the white house, dana was pushing ron klain on this yesterday for clarity, i think, for everyone, and it seems like their stance is we bought enough boosters. we have them. we're waiting on the fda and we don't know when that's going to be. >> yeah, poppy, and the white house had been hoping that they would have two versions of a covid-19 booster shot available for that september 20th rollout. it appears that that initial plan is now taking a hit. officials are saying that pfizer appears to be on track to be approved before that date, but moderna might take a little bit longer. as officials are saying, they need more time to review that data, which they initially found to be inadequate. but the white house is also insisting that no covid-19 booster shots will be administered without fda approval, and then the recommendation of the cdc. it's arguing that they set that september 20th target so that a plan was in place that once the formal approval came through, they'd be ready to roll out those shots immediately. take a listen to a bit of what white house chief of staff ron klain had to

joining me now is white house chief of staff ron klain.nk you so much for joining me this morning. so, i first want to ask about covid and specifically the white house plans, that you announced last month, to begin offering booster shots to all vaccinated adults beginning september 20th. but cnn and other news organizations are reporting that top health officials warned the white house this week that they need more time to review all the necessary data before they can recommend boosters for all adults. you all know president biden promised to always follow the science, but in this case did he get ahead of the science by setting that specific date for boosters before all the data was in? >> no, dana. i think what we said was that we would be ready as of the 20th, which was the projection we were given from the senior science team as to when the fda would clear the boosters. i want to be absolutely clear. no one's going to get boosters until the fda says they're approved, until the cdc advisory committee makes a recommendation. what we want

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biden chief of staff ron klain saying the administration is prepared to protect women's rights by any means necessary. >> we protect women who are seeking to exercise their constitutional rights. we have the team at hhs looking at what means we can do to try to get women the health care ter advices they need. >> do you think it's possible you can do something on a federal level? >> we will find ways. >> one of two republicans on the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection slamming his fellow house gop members for threatening tech companies to not comply with the request for their records. >> right now all we've said is we want these records preserved. there's a number of people, and then we'll decide what we need to see and what's in the american people's interest. i think to turn around and make ominous talk to these telecom companies that when we take over it's going to be different or we'll have payback, that's not, frankly, the republican party i remember and the republican party i ever joined. >> and new polling today from "the washington post" and abc news sh

you played that clip from ron klain expressing optimism they can get this done and there is reason to think after what we've seen the last few months, a lot of turns and difficult moments but democrats when they've had to have held together, but the president needs to make that case publicly and keep making it and one of the arguments for the $3.5 trillion reckonciliation bill that follows the physical infrastructure bill is there are a lot of steps to address climate. climate resilience. ways in which the infrastructure of the united states could -- can be better prepared for these extreme weather events, which we're seeing more and more frequently and making vivid that threat of climate change that we've been talking about for a number of years. it is still going to be a challenge to get the money from congress but events like this can help make the president's case. >> john, my daughter asked me, she's only 7 and said mommy, history seems to happen a lot these days, right? these sort of events. i looked at her and said it not coincidental. thank you for your time. nice talking to y

white house chief of staff ron klain optimistic that the package could still pass. >> we have worked with senator manchin every step of the way. he's been a partner of our administration. he has strong views. others have views. we're going to work together to find a way to put together a package that can pass the house, that can pass the senate, that can be put on the president's desk and signed into law. >> a lot to talk about tonight. joining me now, cnn white house correspondent john harwood. john, good to see you. you know, john, just hours from now, president biden is set to travel to new york and new jersey to now survey the storm damage from hurricane ida. so, what is he going to see? and who will he meet with while he's there? >> well, he's going to land in queens, laura, and then immediately go to new jersey. he will be in manville, which is -- suffered terrible flooding. he'll meet with local leaders there. then, he'll return to queens. visit localities in east elmhurst in queens and make some remarks there. i would be surprised if he doesn't see one or both of the governor

do you call this situation, as ron klain said, successfully managed?they're suggesting that it's inevitable that this happened the way that it did. that's absolutely false. i know for a fact that the packages presented by dod to the president recommended more troops, temporarily, at bagram air base, 4500 troops, to secure it for a safe withdraw. he rejected that and pulled a number out of the hat. i want you to go down to 600 people. the leadership at the dod said we can't even secure the embassy with 600 people. he said i don't care. go to 600 people. for him this is about political optics. it's not about taking care of people. it never has been for this president. that's why he's not stopping fentanyl coming across the southern border killing americans. he doesn't care. all that matters to him is his, you know, political poll numbers. that's it. >> laura: congressman, thank you. >> my next guest's son amy staff sergeant ryan was one of the 13 us service members killed in last thursday's suicide bombing kabul. in a moment she'll tell us about her son

