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Of state. mr. secretary, what we're listening to in the other sued of the aisle sadly is sort of a salad mix of selective facts and a lot of amnesia in the salad dressing. the history of instability in afghanistan didn't begin on august 14th of this year, did it? >> it did not. >> am i correct in remembering that nkt you could trace direct routes to 1977, 1978 when there was a communist coup and the president of afghanistan was assassinated in the presidential palace. is that correct? >> it is. >> and one year later, the soviet union because of that instability decided to invade afghanistan, i...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we're working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing some time in the ...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, you're correct. there are flights that have been there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the f...

The weekly hospitalization rate per 100,000 children during the week ending august 14th was nearly five times. rate during the week ending june 26th among children aged 0 to 4 years. the weekly hospitalization rate ending august 14 was ten times that during the week ending june 26. there is a question here of is it the case that this is more dangerous for kids than previous variants and is that what the data is saying? >> it doesn't necessarily say that, chris. what it says, we know delta is a bad actor. it transmits extremely efficiently. so you are seeing more people, everyone, adults and ch...

As much as this was an explanation of his decision. he went through point by point, whether you agreed with him or not, meeting some of the criticism. >> reporter: this is a white house that for the last two and a half weeks since the fall of kabul on august 14th has been in crisis mode. behind the scene all of us have been getting a lot from white house officials criticizing the way this is being covered, defending against some of the criticism they have been facing from all sides, even democratic allies, but they have never had the ability to mount a public pushback because they have been sw...