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Threat from delta. this graph showing a significant drop in efficacy. >> we are concerned that this pattern of decline we are seeing will continue in the months ahead, which could lead to reduced protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and dealt. >> reporter: while the fully vaccinated still have a layer of protection, the cdc estimates likely near the eight-month mark after inoculation, antibody levels decline, saying a booster increases them by at least ten-fold. meantime, the pres...

Evacuate them. huge logistical challenge. and they depend to a degree on the taliban. that is a shaky position. but the administration believes that they have leverage over the taliban including financial leverage. the imf has frozen special drawing rights, the treasury has frozen billions of dollars in afghan assets in u.s. financial institutions. so they are holding what leverage they can to try to continue that cooperation and get those people out. >> well see if that leverage works. john har...

Theyre not the ones serving the vast majority of the older population. they really are putting teeth. theyre adding to their sort of leverage pile every single week. >> yeah, back to what i was saying, i think the president knew when he came in that getting this pandemic under control was the first priority under his mandate. i think after watching them kind of really nervously tried to bob and weave on the vaccine mandate debate. theyre stepping right in and saying employers can really put the ...

Right inside of afghanistan. it will become a more dangerous place threatening america and the world is a more dangerous place. now we have this crisis. the focus and leadership should be on this crisis. i dont hear the president and even the other day with jake sullivan saying something like this, listen, we are determined to get all american citizens and our afghan friends who worked with us out of the country. well stay there with thousands of troops until the last person is out. now when you...

We have more time than we did. a week ago the united states still had the ability to sort of make its way around the city some because the city was in the hands of a friendly government. at this moment we dont have that liberty so we cant send people out to help pluck americans from wherever they may be. the guarantees of the taliban, as kylies report suggests, arent worth very much. so we dont have a whole lot of leverage here. now, the administration will say accurately that two weeks ago they...

Should not squint to see different. >> emily: u.s. is still "in talks because cope the taliban as confidently stated, the taliban has not told us that they interfere with the safe passage with people to the airport. with what concern says? what leverage to we have from the weekend position that the presidents put us in question marks before weve a joint statement from countries. this is one of our top concerns. at the end >> sweve a joint statement from of the statement, we are keeping track the...

Leave the country from reaching the airport. we expect them to allow all-american citizens all third country nationals and all afghans who wish to leave to do so safely and without harassment. >> bret: do they really think, ari, from the podium from the state department that the taliban encircling the airport are going to be listening to wendy sherman? >> yeah, this is the same administration that said if you dont follow the rules, you wont have international legitimacy as if the radical islamis...

>> we have huge leverage but we are the united states of america. we should never forget the strength we have in our values. i tell you, the president frustrates me here. he seems to have something of a callous indifference to what is taking place not with the american citizens but with the afghans themselves. 1975 maybe there was a prologue to this. senator biden said the united states has no obligation to evacuate one or 100,001 south vietnam east. so said senator biden. that may be one of the...

Year? make sure that barada, he knows in uncertain terms. even if we have to sensibly down there and put a finger in his chest and let him know that this is what we intend to do and that we are determined to safeguard our citizens and our afghan friends who work with us. that is it. >> harris: that is optimism based on facts on the ground. what he is saying is that we have not lost all of our leverage but we are getting very good at giving it away. the window and short on that, but we still can ...

Doesnt reward the governors. and i think it is notable hearing the president say these things about republican governors talking about using the leverage of the federal government to try to get more people vaccinated because its a sign of the concern inside the white house over what were seeing on a national landscape with the delta variant. because these were things they were hesitant to do at the beginning of this administration even though there were areas where they disagreed with some gover...