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To do the same. we're looking at you, kyrie irving. all of this comes as pandemic appears to be staying on the right track in this country. the seven-day moving average of new cases finitely dipped below 100,000 for the first time since august 3rd. that means new cases have dropped nearly 40% in just one month. but this remains a global pandemic and less than half the world's population has received at least one dose of the covid vaccine. as we've seen before, an outbreak overseas, say, maybe india, can quickly turn into an outbreak here at home. we saw that movie once. are we going to see it ...

Or into a hospital? >> yeah, it is a big fail, jason, on so many different levels, the failure of the court, as justice breyer pointed out in his dissent, this is an issue that the court has not adjudicated on, not opined on exactly before. so they should have taken time to actually hear the oral arguments and make a final decision after that. they didn't do that. because of that, as you say, potentially hundreds of thousands of people in this country or more may be kicked out summarily because there's no protection anymore. it was a fail on the part of state and local governments not getting ...

Happened. you left the u.s., went to qatar to go over there, to try to rescue them from afghanistan. tell me the details. >> the fact that i went to the middle east, it's been reported i jetted into kabul, i never left oklahoma city. but that doesn't detract from what happened. sometimes the press gets it wrong. you guys always get it right. on august 3rd, which was a tuesday, i woke up in the morning and had a bad feeling that something was wrong with these girls, that they were in danger. at that time afghanistan a was not in collapse but i couldn't shake it. so i reached out to them, i reac...

I know you first got to know this team of extraordinary young women a couple years ago. but when you realized they were in trouble, tell us about the steps that you decided you were going to take. >> well, as you may know, i'm the mother of 11 biological children, and nine of them are girls. so i had a special connection to these girls when i met them at a conference in washington, d.c. in 2019. i'm part of a board of directors for explore mars. and we chose to fly these girls over from afghanistan to be part of our conference and to help them pursue their dreams to be in the engineering and s...