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Cuomo Prime Time
• Did Not Air 9-10p ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• Florida GOP Governor To School Officials: Enforce Mask Mandate And Get Your Salary Withheld; NY State Police Union Calls On Gov. Cuomo To Resign Ahead Of Possible Impeachment; Incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom Faces Many Challenges But Also Voter Apathy; Former Trump DOJ Officials Testify About Department Lawyer's Attempt To Push False Claims Of Voter Fraud; Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• Key Takeaways From The Un Report On The Climate Crisis; Using Nature To Combat Climate Change; A World Without Email? Interview with Cal New Port; Interview with Van Jones. Aired 1-2p ET


At This Hour
• COVID Hospitalizations & Death Rates Double in Past 3 Weeks; UN Report: Climate Crisis Happening Faster than Previously Thought; Governor Cuomo's Assistant Details Groping Allegations, Insists He is Lying. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) Assistant Details Groping Allegations, Insists He is Lying; Taliban Seizes Fifth Afghan City in Vacuum Left by U.S. Withdrawal; Ex-DOJ Officials Detail Trump Efforts to Undermine Election. Aired 11:30-12p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• CDC: More Than 99.9 Percent Of Fully Vaccinated People Have Not Had A Severe Breakthrough Of COVID-19; NY Speaker: Cuomo Impeachment Probe Could Wrap In "Weeks"; Senate Moves Toward Final Vote On $1.2T Infrastructure Bill; Interview With Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA); California's Dixie Fire Now Second Largest In State History; Some College Vaccine Mandates Met With Lawsuits And Flood Of Exemption Requests. Aired 4-5p ET
• Did Not Air 5-6p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• Daily COVID Cases In U.S. Averaging More Than 100,000; Gov. Ron DeSantis Threatens To Withhold Salaries Of School Officials Who Enact Mask Mandates; COVID Also Infecting Children; Widow Wants Her Husband's Service To Be Recognized; Earth Under Code Red. Aired 10-11p ET
• Florida's Governor Threatens To Withhold Salaries Of Officials Who Enact School Mask Mandates; Governor Cuomo In A 'Fighting Mood' As Aides Urge Him To Resign; Ninety-Nine Percent Of Vaccinated People Haven't Had Severe Breakthrough Cases; Climate Crisis: Code Red for Humanity; Hours Away From Final Vote on $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Deal. Aired 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• Florida Schools Reopen as COVID Rates Rise; Dr. Ashish Jha is Interviewed about Vaccine Mandates; NY Lawmakers Meet on Cuomo's Impeachment. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Advancing the Infrastructure Bill; Ex-DOJ Officials Talk about Undermining the Election; Experts Fear Sturgis Rally with be Super Spreader Event; Taliban Takes Fifth City; U.N. Secretary General Calls Climate Report a Code Red for Humanity. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• United States Averages 100,00 New COVID Cases a Day; Fauci Calls for Vaccine Mandates; Brittany Commisso Speaks Out Against Gov. Cuomo. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Taliban Take Fifth Afghan City as U.S. Completes Withdrawal; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Says She Feared Being Raped During Insurrection; Canada Opens Border to Vaccinated Americans Today. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• U.S. Averaging 514 Deaths a Day as Pandemic of Unvaccinated Worsens; New York Lawmakers Plot Path Forward on Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D- NY) Impeachment; Senate Moves Toward Final Vote on $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Taliban Seize 5th Afghan City as U.S. Withdrawal Winds Down; Fully Vaccinated Americans Can Travel to Canada As of Today; California's Dixie Fire Now Second-Largest in State's History; New U.N. Report Issues Stark Warning: Window Is Closing to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change; New Details on Trump's Efforts to Undermine Election Results. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Coronavirus Pandemic; Governor Cuomo Accuser Speaks Out. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• New Details on Trump & Allies' Efforts to Undermine Election Results; CNN's Dana Bash Goes One-on-One with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez; Senate Heads Toward Final Vote in Infrastructure Bill But It Faces Hurdles in the House; Democrats Inching Closer to New Voting Rights Bill; Taliban Seize 5th Provincial Capital in Afghanistan. Aired 2:30- 3p ET
• 6 Unvaccinated Members of Florida Church Die of COVID in 2 Weeks; Lawsuit Filed Against Florida Governor's Ban in Mask Mandates; FEMA Adds $5B to Help Vulnerable Communities. Aired 3-3:30pm ET
• School to Resume in Texas with Ban of Mask Mandates; Canada Begins Allowing Fully Vaccinated Americans into Country; Blinken Touts Infrastructure Investment to Improve National Security; Pentagon Expected to Mandate Vaccines by Mid-September; Allyson Felix Sets Record for Most U.S. Track Medals; Beijing Winter Olympics Just Six Months Away. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Taliban is Rapidly Gaining Ground; Health Pass Required to Visit French Cafes, Restaurants and Long Distance Trains. Aired 12-1a ET
• Cities Fall to Taliban as Government Forces Struggle; France Expands Use of COVID Health Pass; Summer Olympics Wrap Up After Yearlong Delay; Fires Raging in Greece Spurred on By Extreme; Drought Conditions Fuel Dozens of Wildfires Across 15 States; Iran Fights to Save Once-Historic Saltwater Lake; China Under Growing Pressure as Beijing 2022 Nears; The Olympics that Reshaped Mental Health Awareness; Business is Booming for Wedding Planners, Dating Apps. Aired 1-2a ET
• String Of Taliban Victories Over Past 72 Hours; Former Trump Officials Testify, Cuomo Staffer Who Filed Criminal Complaint Speaks Publicly. Aired 2-3aET
• Taliban Take Control of Another Afghan City; Time For Leaders to mandate Masks; Leaders Fail to Lead; Wildfires a Huge Climate Change Concern; COVID-19 Seen a Spike in Southeast Asia. Aired 3-4a ET
• Soaring COVID Cases in U.S. Erasing Months of Progress; Debates Over Mask, Vaccine Mandates Rage as COVID Spreads; U.N. Releases Critical Climate Change Report; California's Dixie Fire Now Second Largest in State History; Taliban Take Taloqan, Now Control Five Provincial Capitals; New York Lawmakers to Meet with Impeachment Investigators; Former Justice Officials Detail Effort to Undermine 2020 Election Results. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Florida Reports Record Week of New Covid Infections; Republicans Follow Trumps Dismissal of Virus; France Expands Use of COVID Health pass; Mass Testing, Travel Limits in China after New Cases Reported; Grease Fires "Like a Horror Movie"; Summer Olympic Games Wrap up after Your Long Delay. Aired 4:30-5a ET


