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Cuomo Prime Time
• U.S. Embassy Warns Americans Outside Kabul's Airport Gates To "Leave Immediately" Because Of Security Threats; Afghan Journalist Shares Personal Fears Of Taliban Directly With Biden Administration; Doctor Sees COVID Surge's Strain On Hospitals Hurting Others. Aired 9- 10p ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• Security Threats Outside Kabul Airport, Americans Told To Leave Immediately; Iceland Proves Vaccines Work With No Deaths Since May; U.S. Intel Officials Not Confident Origins Of Covid-19 Can Be Found; Baby Born On C-17 Evacuation Flight To Germany Named In Honor Of The Call Sign Of The Aircraft. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• Leaving One's Homeland; Interview With Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Aired 1-2p ET


At This Hour
• Pentagon: "Making Clear" to Taliban That Credentialed Afghans Must Get In. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Biden Sticks to August 31 Deadline, But Asks for Contingency Plans; Capitol Riot Committee Requests Massive Amount of Docs from Government Agencies; U.S. Official Says, Intel Suggests ISIS-K may Attack Kabul Airport. Aired 11:30-12p ET
• Child COVID Surge to Near-Record Levels; Soon: Secretary of State to Provide Update on Evacuation; Pentagon: 19,000 People Evacuated in Past 24 Hours; U.S. Official: Intel Suggests ISIS-K May Attack Kabul Airport; 180,000 Plus New COVID Cases Reported Among U.S. Children Last Week. Aired 12-12.30p ET
• House Democrats Pass the $3.5T Budget Resolution; What The Taliban Are Telling Afghan Women Today; Israeli PM Naftali Bennett in Washington Today. Aired 12:30-1p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• State Department: Up to 1,500 Americans Still May Need Evacuation; U.S. Con Concerned About Possible ISIS-K Attacks On Kabul Airport Crowds; Pelosi And Other Lawmakers Criticize Unauthorized Afghanistan Trip By Two Members Of Congress; Delta Airlines To Charge Unvaccinated Employees $200 A Month. COVID Rising; California Recall; Seven States Under Air Quality Alerts as Wildfires Ravage Western U.S. Aired 4-5p ET
• U.S. Citizen Who Escaped Afghanistan Shares His Story; COVID Deaths In U.S. Now Average 1,000 Plus Every Day. Jan. 6 Panel Wants White House Records For Trump, His Top Aides & Family; Any Communication With Extremists; Former Football Star And Trump Supporter Herschel Walker Launches Georgia Senate Campaign; N.Y. State Revises State COVID Deaths Upward By Nearly 12K People; Hospitals Face Nurse Staffing Crisis As COVID Cases Surge. Aired 5-6p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• Defense Department Issue Warning To All Americans In Afghanistan; At Least 1,500 Americans Still Stuck In Kabul; COVID Cases Rising In Both Adults And Children; House Select Committee Ask Companies For Phone Records; President Biden's Rating Plummeted. Aired 10-11p ET
• Security Threats Across Kabul Airport, Americans Told To 'Leave Immediately'; About 20 San Diego Students And Their Families Stranded In Afghanistan; Intel Community Divided Over COVID Origins, Unclear If Source Of Outbreak Can Be Found; Body Cam Video Shows 2019 Beating Of A Black Man By Louisiana State Police Officer; California Recall: CA Dems Frustrated With Newsom's Handling Of Homelessness, Crime And More. Aired 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• Concern about Attacks at Kabul Airport; Biden Sticks to August 31st Deadline; David Sanger is Interviewed about Afghanistan; Johnson & Johnson Booster Data; Dr. Carlos del Rio is Interviewed about COVID. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• House Passes Budget Plan; Biden Received COVID Report; Supreme Court Upholds Remain in Mexico Policy; Aired 9:30-10a ET
