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Hear him express a kind of war time spirit which is an interesting phrase. its regaining the urgency he had six months ago at the beginning of this when he put the country on what he called a war time footing. hes trying to remind people, this is not done obviously. the numbers are difficult and what they want to show people is some of the things they have done have borne fruit. in july they got 10 million people vaccinated. once there was more concern about delta, once they ratcheted up the awa...

The idea to bring in turkey and qatar which operate large airlines so they would operate the airlines almost as contractors and managed facilities. those discussions are under way to get that airport up and running and the embassy is trying to tell americans to be safe, to be calm, to know where they are, to get their documents in order so once it does bullet up and running theyre able to leave. the documents are a major problem. the taliban will allow people to leave if they have documents but ...

>> bret: president biden facing increasing criticism for what some say is clearly a broken promise about getting americans and thousands of afghans who helped america out of afghanistan. white house correspondent peter doocy looks at the controversy tonight. >> afghanistan policy has not played out as advertised. >> if there is american citizens left we are going to stay until we get them all out. >> turns out all out means 9 out of 10. >> 90% of americans in afghanistan who wanted to leave were...

Casualties. michael. >> cant get the thousands of war time allies who are being left behind. thanks, ivan. jasmine wright in d.c. joe biden making it clear that that strike on isis-k wont be the last. what is the white house saying? >> the situation is grave. white house officials have repeatedly said that. thursday after the attack that left 13 u.s. service members dead was the worst day of president bidens presidency. so thats why you hear biden saying that this strike wont be the last. in par...

Full day in office. importantly this maintains 100% federal reimbursement for state deployments of national guard personnel. president biden committed to the american people that he would do everything in his power to end this pandemic. from his first day in office, the president has marshalled a war time effort to do exactly that. we have been preparing for every scenario including the potential need for vaccine booster shots. our approach for booster shots is simple and it is consistent with t...

Progress in getting americans out. the estimate is 5 to 10,000 americans still in average. many in kabul. but it could be even more than that because they are not at all certain they have a firm handle on americans out in various places in the country. now another 1,000 troops laughing landed and a lot of froops the 82nd air are borne division. that elite divisions command will now take control of the airport mission that the u.s. military has. 82nd airborne commander will be on the ground. hell...

Contingency planning and drilling we did over the course of months preparing for a range of scenarios, including dire scenarios. >> i have been personally trying to tell this administration since it took office. i have been trying to tell our government for years that this was coming. we have sent them plan after plan on how to evacuate these people, nobody listened to us. they didnt plan for the evacuation of our afghan war time allies. they are trying to conduct it now at the 11th hour. we eit...

Begin in mid-september. the new york times says the president pressed biden for an immediate start. why isnt that a bigger story. general austin says its because the fda hasnt permanently approved the vaccine. >> i think most people are worried, thats why im hoping that the fda will say that we permanently ayou prove of -- approve of these vaccines. howie: the fdas been foot dragging for months, even though its fine for 160 million americans having gotten full doses. anthony fauci says the emerg...

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This weekend is biden administration is considering a tougher approach to encourage americans to get vaccinated for covid as cases spike across the country. nbcs mike memoli is in wilmington, delaware, traveling with the president. are we talking about mandates? >> reporter: how often have we talked about the white houses efforts to reach the vaccination goal july 4th, they got there a few weeks late. theres still tens of millions of americans who arent vaccinated and the white house is doing ev...