CNN Special Reports
• CNN Special: Being A.O.C. Aired 9-10p ET


Connect the World
• Taliban Seizing Cities In Afghanistan; New Health Pass Rules Take Effect In France; California's Dixie Fire Now Second Largest In State History. Aired 10-11a ET
• UN Secretary General: Report a "Code Red for Humanity"; Fires Ravage Greece as UN Issues "Code Red for Humanity"; The Role of Big Banks in Developing Cleaner Fuels; The Battle for Kandahar; World Bank Unveils Climate Change Action Plan; Saroj Kumar Jha: Lebanese Crisis is Self- Inflicted. Aired 11a-12p ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Gov. DeSantis Threatens Salaries If Schools Mandate Masks; Interview With Austin, Texas Mayor Steve Adler (D); Sources Say Gov. Cuomo In Fighting Mood, Aides Urging Him To Resign; Sen. Judiciary To Interview Ex-U.S. Attorney As Part Of Trump Probe; Senate Hours Away From Final Vote On $1.2T Infrastructure Bill. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• Did Not Air 4-5a ET
• Taliban seizes Fifth Afghan City After U.S. Troop Pullout; U.N. Climate Report Is A Red Alert For The Planet; California's Dixie Fire Now Second-Largest In State History. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Schools in the U.S. Reconsider Mask Rules Amid Delta Variant Resurgence; Canada Eases Restrictions As Vaccinated Americans Can Now Travel to Canada; Corporate America Pushes Back Return-to-Office Plans. Aired 5-5:30a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• The U.N. Says We have Zero Years to Avoid Devastating Climate Change; Wildfires in Greece Highlight the Impact of the Climate Crisis; France Implements Top New Vaccine Rules. Aired 9-10a ET


