♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ president biden canceling a trip to chicago tomorrow in order to spearhead negotiations to save his multi-trillion dollar domestic agenda, which is at a make or break point right now with anxiety growing among democrats. biden holding crucial meetings withholdouts joe manchin, kyrsten sinema. also today, the top generals testifying that they recommended maintaining 2,500 u.s. troops in afghanistan rather than a

complete withdrawal, apparently contributing statements made by president biden about the advice he received from pentagon leaders. and a new development tonight in the search for brian laundrie. an attorney confirming to cnn laundrie and his family went camping a week after he returned to florida without his fiancee, gabby petito. let's bring in senior political analyst john avlon and white house correspondent john harwood. i have to be careful here because they're both named john. so i have to say last names. good evening, gentlemen. good to see you. so, mr. harwood, this is all about making a deal. so who does president biden have more leverage to pressure here, the progressives or the moderates, to get in line to pass the bill -- these bills? >> well, look, the reality of this situation, don, is that every member of the democratic senate has a veto, and any group of at least four house members in the house, democrats in the house, have a veto as well.

so with majorities this bare, everybody's got leverage, and president biden has to bring all of them along. now, one of the challenges here is you can't negotiate with somebody who doesn't tell you what they want. and so far, the progressives in the house have outlined what they want. even to some degree, the moderates in the house have outlined what they want. but senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have not. so the efforts right now pushed by the house are to try to get some definition from sinema and manchin as to what they want so they can see if they can make a deal. that's what's behindi the meetings at the white house today. what we don't have visibility into is what they talked about, what they agreed to, because they haven't articulated publicly any top-line number or particular policy demands. we know some things in general. so presumably the president

wouldn't have canceled his trip if he didn't think he had some prospect for moving this ball down the field. but we're going to have to wait and see what that result is. >> so, john avlon, all right. if we don't know what they want, if they're not saying what they want, meaning the sinemas and manchins of the world, then are they just obstructionist? are they holding up the bill because as has been pointed out by many people, including john harwood and the progressive wing of the democratic party on this very show this week, they have said what they want. it's the manchins and the sinema who aren't. are they just obstructionist? >> they're coming very close to playing that role. manchin wants to be someone who's constructive, but leaving the white house and saying he's made no commitments without any clear sense of what their bottom line is leaves everything in limbo, which is why nancy pelosi had to delink these two bills. this is crunch time.

we are just over 48 hours away from a government shutdown. that's the first order of business. we've got a debt ceiling default looming in the distance. then we've got the biden agenda, really the democrats' agenda on the line. it is time for senators sinema and manchin to put a number forward that can be the basis for negotiation. there is no more time to play footsie or be cute about this. you want to lower that 3.5, say what the number is and you can begin to reason from there. >> john harwood, speaking of the debt ceiling, republicans refusing to lift it as we know, so they're going to let the country default on its bills. they're going to risk economic disaster to prove a political point. is that what's happening? john harwood. >> yes. what the republicans are saying is that democrats have a path to raise the debt ceiling. they can do it on their own with no threat of a filibuster through the budget reconciliation process. the problem is that complicates

this very negotiation that president biden is undertaking. it's an attempt by saying that's how democrats have to do it, mitch mcconnell is trying to exact a political pound of flesh. now, it was interesting today that after the republicans have blocked a debt limit increase, mitch mcconnell made a small offer to democrats today, saying he would expedite the reconciliation process by which they could raise the debt ceiling because democrats have been complaining it would take too long. that's an indication he wasn't entirely comfortable with a "i got nothing to say to you, do it on your own" stance. the question is whether he would give any further and whether it's useful for fruitful for democrats to keep pressing him or just fall back and due it through budget reconciliation. they don't want to establish the principle that this hostage can keep getting taken over and over again. not clear whether they're going to have much choice in the matter, though. >> john avlon, i want to talk about mark milley addressing the

