countries to establish local production of the vaccine and scale that up. that s how we create enough vaccines for everyone and rest assured, we will not stop in these efforts until america and the world are vaccinated. that is our commitment. chris: finally, as more children start going back to school, the battle over mask mandates for children in school heats up. so much so that this week president biden gave a direction to the education secretary, miguel cordona to go after governors who put bans on mask mandates in schools. take a look. this includes using all of his oversight authority and legal action if appropriate against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators. chris: is the public health risk to children so great that it justifies president biden ordering the government to perhaps take action against, for
chris: yeah. dana, that may be the longer term question. the policy issue. but this week it seems to me the real question is competence. the president went out on friday to show that he was getting ahead, getting a handle on the evacuation and in fact he made things much worse. he said that there was no problem for americans getting to the airport. wrong. he said that al-qaida is gone from afghanistan. gone. he said wrong. he said we aren t hearing any criticism from our allies. wrong. you how do you explain him just being so flatly wrong in a number of essential issues? well, i think it s actually inexplicable. i believe when you put those questions to secretary blinken, he avoided them. he didn t want to answer them. because there is a crisis of credibility, competence and coherence. and when you have a national crisis like this, international crisis, then you need to see the president having personal
take bagram. we need the taliban to know that we are going to get our people and our people are obviously american citizens but they re also the special immigrant visa holders who risked their lives on behalf of americans to take the fight to al-qaida and the taliban over there so we didn t have to fight them here. we need the president to talk to our allies, not ignore their calls for days at a time. we need the president to unleash cyber command to make sure that all the images that have been taken of our allies and our friends over there at these checkpoints for the taliban are beating the heroes, we need to make sure those images can t be used for their hit list to gather and kill these people and we need cyber command to be active. we need the president to make absolutely clear that we will finish the mission we will save all of our people and their plan, i m against the withdrawal plan but that s as you said not the question for today s debate but the president s plan is to leave
i have seen no question of our capabilities. we re committing to what we said we would do. the likely successor to german chancellor merkel said this is the biggest debacle nato has seen since its foundation. here is the chairman of the british parliament s foreign affairs committee. see the commander in chief call into question the courage of the men i fought with, to claim that they ran, shameful. those who have never fought for the colors they fly should be careful about criticizing those who have. chris: does the president not know what s going on? this is an incredibly emotional time for many of us and including allies and
would likely encourage them and make them feel more comfortable in putting such requirements in place. one thing we ve known for a while now, chris, given our experience go ahead. chris: no, i just wanted to ask you, drill down a little bit on this question of vaccines, because the president biden already set out a schedule for giving out these third vaccines starting on september 20th. here was cdc director rochelle walensky this week. even though our vaccines are currently working well to pro vent hospitalizations, we are seeing concerning evidence of waning vaccine effectiveness over time and against the delta variant. chris: if fda approval is so important, full approval as opposed to emergency use approval, why is the president putting out a schedule, starting september 20th, for giving out these boosters before you ve gotten any fda or cdc approval