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0 there's no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agreement on 29, february, 2020, the united states had 12,600 u.s. troops with 8,000 nato and 10,500 con...

I'm troubled that people are complaining that the process isn't working for them. the process is to look at the data, have the experts consider it and make their judgment at that point, recognizing judgments may change. if people want an authoritarian statement that this is the right answer, you won't get it here. move to china, you'll get it there. chris: president biden said -- he announced on august 18th, he did have a line about pending approval of the fda and the cdc but he talked about starting a booster program on september 20th, that's tomorrow. and he talked about giving it to all peo...

I'm troubled that people are complaining that the process isn't working for them. the process is to look at the data, have the experts consider it and make their judgment at that point, recognizing judgments may change. if people want an authoritarian statement that this is the right answer, you won't get it here. move to china, you'll get it there. chris: president biden said -- he announced on august 18th, he did have a line about pending approval of the fda and the cdc but he talked about starting a booster program on september 20th, that's tomorrow. and he talked about giving it to all peo...

Into the public, something that's been a serious point of frustration for white house officials over the course of the last several weeks. now, keep in mind what the white house's public health advisers and the president himself announced on august 18th was that every adult american would be eligible for a booster shot within eight months after their first shot come the week of september 20th. now, there are so many elements of that that ended up not coming to pass. moderna did not have enough information to move forward. what was recommended today by the fda advisory panel was, as you noted, ...

Of the science. on august 18th they announced a booster program and announced september 20th for people who received the vaccine in january. the fda panel will need late this afternoon. the fda has to decide whether to take their advice or not. the cdc is not meeting until next week. we have not heard from the white house. but i can't imagine that they will be rolling out boosters before the 2 main health regulators, the cdc and the fda approve it if they approve it. >> john: we will see. who is coming up this weekend? >> chris: we will have a top official from the government about covid and b...