The possibility of himself serving in that position before he has indicated he is opposed to that and this shows a desperate moment that republicans are in, jake and there are other possible candidates who can yet emerge and try to run for the Spook Speakership and they will run into the same problem, and nationally with Kevin Mccarthy who was pushed out of The Speakership that they would have a difficult, if not impossible time of getting to the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker given the significant divisions that are still within this badly divided republican conference traying tra tra traying to figure on the a way forward and jim jordan could lose the vote by potentially a worse margin than yesterday. It is unprecedented and frankly, embarrassing. Well get back to the vote that well see happen soon, but now lets go to israel and the american president and President Biden and the Anger Rippling across arab capitals specifically about that incident at the hospital. Cnns Kaitlan
capability of the afghan government of the likelihood of them to be able to withstand the kind of takeover that we ve now seen take place, and in fact, hallie, what has been the chief talking point from the administration since the fall of kabul is that the fact that as the president himself said this week, the afghan government collapsed so quickly, only justified his decision to no longer invest american blood and treasure in propping up a government that was not able to stand up for itself. now it s notable of course as we expect to hear from the president later today on covid-19 that the president will also likely have an opportunity to weigh in if he wants to on the developments in afghanistan. he returned to washington last night. this is also taking place as we know the president for the first time has spoken with one of his foreign unt coulderparts, last night speaking with the prime minister of the united kingdom, boris johnson, an important conversation, because we know that
the state voted to sanction districts with a mask mandate in place. we look to the significant news that is expected to come out on booster shots for a lot of people. we ll talk about that in a second. reporter: hallie, broward county school district kicks off this school year in the middle of a political tug-of-war, something that s been frustrating for parents, administrators and teachers as they want the focus to be on kids getting back to the classroom after a year and a half of disrupted learning. instead, this district is now facing sanctions. last night the first punitive measures against the school district for requiring masks. broward is staying and sticking to that mandate. they say they are looking at the data, last week the state reported more than 31,000 covid cases among those under the age of 19, and here in broward county, they are still reeling from the loss of three educators just last week, and hallie, i spoke to parents coming to drop their kids off this morning,
see what the patients were saying about him. he was getting glowing remarks from some of the medical staff, some of the officials who were there. so he lashed out at his aides in those flights from ohio to texas and texas back to washington last night. in part the reason he didn t get better coverage is because they didn t let the cameras into the hospital. caitlyn, thank you very much. former obama advisor, senior political commentator, david axelrod. david, i guess i shouldn t be surprised. i kind of was giving the president the benefit of the doubt that the public statement he made, which was completely inappropriate, you know, he s going after politicians in front of first responders in the midst of a tragedy. i thought maybe that was a one-off. but this other video now where just not even in a public setting, one on one with people he he s yammering on about his freaking crowd sizes.
former president george w. bush returned to washington last night. in a rare speech, he warned of the dangers of isolationism. listen to this. very important for our fellow citizens to remember these words from winston churchill. america is in dispensable for the world and the dangers of isolation loom. people of the united states cannot establish world responsibility. i wholeheartedly agree. joining us now, former defense secretary under president obama, ash carter, the author of the forth coming book inside the five-sided box to be released next year. always good to see you, sir. thank you for your service to the country. thanks for helping us out here this morning. thank you. of course winston churchill talking in the context of coaxing america to understand its responsibility to get involved in the world war.