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A report an afghan interpreter was tortured and killed after an escape attempt and i think well see more stories like this and more stories like you just talked about, the number of people going without proper nutrition and food. while the taliban is in charge. i think, bill, you hit the key point. where is our leverage, right? we were told there is economic leverage over the taliban. thats only as effective whenever you dont have the chinese and russians willing to fill that gap, willing to fil...

Happen and united as an example, they implement it a vaccine mandate several weeks ago and they now have -- they had a huge increase in the number of employees who have been vaccinated. so what the presidents continue to do is lift up private sector companies and businesses that have already put in place mandates. >> i would point you to osha, given there are some good questions, and businesses can employ it, its become more popular and has been very successful in the vast majority of instances ...

Take anything to the floor that isnt ready, doesnt have the votes. we will see where this goes. we know you will be on top of it. youre going to be hearing a lot about politics, time lines and leverage. theres deep uncertainty how all of this will play out. raising the debt ceiling. not raising that is playing with fire. the treasury department wouldnt have enough money to pay the bills, would have to pick and choose which to pay. federal payments to millions of people would be halted. social ...

To wait years for the next airlift. one international expert telling fox news they could soon look to escape by land if thats even possible. >> a lot of these people will flee over land and present themselves in various places bordering afghanistan. the journey to the north through iran to turkey and beyond is very perilous and gets worse in the winter. >> former state department spokesperson of president trump and marie harf and morgan ortagus. we were told about 100,000, maybe more afghan part...

They have some imagination that they have leverage over joe manchin where as far as joe manchin is concerned, his state voted 70% for donald trump the congresswoman jayapal doesnt have any leverage over joe manchin. it would help him politically to do what the republicans are doing and stand in the way and do nothing but hes already abo acted in good faith and voted for the infrastructure bill. i think the republican nihilism has put the democrats in this situation but they need to live in reali...

Right? they want a vote -- i mean, you know, this is what they are saying -- they want a vote on a massive spending bill that is transformational, right? whether you agree with it or not, it is transformational. thats why they want it. thats why the people who dont want it, dont. but they havent even finished writing it and agreeing on it and they want to force a vote on it before anything else. you know, in some ways, that sounds quite toddleresque, okay? ill be honest. why not more conversatio...

>> i would, bill. look, i think there were a loft experts that never bought into the theory that there was a new taliban. they knew they would return to their brutality at some point and werent surprised they took over afghanistan again. the speed with which they did was surprising but for four administrations they had been taking back territory. a lot of people werent surprised by this. morgan is right that our leverage is only good so far as the chinese and russians or pakistanis or others don...

Disagreement of policy or you take it as him, as i mentioned in the lead, just using the economy and the recent hardship weve all gone through, some as i emphasize harder than others, as one more piece of leverage. >> well, you know, juanita said something really important, and thats the f word. filibuster it doesnt get mentioned enough in this public discussion. when you see it come up its like oh, the democrats have another challenge. they need to deal with something called the debt ceiling. n...

Behind this bipartisan bill on infrastructure. the historic largest infrastructure in a century. lets get it done this week and make sure we keep working around the clock on reconciliation until that gets across the finish line, too. but they are two separate pieces of legislation. we should look at them as such. >> congressman, i appreciate your time. thank you so much. god to talk to you again. i want to go now to david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama. look, david, i understa...

And youll give the taliban time to show whether theyre the kind of government you can approve of, or will you say to them theyve got to shape up and behave properly? you know, i think this is a great opportunity for the international community to actually incentivise taliban to walk the talk, what they said, to make sure they go in the direction. because as compared to last time, i find that the taliban are seeking international acceptability. i think they recognise that the situation in afghani...