• U.S. Defense Official Says, Very Specific Threat Stream on Planned Attacks against Crowds Outside Kabul Airport; Biden Sticks to August 31 Afghanistan Exit, Citing Security Risk; Delta Announces New Policies for Unvaccinated Workers. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Possible Havana Syndrome Incident Delayed Harris Flight to Vietnam; Pentagon Updates Afghanistan Withdrawal amid Stream of Terror Threats. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• The U.S. Has Learned The Terror Group ISIS-K is Plotting Possible Attacks on Crowds Outside the Kabul Airport; Several Major Developments in the Fight Against Coronavirus. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Intel Officials Brief Biden On 90-Day Review Of COVID Origins; As 11 Wildfires Rage, Biden Approves CA Disaster Declaration; Taliban Orders Banks To Reopen As Afghanistan On Brink Of Economic Collapse; OpenTable & Clear Team Up To Help Restaurants Verify Vaccine Status. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• COVID Cases Surging in U.S.; Afghanistan Withdrawal. Aired 2- 2:30p ET
• COVID Cases Surging In U.S.; Lt. Gov. Josh Green (D-HI) Discusses Governor Keeping Popular Tourist Spots Open As Cases Surge & Anti-Vaccination Protests; Secretary Of State Blinken Holds Press Conference On Afghanistan. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Secretary of State Antony Blinken Holds Press Conference; White House Press Briefing. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary Gives Press Briefing On Afghanistan. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Thousands of Evacuees Wait to Depart U.S. Base in Germany; Airbnb to Host Up to 20,000 Afghan Refugees for Free; Rolling Stones' Drummer Charlie Watts Dies at 80. Aired 12-12:45a ET
• U.S. Vice President Visits Singapore and Vietnam; Thousands of Evacuees Wait to Depart U.S. Base in Germany; Afghan Pop Star Tells of Escape from Kabul; Israel PM Bennett to Meet with Biden at White House; Eating the Enemy; Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts Dies at 80. Aired 1-2a ET
• Airlift Picks Up Pace As U.S. Pullout Deadline Nears; Taliban Not Allowing Afghans To Evacuate Anymore; Taliban Spokesman: Women Should Stay Home For Now; Human Rights Activist Flees Taliban Takeover; U.S. Cases Rising At Fastest Rate Since January. Aired 2- 2:45a ET
• President Biden Sticks to Original Schedule; Taliban Wants to Hold Skilled Afghan Workers; Evacuees Dealing with Inconveniencies; Aussies Tired of Repetitive Lockdowns; Israel Ramping Up Booster Vaccination; Terror Group Wants to be Recognized. Aired 3-4a ET
• Several Hundred U.S. Troops Have Already Departed Afghanistan; Airlift Picks Up Pace as U.S. Pullout Deadline Nears; Taliban Not Allowing Evacuation of Afghans Anymore; U.S. House Approves $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution; CDC Study: Vaccines 66 Percent Effective Against Delta Variant; Mask Disputes Escalate as Children Return to School; U.S. Vice President Harris Meets Vietnamese Leaders. Aired 4- 4:30a ET
• Biden Holds to August 31 Deadline to Withdraw; Taliban Not Allowing Afghans to Evacuate Anymore; Former Afghan Ambassador: Must Make Sure Access to Airport Isn't Blocked; Millions Under Heat Advisories Across Country; Man Rescues Multiple People from Floodwaters in Tennessee; FIFA, Other Governing Bodies Awarded $201 Million. Aired 4:30-5a ET