revelations about the final days of the trump administration in the book "peril," where it was reported that milley agreed with the house speaker nancy pelosi that trump was crazy. this is what milley said today. >> i explained to her that the president is the sole nuclear launch authority, and he doesn't launch them alone and that i am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the united states. >> i want to know what you think, john avlon, because he isn't exactly saying that he's -- you know, he's not contradicting what's reported in the book. and, you know, milley also confirmed he talked to the authors of three different books. >> that's right. he did not deny what's been in the press reports. he did say he hadn't read the books, which is a notably different thing as you point out. >> but, john, he did say, i saw the news reports, and i saw the quotes. so he knows what the quotes are, and he knows the context in the news reports. so he's saying i haven't read

the books. >> that's exactly the point. he did not deny what has been in the press reports, basically affirming it. >> oh, boy. here we are. it never ends. it's never-ending. thank you, gents. i'll see you soon. now i want to bring in former defense secretary william cohan. thank you for joining us. good evening to you. there was blunt, sobering testimony today from our top military leaders that appears to conflict with president biden's assertion to abc last month where he disputed military advisers told him that he should keep troops in afghanistan. let's listen to part of it. >> i won't share my personal recommendation to the president, but i will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation. i recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in afghanistan. >> general milley, i assume you agree with that in terms of the recommendation of 2,500? >> i do agree with that. >> all right. this is what president biden said last month.

>> your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline. they wanted you to keep 2,500 troops. >> no, they didn't. it was split. that wasn't true. >> they didn't tell you they wanted troops to stay? >> no, not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame, all troops. they didn't argue against that. >> so no one told -- your military advisers did not tell you, no, we should just keep 2,500 troops. it's been a stable situation for the last several years. we can do that. we can continue to do that. >> no. no one said that to me that i can recall. >> all right. so did the generals contradict the president? >> well, there is a contradiction. i think it's the president to say he was either misunderstood or misunderstood the question and that he needed to correct the record as far as he's concerned. the issue, however, is that joe biden understood that keeping 2,500 would mean they were breaking the deal essentially trump made. in order to break the deal --

and here i think the chiefs -- the chief of staff of the various military services, especially the chairman, would say we can't do it with 2,500 forever. how would we manage this in terms of having to fight the taliban and potentially the other elements that are now funneling into afghanistan? so saying one thing about we need to keep 2,500, that sounds right if you have a stable country. if you have the taliban working with you. if you don't have the taliban with you, then 2,500 is not going to be able to save afghanistan. so i think there is a contradiction there. i commend those who testified today, chairman milley, secretary austin, and general mckenzie. i thought they were pretty straightforward, candid, very confident, and they were under oath. they had no reason to fudge, and frankly i thought they made a great presentation. >> yeah. and, look, they take an oath to

the constitution and to the country. they don't -- party doesn't matter to those guys. well, it shouldn't matter to them. it appears to be the case when you listen to their testimony. secretary cohen, general milley also defended his call with a counterpart in china at the end of trump's term, saying that secretary of state mike pompeo and the white house chief of staff mark meadows were aware of the call. should milley get an apology from trump and his allies for saying that he, you know, should be tried for treason because of his actions? >> you know, it's really pretty rich that republican members who are calling for him to be tried for treason or certainly to force him to resign, where were they for the past year? donald trump made a deal that the military said was a bad deal because they wouldn't be able to sustain the afghan military. the afghan military has lost morale when they saw the united states was committed to leaving. where were the republicans then? i didn't hear any of them call

for the change of the policy. in fact, i don't think any of them have any standing to call for the chairman's resignation. those individuals who failed to step up and criticize the president for leading an insurrection against the country, that's -- that's what their obligation was. where was their loyalty at that point to get to the truth? and so i think it's a situation where i think the chairman said exactly what needed to be said. as far as making a call, i think it was important that he made a call, and some of the lessons learned here is that every report -- the first report is usually wrong, and we had wrong information that came out, partial information as your colleague, chris cuomo pointed out. that was partial information, and it was misleading, and they all rushed to judgment. >> i hate to rush you. i want to get this before we run out of time because i think it's important.

