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the biden administration ignored that dire warning, and here we are, in this situation, at this hour, where thousands of americans, tens of thousands of our afghan allies, are in extreme danger. their lives are at risk. many of these allies will be murdered if they are left behind, and the worst part of all is every bit of this was preventable. but the president of the united states, he has been completely checked out, missing in action, he endured every clear warning that this was all going to occur, in a press conference earlier today, joe biden once again showed his true colors, repeatedly told outright lies to you, the american people. a man without character, career politician, clearly no moral compass, withering, decrepit shell of a human being, who puts his own priorities, obviously, above those fellow americans abroad. and until midday today, joe s plans were to go back on vacation in delaware until he was pretty much ashamed into staying at the white house for ....
the biden administration ignore that dire warning and here we are in the situation at this hour where thousands of americans, tens of thousands of our afghan allies are in extreme danger. their lives are at risk. many of these allies will be emergent if they are left behind and at the worst part of all is every bit of this was preventable. the presence of the united states has completely checked out, missing in action. he avoided every clear point that this was going to occur but joe biden showed his true colors and repeatedly told outright lies to you the american people. and a decrepit shell of a human being that puts his priorities under those fellow americans abroad. joe s plans will go back on vacation in delaware until he was pretty much seemed and the reality for the country as this. we really don t have a president seemingly aware and capable of leading. and they are in constant contact for taliban and making sure to ensure the civilians haveaf safe passage to t ....
good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s really hoping we don t have to pull out our umbrella this weekend. i m alicia menendez on this friday, august 20th. we ll start with the news. facing intense criticism over the exit from afghanistan, president biden will deliver remarks on the evacuation efforts. as of yesterday afternoon the u.s. had evacuated thousands of americans since saturday when the government began to collapse. nbc news correspondent kelly o donnell has the latest. reporter: u.s. officials say another 6,000 people made it safely to the kabul airport awaiting evacuation. pressed repeatedly, officials at the departments of state and defense could not say how many americans still need to be rescued. i don t know with that level of detail. we re just not in a position to give a number right now. reporter: in an interview with abc, the president defended the evacuation mission despite chaos near the airport. well, there s but, ....
since last saturday. but many more are still waiting. richard engel documented his own journey at the kabul airport and filed this report. reporter: thousands of afghans were evacuated overnight from kabul airport. they re thankful to be escaping taliban rule, but it isn t pretty to flee a war zone. we watched one group of hundreds of afghans gathered in front of the departure hall leading to the runways. they wait outside for hours until the planes arrive. surrounded by trash, always under guard. most arrive here already exhausted because to get here they had to navigate through taliban fighters. who control the airport perimeter and whose idea of crowd control is using guns and whips. outside the airport people don t let me to go in. did you see the taliban beating people? yeah. beating and shooting. they run behind you with the ak-47. boom, boom, boom. what do you think about what is happening right now to your country, to you? our country is like now i ....
pandemic is having on america. the considdc is reporting that expectancy in the u.s. fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest decline since world war ii. the decrease is much worse for black and hispanic americans. the cdc says the big drop is due mainly to the coronavirus and there are more signs that things are heading in the wrong direction. new cases are surging due to the delta variant now averaging around 35,000 new infections reported each day. ha is more than triple the case count that we were seeing around fourth of july. hospitalizations rising significantly again, up more than 50% in the past two weeks. let s begin with cnn s elizabeth cohen for perspective on this dramatic drop in life expectancy that s being reported. elizabeth, what more did the cdc find? kate, you really don t think of just one disease, one outbreak as affecting life expectancy. that s exactly what happened with covid. let s take a look at the numbers from the cdc. what the number ....