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good evening from washington, d.c.. i am zerlina maxwell, in for chris hayes. we are seeing a backlash around the country to red states bans on mask mandates, especially in schools. and texas, a school district is defying greg abbott s ban by adding face coverings to their dress codes. they are just one of the many districts taking on the governor. in south carolina, seven districts, including charleston county, are requiring masks despite a state ban. and in miami-dade, the school board voted to approve a mask mandate in defiance of an executive order from the republican governor, ron desantis. i let you a county, it s also enforcing masking. i will speak to the superintendent of that district, later in the. show it s the same story over, and over, and. over republican governments put these nonsensical regulations into place, in spite of warnings from public health officials and experts. and they know that regulations are nonsense and will be challenged, they are doing ....
the jury is still out, but the likelihood that there will be a talibanover running everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. yeah, that was july 8, a sound bite that has come back to haunt this president. about you now in an enter slew with abc news, he is changing his tune.slew with abc news, he is changing his tune. you don t think this exit could have been handled in a better way, no mistakes? no, i don t think that it could have been handled in a way that we ll go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there was a way too have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that hap happens. with a major self inflicted blow on foreign policy, the president who has billed himself as the foreign policy expert now left with a credibility gap rattling u.s. allies with cold comfort for what the future holds. get more now from jeff zeleny at the white house. reporter: christine and laura, president biden defy nt and defens ....
news. a declaration of victory by the taliban, moments ago in an independence day statement the taliban announced they defeated, quote the powerful and arrogant united states. this morning, reuters reporting that at least 12 people have been killed in kabul since the afghan capital fell to the taliban on sunday. president biding is vowing to get 10,000 remaining americans out of afghanistan no matter what it takes or how long even if it means keeping the recent surge of u.s. troops on the ground at the airport in kabul beyond the original withdrawal deadline of august 31st. all troops are supposed to be out by august 31st. even if americans and our afghan allies are still trying to get out, they re going to leave? we re going to do everything in our power to get all americans out and our allies out. does that mean troops will stay beyond august 31st if necessary? it depends on where we are and whether we can get ramp these numbers up to 5 to 7,000 a day comi ....
way out, but the state department has reiterated it cannot ensure safe passage for americans trying to get there and the pentagon says u.s. troops will not go out to retrieve them. here is a look at the gauntlet where thousands of americans and afghans are risking confrontation with the taliban and the taliban s gunfire just to get close to that airport. according to reuters, 12 people have been killed in that area since the taliban took control of the capital. this video was taken outside of the kabul airport and it shows a woman pushing her way through, ultimately being pulled over the wall to safety by american soldiers. in the past 24 hours the u.s. has evacuated more than 2,000 people from afghanistan, tens of thousands are still waiting for their chance. nick paton walsh is cnn s international security editor. nirk, you are in doha, in qatar. earlier this week you were at the airport in kabul. having been there, what is your take on the ability to ramp up this ....
fronts in the war against covid. starting with booster shots, which will be offered to all americans beginning the third week of september. the reason most people in america don t worry about polio, smallpox, measles, mumps or rubella today is because of vaccines. the threat of the delta virus remains real. but we are prepared, we have the tools, we can do this. if you aren t going to fight covid-19, at least get out of the way of everyone else who s trying. the biden administration will also require that nursing home staff be vaccinated in order to continue receiving medicare and medicaid funding. these developments come as america s hospitals are back in crisis mode, overwhelming health care workers who are facing burnout. states like alabama are out of icu beds. they re done. a hospital association president called it uncharted territory with some patients being treated on gurneys in hallways. but what is perhaps most troubling is the spike in covid cases among c ....