i understand where you're going with that, but i think this sound bite is important and i want you to respond to it. trump and his allies are still pushing conspiracy theories and election lies. this is congressman paul gosar, what he said about arizona earlier this month. watch this. >> we can do that and follow through on this audit, folks, if it's what i've been told and i had people come to me early hours of the day after from the security exchange fraud department to the cia fraud department. that between 450,000 and 700,000 ballots were altered in the state of arizona. >> and he made similar claims in that talk there, whatever he's doing, about georgia. first there is no cia fraud department, secretary. this is -- i mean it's nutty. and let's be very clear. the arizona audit has since come out with more votes for biden and fewer for trump. what are these lies doing to our democracy, especially since republicans aren't shutting them down? >> what they are doing is they

are adding to the sledgehammers, or taking the sledgehammers to our constitutional system. they have an obligation to speak out, say stop it, that joe biden won this fair and square, and you are undermining the confidence in our election system. you are doing putin's bidding. if you think we have enemies we have to contend with, the enemy is right here. pogo is here. so we have to take care of people like that who are spreading lies and have the other members of congress, other republican members, speak out and say that is a lie, and we can't sustain that and have any credibility as a party, or we just descend into being a cult and accept that cultism for our philosophy. >> i hate to rush you along but i've been wanting you to respond to that question all night. i couldn't wait to get to that. i found it shocking that he would -- that people like him are out there spreading that misinformation. thank you very much, sir. i'll see you next time. appreciate it. pfizer submitting vaccine data on kids 5 to 11 to the fda

today. but is there a potential holdup in getting children vaccinated by halloween? >> the fda's top priority is getting covid vaccines for the population, particularly for our children. they are standing by ready to analyze that data.

look, i gotta say something. 'said it before and i'll say it again. if i thought a reverse mortgage was just some kind of trick to take your home, i wouldn't even be here. it's just a loan,

like any other, with one big difference- and that difference is how you choose to pay it back. find out how reverse mortgage loans really work with aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage guide eliminate monthly mortgage payments, pay bills, medical costs, and more. call now! other mortgages are paid back each month, but with a reverse mortgage, you can pay whatever you can, when it works for you, or, you can choose to wait, and pay it off in one lump sum when you leave your home. call today and find out more in aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage loan guide. access tax-free cash and stay in the home you love. you've been investing in your home for years... making monthly mortgage payments... doing the right thing... it's become your family's heart and soul... well, that investment can give you tax- free cash

just when you need it. of course you can use it to pay some bills, cover medical costs, update or repair your home, but best of all, it eliminates those monthly mortgage payments so you get more cash in your pocket every month. learn how homeowners are strategically using a reverse mortgage loan to cover expenses, pay for healthcare, preserve retirement savings, and more! look, reverse mortgages aren't gonna work for everyone but, if you're looking for some extra cash, for whatever reason, your home's equity just might be the right solution. why don't you give aag a call i trust 'em you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now!

pfizer executives say that they have sent initial data to the fda on their covid vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 for review. but they're not seeking emergency use authorization yet. it comes as the american academy of pediatrics says children now make up 27% of covid cases in the u.s. joining me now to discuss, cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan

reiner. he is the director of the cardiac catheterization program at george washington university hospital. doctor, good to see you. so this is the fifth week in a row that the american academy of pediatrics is reporting more than 200,000 new cases in children. so why is pfizer waiting a few weeks to seek an emergency authorization for their vaccine? >> good evening, don. i think the most likely answer is that they want to get a little bit of feedback from the fda. so they've submitted data to the fda, and the dataset is quite large. this is a new vaccine for children, and it's a vaccine at a different dose than used for adolescents and adults. so there's a lot of safety and efficacy data that has to be processed, and my guess is that they want to make sure they get this right. what we know is that prior application for the eua for a

