understate, you cannot overstate wisconsin is going to be in terms of the path to 70, we re still waiting for a vp announcement from donald trump. have you gotten any insight when that announcement might be coming and what we might be seeing on that stage wednesday night no, i don t think it will wait until wednesday night. let s put it that way, but no, i don t have an insight on i think well, hear the name the finalists right? of the common finalists, but i don t have a good guess. i ll say this though, kate we have half dozen 810 people that any single one of them that donald trump would nominate for vice president will have the unified support of this convention. absolutely. we re going to see it all play out together. thank you for being a welcoming host. good luck. your schedule is probably extremely brutal. yes, it is, but happy to be with you. thank you very much, brian, really appreciate it a new hour. cnn news central starts now at the top of. the hour, i m kate
president welcome. thank you very much, mr president. and firstly congratulations on a successful summit, congratulations on a successful summit, it s been an incredibly important summit, it s been an incredibly important moment. 75 years of a bigger important moment. 75 years of a bigger nato, stronger nato and the nato with bigger nato, stronger nato and the nato with the result that we need. i thought nato with the result that we need. i thought the metal, the honour for stoltenberg yesterday was a very special stoltenberg yesterday was a very special moment. i don t think he was expecting special moment. i don t think he was expecting it special moment. i don t think he was expecting it. no special moment. i don t think he was expeeting it expecting it. no he wasn t, he was leavina expecting it. no he wasn t, he was leaving and expecting it. no he wasn t, he was leaving and i expecting it. no he wasn t, he was leaving and i intervened expecting it. no
secretary, dominic raab, of a dereliction of duty, after reports he declined to phone his afghan counterpart to seek help airlifting interpreters out of afghanistan. but the government has defended his actions. the only problem last week was not a phone call to an afghan government that was melting away and had almost, or didn t have any leverage. the number one challenge at the end of last week was whether the airport would continue to fly, allow planes to fly out, and those people we were getting out, would they be allowed to get out? survivors in haiti ask when is help coming, after saturday s earthquake killed almost 2,000 people. the largest survey of covid infection in the uk has found that both the pfizer and astrazeneca vaccines are still offering good protection against the delta variant. and coming up this hour, as the paralympics get under way next week, one campaign will light up uk landmarks to raise awareness of global disability discrimination. hello and welcom
leaving. speaking for the first time since the fall of kabul in the face of today s chaos, a defiant president joe biden defended his judgment but conceded he was cut off guard. i stand squarely behind my decision after 20 years i have learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw u.s. forces. the truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. bret: he said the u.s. gave the afghan forces every tool they could need but couldn t provide them with the will to fight for their future. this comes as fox news confirms the taliban are going door to door searching for afghan special forces who fought alongside american troops further complicating the current withdrawal. we have fox team coverage tonight. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with what comes next, how the u.s. military is trying to bolster its presence at the kabul airport and creating an air bridge for americans and allied afghans on the ground. but we begin with white house cor
just 300,000 a day. there is a clear message that is coming through. this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk. the good news is that if you are fully vaccinated, you are protected against severe covid hospitalization and deaths and are even protected against the known variants including the delta variant, importantly over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now are unvaccinated. here is something interesting. the white house says one out of every five covid cases this week is in florida. why there? might it have something to do with the governor s pet slogan don t fauci my florida? sadly for everyone, unvaccinated people are now ruining the freedom the rest of us enjoyed this month. starting tomorrow, everyone in the country s most populous county los angeles county will have to wear masks indoors in public places whethe