ron klain said he doesn't know when americans could get them because they're waiting for the green light from the fda. dr. fauci is confident that pfizer is so on track for that september 20th booster rollout. he said moderna's may be slightly delayed beyond that. all of this comes as covid cases are surging. once again in the united states, the seven-day average of new cases for 100,000 residents is 300% higher than it was on labor day of last year. the cdc also said children's hospitals across the country are filling up with covid cases and community transmission is dangerously high. we'll have much more on this in a moment. let's begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. good morning to you. why is there such a lack of clarity here on the booster? the way i understand is the white house said we got them and we bought them and now we need the green light from the fda. they thought they would get that by the 20th of september? >> i want to cut through all of this and say i don't like using sports metaphors but i'm going to use one now. this is an unforced error by the

ron klain said, we have all of our best lawyers on it. but it's hard to see that happening without a statute. the house is going to move according to nancy pelosi, but the math in the senate is the same on this issue as it is on all the other bits of the democratic agenda that are stuck in the u.s. senate 50/50. >> what's clear is democrats are going to use this to energize their base, right. they're going to do that. and they are also -- the biden administration -- trying to energize voters with his agenda. we've also learned that senator joe manchin might be pouring a little bit of cold water on that. he's telling colleagues his price tag for the democrats' reconciliation bill is between 1 and $1.5 trillion. that's just a fraction of the proposed figure of this plan. where does this leave negotiations, dana? >> they are in limbo. the white house insists this is the way joe manchin works. he was against the covid bill that they did. he was against other legislation that the biden administration pushed, including the infrastructure bill w

biden's chief of staff ron klain says he's confident they'll get manchin's critical vote in the end.nickel for every time someone's told me this package has been dead, i would be a very, very rich person. >> reporter: and, erica, we should note that on top of that and those americans that are losing those expanded jobless benefits, there are another 3 million who are losing the $300 weekly supplement as well. ron klain in that interview was saying that he would be a very rich person if he had a nickel for every time someone said that the president's legislative agenda was dead. also said in that interview that he thinks that the jobs are out there for those people who need them and that the states have the resources to move people from unemployment to employment. >> kaitlan collins with the latest for us, thank you. >>> let's discuss further. hillary, these two new polls which came out over the last few days show president biden's approval rating dipping significantly. you see it down 44% in this new abc "washington post" poll. how concerning are those numbers for democrats heading i

it seems like chief of staff ron klain and dr. anthony fauci saying that moderna may actually miss the emergency authorization september 20th deadline. what does it mine for those who got the moderna shot? >> reporter: we know this came after regulators warned the white house thursday that they may not have the data to support that third booster shot particularly in the case of moderna. and also even in the case of pfizer with the exception of individuals who are immunocompromised, those who qualify at this point. we did talk -- or cnn talked earlier today with chief of staff ron klain and he stressed that this decision now really is firmly in the court of the fda and cdc. >> those are decisions made by the fda and cdc. as i said before, what we have done is purchase the boosters so question are ready so we don't see this horrible spectacle we saw in december where vaccines were approved but you couldn't get them, you didn't know where to get them, we didn't have the supply. >> reporter: so to be clear, dr. fauci stressed this mor

he's done what he needs to the white house, ron klain has been fantastic i think the democrats owe thissident more respect and ought to get behind his agenda >> so given all that, then why are progressives then potentially withholding their votes on thursday's big vote on the physical infrastructure bill if you're saying that the president has done a good job, that ron klain and the white house have done what they need to to get this thing across the line >> because what they're saying is we have to have both components bipartisan infrastructure plan, as the president recognizes, has no climate provision you can't say we're going to invest in the old economy, more roads, more bridges, more co2 emission, and not have a clean energy standard. you can't say we're going to cut funding as the bipartisan infrastructure bill does for electric buses and not have any plan for electric vehicles so it has always been part of this president's vision, who cares about climate, and we would have the bipartisan infrastructure bill but also have the reconciliation with the climate provisions that has al

