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Well over 100 afghans and was intended to target another potential isis bomber. this strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces. we but it was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. as the combatant commander, i am fully responsible for the strike and it s tragic outcome. as you, know the biden administration already facing intense criticism over its afghanistan withdrawal. this incident will also add to the scrutiny of join chiefs of staff, chairman general mark milley who has defended the military s action at the time as a right to strike. he s already being criticized for reports that he made calls to his chinese counterpart in the final months of donald trump s presidency to assure that the u.s. had no plans to attack. today, milley defended those calls, telling the associated press they were, quote, routine. and he said they were made to, ....
65, i have a hard time supporting it for anyone who is younger than 65. the fda has the final word on approvals. that is expected by next week. the cdc will also set guidelines of its own on just to should get these boosters. all the, while some people have gone ahead and gotten their booster shots anyway if they are able to. today, the government updated the number of americans apparently dying of covid. the latest seven-day average shows we are losing 1448 souls every day. that number is about 17% higher than the week before. this is the day the pentagon admitted that a drone strike launch just before american troops left afghanistan was indeed a tragic, deadly mistake that killed ten civilians, seven children among them. the air strike was launched just days after an isis terrorist attack killed 13 american service members and ....
They follow this vehicle for eight hours. so i thought they had target fixation, they didn t have cross reference intelligence. they made a mistake and they killed ten innocent civilians. so it is a tragedy, as we pull out of afghanistan, while we continue to strike isis, al-qaeda, and other terrorists, from over the horizon. we are going to have a continuing challenge. tom and jonathan lynn, here how did this news today complicate things for america in the region and around the world? it certainly did, brian. it came today in about as bad of an hour as the u.s. president has had in quite some time. this is a moment where the white house really wanted to reset, start focusing again on the president s domestic agenda, the two huge bills, the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package that needs to pass through congress in the next couple of weeks. they wanted that to be the priority. ....
It will be enough to prevent terrorist groups from forming and thriving in afghanistan. there s a lot of anger in the region over what happened here. a lot of questions again about the decision, as wide as the white house likes to point to public polling saying that most americans say that it was time for the u.s. to come home after 20 years in afghanistan, this is the way the information was conducted remains more than 100,000 people who got, out remains a problem for the white house. they are still answering questions, and serious and deadly ones. doctor, back to your area of expertise, i m not doing this to inject politics, i m doing this for a reason. i want to remind our audience, some of the other utterances of the president on booster shots, before we continue our discussion the plan is for every adult to get a booster, eight months after you got your second shot. pending approval from the food and drug administration, the ....
Thinking afghanistan had faded from the headlines. and, today came rushing back. within that hour. an hour after the president landed in delaware further weakened away. we had the booster news from the fda, we had the french say they were pulling their ambassador because of their anger that the deal, the u.s. and the uk made with australia made over submarines. and now ten civilians killed, seven children. the white house of course this is complicated. they have been telling americans, and our allies, that they can pull out of afghanistan. the military presence could no longer be, there and yet they would keep americans safe from tariff it s. in part because of the over the horizon intelligence capabilities. this was likely the last drone strike in afghanistan. it was a tragic mistake. it does cast doubt over whether the fact horizon intelligence ....