adolescents was processed after about a month by the fda. so it's going to be a few weeks after the company submits the eua before she's shots are available for kids. so my guess is that, you know, we're going to be into november before we see this for children. >> when this vaccine is authorized, it would make 28 million children eligible, but there's a new axios/ipsos poll. it shows only 44% of parents of 5 to 11-year-olds say that they're likely to vaccinate their children. 42% say they probably won't. again, 28 million children. how critical is it to get their parents onboard? >> well, there's no other way for the kids to get vaccinated. presumably some school boards will start to mandate vaccines for kids, and that might help. but mind you, if you look at the experience for what's happened when the vaccine was approved for adolescents, you know, barely half of the kids eligible

in the 12 to 15 year age group have been vaccinated. so we have a long way to go to educate parents about why this vaccine is important for their children, and it's going to be split again among party lines. it's going to be split among parents who have been vaccinated and unvaccinated, with the unvaccinated parents less likely to vaccinate their children, much less likely. so we really have to dig deep and get people to start vaccinating their kids. >> the biden administration says more than 400,000 people got a booster shot over the weekend. they say that people aren't experiencing major side effects from the shot. can you tell us what you know so far about what people should expect? >> people should expect to have, you know, a moderate reaction to these shots. i've had a booster. i had a sore arm for about a day. i know other people that have had sort of a modified version

of whatever they had to the first two shots. so most people will have some very, very manageable reaction, you know, ranging from, again, a sore arm to maybe a low-grade fever, low-grade flew-u-like symptoms. but very manageable. this vaccine is very well tolerated and it appears the booster is very well tolerated. >> thank you, doctor. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. gabby petito's family speaking out today saying brian laundrie should turn himself in. whether it comes to his family, listen to this. >> the laundries did not help us find gabby. they're sure not going to help us find brian.

tony here from creditrepair.com taking to the streets to talk about credit. can you repair your credit yourself? yes. -great. how? uhhh... how long does credit repair take? i don't know, like 10 years. what? are you insane? what's a good credit score? go.

600. maybe if you're trying to pay thousands extra in interest rates. cut the confusion, get started with a free credit evaluation at creditrepair.com. every day, coventry helps people get cash for their life insurance policies they no longer need. i'm an anesthesiologist and a pain physician by specialty. i was trying to figure out what i could do with this term life insurance policy. i'm sorta stuck because i can't just go out and buy more insurance, because of my diagnosis. i called coventry direct and everything clicked. there actually were a lot more options that i thought there ever would be. coventry helped michael like we've helped thousands of people sell all or part of their life insurance policies for cash. even a term policy. there probably are a lot of people that are in a similar situation who don't know they have an option. i would definitely recommend talking to coventry about it. coventry made it very easy. i just couldn't have asked for a better experience. don't cancel or let your

policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit coventrydirect.com to find out if your policy qualifies. or call the number on your screen.

so there's a development tonight in the search for brian laundrie. an attorney confirming to cnn that laundrie and his family went camping for a few days a week after he returned to florida without his fiancee, gabby petito. now her family is pleading with laundrie to turn himself in. he vanished just before petito's body was discovered in wyoming. let's discuss now with chris swecker, former fbi assistant director for the criminal investigative division. thank you for coming on. >> hi, don. >> taking a family on a camping trip, you know, taking a family camping trip with your son who had just returned home without his live-in fiancee, what kind

of behavior is this, and what questions do you have about this? >> it's all pretty suspicious. i mean it may be that they knew at some point this would blow up and they wanted to get out of the, you know, the glare of the lights, neighbors watching what they were doing, possibly staging him so that he can go on the run. i mean that's a theory. this seems like an odd time to go camping. he's back. gabby's missing. up know, they know, well, something happened to her. so it's very suspicious. i think there's three investigations going on right now, don. there's a traditional fugitive hunt to look for him. there's a homicide investigation. and i think there's a third investigation on who may be aiding and abetting him because it seems to me at this point that he's got to have some help, and he may have had some help from his parents, but there may be others. >> again, this is still in the investigative stages, but i had

