this sunday edition of morning joe weekend. let s dive into some of the conversation you may have missed or may just want to see again. stuart, i just want to go to you, i hear these people going oh, we ve seen this for the past two, three years and dada. but all of the reports in the media should ve reported this. if i had gone in and talk to the president which i ve done a lot, if i had gone in and talk to the president and saw anything like this i would tell people the next day. i would tell the president i m so sorry mr. president, but this isn t working. you know, as i told viewers here many times two, three hours, had conversations with him late at night, had a conversation with him late at night this week never seen anything anything that gave me pause which i guess asks the bigger question what happened last thursday night and why should what should the democrats do about it. well, you know, you make a really good point, republicans meet with president biden all t
program will start. well with, that was the president on august 18th. and that qualification about fda and cdc approval being needed has been part of the message ever since as a spokes person reminded reporters today. and al and it s been a stream of sound bites like this. i will not be surprised if a full program of vaccinations will be three shots. the boosts that are being done and contemplated here, support strongly the rationale for such an approach. well, now, even as that message was going out, federal officials were warning the white house that there may not enough data on the moderna vaccine to recommend anything but the pfizer shot as a booster. it s a sign that is the administration is taking the wrong approach with the public. you can t make an announcement and then say, we will wait to see what the fda and cdc says, it s not the right way to do it. meantime, cases and deaths from the delta variant are rising. the country now averaging more than 166,000
government, and that has presented a small window for afghan women to publicly demand their rights be protected. [ chants ] the women are demanding the right to work and to have a continued voice in the country s affairs, especially on education and health. but as you can see here, even this small demonstration was enough to provoke the taliban to try to break it up. meanwhile, anti-taliban forces in the rugged panjshir valley are battling an incursion by taliban fighters. the panjshir has long been controlled by the national resistance front and has never been under taliban control journalist ben farmer is in kabul where it s 1:30 in the afternoon. he joins us by phone. thanks for being with us. let s start with the protests we saw from those women there in kabul a day after a similar one in harot. tell us more about their pledge to the taliban and to the outside world. reporter: well, these are they re not huge protests, a few dozen women. they are significant. the wome
animal welfare campaigners in the uk have welcomed new government proposals to stop puppy smuggling. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the man considered to be the political leader of the taliban, mullah abdul ghani baradar, has arrived in kabulfor talks on forming a government. it s another sign of the taliban tightening its grip on power in afghanistan, after its rapid takeover of the country. mullah baradar arrived in afghanistan earlier this week, after 20 years in exile. he travelled first to kandahar, which is seen as the spiritual home of the taliban. although baradar isn t the taliban s supreme leader, he is one of its most visible figures. last year, he became the first taliban leader to communicate directly with a us president after having a telephone conversation with donald trump. we ll get more on that in a moment, but first our correspondent secunder kermani has the latest from kabul. soldier shouting: get back! get back! panic
across the entire country. the u.s. is averaging over 109,000 new covid cases a day. but we start with that new jobs report. josh letterman is at the white house. i also want to bring in stephanie ruhle, and jim mecina. thank you all for being with me. by the way he was also serving as president obama s campaign manager. let me start with you. we heard that the president will be speaking any moment now about this block buster jobs report. what will we hear? the white house is certainly breathing a sigh of relief today after fearing this report could have been worse than it was. i think you will hear two mayor themes from the president. the argument that his build back better approach is working. they have succeeded and now is the time to keep the foot on the gas when it comes to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, when it comes to the democrats 3.5 trillion spending bill, and other measures to try to make sure the economy is able to overcome some obstacles. the other key th