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Days im jonathan lemire on this tuesday, august 17th. well start with the news. we begin with the chaotic scenes coming out of kabuls international airport where tens of thousands of afghans surrounded planes in an desperate attempt to escape taliban control. richard engel has the latest from kabul. >> reporter: tens of thousands of afghans swarmed into kabul airport, desperate to leave at any price. they burst through security. climbed over walls. and spilled onto the tarmac. searching for any ...

For more than a decade. he believes its time for the american presence to leave afghanistan. this is something he firmly believes in. he doesnt want another son or daughter american life lost over there. how it happened, how the evacuation went down, thats another matter but there are few people defending it. the president said yesterday ill take criticism on this because its part of his convictions. >> it is definitely just past the top of the hour on this tuesday, august 17th. and president bi...

Sustained military mission in afghanistan is over. well be joined this morning by a top voice at the defense department when pentagon spokesman john kirby joins us as chaos grips a country now ruled by the taliban. plus new developments in the fight against covid. the biden administration has decided that most americans should get a booster vaccination eight months after they received their second shot. well have the details on that just ahead. good morning, and welcome to "morning joe." it ...

Safety and the latest numbers with all of that. stay with msnbc for the latest from the pentagon as it pertains to the ongoing crisis in afghanistan. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up coverage right now. hi there, i am stephanie ruhle. it is tuesday, august 17th. we start this morning with fast moving developments out of afghanistan and the ripple effects across the world. any minute, we expect the secretary general of nato to address the situation from brussels. europ...

And one that was actually carried out with remarkable success. a few months after that we began to pivot to invading iraq and have been distracted and sort of misled for most of the 19 years ever since. >> garrett, i know that you have been watching this for the 19 years since and i appreciate you being with us today. thank you. >> thanks so much for having me. "new day" continues right now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, august 17th, and ...

Alarming place. new details are emerging about the man being called the most dangerous trump official you never heard of. and why the danger to democracy is not over. and ill be joined by two texas lawmakers who fled the state to block a republican voter suppression bill and are now subject to arrest thanks to an escalating fight with their republican governor and colleagues. you won believe how much a handful of mega rich families benefitted from some very specific almost bespoke tax cuts...

Medical doctors and public health authorities. in our local community. we were advised to start school with all the mitigation factors that we could employ. masking was one of them. so, we are following the advice of the local officials who are in touch with the conditions of the spread of covid-19 in our community. that is a decision that we went with the last week. to start school with the mask mandate. and to reevaluate it based on current conditions from august 17th. we thought it was the be...

Her ninth year teaching sixth grade science in alachua county where students are heading back to class today. >> i think its important to model safety with the kids and make sure that they feel safe with me. then i have a two-year-old daughter at school who is starting school this year, and so i need to be able to protect her and her classmates. >> reporter: her school board will reevaluate its decision to require masks on august 17th. >> it does make you pause, but our goal is the health and sa...

Which has repeatedly putting the losing republican candidate in office and a divided senate in which one half of the membership represents 41 million fewer citizens than the other, we are a nation in which a vir lint minority has an out-sized voice and the majority underrepresented and forced into a bystander role suffers mightily in silence. we are going to be dealing with the consequences of the trump administration, the pandemic, and particularly the insurrection of january 6th, for a very, v...

We like where were going. we hope its successful. >> im glad that youre seeing progress. i dont know if its fast enough. the clark county vaccination rate right now, which is where las vegas is, is just 41%. i think the positivity rated the is 17%. so i hear what youre saying. youre trying to, i guess, you know, use inducements rather than requirements. but why not at this point as we see the numbers going in the wrong direction just require your workers to be vaccinated? >> i think it is workin...