welcome to hardtalk. i m sarah montague. since the united states pulled their troops out of afghanistan at the beginning ofjuly, the taliban have retaken huge swathes of the country and reports have emerged that, once again, they re enforcing the same repressive practices of their past rule. my guest is afghanistan s national security adviser, hamdullah mohib. while he s here in london, he s meeting the chief of the uk defence staff who only days ago described the situation in afghanistan as grim. so can afghan national forces hold off against the taliban? hamdullah mohib, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. how did you feel when you heard that the us were pulling their troops out of afghanistan at the beginning ofjuly? this had been a long discussion. it didn t come as a total surprise to us. but the timing of when they will do this, the amount of time that it will take to do this was a bit of a shock. that said, it is a decision that was made and we respect that and are trying
painted a rosy picture of what s going on before he took a total four minutes of questions from the press. watch. turns out capitalism is alive and well. record growth, record job creation. workers getting hard earned breaks. look, we ve brought this economy back from the brink. martha: brought it back from the brink, says president biden. art laffer is here with us. working on this economy and advising our presidents of the united states. always good to see you today. at one point president biden said, you know, he said the market has gone gang busters. if the former president were still here in the white house, he would be telling you that every day. he doesn t think the market is a big indicator of the u.s. economy. what dew say to that, art? i don t think that s contract at all. the market is very important indicator of what will be, not what is or has been. while everything the president said is true and it was true, it s misleading. growth, this huge growth is not
u.s. citizen. while this breaks down along partisan lines, it does so along racial lines as well. 77% of black americans believe vote sergeant a fundamental right. 66% of asian americas, and 63% of hispanic do as well. white people are more evenly split, saying voting is a right. minorities, most of whom are democrats, have had to fight hard for that their right to vote. there s a hyper-awareness that a lot of white people don t share, mainly that it hasn t affected them in the same way. there needs to go more urgency around protection of voting rights for everybody. as protests and acts of civil disobedience, direct action as some people call it, have unfolded throughout the country, but arguably the fight against voter suppression needs to be as effective and act imp as the protests we are last summer. when george floyd was killed by a cop on video, tens of millions sauce hi death, and clearly said they stood firmly against that let people from all backgrounds to rally ag
social media is killing people. critics are coming from a white house assignment administration admitted involvement with the social media company to fly protocols this information. uncovered vaccines. peter doocy asked jane psaki about that yesterday. for how long has the administration on people s facebook profiles looking for vaccine misinformation? that was a loaded inaccurate question, our biggest concern here and i think it should be your biggest concern, number of people dying around the country because they are getting misinformation leading them to not take a vaccine. the concern for a lot of people on facebook is not now big brother watching you. they are more concerned about back then people dying across the country because of pandemic or misinformation traveling on social media? that feels unlikely, if you have the data to back that up, i am happy to look at it. jon: live at the white house with more on this, david. reporter: this group dominated the new
prompting the white has to consider asking vaccinated americans to wear masks. but that was not the message president biden sent during that town all last night. speak of those over the age of 12 who are able to get vaccinated, if you are vaccinated you shouldn t wear a mask. sandra: will be checking in with dr. siegel and just a minute, but let s start with jacqui heinrich. she s reporting live from the white house this morning. hi, jacqui. good morning to you guys. top health officials and the biden administration and some white house officials reportedly having talks over whether to reimpose that recommendation for masks despite regardless, rather, of whether you ve had the vaccine or not, because the delta variant is tearing through the country. there is discussion over whether to change the guidance because people have vaccine, it acts as an incentive not to wear a mask, that people who get the vaccine don t need it. it acts as an incentive, they want to keep it th