implgts maybe you ought to see him more than once a week to get used we can talk with like a 47-second delay. you act like it s the first time in ten years. hello, joe. how are you? i am doing fine. thank you. good morning. live from the international space station. exactly! exactly. hello, my fellow earth. anyway, yeah. we got together. uh-huh. willie and i always get together do the editorial about 2:30, 2:45. go for a run. yeah. ah. go for a run. go through the park. push each other, too. yeah. miss you, 2:30 in the park running through the park and go how are we going to set this show up? so we decided to go really, really salacious today. yeah. lean in to the tabloid stuff. we know it sells, gets clicked. it does! we know what the people want. kim kaye s met gala outknit? kind of like that. really close to that. you know, willie, that famous warning from so long ago, when paris hilton got out of prison. no. i don t remember.
guarding our spaces and keeping the pandemic going. on the right, the freak out is already in full effect. we told you last night about texas governor, you have to be joking pledge to protect texans right to choose. really across the board the reaction has ranged from absurd to hysterical to frightening. mr. punch the pores told the working people of ohio only mass civil disobedience will save us. you going to leave that mr. investment banker. former ohio treasurer josh mandel expanded on those thoughts in a corn field. do not c comply with the tyranny. the president is calling for requirement to get tested once a week or get vavaccinated. they are telling them to resist, which is i guess quitting your job which the opposite of the other demand that you get a job. this gustapo that s coming if your freedom, that is you. you re the one that has to decide whether you want to do what it takes to protect yourself and the rest of us or whether you would rather stay home and do
world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. afghanistan s valley now the focus of taliban efforts to completely take over the country but anti-taliban forces are fighting back. panjshir is the only territory not under taliban control. fresh fighting was reported saturday with both sides claiming successes. cnn cannot independently verify the accuracy of those reports. and the largest currency exchange market reopened for the first time in nearly three weeks, but banks are limiting withdrawals. ben farmer is in kabul and is joining us by phone. so let s start with that fighting, what is the latest on the conflict there? we know that there have been several days of heavy fighting in panjshir, and as you said both sides have said that they have had successes and victories, but all we know independently is that the taliban have penetrated into the valley as far as a hospital which is run by an international aid charity. and it is a significant way into the valley. so th
americans were sold to stay away from tree different gates and only to approach when instructs. these are the first u.s. troops killed in afghanistan since before january of last year. it comes hours before the august 31st deadline. still the evacuation operations condition including for though the who are still in afghanistan. the plan is to still operate while under stress. we ll continue to make sure that the mission continues. they will continue to push out the security corridor and shared some information to prevent attacks. we believe it s possible that others have been thwarted. we cut down the information we gave the taliban. they don t get the full range of information that we, have but we give them enough to act and time and space to prevent the attacks. the situation on the ground has been fluid for weeks changing by the hour but these attacks mark a much greater shift. general mckenzie made it clear they would use the forces available, aircraft overhead includ
one uk minister describing it as imminent and lethal. in just minutes president biden will meet with his national security team about this rapidly escalating situation. so far the u.s. has evacuated more than 101,000 people including 13,000 over just the last 24 hours. as for american citizens, the state department says 1500 are still in the country, including a third who have been in contact with our government. the white house says they are on track to wrap this up by the president s august 31 deadline. and the taliban is speeding things up, keeping crowds away from the airport. their spokesman telling nbc news that they will stay out of the way for now. translator: we don t want our countrymen to go to america. whatever they have done in the past, we have given them amnesty. we need young educated professionals for our nation. but if they want to leave, it is their choice. keep in mind an isis affiliate still poses an immediate threat to people in and around the airpor