there were cabinet meetings. stephen miller peddled his racist his steer yeah. he and his enablers would undermine anything from special immigrant visa issue and demonstrating it. more on that in just a minute. president biden said he is focused on getting americans out any way possible. we re running into everything, everything that we can to provide safe evacuation for our afghan allies, partners, afghans who might be targeted with their association with the united states. i can t promise what their final outcome will be but as commander in chief, i can ensure you i will mobilize every resource needed. 5800 troops are at the airport in kabul to get americans out. approximately 2500 americans have been evacuated. over the past 24 hours 3800 people have been ferried from kabul in six c-17s. we are committed to this highly important mission to bring americans and siv applicants out and vulnerable afghans including women and children safely out of afghanistan. since the e
forces. and it s being conducted under difficult circumstances. i cannot promise what the final outcome will be. or that it will be without risk of loss. but as commander in chief i can assure you that i will mobilize every resource necessary. the past week has been heartbreaking. we ve seen gut-wrenching images of panicked people acting out of sheer desperation. you know, it s completely understandable. they re frightened, they re sad, uncertain what happens next. i don t think anyone, i don t think any one of us can see these pictures and not feel that pain on a human life. now we have a mission, a mission to complete in afghanistan. the president there taking stock of days of harrowing scenes outside the airport in kabul including this video of a baby being handed over a wall to a u.s. marine as well as taliban gunmen firing into the air and resorting to other brutal measures to try and disperse the thousands of people trying desperately to leave the country. while the a
frustration is on everyone, and you have been covering this story from your own time in afghanistan and before that for so many years. and when you get to the end what is the end of a of the war chapter of this story, that s when all sorts of emotions take over. and so it s we re all going through this. yeah. and just to see the super human effort that had to be exerted to bring about a small rational human outcome that should not have been that hard to achieve, it is you exalt in the achievement and just you are equally horrified that this is what it takes and that the system isn t working and that you have to you have to, you know, connect this many hail mary passes in a row in order to make it work for somebody. it s just a lot. it s a lot. what i m always hoping for in the horrors of war stories which includes the horrors of the end of war stories is that it makes people think the next time about their decision to go to war because we aren t able to go to war
grows only worse with the severe weather there. new reporting on the after math of saturday s deadly earthquake. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, august 18th. it s good to have us all together, joe. yeah, great to be together. we have a lot to talk about today. willie, though, let s just start by talking about and you and i maybe we shouldn t reveal this to everybody, but, you know, i m frighteningly good in two things, and we don t talk about it a lot. one is parcheesi, the second is fortune telling. i m a great fortune teller. i have been predicting the rise of a team out of the east for quite some time now. you laughed, you mocked me. lemere mocked me. the yankees were coming, what happened, of course, willie, call me dom if you would like. it did help, the trade deadline. you guys set up murderers row, and our front office decided to get a one eyed goat and a six-week subscription to popular mechanics and that was just online. it wasn t even
president biden about the recommendation from the covid task force for a booster shot for all americans ages 12 and older. we know that the highly effective vaccines are less effective over time, and that is why today we are announcing the plan to stay ahead of the virus by being prepared to over covid-19 booster shots to vaccinated adults 18 years and older and prepared for the booster shot eight months after receiving the second dose of the moderna or the pfizer dose. we plan to start this september 2021. three points are clear. vaccine protection against the sars covid-19 protection begins to decrease over time. and second the vaccine effectiveness against the severe disease and hospitalization and death remains relatively high. and third, the disease effectiveness is increasing against the delta variance. and so it is a big announcement raising a lot of questions and we hope to answer many of them for you in a minute, and even as the federal officials are rolling to