challenge. we ll have plenty of time to try to understand the situation. there is a lot of mistakes made over the 20 years in afghanistan and we ll have plenty of time to analyze that. the immediate concern is to get people out of afghanistan as quickly as possible. plenty of time to look back but there are definitely immediate mistakes in this is now just the draw down policy but executed from a democrat senator. you talk about the immediate mission at hand. there is contradictions that we heard publicly today that i would love to see if you have clarity on. the white house said there are reports of americans facing challenge and chaos at the airport but the president said otherwise today, that americans have not been met with a challenge and the taliban getting to the airport. defense secretary austin told house members on a call this afternoon, americans have been beaten by the taliban in kabul.
vaccination? i think it s going to take several things. number one, it s going to take somebody in your family to get sick. like the gentleman you spoke of a couple of minutes ago. people who are not in the hospital are some of the best people to get the message out. i made a mistake. it is very important for trusted leaders to give that message. president trump. anybody, their local politicians, church, ministers. anybody who is a trusted leader. at the end of the day they re going to listen to somebody they trust. i want to ask you about new information that came out this week. people need clarity on. the fda said they could lay out a national strategy of covid booster shots in early september. the clarity that a lot of people
flexibility to organizations to mandate the vaccine. you ll see colleges, universities, school districts move towards that paradigm. restaurants and bars probably follow across the country with what new york city has led on. department of transportation, secretary buttigieg then potentially having the option to say if you want to board an airplane cabin, you ve got to show proof of vaccination. if i may quickly in ten seconds, separately we need the cdc to clearly communicate to a tired populous across the country what does success look like. it is not eradication. for every detected case of covid, there s ten undetected cases. we re not going to eradicate this disease. low hospitalizations, low stress, maybe cases are still continuing, but low hospitalizations and stress, that s vital. that s what people need clarity on. all right, dr. vin gupta and arkansas state senator jim
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very shortly we will hear from president trump. he will hold a joint news conference alongside the french leader emmanuel macron. this comes at the end of a very eventful g7 summit. let s get the bottom line. cnn chief white house coordinator jim acosta joins us live from the summit. jim, it s been quite a journey. by that i mean in the president s own head on the issue of china and trade. where do we stand this morning? he was accelerating the trade war, decelerating, now accelerating, this morning decelerating again. that s what we re hoping to get clarity on. it has been a summit on confusion at the g7 in france. a lot of that confusion played out this morning. the president saying there were calls last night with the chinese on restarting trade talks with beijing. chinese officials said those