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Professor pointed out on twitter yesterday, people who are extremely anti-lockdown should be extremely pro-vaccination. and hes right. thats exactly correct and logical, and yet, the pro-covid faction has freaked out in response to president bidens announcement of a requirement that large companies must either mandate vaccinations or weekly testing for employees. the rule will come from the department of labor agency has that been around for 50 years regulating workplace safety and assuring heal...

Is a little better than 90%. and some of those americans are choosing to stay. others we know we have the same commitment from the same professionals to do everything we can to assure that they reach safety outside the borders of afghanistan. so that effort ongoing and it continues. i think the other thing we have to talk about is a broader perspective. on how we americans use our military and really, and i think that president biden stands by this, it has to serve a vital national interest. whe...

That we wanted to get out, but i think if we stayed another 10 days we wouldnt have gotten everybody out that we wanted to get out and would still be people who would be disappointed with that. its a tough situation. the us and its allies are now facing up to the taliban being in charge of afghanistan and the prospect of building a difficult diplomatic relationship — one that the americans say will not be based on trust. within minutes of that final us flight out of kabul, the taliban were in ...

Mission to terrorism, it really at that point terrorism is winning. so its hard to say. its hard to say what we should do, but, unfortunately, what it means we have to do is continue this mission now. it doesnt mean we shouldnt be more aggressive or use other levels of deterrence if we have known isis targets in afghanistan, we should probably target them right now to show some level of deterrence that there will be consequences, but in the meantime we have to continue with this mission. >> gene...

Quarantine before they can be reunited with the rest of the family in nottingham. and although they are still worried about their relatives that remain in the country, this family are looking forward to putting the anxiety of the last few days behind them. navteonhal, bbc news, nottingham. staying with afghanistan — one of the key reasons why president biden says he must keep to the deadline of withdrawal on august 31st is because of his concern over a terror threat, including from the afghan ...

Above it all, governor ron desantis still apparently committed to a strategy that involves no active restrictions. today, though, there are real signs that floridians are simply fed up. according to the latest from quinnipiac, more than half of voters, 51%, disapprove of the governors response. by a five-point margin, voters say desantis is doing more to hurt the covid response than to help it. lets bring in democratic pollster fernand and david jolly. both are msnbc contributors. two of the mos...

Largely like a liberal bogeyman. last year, he lifted all covid restrictions on businesses way back in september, well before the vaccines were available. now, with the states vaccine rate lagging behind other large states, about 59% of eligible population fully vaccinated, this disaster is raging. its just objectively a terrible situation. hundreds of floridians dying, and governor desantis is not taking care of the citizens he represents. instead, he has been busying himself with nonsense, lik...

DOHA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Taliban announced on Saturday that its delegation met with political figures in the Afghan capital Kabul, assuring them of securit

Will let the people go free who want to leave afghanistan? >> first of all to make it clear we have no influence over the taliban if we did we could reach a peace deal during that time that given the context with them and we have been urging them to make sure that they are also protecting the people especially the foreigners who are there and not to mistreat them in any way but we have seen some statements from them in assuring safety and security we have been watching very closely the situation...

Chinese foreign minister meeting a taliban delegation in northern china in july giving legitimacy and perhaps confidence to the militant group long regarded with fear and suspicion by the rest of the world. as many global powers now rush to escape afghanistan, china claims it remains one of the few to retain its embassy in the capital but chinas support for the taliban comes with strings attached. chinas help with reconstruction in exchange for the taliban assuring regional stability. >> transla...