according to his chief of staff, ron klain. that's one other aspect that he's dealing with. but going back to the pandemic, that's another big one that is overshadowing a lot of this. you are seeing record number of covid cases. we're starting to see numbers for deaths averages around the country back to where we were in march. that is something the white house did not expect to go back to. and so they're dealing with the pan defensemen knick a state they were not expecting to be in in september. they thought they would be moving a lot further along and having these reopenings across the country they were hoping would accompany mass vaccinations and, of course, that's just not what we're seeing. you're seeing numbers much lower than expected in the jobs report that they got on friday. alisyn, it's a lot of different crises and challenges facing the president. typically that is something every president has to deal with, unforeseen challenges. that is going to be the case when president biden gets heard this week and several issues all lining up at once. >> okay, kaitlan coll

and the white house chief of staff, ron klain, he said that the u.s. is in touch with americans inside afghanistan who want to get out and they're hopeful that the qataris will be able to help them make that happen. whit? >> james, our thanks to you tonight. >>> back here at home, the amusement park tragedy in colorado. a 6-year-old girl on vacation with her family dying on a ride in glenwood springs. the park now closed until at least wednesday and an urgent investigation is now under way. here's abc's kaylee hartung. >> reporter: tonight, the desperate scene unfolding at a colorado amusement park. >> glenwood caverns for a party that fell out of a shaft ride. >> reporter: a 6-year-old girl fatally injured while riding this attraction that plunges riders 110 feet inside a mountain. >> party's at the bottom of the shaft now. we're still trying to get further. >> we're about to go down the mine shaft. >> reporter: but first responders unable to save her life. >> we are calling the coroner now. >> reporter: glenwood caverns adventure park posting this vi

this is not a new cycle, not a narrative that can be spun because ron klain is creating an echo chamber, this is a matter of life and death. we don't leave our people behind. with that i would like to recognize someone i truly admire. >> is every veteran will tell you, the most important thing you bring into battle is why? the y that we are speaking about is very simple, to protect lives, save americans, and pointedly this. every american, everyone of us in this room, everybody in government is being lied to. when they somebody -- send somebody out to the podium, it is to lied to the american people. on the terrace promise they won't let other terrorists in, that is an example. when they send somebody else out from the administration to talk about what is going to happen with the recognition of the taliban or other groups, they are sending somebody out to lied to the american people. when they talk about the u.s. arms that will be used against our military and civilians across the globe, they are sending somebody out to lied to the american people. that is why every veteran up here is a

ron qulain said he hopes -- ron klain says he hopes the qataris are able the get the flights off the ground at the hamid karzai airport, but hope is not a strategy. the taliban promised they would be allowed to leave. we are talking about a hostage crisis today. but this hostage crisis started three weeks ago when it became obvious the taliban was taking over the country and the administration was going to stick to that august 31 deadline before they were able to get everybody out. that woman was 14 steps from the airport. she turn around and left for the taliban to take care of and negotiate with. that's a hostage crisis. you can't tell me the taliban is going to be disciplined here. we should pray this doesn't get much, much worse. i'm concerned about one of these guys who is a member of the taliban having a lack of discipline and getting angry. god forbid that happens. but the idea that hope is a strategy for the qataris to handle getting these people out is an abysmal failure of leadership and highlights the weakness of our position. reporter: it certainly does. joey, president b

the white house chief of staff ron klain told me on this show last week that you are "very persuadablet bill" because he says it will be paid for, it won't add to the debt or inflation. >> what's it's paying for inflated numbers is the tax code. the numbers they wanted to pay for and the tax changes they want to make, is that competitive or keeping us competitive or not? >> i want to increase taxes in corporation. >> i want the wealthy to play a fair share. >> if you are up to where you are competitive globally then it's counter productive. >> everyone is looking at this in a whole different way. >> the bottom line is do we have the urgency to spend another 3 point-to-.5 trillion right now. the most urgent thing that we have to do is getting the bipartisan and infrastructure fill. it's going less or unattended. that's the one the president went out and campaign on that. that's his bill. we worked in a bipartisan way. we got 19 republicans voting for it. that's the bill that should go out immediately. >> you have another side of this an negotiations. let's stay on what they call here in