Inside Politics
• Ex-DOJ Officials Detail Trump Efforts to Undermine Election; Governor Cuomo Accuser Details Groping in New Interview; Governor Cuomo Attorney: His Behavior Was Not Criminal; Unvaccinated Fuel Delta Variant Surge, Hospitalizations; Former DOJ Officials Detail Trump's Effort to Overturn Election. Aired 12-12:30p ET
• Fmr. DOJ Officials Detail Trump's Efforts To Overturn Election; No New Mandates From DeSantis Despite Record Cases In FL; Ocasio- Cortez Doesn't Rule Out Challenge To Schumer. Aired 12:30-1p ET


New Day
• Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) Tweets That No One Should Follow CDC's Guidamce; Six Members of a Jacksonville, Florida Church Have Died From COVID in Less Than Two Weeks; Canadian Border is Officially Reopened to Fully Vaccinated Travelers from the United States. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Senate Close to Passing Infrastructure; Taliban Seizes Fifth Afghan City; Middle East's Largest Lake Turned to Desert; JT Ibe is Interviewed about a Hit in Football. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• Fauci Says, Possible New Variants Could be More Problematic than Delta; Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) Top Aide Resigns as Governor Faces Possible Impeachment; Widow of Officer Who Died by Suicide Says, a Line-of-Duty Death. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Ex-Acting A.G. Testifies: Trump, Loyalist Tried Stealing Election; Corporate America's September Plan Implodes Due To Surge; Texas Schools Attempt To Balance Student Safety With Mask Bans. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Interview with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (R-CO); Cuomo's Top Aide Resigns as Governor Cuomo Faces Potential Impeachment. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Fate of Cuomo's Impeachment; Ocasio-Cortez Feared during Insurrection; Friends Trapped in Elevator Flooding; Broadway's Majestic Theater Returns. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• U.N. Climate Report Is A Code Red For Humanity; Greece Battles Massive Wildfires; France Mandates Health Passes At Bars And Restaurants; Oil Down Amid Surging Delta Variant Fears; China Looks To Carry Olympic Momentum To Beijing 2022. Aired 3-4p ET


The Situation Room
• Florida Governor Threatens School Funds If Imposing Mask Mandates; Pentagon To Seek Vaccine Mandate To All Active Duty Military; Governor Andrew Cuomo Possible Impeachment Over Sexual Allegations; Top Aide To New York Gov. Resigns; Senate Moves Toward Final Vote On $1.2T Infrastructure Bill; Ex-DOJ Officials Detail Trump Efforts To Undermine Election; Taliban Seize Fifth Afghan City In Vacuum Left By U.S. Withdrawal. Aired 5-6p ET
• Florida Governor Threatens to Withhold Salaries of School Officials Violating His Ban on School Mask Mandates; Ex-DOJ Officials Detail Trump Efforts Undermine Election; Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) Said to be in Fighting Mood as Aides Push Him to Resign Amid Sexual Harassment Scandal; Florida Governor Threatens to Withhold Salaries of School Officials Violating His Ban on School Mask Mandates. Aired 6-7p ET


Hala Gorani Tonight
• U.N. Warns Of Climate Change; Taliban Gains More Territory In Afghanistan; France Rolls Out COVID-19 Health Passes; Pentagon Plans To Make Coronavirus Vaccines Mandatory For All Members Of Active Duty Military; Canada Reopens Border To Vaccinated Americans; Tokyo Games Launch Discourse Around Mental Health Sports. Aired 2-3p ET