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Of afghans who have lived through 30 years of terror, and to abandon them, if we were to abandon them, we would pay a moral price. >> you know, six years ago i interviewed joe biden when he was a senator, and the whole thrust of his remarks was we have not done nearly enough for this country, we promised nation building, we haven't done it, we promised security, we haven't done it, all of which you lay out in your article. and he told a story of going into a school that was unheeded, it was mid-winter, there was one naked lightbulb, and a 12-year-old girl got up and said you cannot leave us, y...

The taliban there will be human rights abuses there that will shame us. and we should put that squarely on the table. we can talk about strategic interests, and they are real, and we can debate those. but we also have to be mindful that for better or worse we have taken responsibility for the safety and security of millions of afghans who have lived through 30 years of terror, and to abandon them, if we were to abandon them, we would pay a moral price. >> you know, six years ago i interviewed joe biden when he was a senator, and the whole thrust of his remarks was we have not done nearly enoug...

Thing, they'll do the right thing. and i think that's really what this is coming down to. we can talk as much as we want about sort of access and education and restricting misinformation and sort of providing, you know, other nudges like free beers or lotteries or whatever. but in the end, if it comes down to 60 or 70 or 80 million americans who are simply refusing for vaccinated, you're going to have to do basically what mississippi does for its schoolchildren which is compel vaccination. >> and dr. blackstock, let's talk more about these vaccines for children, especially children under the a...

How to reopen in the fall and an fda official says vaccines for kids under 12 may not be available until mid-winter. nbc's ellison barber is in jackson, mississippi, for us. ellison, this state has been pretty hard-hit and has a pretty low rate of vaccination overall. what are you learning on the ground there? >> reporter: yeah, i don't think this state has ever been above second-to-last in terms of the rate of vaccination. they seem to rotate between 50th place and 49th place, mississippi and alabama. where we are at the university of mississippi medical center, they have the only designated ...