you heard from cedric richman and ron klain, the chief of staff of the white house, they believe joe is pliable. there's some leverage, called the bipartisan infrastructure deal. joe manchin was a senator who helped craft this. nancy pelosi, now you know why, is not touching that until reconciliation comes through the house. we will have a big old collision of things and deadlines hitting at the end of this month. if joe manchin doesn't vote for that reconciliation bill, he doesn't get the bipartisan infrastructure victory that he has been taking a victory lap on. he wants to say, i've got your roads, bridges, broadband, things that are badly needed. lisa: labor secretary marty walsh, when he was on with jon ferro and joe as well, basically saying something similar that there was this flexibility, or didn't seem it was necessarily a hard line. i wonder if the mood is changing in washington in terms of the ability to pass through any kind of stimulus. i think about how it was not even a discussion to enhance unemployment benefits, even though some people say we are heading into a weak

and the absence of other information, we are left to assume that biden's portly chief of staff, ron klain guy with the real power. he is not just playing the role of oval office gatekeeper, he is also acting as a de facto president and commander in chief. when we think of who is presiding over cabinet meetings, directing the discussions from covid to commerce, we sure as know it is not joe. he is lucky if he remembers any of their names at the cabinet meeting. >> i'm here with -- my senior advisor and boy, he knows louisiana very well. and new orleans. >> i nominate javier -- >> i want to thank the former general, i keep coming in general. the guy who runs the outfit over there. >> laura: oh, my god, i had forgotten about all of those. everything biden has promised us on the campaign trail, it turns out was a line. >> i'm not going to shut down the country. i'm going to shut down the virus. >> laura: well, he actually didn't shutdown the virus. the cdc is reporting more than 207,000 americans lost their lives to covid since he took office. and there were more cases reported yesterday then

white house chief of staff ron klain says the biden administration thinks around 100 are still therend promises to find ways to get them all out. the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee claims there are american citizens and afghan allies who are being held at the airport against their will. cnn's susan malveaux, what else do we know? >> it was really strong language that got attention today. this is michael mccall saying, yes, there are american citizens trapped at the kabul airport that they are trying to get out. he said it was from information from classified briefings that he was getting and he described it as almost a realtime hostage-type situation. take a listen. >> we have six airplanes at the airport, six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. the state has cleared these flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> reporter: it is because of the specific language here, the nature of this language and the picture he is painting, cnn re

. >> sean: and joe's chief of staff ron klain, the great puppeteer took it a step further and announced that the withdrawal could not have gone any smoother. yes, it could have. to take a look. >> it's easy to second-guess, but let's just be clear, america was in this war for 20 years. and i think any efforts to unwind or bring our troops out any effort to end the military appearance in afghanistan was going to be filled with heartbreaking scenes and difficulties. and i think that to the biden administration managed out as well as it could be managed under the circumstances we were placed in. >> sean: like biden, ron claimed that it is delusional. is he really does much of an 88? it appears so. nothing about the withdrawal being advantaged well. not a single thing. if you are watching coming might want to pass on to your boss, who i am sure is in dreamland about this time, this new ad from senate republicans. and it might help jog his ever failing memory about what happened in afghanistan. >> is the taliban takeover of afghanistan now inevitable? >> no, it is not. the likelihood there i

and the fact is i interviewed the white house chief of staff ron klain on sunday who said, you know, if i had a dime for everyday somebody told us this infrastructure or any kind of this agenda caenda would be sto i'd be a rich man. he talks about the ways he thinks joe mansion is persuadable all of which had to do with ways to pay for the very large price tag that joe biden and the democratic leaders have for this just the so-called reconciliation piece we're talking about but has a lot of the biden agenda in it and a lot of what he was saying in terms of paying for this were about new taxes and it really unclear whether joe mansion or not just him but other moderate democrats who don't put themselves out there, they don't write op eds like mansion does but some of them are reluctant because they're on the ballot in purple states. >> the president is set to give this major speech in the next phases of the pandemic on thursday. and even though the current spike is because of the unvaccinated, it's happening on his watch. >> no question about it. if you can talk to him candidly about

