is a flagship program that needs a help. so pepfar the program itself that fights aids needs a head. does pepfar take on the broader pandemic response? i don t think so. but it is absolutely helping in these african countries which is undergoing a disastrous and dangerous situation. is that structure something that the covid vaccine effort could be channeled through? or is it a model that should be used to set up something parallel but separate? so two things. one is that it doesn t have it now. covid pandemic has really set it back. so the program that fights aids. i don t think so. it is absolutely helping in these african countries undergoing such a preventible surge. but it provides the blueprint, right? for what we do need. an empowered head that can, has a direct line to the president and that can coordinate whole range of agencies that do work. so this isn t a program or entity that we want to see sitting in the cdc or the department of defense. you want to see it many place w
also a very busy day at the white house today. today we got a big announcement from the white house that we have been waiting for for some time. it answers a lot of questions. it raises a lot of questions too. president biden as you know has promised to pull all u.s. troops out of afghanistan by next month. almost all of them are gone already.frll you re also probably aware that there is the further issue beyond u.s. troops of u.s. allies in afghanistan. thousands of afghan citizens who worked as translators and interpreters for u.s. forces during the war. translators and interpreters who are still in afghanistan now and whose lives are at great risk, as u.s. forces leave. they, of course, are targets for the taliban specifically because they helped american forces. those translators are eligible to get special visas that would allow them to start new lives in the united states. the country for which they sacrificed so much, the country that promised to keep them safe if they provided
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the heat index will feel like 100 for the next few days. unfortunately as we mentioned the last few days, kasie, it looks like the rain and storms return for the weekend. the cool is off, but who wants rain and storms on the weekend? that s kind of the thing we re going to be dealing with. finally, thunderstorms in ohio valley. by the time we get to saturday, the storms roll through the northeast and down through the tennessee valley, and sunday, kasie, the wet weekend continues. wah, wah, wah. thanks. still ahead, amid concerns over the taliban s resurgence, the biden administration lays out a plan. plus, a chance for russia and the united states to find common ground. we re going to explain that coming up next. we re going to explain that coming up next when you have metastatic breast cancer, what does it mean to be a thriver? it means we grab a hold of what matters most. we sweat the details. ask for what we want. get what we need. and we need more time.
they will keep doing it as long as they can. unless the democrats in the senate, all of them, agree to change the filibuster rules so you can t use the filibuster on voting rights anymore. they could make that sort of a change. but until they do that, these voting rights bills are going nowhere. president biden did head up to capitol hill to meet with ngno democratic senators today. it s not clear whether biden s big speech or his meeting with democratic senators today ch translated into any, you know, sort of act of furtherance, any further discussion with them today about actually getting those bills passed according to at least one senator in the room. they didn t talk about the filibuster rules at today s meeting. what they did seem to be working on and, in fact, celebrating today ist, this latest move towd actually getting a bill done on the issue of infrastructure. they ve seen lots of headlines about this late last night and today.se what does this mean in the grand scheme of th