Evacuate staff from the u. S. Embassy. This as the taliban gained more Ground Today Capturing afghanistans fourth largest city and a major setback for the local government. Meanwhile, President Biden is said to be Keeping Tabs on the taliban takeover from Camp David where he is spending the weekend. Were covering the crisis from all angles. Lucas tomlinson has more on the military action in afghanistan. But we begin with white House Correspondent Kevin cork live from the north lawn. Kevin . Good evening, jon. The White House issuing a statement today. In it five action points, to address the devolving situation in afghanistan. I want to share a couple of the most notable of those five points. The White House making sure that the american people know that they are going to do all they can to safely evacuate The Americans on the ground. The deployment of approximately as you pointed out 5,000 u. S. Troops to faciitate an orderly and safe drawdown of u. S. Personnel. Another note from tha
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 Peoples 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 News Cycle when they wal
Reinstated. Residents there have seen a 500 rise in covid cases in just the last month. And theres a new push from the White House to get more young people vaccinated. Cdc data shows vaccinations remain stubbornly low as some schools prepare to reopen for inperson classes. The White House teaming up with Pop Superstar Olivia rodrigo to help get the Vaccination Message out, particularly to young people. She makes her pitch in a video with dr. Anthony fauci and reads some tweets from americans on the vaccination push. Wear your mask and get your vaccines. I need to see Olivia Rodrigo live in the concert in the first row. Im excited to tour these days. Im excited to go a concert, arent you . I agree. I want to go to a concert for sure. For sure. Cnns Natasha Chen is in birmingham, alabama, a state with one of the lowest Vaccination Rates in the country. School starts there in just a matter of weeks. Natasha, how are officials there planning to get students who are eligible vaccinated . Re
Censorship. Im jacqui Heinrich. Griff and im griff jenkins. And tHe president has words. Lets go to tHe White House lawn. White house officials are doubling and trippling down on tHe president as comments on facebook. And tHe officials at tHe White House see this as a way to take Aaggressive And Stance to root out misinformation on facebook, on twitter on any type of Social Media, a way to stop this. Right now were looking at tHe Delta Variant, incredibly serious around tHe country if you look at tHe numbers, tHeyre climbing wHen it comes to tHe Delta Variant. Two weeks, griff, after tHe president declared independence from tHe virus on july 4th, those numbers continue to go in tHe wrong direction. Lets look at tHe latest numbers just a few hours ago from tHe c. D. C. About 160 Million and a half people are fully vaccinated. Thats 48. 4 of tHe total population not nearly wHere tHe White House wants to be in tHe pandemic. THe president is looking at tHe Social Media companies as a platf
Announced a cash reward, a cash bounty. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was ready to pay up to 1 Million to anyone who could find evidence of the supposed Voter Fraud that President Trump said had cost him the election. And this 1 Million prize was not just for people in texas. It was an offer valid in all 50 states. Quote, whistleblowers and tipsters turn over their evidence to local Law Enforcement. Anyone who provides that leads to an arrest and find conviction of Voter Fraud will be paid a minimum of 25,000 but up to 1 Million. Wow. And wouldnt you know it, soon after texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick threw that chum into the water. He got a bite. Oddly, he got it from somebody who has the same job he has in a different state. The Lieutenant Governor in pennsylvania, John Fetterman, said he had taken on the challenge frommen Dan Patrick and, bingo, instantly he hit pay dirt. He said he had bangup surefire evidence of a instance of real Voter Fraud in the 2020 election in his Ho