the vaccine mandate, ron klain at the white house.msnbc anchor tweeted on thursday the move is "the ultimate workaround for the federal government to require vaccinations." he retweeted that. jonathan turley, well renowned and not conservative law professor says the retweet was breathtakingly daft on the eve of litigation over the order. he goes on to talk about the presidents eviction ban which he essentially admitted wasn't going to be legal. phil, it sounds like they are at least conceding possibly that this was going to have a tough legal road. >> i think they are being too cute saying they weren't going to mandate now admitting what we are doing is equivalent to a mandate. i think this administration just has a massive trust deficit. especially when you consider the top two vaccine officials at fda quit last week because this is all being driven politically by the white house. if you're trying to convince people that it's in their interest to get a vaccine, denying natural immunity, jumping ahead with political people ahead of th

ron klain, tony blinken, joe biden, if you are awake, susan rice? is this one of the contingencies that you plan for also, or do you just not care that you abandoned americans and left them pretty much for dad to fend for themselves a question that's right, under terrorist rule. thankfully tonight, we have good news to report out of afghanistan. there was an american mother from texas. her three children were rescued by an a a man named cory mills who will join us on the program in a minute. the private team of military vets in a successful cross-border operations and despite having no involvement in the rescue mission, guess what, the biden administration intend to take it up for something they had nothing to do with. according to the state department, the united states has facilitated this safe departure of four citizens by afghanistan. the organizer of this rescue mission is calling that statement a complete and total life here the u.s. government did nothing to rescue these americans, absolutely nothing and of course joe biden doesn't seem to ca

president biden said ron klain. >> ron klain was the ebola czar but now he's the chief of staff. >> we't know why the cdc does what it does. they're like fredonia. >> duck soup >> they actually -- that's how they treat things, right take up the taxes. honestly, they are a complete dictator of what what do they know? they never come forward. what we know is that if you can get a booster, it's better than no, except for the fact that the cdc says you don't need it. >> probably no harm. >> there's no scrutiny of them there's no scrutiny. >> there is. there have been people who have been very critical and continue to be. >> who >> you scott gottlieb hasn't been a fad. >> dr. gottlieb, he was only, what, the head of the fda. why is the nih not in favor of the regeneron drug that keeps you out of the hospital? the answer is we don't know because they don't feel like they have to answer to anyone. they think they're the supreme court of vaccine, they're the law of the land. i mean, not that i want to be the florida governor who says, listen, you shouldn't take anything because you have every

we heard from the defense secretary, we heard from ron klain that they will be watching with a skeptical eye how the taliban operates and, if they go back to their old ways, which people expect they will, they reserve the right to do something about it, what does that look like? >> absolutely. i mean, the defense official i spoke with said this was a bit of a confidence building measure, the fact that the taliban did in large part help the united states military in this case. it's important to point out, they had two very similar goals to the united states, one, get americans out, and number two, to stop any potential attack from isis-k. so for this short period of time, the u.s. and taliban had a similar view, and they were, you know, working toward similar aims. that being said, defense officials are very very skeptical that this is a new and improved taliban and this signals there's some path forward for the united states to work particularly on a military-to-military level with the taliban going forward. there is likely to be some sort of diplomatic engagement going forward and that'

now, the comments earlier from the white house chief of staff, ron klain, on another network about thatuation, here's what he had to say. i want you to listen. >> many of them have family members, many want to stay, the ones that want to leave we're going to get them out. august 31st we transitioned from a military mission to a diplomatic mission to get the remaining americans and the afghan or afghan allies, the sivs out of the country. griff: sir, your thoughts on what you just heard from the chief of staff? >> yeah, just absolutely tragic. they're relying on diplomatic measures to get americans out of afghanistan, they're trapped there. we should have never let military leave. we should have maintained control of multiple air bases so we would have operational control of afghanistan until everyone was out, at least citizens were and noncombatants. you no we have diplomatic relations going through doha, qatar. this is a position the biden administration has chosen. it's tragic and irresponsible. griff: you may have seen the interview with jennifer griffin with general mark milley, the

klain, ron klain, to do what we can do to get as many people home. there is no end date to this.ng to keep our moral obligation. no one left behind was able to fly out on turkish airways. it's about $10,000 per family, so we had that operation going. then kabul fell. we had another 50 families scheduled to fly out. once the kabul airport reopens, we can go back to flying people out commercially and get everyone to the united states that should be here. >> that's a huge piece of the puzzle. in terms of the state department getting these siv applicants out, they are now moving these siv applicants to a third country and working on that rather than just bringing them to the united states from afghanistan. what do you make of that idea? is that the right way to do it, do you think? >> secretary blinken brought this up in june when he spoke to the house affairs committee, specifically mccall, who has been pushing for a means to get people out of the danger in afghanistan. it's a good move. we know that the process does still take almost a year. it's the full screening, it's everything

