could live with a lot of different avenues of change. so, for instance, at my law school, we had a big struggle over the symbol of harvard law school. and there was a big, you know -- and we got rid of the symbol because the family that sort of

memorialized this symbol was a slave-owning family. we got rid of it. there was a person who actually argued against getting rid of it on the grounds that we should continue to have that symbol to remember the enslaved people. now, you know, i think good argument there. there's various arguments and, again, i think that we should remember that symbols can be made to mean different things. that's all. >> understood. and perhaps there's a place for both, you know, the old symbol and the new symbol, and it should be taught, you know, when students come into the school for orientation, and maybe you can teach them about that as a way of having them understand the history of the school and the country. let's get back to the charlottesville rally that led to heather heyer's death was about defending a statue, robert e. lee. don't these monuments provide a

rallying cry for hateful ideology? i know you'll say at least it exposes them. maybe i'm putting words in your mouth. but doesn't it sort of provide a rallying cry for them and it gives them, you know, some sort of something to, you know, defend and come out for, rally for? >> probably does, and that's very tragic, and that's very unfortunate. let me say one other thing, though. you know, there's buildings being built all the time. there's lots of things to memorialize. i'm certainly against memorialization of, you know, robert e. lee, a traitor. i do think it would be nice to maybe spend a bit more time thinking of, well, there are a lot of wonderful people that need to be memorialized, and we should do that. there should be memorials to

medgar evers, to john lewis, to fannie lou hamer. let's spend more time memorializing the true heroes of american history. let's not forget that part of the struggle. >> so maybe fannie lou hamer should go up in that place where robert e. lee was, the one that they just took down. >> that would be great as far as i'm concerned. >> listen, i get it because i like learning and reading and understanding history. as i said, people are fighting so hard now for our history, for the real history of this country not to be taught. perhaps this is a way that it could be taught. i don't know. but i think you have a point when you say we should examine exactly what we're doing, not necessarily that it couldn't come down. but i want to ask you, you described yourself as a racial optimist. this was back in 2014. but in your book, you write this about donald trump. you say the fealty he elicits reveals and reinforces ugly racial attitudes that are considerably more prevalent, deep seated and influential than i had recognized.

even after decades of studying the race question. i am thus no longer a confident optimist. that's a big statement because usually, you know, african-americans will say, i can't believe people underestimated or didn't think that donald trump would get elected. of course he could. of course there's racism in this country. it's just the larger culture, meaning white people, didn't see it because they didn't have to deal with it on a daily basis like people of color. did you underestimate how much racial resentment was bubbling underneath the surface? >> yes, it's humbling to say so, but it's true. i have never felt so much trepidation in my life as in the past two or three years. and, yes, i've been taken aback. and i don't think i was a sentimental person before, but i've been taken aback by the racism, by the cruelty, by the ignorance, by the resentment

that is so obvious. >> why didn't you see it before, though? >> why didn't i? i'm -- you know, i'm not altogether sure. again, you know, i don't think i was sentimental, but i did think that we had gone farther down the road to racial decency than we have. >> that's a good way of putting it, racial decency instead of, you know, equality. >> yeah. it's -- i have to say this book, there are a number of places where i just say humbly, i was mistaken. and on this one, i was mistaken. >> that is hard for people to say, especially in this day and age, because people are, you know, wedded to their beliefs. it's hard to change them. professor, i want to turn to the supreme court now. you argue that we give supreme court justices more deference

than they deserve. the recent decision on the texas anti-abortion laws was so nakedly partisan that it's hard not to see justices as political actors. what happens if the court loses all ability to be neutral? >> first of all, we should recognize that the supreme court of the united states is not neutral. the supreme court of the united states is political. it's as political as the house of representatives. it's as political as the senate. it's as political as the presidency. you know, the nine justices, all of them, you know, the conse conservatives, the liberals, they are political figures. their politics takes place in a different way. they have a different vocabulary. they have different customs. their politics is registered in a somewhat different way. but are they political? of course they are. that's why there's so much fighting and, you know, there's such a struggle over who's going

to be on the supreme court. if it wasn't political, it wouldn't be such a big deal. >> right. well, it wouldn't be a conservative president appointing a conservative judge or a liberal president appointing a liberal judge or nominating a liberal judge because politics wouldn't play a role in it. you're right. even at the beginning, on its face, it's political. >> it's thoroughly political, and the citizenry should understand that. i think a lot of people want to sort of think that, you know, the supreme court is above politics. i think people get a certain, you know, sort of sense of security out of that thought. but it's a delusion. >> so i want to talk about the court's only black justice, conservative clarence thomas. though you disagree with his positions on racial issues, you used to say calling him a sellout was going too far. but now you write that if he's

not a sellout, then the term has no utility. what changed your mind? again, another big statement from you. >> well, he's been on the court, and he has participated in some of the most hurtful judicial delinquencies in modern american history. the worst was his vote in a 5-4 decision that eviscerated the voting rights act of 1965. people died seeking to get that act put into law. it was a needed, a useful in my view, a obviously proper and

constitutional enactment, and he participated in the evisceration of the voting rights act of 1965. and there are other things, but that was the worst. >> yeah. >> and against that backdrop, i have no problem with people, especially black people, shunning him. >> what do you say? i think you've said it all right there. i think there are many people of color who feel exactly the same way that you do. professor, thank you so much. i appreciate you joining. i can't wait to read the book. i haven't had the opportunity to read it, but i can't wait to get my hands on it and read it. check out professor kennedy's book. it's called "say it loud: on race, law, history and culture." really appreciate you joining us. thanks again. >> thank you very much. good night. it is considered the deadliest drug in the country, and now people are lacing fentanyl with other recreational

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