Connect the World
• U.S. and Allies Evacuate 21,000 in 24 Hours from Afghanistan; Taliban Keeping Afghans and Others Away from Kabul Airport; U.S. Defense Official Relates "Very Specific Threat Stream" by ISIS-K outside Kabul Airport; Complaints about Conditions for Evacuees Arriving in Qatar; The Leading COVID-19 Origin Theories Explained; Naftali Bennett Makes First Visit to D.C. as Israeli Prime Minister; Pentagon Briefing. Aired 10-11a ET
• Pentagon: We are in Daily Communication with Taliban about who Should be let Into Kabul Airport; 90 Flights Left Kabul Airport Tuesday with 19,000 Evacuees; Pentagon: U.S. Military Now Requiring COVID-19 Vaccines; Pentagon: "Several Thousand" Evacuees Have Landed in the U.S.; CNN Speak to Mayor of Kabul; Australia and New Zealand Battle Delta Variant Surge. Aired 11a-12p ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Up To 1,500 Americans Still In Afghanistan, 6 Days To Deadline; State Dept. Warns Of "Very Real Possibility Of An ISIS-K Attack" Amid Race To Evacuate Afghans And Up To 1,500 Americans; House CMTE Seeks Massive Tranche Of Documents On Trump And Jan. 6 Capitol Attack; Deadline In 2 Weeks; Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) Talks About The Massive Documents The Select Committee Demands For Trump Including Family Members And Aides. Nebraska Ties To Recruit Nurses, Vaccinations "Not Required"; U.S. To Americans At Some Kabul Airport Gates: "Leave Immediately"; Gov. Newsom In Danger Of Being Recalled Weeks Before Election. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• Did Not Air. 4-5a ET
• President Biden Sticks to August 31 Deadline for Withdrawal; Biden Briefed on 90-Day U.S. Intel Review of COVID's Origins; House Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• Biden Keeps August 31st Deadline To Withdraw From Afghanistan; U.S. Air Base In Germany Filling Up With Evacuees; Vice President Harris Rebukes China Over South China Sea. Aired 5:30-6a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• The Evacuations in Kabul Ramp Up as the 31st Deadline is Ever Closer; The World Bank Says it has Halted Operations in Afghanistan; China Says a U.S. Intelligence Report into the Beginnings of the COVID-19 Virus is Politically Motivated. Aired 9-10a ET


Inside Politics
• Did Not Air. 12-1p ET


New Day
• Biden Sticks to Deadline for Afghanistan Exit; House Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Moderate Dems Threaten Economic Agenda; Hochul Sworn in as Governor; Justin Senior is Interviewed about Florida's COVID Surge; Northeast Faces High Temperatures. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• Approximately 19,000 Evacuated from Afghanistan in 24 Hours; Johnson & Johnson Booster Shots Show Big Increase in Immune Response. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) On House Passage of $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution; Australia And New Zealand Forced To Rethink Zero- COVID Strategy; Vice President Harris' Trip To Vietnam Delayed By Possible Havana Syndrome Incident. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Evacuations of Americans and Afghans from Kabul Airport Continues Ahead of August 31 Deadline; Number of Evacuees from Afghanistan Decreasing; Two U.S. Congressmen Draw Criticism for Visiting Afghanistan During Withdrawal; Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) is Interviewed About the House Passed $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution and the 1/6 Committee to Seek Phone Records of Some Congress Members. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Johnson & Johnson Releases Booster Data; Trump Criticizes Afghan Withdrawal; Rachel Helwig is Interviewed about Afghan Refugees. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• Secretary Of State Antony Blinken Updates The Nation On Afghanistan; Biden Sticks To August 31st Deadline Due To ISIS-K Threat; White House Briefing On Afghanistan Evacuation. Aired 3-4p ET


The Situation Room
• State Department Says About 1,500 Americans May Still Need Evacuating; January 6th Committee Demands Documents From Agencies On Capitol Attack, Signaling Huge Investigative Effort; U.S. Official Says, Intelligence Suggests ISIS-K May Attack Kabul Airport. HHS: 100,000+ U.S. COVID-19 Hospitalizations Now, Nearly Three Times Higher Than In The Past Month. Aired 6-7p ET


Hala Gorani Tonight
• U.S. And Coalition Forces Race To Get People Out Of Afghanistan Before August 31st Deadline; Doctors Plead With Vaccine Skeptics As Virus Spreads; Beijing Pushes Back On U.S. Intelligence's COVID-19 Origin Report. U.S. And Allies Evacuate 19,000 In 24 Hours From Afghanistan; U.S. Secretary Of State Antony Blinken Speaks On Afghanistan Evacuations. Aired 2-3p ET