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Theories. thats now what tedros is saying. i dont think the w.h.o. has any leverage to get to the chinese labs, i dont think the biden administration is using its leverage, even though it has it. theres more work that needs to be done to investigate both theories, which shouldnt be a controversial thing to say anymore. >> unless china cooperates far more than they certainly have been, unless there is, you know, intelligence, human intelligence or some sort of electronic intelligence from that la...

Its already gotten bad and we are only in the middle of july. and i have to go back to what you and i talked about a while ago, chris, which is that the cdc really made a big mistake here by saying fully vaccinated people can take off their masks but not having any way to verify this. people are not behaving honorably. the unvaccinated are basically saying its open season for me. i can do whatever i want, as well. and as a result, we did not incentivize people to get vaccinated. it was exactly t...

Do it, states could do it. i just dont think they have the leverage. what do you think happens if the cases go really high and people start suggesting at the federal level you may want to think about significant measures again, youre seeing them in california. do you think people would go for it? >> im a little disappointed that i walk around with my wallet possessing a vaccination card, proof of vaccination. ive never had to show it, and im leading a pretty active life and including, you know, ...

>> well i think first of all we must think about women activists. i was just talking ten minutes ago to a group of women activists across the country. none of whom has a way out right now. all of whom have been very visible and aligned with the u.s. presence. so it is thinking through how do you help core women activists, whether that is helping them re-settle in the region or helping them come to the u.s. secondly, how do you think about diplomacy and this administration already is thinking abo...

Iraq and she writes in a cnn op-ed, across 18 years of conflict and three u.s. presidential administrations, too many international policymakers have never fully stopped seeing afghan womens rights and full participation in society as something nice to have instead of an indispensable must-do. now we must see in realtime what happens to women as the taliban encircle. gale is a senior fellow at the council foreign relations and author of "the daughters of kubani" and youve been a voice on this fo...

President biden knows well and has been at least privately with james clyburn working on senator manchin on this very issue. i mean, i think as you know those are the kinds of things that they do in private as long as they possibly can and try to get to some agreement in private. and were going to find out whether they get there privately or not at some point. but the focus of the texas legislators now is joe manchin and hoping for a meeting with him on thursday. >> yeah, those texas legislators...

With the taliban. >> this argument that somehow if you have boots on the grounds you somehow have all this leverage, that hasnt panned out the last five, 10, 15 years. we had 100,000 troops on the ground. the idea if you have boots on the ground that gives you leverage has not exactly been the historical record so far. what we do have is a lot of diplomatic leverage and were using that. we are still involved in trying to broker forward a negotiated settlement in afghanistan and nothing has chang...

Sharia law, puts the women back under the burqa. are we really saying thats not our problem. >> i think the progress of women and girls in afghanistan, its the worlds problem, its everybodys problem. we share the concerns over the progress theyve made and the progress they have yet to make. thats why we continue to call for a negotiatessed political solution to the end of the wall they that is afghan led, that the afghan people have a voice in saying, not imposed on them outside the country. it ...

Sharia law, puts the women back under the burqa. are we really saying thats not our problem. >> i think the progress of women and girls in afghanistan, its the worlds problem, its everybodys problem. we share the concerns over the progress theyve made and the progress they have yet to make. thats why we continue to call for a negotiatessed political solution to the end of the wall they that is afghan led, that the afghan people have a voice in saying, not imposed on them outside the country. it ...

With the taliban. >> this argument that somehow if you have boots on the grounds you somehow have all this leverage, that hasnt panned out the last five, 10, 15 years. we had 100,000 troops on the ground. the idea if you have boots on the ground that gives you leverage has not exactly been the historical record so far. what we do have is a lot of diplomatic leverage and were using that. we are still involved in trying to broker forward a negotiated settlement in afghanistan and nothing has chang...