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In other words, the i.c. hadn't reached that conclusion. i believe that we'll find as of july 8, the president misspoke. the president also said the likelihood there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. two days later on july 10, the taliban was reported to have 85% of the country. then on august 12, the "wall street journal" reported that on july 13 you received an urgent dips sent memo from 23 u.s. personnel in kabul warning the rapid collapse of afghanistan. your spokesman said that you read every memo sent to you from the descent...

0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. we've been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. with regard to masari shareef. there's been charter flights there for some time that have not been ...

Johnson vaccine to be used around the world. one shot doesn't need to be kept at these really cold temperatures. it hasn't quite worked out this way. we'll see if this changes anything. >> for sure. options are good. just have to get people vaccinated. let's talk about children. cases in children, can't be vaccinated unless they're 12 and above, our now reaching levels we haven't seen in months. where is that and where is it expected to go? we're not even into wintertime. most kids aren't back in school yet. >> that's right. so these numbers are really quite alarming. let's take a look at wh...

Control right now are the taliban and the taliban have issued this threat. they have repeated it again that if american troops stay beyond august 31 then there will be consequences so why on earth with president biden or indeed any leader of any country want to jeopardise security of their troops by keeping them there? and i thinkjo biden is very mindful of that and has been defied throughout this whole process and i don't think anyone expected him to change his mind. what he came across as during that press conference or someone very confident that this evacuation mission will go to plan and ...

Is notjust the us calling the shots, nor is it the other 66 nations or the eu, or the un or nato who were all in the meeting with president biden. the truth is that the people in control right now are the taliban and the taliban have issued this threat. they have repeated it again, that if american troops stay beyond august 31, then there will be consequences so why on earth with president biden or indeed any leader of any country want to jeopardise security of their troops by keeping them there? defiant throughout this whole process and i don't think anyone expected him to change his mind. wh...