very similar questions two weeks ago about the family and aiding and abetting with the attorney general or what's his name from palm beach county. we discussed that. yeah, dave aronberg. there's been a lot of speculation about the role brian's parents may or may not have played in helping brian evade police. but his parents maintain they don't know where he is, and they said they didn't help brian leave their home or they didn't help him avoid arrest. but is their refusal to fully cooperate with police say anything to you? >> well, yes, it does. i mean the whole thing from lawyering up right away, the minute law enforcement got in contact with them, you know, having the van there for ten days, they know about this couple. they know their history. they know more about them than any of us, and something

happened. they know it. he disappears, and it's four days before they report it to the police. they're coming and going during that ten-day time period. there's just too much there, don. i think it's almost overwhelming at this point that they provided some type of assist or head start for him. >> i know, chris, that you have doubts about brian laundrie, that he has the survival skills to stay in the wilderness, you know, on his own. but given this new information, have you changed your mind at all about that, or do you think that, you know, this is just a head start and he's in another place somewhere, not in that wilderness? >> yeah, he's got a couple of options here. he can go it alone because his picture is out there, and so he can't stay in hotels. he can't stay in public places. he can't be seen in public, so he has to go somewhere, appalachian trail, you name it,

somewhere out in the wilderness, somewhere away from civilization for fear of being spotted. option two, he gets help from somebody. he has a friend who has an apartment, or he has a place to hole up, and he can get off the grid for a while and just hide and hope that things blow over and find his way to mexico or out of the country. you know, i think his options become more and more limited as law enforcement closes in. law enforcement is looking at his social network. they're trying to figure out who he may or may not be in contact with. then they camp out on them. they look at their phone traffic. they look at their comings and goings. they look to see if anyone is in contact with him. and that comes from going to school on him and knowing his habits and his social network. >> thank you, chris. i appreciate it. the vaccine has been available since january, so why are tens of millions of americans still not vaccinated? joe biden won the election, period. so why do so many millions of

americans still not believe it? maybe it's for the same reason. that's next.

i would've called yesterday. but... i could've called yesterday. but... i should've called yesterday, but... would've, could've, should've. we hear that a lot. hi. i'm jonathan, an insurance professional and manager here at colonial penn life insurance company. sometimes, people put off calling about life insurance. before you know it, another year has passed. and when they do call, they say, "i wish i'd called sooner." call right now for free information on the $9.95 plan. are you between age 50 and 85? you can get whole life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. do i have to answer health questions to get it? there are no health questions. you cannot be turned down for any health reason, past or present. how long does this policy last? our $9.95 plan is permanent protection.

can my rate increase later? never. once you're insured, your rate is locked in for life. you can get whole life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. have you thought about life insurance but put it off? don't regret what you didn't do yesterday. call now and feel great about saying yes today. (announcer) call now and you'll also get this free beneficiary planner.

positive data coming out that shows many people are following vaccine mandates. new york's governor saying 92% of hospital staff are complying with her state's mandate. she says vaccination rates have increased considerably over the

last four weeks as new york crept closer to monday's deadline. and united airlines saying 96% of its workforce has met its vaccine mandate deadline. yet a vocal minority still pushing against any form of mandates. let's break that down with our national security analyst juliette kayyem. hi, juliette. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> we're seeing some positive results from vaccine mandates, but there is an incredibly vocal minority challenging them. listen to this. >> your children and your children's children will be subjugated. they will be asked how many vaccines have you had? have you been a good little nazi? >> covid is not about health because more than 99% of us have actually failed to die from this thing. it's being used by global elites and our own government to

destroy the united states of america. >> you treat the parents of these children as domestic terrorists, using our men in blue against us. your power hungry dictatorship has gotten out of control. this is no longer about our safety. it is about control. >> yeah. well, listen, you have been talking about how voices like this are able to win out against facts, and you see parallels to what we see with election denialism and the big lie. explain that to us. >> i think that these two stories that we're following this week are actually more related than at first blush. they're essentially about a vocal minority using violence or the threat of violence. listen to the language of the people who were talking about anti-vaccination. they're that close to violence as well as, you know, members or supporters of trump and members of the gop who also use violence and the threat of violence to give the perception that they

