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>> it's more they overestimated the willingness of the afghan military to fight when the united states was clearly no longer going to provide them direct military support. and what bothers me here is the fact that biden sort of owns this decision by himself. the united states has been fighting with our allies for 20 years now. when we went into afghanistan, we asked them to join us. they all did. nato came together. we should not be leaving by ourselves. it would have been so easy for biden, the administration, when they did the policy review on afghanistan, to have done it multilaterally with...

Tokyo has reported more than 4,000 new coronavirus infections with more than 4500 new cases saturday. the city's under a state of emergency until august 31st. and it is nearly 7 p.m. in tokyo on the final day of the olympic games. we're going to take a look at all the exciting action that's happening. cnn sports coy wire joins me from tokyo. the u.s. men's basketball team picking up another gold but it was no lay-up for them. >> reporter: no, that's right. they turned it into a slam dunk though, kim. u.s. lost their first olympic game in 17 years to france to begin play here in tokyo leaving s...

Prius and put solar panels on we can't even talk about the immigration problem. but i think the press trying to give every benefit of the doubt knows how unserious this is. it's just an attempt to distract from what they are really doing which is, they want this to happen, they want as many illegal immigrants to come into the country as possible and they are not going to throw them out no matter how bad the crimes they commit, whether or not they are gang members or anything else, and that is what they've been doing the entire time, and the root cause thing again is simply a distraction. it's ...

The republicans seeking to avoid raising taxes or new spending, paying for the most of their own proposal by using funds already approved by congress. >> if biden can't pull this off, he's not trying, 'cause there's a bunch of republicans like me that would do an infrastructure bill around a trillion dollars. this is a lay-up if he wants it. >> he says this should be easy. kenneth, both sides have been negotiating for weeks. is there any sense that president biden will agree to the gop deal, or try to go it alone? >> reporter: we know today president biden's commerce secretary said this proces...

It. she's saying that we could have 12 week of paid leave with only 66% of the regular pay rate. so she is not -- is she going far enough? >> that is a very good question. america can't afford not to do anything. i think that is the reality. america is one of eight countries global will i that does not have mandated family leave paid. even lower income countries, and we are the only industrialized nation of this scale to have this issue. so it is not enough. i think america cannot afford to have this. >> why is this so hard to get past? it seems like a lay-up. many of us are mothers and father...