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But at the same time everything that can be done should be done to ramp up production and make more vaccine available globally. that is an imperative from our perspective for the rest of the world but also ourselves and the united states. >> doctor, thank you very much for joining us this morning. still ahead on "morning joe," amid growing criticism over the exit from afghanistan, president biden is expected to deliver remarks today on the evacuation efforts. but before that, white house commu...

Now weve prepared for every contingency we knew the rapid fall of kabul of possible and thats why we prepared and put the troops in the region. 48 hours after the fall of kabul we evacuated all of our embassy personnel to the airport without a shot fired. thats not something that happens that requires foresight and planning and thats what president biden and his team did. >> on july 8th, president biden as you know said a taliban takeover of the country is not inevitable, he called it highly unl...

Dont let me to go in. >> did you see the taliban beating people? >> yeah. beating and shooting. they run behind you with the ak-47. boom, boom, boom. >> what do you think about what is happening right now to your country, to you? >> our country is like now -- its finished. no more afghanistan. >> reporter: eventually theyre moved inside to a waiting room. a marine tries to lighten the mood, joking with the children. theyre given water and military rations. and then more moves and more waiting. t...

Up because shes here. how the former administrations deal with the taliban may play into the current discussions with kabul. and kate bedingfield on the latest in afghanistan. "morning joe" is moments away. . "morning joe" is moments away. thats how weve become the leader in 5g. #1 in customer satisfaction. and a partner who includes 5g in every plan, so you get it all.

Get their families out if you can >> reporter: the pentagon says it could airlift up to 9,000 a day, but far fewer were evacuated 2,000 over 24 hours. republican critics say more must be done. >> this is all on president biden. there is no plan to get u.s. citizens outside of kabul into kabul and once they get to kabul, there is no plan to make the taliban to let them through. >> reporter: to speed things up, the state department says by tomorrow, it will double the staff processing evacuation c...

Folded, mika. >> courtney, as i talk to former military, to a man and woman, they wonder why the united states abandoned a week before that cable the bagram air base. if the plan was to air lift american and afghan allies out of the country bagram would be the place do it, its been there 20 years and the united states literally left in the middle of the night. why as you talk to your sources at the pentagon did they abandon that if the plan was to get all these people out and do they regret it n...

Hit their capacity for the number of u.s. military that theyre bringing in. theyre over 5,200 right now, the goal is just north of 6,000. the mission to evacuate people and get troops to secure the airport is well under way and progressing from several days ago. on that cable it was sent july 13th. i was in kabul that day, on july 13th. it was the day after general scott miller, who was the long-time commander there stepped down as the commander of u.s. forces, and the nato commission there. he ...

People from kabul out to bagram. ive driven the road, its a long road to get out there, its also an enormous sprawling base so it takes a lot of troops to actually secure the perimeter there. ive heard the criticism but i dont know that bagram would have been the answer to this issue, this problem. just getting the people out there, look at the people outside kabul right now. one of the issues that the u.s. state department and military are facing is, its not just getting people through the tali...

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Suggested that kabul would fall within 11 days. that was not a scenario that was put in front of the president. so he saw a wide array of intelligence but ultimately at the end of the day hes the commander in chief and the buck stops with him, he made the decision. he believes sending another generation of american men and women to fight, to prop up a government whose leadership was unwilling to fight for itself is not in our national interest and not in the interest of our troops. this was a de...