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amid mounting criticism over his handling of the withdrawal from afghanistan, president biden yesterday arguing the exit from that country was always going to be difficult. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 23rd. we will have full coverage of the situation in afghanistan, including a report from the ground in kabul in just a moment. but first, what could be a big day in the fight against covid. the fda is working to approve pfizer s two-dose vaccine as soon as today. according to the new york times, the goal was to get the approval by friday but regulators are still getting through a substantial amount of paperwork and negotiation with the company. people familiar with the matter told me that some components of the review could possibly push the approval date beyond today. the times said a spokesperson for the fda declined to comment. it could be very exciting news, mika p. we talked to people that are close to us that said they re no ....
the storm, most of the rain is off towards the west side of the storm where there s more population as well. tropical storm warnings in effect now, the hurricane warning has been eliminated, the storm weakened a little bit, moved over colder water. the hurricane needs 80-degree water temperature in order to sustain itself. it s off the coast and water temps are in the lower 70s and upper 60s, so rapid weakening of the storm. we re talking about a slow process for the next 24 hours. not very common in the northeast to have a slow-moving storm. this will be moving slow so there is a bigger flood threat. we ll see a lot of heavy rain. the ground is pretty t saturated, the interior sections, because of the remnants of tropical storm fred, because of the rain and the wind, it s going to probably knock over of trees and branches, that will cause power outages. you get the idea, areas of eastern pennsylvania, up across parts of vermont and new hampshire in some sort of flood w ....
department warning as many as 15,000 americans stuck in taliban country they can t ensure safe passage to get them to the kabul airport and fly them out? you must demand that the mightiest force on the planet does not surrender its own to this kind of fate from a bunch of zealot thugs. [ gunfire ] that s what you want your countrymen to surrender to? the state department should not be warning the desperate. the warning is a desperate one to the state department and this administration. you had been do what you have to to get americans out. what does this country stand for, if not committing completely to protecting its own? another bad sign, the administration seems to be allowing the taliban to dictate terms here. we re going to get everyone that we can possibly evacuate evacuated. and i ll do that as long as we possibly can until the clock runs out or we run out of capability. we will get out as many as possible. clock runs out when you say it runs out. and as ....
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outside land locked afghanistan. it never happened. now we re beginning to understand why it was such an important issue. could that have been a sign of the angst the administration had ahead of this pull-out from afghanistan and the collapse that has followed? welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. we re still keeping on top of the exodus that is now picking up some steam in kabul. that is the good news. the bad news is that we re not quite sure who is picking and choosing when gets through that perimeter, if anyone, for the time being. let s go to jennifer griffin with the very latest on what is happening. jennifer? neil, the u.s. provided weapons to the fighters in the 80s that is now the taliban. now billions of dollars of hardware in the hands of the taliban. now the clock to evacuate winds down. all eyes on an august 31 withdrawal deadline. isis and al-quaida is a planning factor. you wouldn t expect it to be otherwise. i m not going to talk about spe ....