you can look at the retweets and quote tweets of the white house chief of staff, ron klain. but when it comes to the mandates or requirements of vaccines that the president announced, they're just getting frustrated and as the president said, basically fed up with the idea that people aren't getting vaccinated. there's 25% of people who have yet to get one jab. i think what we saw the president, the administration working on doing is making it tough to be unvaccinated in this country. right? because that is in their minds the way to take this public health crisis across the finish line, to make sure we can leave homes, be in person, and be safe. that's what we're seeing the most from this administration. you talked about the polling in april, that was around the time we were all feeling good. the vaccines, most of us were starting to be able to get the vaccines. there was this promise and goal of july 4th that we were going to be out and about and having a good time. and that the summer was going to be completely different than it ended up being. now this administration with

one of a cast of several devoted career long devoted people working for joe biden who love him, ron klainhers in this book. that kind of support character around donald trump doesn't exist. the person who's been with him for a long time, who loves him, who's devoted to him and has wise counsel for him. what is this -- what do you think the reader should take out of this book about not necessarily, not political positions or wins and losses in congress, but how joe biden and the people he has brought into the white house run the white house? >> well, it's a different cast , and it's a different theory of the case. when bob costa and i talked about doing this book, we realized because biden is the current president we need to show what he does and maybe 40% of the book. it lays out who he is, what he cares about. there are some missteps. there's some problems. at the same time, you can't report on biden and understand that the core of him is -- and this isn't a political judgment. it's a reporting fact, that the core of him is let's protect the country. let's do the best that we can. and so

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aneesh, i want to speak with you, because yesterday in an interview with ron klain, taking the same position as president biden, and klain strongly defended the evacuation and squarely pointed the finger at two other presidents. take a listen to this. >> in july the taliban had not yet conquered a single provincial capital in the country, and as general milley said, i don't think that there is anyone who thought they would go from no provincial capital to marching in kabul. president trump left us with the strongest military position since 2001, but the point is that kabul, itself, the president had substantial troops, and that army lost the will to fight, and the president fled the country. that is what led to rapid fall of kabul. >> and hamish, now that the evacuation is done, and the president in this case, the white house chief of staff is speaking beyond the current moment, and trying to speak their way into the history books and defending and justifying not only their decision, but also the evacuation process there at the very end. >> that is right. you hear the president forcefully de

want to get your opinion on what the white house is saying right now, this is the chief of staff, ron klainet americans out. listen. >> we are going to find ways to get them, the ones that want to leave, to get them out of afghanistan. we believe it's around 100. we're in touch with all of them who we've identified. we know many have family members, many want to stay. the ones that want to leave, we're going to get them out. jillian: you're hearing the white house say about 100 people they're trying to get out. you're operating this digital dunkirk. you have a lot of information and insight into what's happening there. what is your take on the situation? >> sure. so the number of 100 persons that's being quoted is specific to u.s. citizens and that number is way off. so we know there's more u.s. citizens that have not been publicly accounted for because they were at least six that contacted me after that number, about 250 was originally released a couple days ago and we've been working with hundreds of more green card holders on top of that. if you take into account legal permanent resident

and the malicious intent behind these mandates, just ask ron klain, biden's chief of staff who said theet part out loud when he retreat tweeted this message osha doing vaccination mandate as workplace safety rule is the ultimate work around for the federal government to require vaccinations. a work around to full government control. that is what biden's top adviser is telling the american people. it's something that the biden administration has been eyeing since they took over but they didn't know how to do it until now. but what biden made abundantly clear last night is his contempt for 80 million unvaccinated americans. >> this is not about freedom or personal choice. many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million americans he had are still not vaccinated. we cannot allow these actions to stand in the way of protecting the large majority of americans who have done their part. >> rachel: what a stark change from the joe biden who spent his entire campaign and early presidency promising he would unite all americans. >> i will govern as an american president. i will work with democ

