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Together this infrastructure -- this human infrastructure package that's going to be -- you know, we're going to see that in the house by the middle of september. so they're going to move quickly on it. it's going to get busy, quickly in september. there's a lot of issues that congress has to take on now, including afghanistan. >> thank you for getting up early with us. and thank you for getting up "way too early" on this friday morning. you can catch me saturday and sunday here on msnbc for "morning voices". "morning joe" starts right now. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is fr...

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Good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that's really hoping we don't have to pull out our umbrella this weekend. i'm alicia menendez on this friday, august 20th. we'll start with the news. facing intense criticism over the exit from afghanistan, president biden will deliver remarks on the evacuation efforts. as of yesterday afternoon the u.s. had evacuated thousands of americans since saturday when the government began to collapse. nbc news correspondent kelly o'donnell has the latest. >> reporter: u.s. officials say another 6,000 people made it safely to the kabul airport awa...

They should go on and take it. >> reporter: i've been vaccinated. going to drop by the maze. see you guys. so, john, as you can see there were folks hesitant about the vaccine now ready to get the shot. also as you saw, some people no matter what you tell them, no matter what people say and tell them despite all the science, they will not get this shot. >> reporter: donie o'sullivan, live at the iowa state fair. thank you very much, my friend. "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world...

Beautiful shot of new york city. live this morning -- >> happy friday. >> it is friday. welcome back to "morning joe." top of the hour on friday, august 20th. eddie glaude jr. still with us. joining the conversation we have peter baker. and msnbc national affairs analyst john heileman. good to have you. >> i'm curious, peter baker, where do we stand at the end of a week that started extraordinarily chaotic in afghanistan and now seems to be stabilizing a bit. we're getting some americans out and getting those that supported america's efforts in afghanistan over the past 20 years out. how does ...