sunday, august 15th, 2021. he produced this letter. it s about six or seven paragraphs in length and he addresses the following. had he stayed, the bloodshed of the civil war from the 1990s would have come back. he addressed the allegations he stole millions of dollars. he calls that categorically false. at the conclusion of his letter he said i apologize i could not have made it better for the afghan people. we believe he is in the united arab emirates. that was the first official statement we ve heard from the former president ghani a short time ago filing that online. so a couple headlines in there. dana: yeah, the lot to chew on finding out if the money what happened there. he is denying it. hopefully there will be an investigation. bill: he talked about the years of neglect and corruption and that it was a big thing for
uncertainty. and the weaponization, the political weaponization of this information. because the challenge is that all of those things, covid in the vaccinated, colds and flu will all start like cold and flu symptoms. you ll have fever, you ll have fatigue and you won t know what you have. you won t know what s circulating in your area. and going to the doctor is a challenging thing right now. people are trying to avoid that. so it s the uncertainty around what s going around i m most concerned about. and the second thing i m really, really concerned about, children cannot be vaccinated and we re also seeing in our data that children under 12 are seeing elevated levels of illness, higher than what would be typical for this time of year for september. that has been true for the past few months. starting august 15th, we saw a surge in children 10 to 17. so we re seeing back-to-school is creating a surge in illness. people are also freaking out about this new mu variant, the
concerned about. when u.s. troops left afghanistan, the american citizens left behind would be at the mercy of the taliban as to whether they can leave the country and now that the taliban is the government they can say we re not stopping anybody from leaving, they just need to have the right paperwork. the secretary did say the united states is engaging with the taliban on this issue including in the last couple of hours. also this morning we are seeing what appears to be the largest protests yet in kabul since the city fell to the taliban back on august 15th. we re seeing large groups of men and women on the streets together protesting against the taliban. taliban gunmen have been firing in the air trying to disperse those crowds, no reports yet of any injuries. guys? raf sanchez, thank you very much. can you imagine the bravery
they can say, look, we re not stopping anyone from leaving, they just have to have the right paperwork. the united states is engaging with the taliban on this issue at majari sharif, including in the last couple hours. this morning we are seeing what appears to be the largest protest yet in kabul since the city felt the taliban on august 15th. we re seeing very large groups of men and women on the streets together protesting against the taliban. taliban gunmen have been firing in the air trying to disperse those crowds. there are no reports yet of any injuries. guys? nbc s raf sanchez, thank you. and coming up on morning joe, system error. we ll talk to the authors of a new book about big tech s outside influence on our lives and society. that conversation is just ahead, on morning joe. morning joe.
as this morning, trying to work through this issue. also in kabul we have seen some of the largest protests we have seen in the city since it fell to the taliban on august 15th, both men and women on the streets protesting against the taliban. chris? raf sanchez, thank you so much. appreciate that update. there s new fallout in the wake of former new york governor andrew cuomo s resignation. the head of the largest lbgtq advocacy group in the country has been fired. yet the latest person that reportedly helped cuomo do damage control amid his sexual harassment scandal. the human rights campaign says its now former president, alfonso david, violated his contract, was removed by a vote of the board. new york attorney general report accused david of trying to help discredit a cuomo accuser. in response, david says the group s board unjustly provided notice of termination. he is vowing to bring a legal