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the first covid-19 vaccine to pass this final regulatory hurdle. the approval was the fastest in the agency s history, coming less than four months after pfizer filed for licensing. and the fda s announcement started a number of new vaccine mandates with more to come. new york city now requiring all department of education employees to get at least one dose of the covid vaccine by tend of september. the effort to fully reopen the country s largest school district next month is expected to set a standard for many districts across the country. it affects more than 148,000 public school employees the deadline for staff to get at least one dose is september 27th. mayor bill de blasio will be our guest later this morning to discuss this announcement. plus the pentagon moving ahead with vaccines for all service members now that they have the fda approval. they said a time line for when service members must receive the shot will be in the coming days. it ll be mandated for a ....
how the operation played out. when asked today, the president said he s considering operations as well to get the americans and afghan allies who might be stuck behind taliban check points. he continued to portray the country s sudden collapse as unforeseeable, down playing the internal state department memo we reported on last night which warned of such a fate as american forces withdrew. we re going to have more on all that coming up. first we want to get to the reality, the reality on the ground for so many people. clarissa ward and her team were among the evacuees today, taking their place aboard crowded air force c-17 transport. our producer took these photos, an estimated 400 people on board, most of them afghan nationals. their destination tonight, doha, qatar. we spoke to clarissa a few hours before she departed on that plane. clarissa, you re at the kabul airport. what are you seeing there? i mean, anderson, it s just chaos. right now we re actually on the ....
we begin tonight with new developments in the pullout from afghanistan. evacuation flights are back up and running after being on hold part of the day, the first airport transport landing in germany. at the white house what some saw as effort to project resolve and competence after a chaotic week in kabul and punishing week in washington, president biden renewed his promise to get any american home who wants to leave. he made a similar promise to evac all evacuate all afghans who helped in the war effort. we have breaking news on exactly how the operation played out. when asked today, the president said he s considering operations as well to get the americans and afghan allies who might be stuck behind taliban check points. he continued to portray the country s sudden collapse as unforeseeable, down playing the internal state department memo we reported on last night which warned of such a fate as american forces withdrew. we re going to have more on all that coming u ....
good evening. no president should have to do what this president did today when he spoke up in defense of the right to vote and the obligation elected officials have to graciously leave office when the voters say it s time to go. after nearly 2 1/2 centuries as a functioning democracy that should obviously be a given. sadly it s not, which is what made president biden s speech today in philadelphia so significant, the fact it was even necessary. and sadly, it is. whatever else you might think of his specific legislative agenda on voting rights, the filibuster, even who you d prefer to see in office. after four years that tested nearly every pillar of american electoral politics and after month and month of lies that have corroded public faith in elections themselves, it has become clear that the institutions and traditions of democracy are in need of defending. traditions, for one, such as not concocting a convoluted conspiracy theory to explain away the simple fact of ....
filibuster, even who you d prefer to see in office. after 40 years, after month and month of lies that have corroded public faith in elections themselves it s become clear that the institutions and traditions of democracy are in need of defending. traditions, for one, such as not concocting a convoluted conspiracy theory to explain away the simple fact of losing an election. a big lie is just that, a big lie. [ applause ] the 2020 election is not hyperbole suggest the most examined and fullest expression of the will of the people in theistry of this nation. this should be celebrated. if that weren t clear enough the president said this followed by a warning about the wave of state voter restriction laws based on that big lie. in america if you lose, you accept the results, you follow the constitution, you try again. you don t call facts fake and then try to bring down the american experiment just because you re unhappy. that s not statesmanship. that s not statesm ....