is this the fight republicans want to be having? nowhere close to the fight when 70% of americans, including nearly a majority of republicans, are for mandatory mask in schools. i don t think they want to have this fight. there s obviously some element of the republican base that still feels like not wearing a mask is some aspect of some liberty or freedom. the idea that they don t want to protect other people or even themselves. which protecting yourself, not protecting yourself is idiotic. not protecting other people is, to me, is un-american. that s not how we were set up. but i i think joe biden is right. i think he s reached the point in time that there is an element, probably 20 or 25% of the country, that s what i think it is. about 20 to 25% of the country, a rational argument will not work. they are emotionally connected to no vaccine and no masks. and the only way you can t change people who are emotionally connected with a rational argument. it just doesn t it doesn
intervene to help them leave the premises. parents should not feel threatened in a parking lot. that is not the america i know. reporter: educators warn children are watching and learning. rosa flores, cnn, dallas. they sure are watching. thank you, rosa. i want to make sure you know about we love new york city. the homecoming concert. join us for a once in a lifetime event saturday, starting at 5:00 p.m., exclusively on cnn. president joe biden defiant on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan but he says troops may stay past the august 31 deadline in order to get out all on americans. more on our breaking news just ahead. r you re winning, or just doing your best. when you re on the lanes, they re right behind you. reunite with your team. go bowling.
happened in the last 72 hours. the soldiers gave up proved him right. which is they weren t capable of governing their country. and no matter when we left, this was gonna happen. yeah. listen. i had been listening to you and and reading what you have been writing. and you think you are very, shall i say, bullish on the president s decision. and what the president has done. and quite frankly, you believe that democrats or that everyone should be but especially democrats should be rallying behind the president and his decision now. not that you don t have some issues with the way it was executed, in the end. but you think it s a good thing, overall? yeah, and i don t understand why some democrats, many democrats are, you know, scared of this. um, most every single one ran on the idea of getting out of afghanistan. president biden ran and won on the idea of getting out of
afghanistan, as quick as he could. i don t get the idea that they are so easily scared of their own shadow. and democrats have a tendency, and i have watched it over the years. as i said in a tweet, they they feel shame way too quickly. while republicans never feel shame, at all. um, and i think democrats sht b. thisk that s biden didn t abandon the afghan people. the afghan leaders abandoned the afghan people. that s who abandoned the country. let s talk about covid, now. the president biden is taking on governors who block mask mandates in school saying that they should get out of the way if they can t help. and that his administration is going to take legal action, if necessary.