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0 ahead of that messaging before the science had before that regulators were on the same page with them. >> john: , and on the immigration front, the mayor of del rio, texas, is on the extraordinary pictures. they declared a state of emergency in his town. thanks for being with us on this friday >> martha: thanks, john and jacqui. a lot of breaking news. im martha maccallum in new york. any moment now, there you can see the podium is set up at the pentagon. a huge development breaking right now ...

Process. overall, andrea, defense officials are not disputing the defense and they are questioning the way they are being characterized and in some cases being overly dramatized and how they are being recounted in the book. >> michael mcfall, you worked both as an ambassador and at the nsc, obviously in russia and more broadly. so you could very well that interagency process in the obama team and you saw the way now president biden reacted in 2009 when he was the odd man out in the whole debate ...

The spread, or at least slowing it? >> yes. i dont know at which point -- it almost becomes how much evidence do you need or how many times do you have to prove the same thing? there have been so many school districts now that have been masked versus those that have been not masked. and you can compare those sort of as control groups. theyre not perfect randomized trials, but i think its very clear now, and the cdc has come out and said masks work and theres no sort of down side to them. what i ...

Mandates in oklahoma. the feds are telling them to do something out of the regular order. after all, this new requirement wasnt debated and passed by congress. >> the president of the united states cannot just make a law out of thin air and tell businesses that they have to require every individual that works in the business to get a vaccine. he doesnt have that authority. he has to go through congress im not even sure if congress with order it. this is unprecedented for a president of the unite...

Should be left to its own devices by in large. the calculation of the president, though, is probably that this is going to be politically popular for him. if you look at the polling, people do want their coworkers vaccinated. that is a majority of americans feel that way. there is a down side, however. we have a labor shortage in this country, paul. and to the extent that these vaccine mandates keep people out of the workforce, it is only going to exacerbate that worker shortage. >> paul: yeah. ...

I am curious about our allies, are they some of those that tipped us off about isis-k, they all seemed to be in on it quickly making a warning. some positive signs that we have the intelligence. down side, counterterrorism ground operations, air strikes in a major city, those arent going to happen unless it is absolute devastation in terms of attacks there. our options are extremely limited in the final days headed up to 31 august. >> explain why isis-k is a sworn enemy of the taliban. >> so isi...

0 >> karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with "mtp daily" only on msnbc. well, dont worry, andrea, youre not going very far. were coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to "mtp daily." a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president bidens agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside t...

Us. first of all, let me just ask, because youve had this very rare what mustve been odd experience. most americans will never set foot in a room with the taliban. what is negotiating with them like? can you take them at their word? what tactics seem to work with them? >> so, i think the key thing to remember about the taliban is they are a militia, a regional militia. theyre fairly well organized. i think on the upside they can keep their word. on the down side, if we dont have pressure, and i ...

Israel, for instance, people over 60 are automatically eligible to go and get that third shot and were seeing it elsewhere, as well. some people are doing it on their own and were not advocating that and im just seeing some are. >> the down side is its not necessary in the overall populations and the threshold in a non-immunosuppressed people is they get breakthrough infections that land them in the hospital to a high degree. thats just not happening. if you walk through the covid patients and t...

Same chance of miscarriage with or without the vaccine that your pregnancy is actually safer with the vaccine, that does take time to accumulate that data. i think your point is actually well taken and could be applied to the design of trials. because thats what were talking about. we didnt have enough pregnant women and issues of safety of including pregnant women in trials but this pandemic has illustrated we need to do a better job with that and do a better job of thinking how were including ...