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These families who are confronting the reality that their own sons and daughters are at risk and in fact some have already lost their lives for a war that the united states has already declared over. that is just an excruciating moment. and its one that he knows very personally. >> a number of politicians and representatives and others have said, have talked about expanding the perimeter, not sticking to the august 31st deadline. that clearly is not in the presidents mindframe. >> no, i mean, he...

Covid treatment. um, a lot of people in conservative media have been talking about it and -- and advocating for it. take a listen. >> we know that our fda has, in many ways, failed us by not allowing for the use of ivermectin. >> discussed the benefits of a drug called ivermectin which can and is used around the world to treat the spread of the coronavirus. >> ivermectin, what do we know about it, sanjay? >> you know, i -- we dont know much because there is not a lot of data on this. theres been...

Presidents mindframe. >> no, i mean, hes moving in the other direction. i think its worth pointing out, its very easy for somebody in washington to say the solution is simply teex pand the perimeter, but nobody has yet described how that would in fact protect american service members from the attack they faced today. >> it actually exposes american service members more, just a larger perimeter. >> and thats very much the thinking in the white house. look, they are of the view that there are just...

Think its worth pointing out that there is circulating some, even more horrific material on social media that the papers cannot show and we certainly will not show. but they certainly will not show. but they certainly give an account of how awful the situation was. i wonder if i can come to you first, james and your thoughts about what were seeing and reading. it is horrible. its ust seeing and reading. it is horrible. itsjust horrible, _ seeing and reading. it is horrible. itsjust horrible, wha...

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They would reluctantly allow the afghans that choose to leave, they could leave. it is not clear and were seeking clarity from the taliban as to whether they are now saying they cant leave. there are afghans here at the gates, there are afghans getting through to the international airport here. they mostly have visas issued to them either by the united states or other countries as part of the coalition. so there clearly hasnt been a total block on it but were not clear yet whether it is a absolu...

Joining us eli stokels, washington correspondent with "the washington post" and former democratic congressman donna edwards, an msnbc contributor. jacqueline, i want to start with you this is, of course, one of the first big foreign policy crises of this new presidency. talk to me about the thinking inside of the biden administration right now. >> i think the biden administration looking at the poll nbc news released whether or not americans approve or disapprove. that is the number they keep po...

>> and that was the police and fire chief in waverly, tennessee, talking about the heart break his community is feeling after severe flooding left at least 21 people dead over the weekend. and this video gives you a sense of the extensive damage, but the scope of the devastation that comes clear once you get up close. paula with cnn affiliate had this on sunday. >> reporter: ill show you guys what were seeing. one of the first images, we saw this, the photographer nikki just pointed this out to ...

>> give a sense of the white house. how do members of the administration feel about how the situation in afghanistan is being handled? you have the president who says the buck stops with me. i take full ownership of my actions, but is there any internal finger pointing going on thinking, well, how porl was he informed to make these decisions and things like that? >> yeah, theres a lot of finger pointing in a moment like this. you harper the defense department complaining the state department isn...

Jake sullivan, pointing out they acted pretty quickly, they were able to get the embassy staff out but theyre really putting this airport together while its in the air, to borrow a phrase here. we saw how they had this backup that emerged in doha, qatar, and there was really nowhere to process them, so now theyre finding these other place to say put them or secures arrange for more than two dozen country to say allows both american citizens and afghan refugees to transit through those points. th...