he came into office with the promise to end america s longest war in afghanistan. so when i talk to officials here, that was the over riding principle, but questions that will be asked and, you know, they will be beginning next week on capitol hill when congressional committees beginning to have all these officials under oath asking questions were enough hard questions asked about how this was going to happen? the exit, yes, was coming but was it too swift? was it too abrupt? at the end of the day we saw the president defiant and defensive, there are many things unfolding and we don t know how this is going to end from the state department to the pentagon to the intelligence community. everyone is still not on the same page here. so we did not hear the president, you know, he said that he thought chaos was indin inev inevitable. if that were the case, he s surprised the military crumbled so quickly, if that were the case, why was that the case?
everyone stand by. i want to bring in republican congressman peter meyer of michigan, a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. i know you served in iraq, later worked in afghanistan for an ngo based in kandahar. you know the challenges there. but do you accept the argument from president biden that this wasn t a failure, this withdrawal, that the chaos we re seeing now was simply the price the u.s. had to pay in order to withdraw after 20 years of warfare there? i don t accept it. there certainly was never going to be a positive outcome. but we could have prevented it becoming this nightmare scenario. the thing that we really missed was in the mid to late july and early august the degree of local level negotiations, regional level negotiations between power brokers, between warlords and the taliban companions. everyone was looking for their own skin. and as a result, that moved up, accelerated greatly the taliban takeover and led us to being
may start. it s still pending fda authorization. they have to look and make sure the safety data and efficacy data is in. there s a couple of steps still. if it all goes, september 20th. so anyone who was vaccinated january 20th or earlier, basically can go at that time. for the most part, because the prioritization in the early days was of the most vulnerable populations, because of the way the calendar works, it will essentially translate now into eight month ares after for those same people. just to be precise, only for americans 18 and older, if you are under 18, from the 12 to 18, you re not going to get the booster shot, at least not now. sanjay, thank you. dr. leana wen, thanks to you as well. coming up, more on the breaking news. president biden now raising the possibility that u.s. forces will stay in afghanistan past their withdrawal deadline at the end of this month. hands feel dry? like sandpaper. introducing new dove handwash, with 5 x moisturizer blend.
let s go outfront . good evening. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. president biden defiant and unapologetic about his decision and execution of the plan to withdrawal u.s. troops from afghanistan speaking to abc news, biden saying the mayhem playing out in afghanistan is not a failure and there was no way to withdrawal without chaos ensuing. back in july, you said a taliban takeover was highly unlikely. was the intelligence wrong or did you down play it? i think there was no cons consensus. they said more likely to be something by the end of the year. you didn t put a timeline on it when you said it was highly unlikely. you said flatout highly unlikely the taliban would take over. yeah, the question was whether or not the idea that the taliban would take over is premised on the notion that
how many more generations of america s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight afghanistan s civil war when afghan troops will not? how many more lives, american lives is it worth, how many endless rows of headstones at arlington national cemetery? i m clear on my answer. president biden defiant in his decision to leave afghanistan, pointing to the sacrifices made by thousands of american families, but now afghan allies to the united states and translators, people who helped u.s. troops are in harm s way after the u.s. s hasty withdrawal from the country. joining us now is an afghan combat veteran, army staff sergeant, an author of the book, heaven help us now. staff sergeant, it s great to