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Pointing, the state department pointing the finger at the defense department and both of them at the intel community. the intel community leaking what they told the president. so this is not what they want to be doing. >> right. >> this is not what you want. and, so, its better to be transparent. it didnt go right. there are reasons it didnt go right. find out what those reasons are. but in the immediate, also give people assurance that you are moving forward and doing the things that need to be...

All of this chaos that is happening. and the question that the white house has not answered yet, and we will see if the president gets it to, why is this such a mess and continued to be and who is to blame for that? because someone, somewhere is to blame for all of that, and the finger pointing, and you know, usually does happen in instances like these, but the president, the buck is going to stop with him, but this is a person who is also really stubborn. and president biden has for years wante...

Mistake or not, its still a mistake. now its biden ver us the biden. i expect him to give a survey of the situation. hes been briefed this morning about the situation at the airport. so this is something thats underway right now at this moment. in terms of next steps, how much he was wrong or not, we will see. but overall, he believes his policy was right. so for all the finger pointing, the reality is a few weeks ago, no one in washington was talking about afghanistan. its long-been a forgotten...

The departure of u.s. and allied personnel from afghanistan and to evacuate our afghan allies and vulnerable afghans to safety outside of afghanistan. >> will: thats the weirdest draw down in history. a withdrawal where you increase your troop levels. look, in one sentence he claimed that human rights will always be at the top of americas values and in the next he explained is he abandoning the afghans to the taliban. >> i have been clear the human rights must be the center of our foreign policy...

Its also worth pointing out what has changed in the last 24 hours. one major development has been the fall of jalalabad. and also the fall of -- provinces. those are neighboring, right around kabul. the taliban in the last several days but particularly in the last 24 hours, have really been able to surround and isolate kabul. from the military perspective, this offensive throughout the country has worked not only very quickly, but it has worked very efficiently. and it has been a very strong and...

And whats remarkable is, if you take a step back and look at what weve been hearing out of the u.s. side during this taliban offensive is that the afghan military is 350,000 strong and that they have this asymmetric advantage of the air force that the taliban does not have. and so because of that, they should be able to take on the taliban which, when the offensive began, they were numbering somewhere around 77, 75,000 taliban fighters. thats just proven to be untrue. it just shows that the very...

Are as safe from a severe covid outcome basically as a vaccinated adult is. im not of worried about them. i think its reasonable to worry about the teachers. i would support this, i think employees of public schools, government agencies, the government should require them to get vaccinated or not teach there. thats something that de santis other order gets in the way of. i can understand criticism of prohibiting vaccine mandates for public employees but the medias not talking about that. theyre ...

After al-anda, decimating al-anda, its not gone, but it is degraded, and pointing out that osama bin laden was killed ten years ago. of course it does bear mentioning he was killed in pakistan, not in afghanistan, but there was a second part of the american mission in afghanistan and the start, that was regime change. the bush ministration decided not only to go after al-qaeda and the terrorists but also to illuminate the taliban regime, and adjudged it essential that there not be taliban rule i...

0 jaw-dropping developments. >> thank you, dan. appreciate it. we are nearing the top of the hour right here on msnbc as we continue to watch these live pictures coming from the city of kabul. a city that is right now encircled by the taliban. by some reports, the taliban have been spotted within the streets of the city. there are reports that negotiations are taking place within the presidential palace there in the capital city. its not clear if ashraf ghani who is taking part of those negotiat...

Because there is not enough data. the cdc pointing to studies that show 40% of hospitalized breakthrough cases involve those with weak immune systems. but the agency is not calling the third dose a booster. >> very clear the cdc is labeling this a third dose as appropriate because the first two doses were not adequate enough to get the full potential of immunity. very different from a booster dose >> as hospitals face a crushing wave of new covid cases, experts say boosters for the fully vaccina...