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Kenyans receiving COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday expressed concerns over the countries dependency on donations of doses.

The u.s. contractors and american intelligence officers, have been the bloodstream that have sustained the afghan military and security forces for many, many years. with the abrupt severing of that bloodstream, its clear that the afghan forces were not up to the task and then compounded by, i think, the psycholithdraw in a rapid way. so i dont know what the intelligence assessments were that went to the white house in terms of how quickly things could unravel, but clearly they have, and its beca...

Qaeda prisoners have been released? is there a sense of that, the worst of the worst as theyve been described? how do we know which taliban are doing what, since that is not necessarily a monolithic leadership group? >> that was one of the principal reasons why we kept u.s. military forces there for so many years. we wanted to have those forward-operating bases in different parts of the country that served as americas eyes and ears to keep tabs on the terrorism front and see what the afghan forc...

By creating such dependency that the partner crashes and burns thats strategic malpractice and something to take a hard look at as we examine the outcomes of this war. >> we can get to that in a second but i want do go back to the exodus for a moment because -- and the evacuation. i have spoken to a few afghans on the ground who worked with the u.s. and what they are sur pridesed be -- we heard from the deputy speaker of the parliament. the way it is being done and why not secure the safe exit o...

Behind after a 20-year investment. and so i dont think there was much discussion or much comment that he made about why the last several days have been just a demonstration of chaos and confusion. its a very dynamic situation. he said that the buck stops with him. but clearly this was not anticipated. thankfully, we did have the contingency plans to be able to surge in military forces, to be able to again safeguard the airport and to try to ensure the safe evacuation. now, i will say that im gla...

With a dependency on not just the american military but american contractors and nato support. and so when we left without the capability that theyd come to rely on, they lacked the will because they didnt know that they could carry this into the fight against the taliban that had been hardened through decades of battle. so hes basically making the judgment that look, if we stayed inevitably we were going to be mired in what was an ongoing civil war. it was an ongoing civil war. and that that is...

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Were responding to climate change but were also responding to racial justice and a global pandemic and an economy thats faltering so this is the moment to invest in areas that weve neglected for a very long time like the care economy so were talking about home care and child care, like green infrastructure so we can finally end our dependency on fossil fuels, like school infrastructure which is why i introduced a green new deal for public schools looking to invest 44 billion this year for retrof...

To racial justice and a global pandemic and an economy thats faltering so this is the moment to invest in areas that weve neglected for a very long time like the care economy so were talking about home care and child care, like green infrastructure so we can finally end our dependency on fossil fuels, like school infrastructure which is why i introduced a green new deal for public schools looking to invest 44 billion this year for retrofits and moving away from fossil fuels and 446 billion over ...

We increase ssi benefits which will benefit 8 million people, including one million children. we know we have to be as green as possible and completely end our dependency on fossil fuels where there is a hard infracentericture bill or the soft infrastructure. i dont want to call the reconciliation bill softer than infrastructure because some quote/unquote harder things in it. we are really pushing to finally retrofit our school buildings. many are 50, 60, 70, 100 years old. as we talk about infr...