but white house chief of staff ron klain insisted that this is all guided by the science even as he now time frame for when those booster shots would go out. take a listen. >> did he get ahead of the science before the data was in? >> no, what we said was that we would be ready as of the 20th which is the projection that we were given from the senior science team as to when the fda would clear the boosters. i want to be clear, no one will get boosters up the fda says that they are approved, until the cdc advisory committee makes a recommendation. >> will you 100% follow the science? >> 100%. >> reporter: while pfizer may be ready for the september 20th time frame, the moderna shot may take a few weeks later. an officials are still studying whether you could possibly mix and match the booster shot vaccines so someone who initially received moderna might be able to receive pfizer as their booster shot. but those studies are still a few weeks away from being completed. this comes as there is a real sense of urgencien with the biden administration as other variants of covid are taking hold

i was encouraged by all of those remarks by senator mcconnell and ron klain.enator manchin who really has emerged as far as domestic policy is the most influential and pivotal and powerful senator if not person in washington. but i think everyone should keep something in mind here. we are quarreling over trillion dollars spending imposed structure when china spending $6 trillion what reporting to spend on. and $3 trillion and they are spending $6 trillion on highways, bridges, electrical grid, sails and internet towers and enabling new generation of businesses to compete and win. if we want to be a power that is not declining 21st century, this is something we have to get our arms around. i hope we can do it in a bipartisan way. some can be discouraged about the powers to be in washington, no one should outright no. we have to figure a way to work together and hopefully joe manchin is democrats and republicans along with him. >> mike: you have about $1 trillion infrastructure and then $3.5 trillion package that democrats want, spending priorities and so basica

though it is not clear how many over the weekend, white house chief of staff ron klain said that theree approximately 100 american citizens left in afghanistan. a week ago blinken said it was anywhere from 100 to 200. they likely don't include green card holders considering the administration doesn't have a clear number of how many of them are actually in afghanistan. what blinken also didn't mention is the taliban are not the only ones blocking flights from afghanistan. fox news has obtained exclusive emails showing the state department is blocking flights as well. the emails are from a retired marine who is evacuating his own evacuation flights from afghanistan, plural. they are refusing to give charter flight approval to land in other countries. the state department also told him the private flights would not be allowed to land at the department of defense bases even though they were transporting american citizens and those are american bases. "you need to find anotherit destination country and it can't be the u.s., either." isn't that nice? none of this is stopping afghan refugees

the president i think has done an extraordinary job along with ron klain and steve richetti. they're reaching out. they've convinced 99% of us. they just need to convince a couple of other folks. democrats around the country are outraged that a few people are blocking the aspirations not just of those in the congress and the senate but of democrats around the country. we nominated joe biden. we elected joe biden. he's sort of the median part of the democratic party. he's been a lifelong moderate. is it too hard to get behind him? that's politics, he's the leader, not me, not every other member of congress. let's get behind our democratic president. >> i appreciate that. it's a perk fect segue to our nt segment. congressman ro khanna, thank you very much. good luck doing the people's business. be well. >>> what happens now? it's going to be very profound on the future of who leads us. how? we have the wizard of odds to show us where americans stand on these bills and what biden and the democrats can learn from one of trump's legislative victories. some good insight from that g

i was encouraged by all of those remarks, senator mcconnell and ron klain.pass, it has to have some bipartisan support. senator manchin, who really has emerged as far as domestic policy is the most influential and may be pivotal and powerful senator if not person in washington. but i think everyone should keep something in mind here. we are quarreling over a trillion dollars of spending for infrastructure when china is spending 6 trillion on the very things that we are purporting and wanting to spend on. if you assume they are three times as large as we are that should be 3 trillion they are spending and they are spending six, internet towers, enabling a new generation of businesses to compete and win. if we want to be a power that is not declining in the 21st century, this is something we have to get our arms around. i do hope we can do it in a bipartisan way. as much as some may be discouraged by what some of the powers that be in washington -- no one set out right now, everyone said we got to figure out a way to work together hopefully joe manchin is able

maryland, public health activists staged a protest outside the home of white house chief of staff ron klain wednesday, calling on the biden administration to massively ramp up vaccine production and to transfer vaccine technology to the global south. activists placed a towering pile of fake human bones across from klain's home, representing millions of covid-19 deaths. the protest was led by james krellenstein, co-founder of the hiv/aids activist group prep4all. >> the billions of deaths that have occurred under this presidents watch, they are all preventable deaths. this is no longer a scientific crisis. we are bringing these bones to the chief of staff's house because this is not just a political issue, this is a personal issue was of tens of millions of people come hundreds of millions, billions of people around the world whose lives are threatened by this man, by this presidency. amy: in massachusetts, over a dozen doctors linked to harvard medical school held a similar protest outside the boston home of moderna ceo stefan bancel, demanding his company share the recipe for its covid-19

