hello and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. topping our world lead this hour, president biden grappling with the fallout from the way the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan. a senior state department official telling cnn that the majority of afghans who worked for the u.s. and applied for those special immigrant visas or sivs, well, they were likely left behind. pentagon officials saying that the siv program was never meant to be used in a hurried evacuation. the siv program is obviously not designed to accommodate what we just did in evacuating over 100,000 people. and so perhaps this program should be looked at going forward. it is designed to be a slow process. indeed it has been a historically slow process, one that a former trump administration official claims that the trump administration, quote, sabotaged. but that said, president biden took office in january, and his administration failed to expedite the process to get these afghan allies out, despite months of
or thank you all for your service, because so many of these afghans, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, have worked closely, have fought alongside and have died alongside american military service men and women over the past 20 years. and so i do think you will likely get some kind of response from afghanistan as the news of that speech trickles out, jake. so, dana bash, president biden 13 days ago said that they would get every american out by august 31st and would stay longer if every american wasn t out. obviously events overtook them. there was a terrorist attack, and the president said that it was the unanimous advice of his military and civilian advisers to withdraw august 31st. he said in addition in his speech just now that 90% of the americans who wanted to get out would get out and the administration was still going to work on getting them out, just not through military means. how do you think politically the american people are going to respond to t
schools? and they always have excuses for all this. it could be health. it could be for the god of the community it could be for the good of the community, whatever it is. whatever happened to individual liberty. who even talks about individual liberty or the declaration or inalienable rights? what kind of country are we turning into? we ve been warned about soft tyranny. ladies and gentlemen, we re surrounded by soft tyranny, and it is getting increasingly more aggressive. you see the demands when it comes to vaccines. you see bureaucrats shutting down businesses? you see bureaucrats of the cdc telling landlords that they can t collect rent as they go broke? you see a president of the united states defying a supreme court ruling that says those bureaucrats don t have that authority? you see a president of the united states opening our borders wide to individuals, many of whom have the virus, are criminals, are ms 13 and you name it, and he could care less that he s doing t
in has to be locally decided in the absence of data. i believe that masks are better than having received the vaccine that didn t work new. but that s not to say that i m convinced that we can make the statements that the best way to protect kids in school is as some has advocated universal masking. better ventilation and sanitation and routine testing twice a week. reinforcing in parents they don t send their kids to school if they re sick or if siblings are sick. dana: betsy devos is standing by with her reaction to all of this and casey stiegel is live in dallas this morning. good morning. most dallas schools don t officially start until next monday but starting today anyone visiting or returning to a public school campus now required to wear a facemask. that decision was made by the superintendent here citing the health and well-being of students and staff because of the highly contagious delta variant of covid. it is a move that openly defies governor s ban on scho
and there always having excuses for all of this to be health and held to the good of the community and whatever it is. whatever happened to individual liberty and who even talked about individual liberty anymore. and i talked about the delta intent declaration at what kind of the country we are turning into, and they warned about soft tyranny. ladies and gentlemen, we are surrounded by soft tyranny is increasingly more aggressive. you see the demands when it comes to back saint rita is the bureaucrat chatting of businesses. if you see bureaucrats cdc telling landlord they cannot collect rent is ago broke rated ac present is in the united states and the supreme court ruling that said this bureaucrats do not have that authority. you see president of the united states opening up orders wide to individuals in many of whom have the virus. in our criminals, ms 13 and you name it and he could care less and he is doing this purposely. naked say the democrats and the republicans in co