are the majority or, at the very least, that this country is divided. so let me put some good news about what's going on. over 75% of eligible americans are now vaccinated. the mandates are working as you're seeing compliance in the 95, 99% for companies and public sector that are using mandates. the unvaccinated tended to be fickle, that they just needed sort of a deadline or something that was going to be deprived of them, an nfl game or something, and you can move them without being angry. i think for those who support both vaccination as well as a country ruled by laws and voting, i think one of the things that we need to do is both don't blink. i mean in other words, don't be afraid of this kind of behavior, think that the country is divided. but also move forward. this will begin to get drowned out as more people are vaccinated, as the violence is called out. that's why i've always -- you

know, i've always been comfortable calling trump the leader of a terrorist organization. i think if we don't use that language, we're kind of being too nice to him and too nice to the movement. >> yeah. i want you to take a listen to this clip. it's from 1984, where drivers talk about seat belt mandates. >> yeah. >> i'll have to detour the town to get to kalamazoo if they pass the seat belt law. i don't use a seat belt. >> florida highway patrol lieutenant chris miller hears it all when it comes to seat belts. >> i hear it's uncomfortable. it wrinkles my clothes. it's not cool. >> you don't want to wear it. that's your choice. >> so the government instituted a measure -- i mean if i had told you they were talking about masks right then, you wouldn't know the difference. >> yeah. >> it's a measure to protect the

public. it was backed by science. some people say that, you know, freedoms were taken away. do you see the similarities here? >> yes. every time that the government sort of raises the floor, right? and this is so ridiculous when it comes to vaccines because we're in the middle of a pandemic, but raises the safety floor, whether it's putting on seat belts or also remember when they banned smoking on airplanes. there were smokers and the tobacco industry who suggested that the airline industry would falter and people wouldn't fly anymore. so people are always putting these sort of fake science, fake news, and because they simply either don't like the policy or they personally don't want to be moved. so a couple months ago, and i've been much -- i've gotten much more forceful about mandates once we hit a wall, once the administration hit a wall in terms of vaccination. i sort of stopped caring about anyone's feelings. like i'm done with feelings. you either get the vaccine and get to do all the things the vaccinated get to do, or you don't, and you don't get to do

all the things the vaccinated do. that's essentially how our society is being structured. i can feel bad for people who are dying or people who are manipulated by faulty news or the republican party. but the majority now is the vaccinated, and we begin with that, and they're the righteous, right? they're right in this regard. so we begin with those facts and then move from there, try to get more people -- we welcome everyone into our camp. >> i don't disagree with you. so much of this battle is against misinformation, juliette. we're seeing it on everything from mandates to the 2020 election, but we're at a point where many people just don't believe the facts in front of them. is there any way to fight that? how do you fight that? >> yeah. so it's a little bit different. the reason why mandates have become sort of more -- people have become more comfortable with mandates is because the unvaccinated listening to this false news basically just needed a push, a nudge, something to be taken away from them, and then they sort of weighed that faulty

information against the desire to keep their job or in the case of state police, desire to keep their pension. when it comes to the elections, i mean there's a couple solutions. the prosecutions against the january 6th insurrectionists are really key in this narrative because they are disrupting the white supremacy group. of course elections matter, but also, you know, this is where, you know, the democratic party as well as the media cannot be shy about calling this what it is, which is a form of terrorism. this is -- violence is seeping through our political discourse in a way that is -- you know, is somewhat unprecedented, certainly in this century. and there's sort of this cautiousness about calling it that, and i just think we just have to call it out. no more emotions. no more feelings. just call a spade a spade. people are threatening violence. arrest them. prosecute them, and get them

vaccinated. >> is it irreparable? >> it is. i think it is, long-term it is. part of it is going to be the social media platforms and whether we can solve them. one of the things that people should remember is despite all the false news, right, the polling still is consistently that the republican party is losing support. the democrats are actually, you know, being able to vote -- not being able to vote but are registering in numbers like never before, so put the fear of god into democrats. and that once again, just remember this number. over 75% of eligible americans are vaccinated. so whatever stuff is out there that's leading them -- that we hear in terms of all the false news, the majority of americans are not buying it. so keep leading with facts and call a spade a spade. that's all -- that's what we can do, and then all the other stuff that's going on, but i wake up every morning saying i'm not ready to make nice. i think you just sort of call their bluff every time you can. >> that's why i love you.