the white house chief of staff, ron klain told me on this week you are, quote, very persuadable on this it will be paid for. it won't add to the debt. it won't add to inflation. >> they're paying for it with inflated numbers from the standpoint of the tax code. the numbers they're wanting to pay for and the tax changes they want to make, is that competitive? does it keep us competitive or not? i believe there are changes made that do not keep us competitive. >> meaning don't increase the taxes on corporations? >> no, no, i want to increase taxes on corporations. i've spoken to corporations. >> what exactly are you saying? >> i want the wealthy to pay their fair share. if you are competitive globally, then it will be counterproductive. everyone is look ing at this ina whole complete different way than maybe i am, or other people, or other people are keeping quiet. the bottom line is, do we have the urgency to spend another $3.5 trillion right now? the most urgent thing we have to do is get the bipartisan infrastructure bill that's gone left unattended for over 30 years, deferred maintena

so yesterday with dana bash ron klain couldn't say exactly when we can expect the booster rollout. remember they said it would happen september 20 and now that is not so sure and that is after cnn reporting that health officials really told the white house that they needed more information and more time to really assess and review whether or not boosters could happen. take a listen. >> no one is going to get boosters until the fda says that they are approved, until the cdc advisory committee makes a recommendation. what we want to do though is be ready as soon as that comes. so the most important thing that we can do here at the white house, what our covid response team can do, make sure that we have bought the boosters and we have and that we have a distribution plan so that as soon as the regulators, scientists say good to go, here is who needs them, here is who is approved, they will be available. klain says that the administration is following the signs despite the confusion inside the white house that cnn has been talking about. and we just heard from fauci that it may be pfiz

and today white house chief of staff ron klain was asked about this on cnn. >> we, there are all kindsorts coming in. we're in close communication with our sources and contacts in afghanistan to try to get those sivs out, to get them out safely are. i know that some are coming out by land. we are continuing to work on efforts to get them out by air as well. we're going to continue to move those sivs out of the country. alicia: congressman, if we can't even figure out who's on these six planes, what exactly can the united states do at this point to get those sivs out? >> well, those sources he's referring to are the taliban because, as has been stated, we don't have anybody on the ground anymore. they've taken out all of our assets, all of our intelligence assets, and we don't have military members on the ground anymore, so now we're relying on the taliban and the government to get our people out. of course they're going to have all of these demands on the united states government in order for them to release our people. of course they're going to do that. everybody else in the world kn

. >>> meanwhile white house chief of staff ron klain is defending the current size of the spending packageain claimed the build back better portion is zero because it's expected to be fully paid for. democrats want to fund the package by raising tacks on corporation, capital gains, and americans who earn a high income. heal said the final price tag could be scaled back from its current size by the time the package is ready for a vote. >>> joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell. good morning, leig ann, thanks for being here. >> it's going to be a complicated process moving forward. the house of representatives now that the committees are done drafting this legislation, it now goes to the budget committee where they're kind of secretaries. they put all the pieces of the bill together and it go is to leader to go to the house floor. on the senate side, they're still crafting their version of the legislation. they're not going to do the same process that the house did in having the individual committees hold markups or hearings on this legislation, but they're w

situation on the ground for the most part so, yes, we heard from jake sullivan and we heard from ron klain yesterday as well as they have a little bit more band width to participate in what in their view has been a largely one-sided discussion against the blob, as it is often called here in washington in criticizing their decision. what i thought was so interesting from what we heard just there from the secretary and from the general is you talk about side stepping questions and issues of tension. really, the core question now is what is our relationship? do we want a relationship with the afghan government moving forward? and the question of counterterrorism cooperation was one that we got slightly shades of different answers, maybe possible from, you know, from the chairman of the joint chiefs milley there and -- >> yeah, general milley seemed to be like, hey. he seemed to be very comfortable saying, yeah, we might. we might work with the taliban. secretary austin didn't want to go out that far on that. i believe courtney kube is here. so, before i move over to the general and juan, i'm