refugees in warsaw after a couple of emotional conversations with those ukrainian mothers and their children he was asked what he thought after seeing them? that is when he made that comment about calling putin a butcher. during a very passionate speech last night president biden said putin cannot remain in power. the white house of course is walk those comments back. they are resonating here on the ground amongst both ukrainian and the polls. so i agree expect especially like russia. we watched yesterday the speech of mr. president. all was correct there. he s optimistic call for putin not to be president any longer. that was a bit of comfort.
thankful we re protecting as many people as possible. it is not just in the schools but the entire community and they appreciate that. our students are complying. i have my own children in schools and they are enjoying being with their friends and learning. this is what they want. woo he do have other people who are upset. it is a small group of people. in a speech last night president biden laid out additional steps to keep schools safe. one is to ask schools to test students and staff regularly. do you have the resources to do that? what do you think parents will say about having their children tested regularly? so we are working on a screening program where we can have parents opt in to test. it would help us to get a temperature and just understand how much covid we have in our schools. we do have funding although we are asking the governor next week where the funding is because we haven t had it released yet to us at our district to find out just have the additional resources
and find out you re positive, you won t come to work and infect other people. so, it really is somewhat of a compromise there. myself, i would make it just vaccinate or not but he was trying to be moderate in what his pronouncement was. so, that s from dr. fauci. you get vaccinated or you don t, no opt-out. what do you think? oh, i agree with dr. fauci. yeah. look, i like the whole tenor of the president s speech last night. but i think he should have gone further. i think there should be no testing opt-out. a test only tells you that you re infected. a vaccine prevents you from getting infected and that s what we should be doing all around the country, preventing people from getting infected. i wanted to see the president issue a no fly order for unvaccinated americans. i think if the president had said that this holiday season, you will not be able to fly if you are not fully vaccinated, you would see a massive increase in vaccination. other countries are doing that.
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away. david said it more eloquently than me. we might be done with afghanistan but afghanistan is not done with us. does the white house accept that? i think that they accept it in the sense that there s a lot of uncertainty about what s to come with afghanistan. and one thing that stood out to me from secretary blinken s speech last night was he was saying they had been relying on the taliban as a matter of practicality over the last several weeks when it came to letting people get to the airports. it was the taliban that was securing the perimeters, the check points outside the airport. but he was saying now going forward, there are talks with the taliban dealt with only when it is in america s national interest. and strategic national interest. and i thought that was a notable comment given, of course, that is a big question of how does this work going forward? and are they recognized? and i think with president biden here, it was interesting he wasn t one of the first people to s