thank you, juliette kayyem. i appreciate it. >> i need a life. i know that too, but good night, don. >> thank you. they're complaining students are being taught anti-white lessons, and state law might be on their side. inside the fight over what kids are being taught about race. that's next. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. look, i gotta say something. 'said it before and i'll say it again. if i thought a reverse mortgage was just some kind of trick to take your home, i wouldn't even be here. it's just a loan, like any other, with one big difference- and that difference is how you choose to pay it back. find out how reverse mortgage loans really work with aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage guide eliminate monthly mortgage payments,

pay bills, medical costs, and more. call now! other mortgages are paid back each month, but with a reverse mortgage, you can pay whatever you can, when it works for you, or, you can choose to wait, and pay it off in one lump sum when you leave your home. call today and find out more in aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage loan guide. access tax-free cash and stay in the home you love. you've been investing in your home for years... making monthly mortgage payments... doing the right thing... it's become your family's heart and soul... well, that investment can give you tax- free cash just when you need it. of course you can use it to pay some bills, cover medical costs, update or repair your home, but best of all, it eliminates those monthly mortgage payments so you get more cash in your pocket every month. learn how homeowners

are strategically using a reverse mortgage loan to cover expenses, pay for healthcare, preserve retirement savings, and more! look, reverse mortgages aren't gonna work for everyone but, if you're looking for some extra cash, for whatever reason, your home's equity just might be the right solution. why don't you give aag a call i trust 'em you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now! hi. so you're the scientist here. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin healthier in one day? it's true jen. this prebiotic oat formula moisturizes to help prevent dry skin. impressive! aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ try the body wash, too.

tony here from creditrepair.com taking to the streets to talk about credit. can you repair your credit yourself? yes. -great. how? uhhh... how long does credit repair take? i don't know, like 10 years. what? are you insane? what's a good credit score? go. 600. maybe if you're trying to pay thousands extra in interest rates. cut the confusion, get started with a free credit evaluation at creditrepair.com. - [narrator] as you get ready for what's next, custom gear from custom ink can help make the most of these moments. we've developed new tools to make it easy for you. custom ink has hundreds of products to help you feel connected. upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com

the battle over how america's history with race and racism is taught in schools is heating up across the country. in one tennessee town, one group wants books about segregation and the march on washington out of classrooms. and get this. a new state law may be on their side. cnn's evan mcmorris-santoro has the story. >> reporter: just outside of nashville, basic american history is up for debate. >> his parents taught him about george washington, and he identifies george washington as a white man. and then asked if he would be killed back then because he has brown skin. i mean he's judging george washington not by any of what he -- by being the founder of our country. >> when do we tell the kid he may have in fact been killed

back then because of the color of his skin? >> i'm not sure that that's -- that that's what you teach, that you would have been killed for the color of your skin. that's -- that's a narrative really. >> reporter: robin is trying to change the narrative on race in the williamson county, tennessee, public school district. she pulled her child out of public school and now she leads a chapter of moms for liberty in this wealthy republican-leaning suburb. nationally, the group is known for loudly protesting school masking. >> it has traumatized williamson county kids. >> reporter: butsteinman's chap filed a different kind of complaint with the tennessee department of education this summer. >> because it's historically accurate, is it appropriate for 6, 7, 8-year-olds? >> reporter: moms for liberty is angry about an inclusion curriculum being taught in the public county schools. they're mostly concerned about four books being taught in second grade. one tells the story of school

