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going? well, alex. the white house in the united states government has been working for days now to try to figure out the safest way to get americans out of the country. to facilitate that evacuation effort. now that there are no u.s. government personnel believed to be in sudan. because remember, the u.s. has already evacuated its embassy. i just spoke to a u.s. official who confirmed a navy ship, the u.s. and asked brunswick, has now arrived in the port of sudan. this is a fast transport vessel that is run by the u.s. navy. it s more than 300 feet long and has been used in the past to respond to humanitarians disasters and do relief efforts to understand all kinds of horrible events around the world. it is well equipped for a potential evacuation effort and we do not yet know whether this ship is going to simply be aiding the efforts there or whether it will actually be carrying americans out of sudan. i m told we are likely that
welcome back. even as delta rages in many of the states and districts many republican lawmakers were quick to condemn president biden s new program last night calling vaccine mandates for 100 million americans an attack on personal freedoms. as reported earlier the rnc did not waste any time. plans to officially sue the administration over mandates. kate ivy who has advocates for her constituents to get vaccinated and one of the people to note this is a pandemic lately of the unvaccinated still called the president s mandate outrageous and overreaching while doug described it in a mandate saying marks another government overreach. dr. fauci defended the mandates last night telling pbs the country exhausted all other options. i mean, we ve tried
anniversary of 9/11 attacks. politically and many ways culturally at least for a time united most of our country. our government leaders used or in some cases took advantage of that unity. that s another story. and certainly up for plenty of debate. still, we were a united states amid the depths of that crisis and right now we re anything but united when it comes to the current crisis of covid-19. as death toll far surpasses anything we saw on 9/11. 660,000 americans. in fact, according to our numbers today in first read of deaths just in the last report in the last 24 hours, this is not part of the seven-day average, but we had 3,200 over the last 24 hours. you know any time you see a 3 on a daily death toll in the thousands you think of 9/11, as well. put things in perspective. we re now seeing a 9/11 size death toll basically at least every two days and it s actually more than that now. and the conservative blowblack to president biden s sweeping new covid mandates that will
if you just looked at it via the actual battles. but this military dominance that we had on the battlefield did not translate into us essentially winning, i guess, you could say winning the larger argument. and, frankly, you could argue the cold war, you know, the hot parts of the cold war didn t go well for either side. so, what is the lesson to take away from this? well, there are many lessons, obviously, but the overwhelming lesson that i take away from it is we have got to muster more patience than we ve brought to the field so far. it became the joke years ago in afghanistan and a statement attributed to the taliban. you americans have the watches but we the taliban, we have the time. we can outlast you. of course, that s just what they did.