today that this time he wanted to ensure that a solders prime minister was in place was may turn out to be the case. if so to some extent it will really reinforce that many hierarchies had over the election that it really wasn t worth that much. and they didn t participate that turn out was the lowest so far there s been five elections since there s been five elections since the us invasion in 2003. this was officially at around 41%. it may have been lower, journalists are observers were saying that it seemed considerably low in most of the polling stations that they were in. i think it s worth remembering that the reason why the elections were held now rather than next year when they were scheduled was to answer one of the demands from the protest movement that erupted in 2019. almost exactly two years ago. mass movement, it is faded away to some
that are doing service or had done service at the kabul airport during the evacuation, but not over the greater global war on terror. and in his speech the other day he was very defensive and basically stated we should ve been out of afghanistan ten years ago. and by saying that, what does that say to those veterans who have served in the last ten years in afghanistan? that their sacrifice wasn t worth it? i think it was. so, i do hope that president biden stands up, stands forward and tells those veterans thank you from the bottom of our heart. and you re right about a memorial. as a matter of fact, i was the lead sponsor of the global war on terrorism memorial foundation. it was established. we are working on that. we just have to find a place to locate the memorial. and i m really, really hopeful that it will be on our national mall. let s talk about this new phase of the evacuation efforts,
in six months this will be taliban 1.0 pre-2001. you say they convinced these governments and the military to melt away, honestly the taliban was able to take over this country so quickly, largely because the afghan military didn t fight and the political structure, the governmental structure, just quit. just folded shop and left. there is an argument that some are making that that just proves that it wasn t worth the u.s. effort the blood and treasure to prop it up if it was able to fold so quickly. how do you respond to that? two things i think we could have left in a less expeditious manner. we could have had the over the horizon forces in place to give backbone to the tragic forces on the ground. we could have left a small contingent of americans in there to continue to fight with them and provide advice. but at the end of the day, john, it s very simple. for all the money we spent, for
incentives, warm embrace. the voluntary phase is over. we can keep doing those things. i m saying voluntary alone doesn t work. it s time for mandates because it s the only way to protect our people. i m sure you re pretty good with political history, right. do you remember a warm bucket of spit or something like that? he said it wasn t worth the vice-presidency wasn t worth a warm bucket of spit. joe, we got to go on jeopardy together. political history jeopardy. you re right. so there is some people that would think that getting tests once a week are worth no more than that as well. we ll just say for the morning
bat scientist doctor xi acknowledges a, we have the nih number from the grant, the only thing in dispute is whether it was gain of function. but they took viruses that don t normally infect humans, animal viruses, combined it with other viruses and discovered they can infect humans, that is the very definition of gain of function research and it is an important thing because it is such a bad judgment. he was asked in 2012 what if the pandemic should occur? what the scientist gets infected by a virus and releases it to the public and there s a pandemic and he said even if that happened, the scientific research would be worth it. that is the explaining he has, he has to explain to 4 million people who died, to their families that the research was worth it, this escape from a lab, was where the knowledge gained, that s a very debatable point and a lot of people are saying it wasn t worth it and it is not worth it in the future and we really should have limitations on this type of research