segregation through the eyes of mexican-american students. one is about the march on washington. and two are about civil rights icon ruby bridges. >> i'll show you in the teachers manual, it instructs the teacher to point this word out and teach about racial slurs. >> reporter: she says it's okay for kids to read the book bridges wrote about her experience as a 6 joeld, but it's not okay for kids to talk about some of the pictures in the book, like norman rockwell's famous painting. >> all this curriculum highlights is the mean white people and how she's victimized, and it speaks to nothing of the good. >> reporter: educators across the country are alarmed by talk like this. >> we see some sort of almost manufactured crisis here. there isn't a crisis in how we teach history in this country. you would never go into a school in germany and say, oh, why do you teach about naziism? you would never ask that question because they do teach about it because teachers want

kids in germany to understand what that history was. >> reporter: the moms for liberty complaint says students are being taught lessons that have anti-american, anti-white, and anti-mexican teaching. and state law may be on their side. >> we will not be teaching critical race theory in tennessee. >> reporter: in may, the governor signed hb 580 into law. it bans lesson plans that make students, quote, feel discomfort, guilt, or anguish because of their race. moms for liberty says the new rules mean separate is never equal, a picture book about the california schools in 1940s should be banned because it makes both white and hispanic kids feel bad. >> the ones where it looks like the mexican children are behind behalves. >> reporter: that surprises the book's author. >> the villain here is racism. it's segregation, and at the end of the book, what i wanted to show is the mexican-american children and the white children being in school together and playing together and interacting

with each other. >> reporter: these conversations about the past are very relevant, other moms in the community say. >> my son had an incident at his middle school that was where students locked arms, and if you were white, they would break the arms to let kids go through. if you were black, they kept their hands together and told you that you needed to go back to mexico. >> they said they were building a wall. >> they were building a wall. >> reporter: public school moms founded the group one wilco after a series of racial incidents rocked the district. >> what's concerning about the law, it's not inclusive of everybody. i don't think it's divisive talking about these uncomfortable topics. >> they're bullying our school board. they're bullying our elected officials. >> reporter: the school board told cnn it's reviewing the books cited in the complaint. what would it mean for education if books like "separate is never equal" were pulled off the

shelves by these laws that we're seeing spread across the country? >> well, i think we're entering toward a pretty scary time if we're talking about politicians banning books. i thought we were long past those days. educators know how to talk about race with kids in an age-appropriate way. these conversations can be had and in a way that is in keeping with our core values as americans. >> reporter: evan mcmorris-santoro, cnn, williamson county, tennessee. >> so we don't teach students or kids about things that make them uncomfortable. should you not teach about christopher columbus discovering america because it makes native american kids or black kids feel bad? should you not teach about 9/11 because it makes americans feel bad? what are we doing? thanks for watching. our coverage continues.

i would've called yesterday. but... i could've called yesterday. but... i should've called yesterday, but... would've, could've, should've. we hear that a lot. hi. i'm jonathan, an insurance professional and manager here at colonial penn life insurance company. sometimes, people put off calling about life insurance. before you know it, another year has passed. and when they do call, they say, "i wish i'd called sooner." call right now for free information on the $9.95 plan.

are you between age 50 and 85? you can get whole life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. do i have to answer health questions to get it? there are no health questions. you cannot be turned down for any health reason, past or present. how long does this policy last? our $9.95 plan is permanent protection. can my rate increase later? never. once you're insured, your rate is locked in for life. you can get whole life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. have you thought about life insurance but put it off? don't regret what you didn't do yesterday. call now and feel great about saying yes today. (announcer) call now and you'll also get this free beneficiary planner.

in business, setbacks change everything. so get comcast business internet and add securityedge. it helps keep your network safe by scanning for threats every 10 minutes. and unlike some cybersecurity options, this helps protect every connected device. yours, your employees' and even your customers'. so you can stay ahead. get started with a great offer and ask how you can add comcast business securityedge. plus for a limited time, ask how to get a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. call today.

welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and right around the world. i'm isa soares in london just ahead on cnn newsroom. >> i recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in afghanistan. >> we helped build the state, mr. chairman, but we could not forge a nation. >> the taliban was and remains a terrorist organization. >> u.s. president joe biden's defense officials face a second round of grillinto