the let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war. general keane, always great to see you. as i look at it, it looks like here with three days to go, they re really closing down the evacuation to a much lower number, and is that how you see it, and is that the only choice they have given the security risks? yeah. given if security risk and the date certain of 31 august, there s not much choice here but to keep people away if they have actionable intelligence and given they were right about the last intelligence they reacted to, we did have an attack, so i m certain this intelligence is very, very credible and taking precaution their measures to avoid a mass casualty situation like we experienced is certainly in order here. and that will, obviously, deny more people from getting out of afghanistan, american citizens, to be sure, followed by likely tens of thousands of our afghan partners. paul: yeah. let me ask you abou
commitments. we are not walking away from our commitments to the afghan forces not eliminating our diplomatic presence on the ground doing the right thing at the right time to protect our people. paul: now let s bring in jack keane fox news senior strategic analyst. general, great to see you again. the president makes his decision to withdraw okay. could america have done more to what is increasingly looking like an out? absolutely paul. this is serious miscalculations by president biden in not considering the consequences of his withdrawal decision. that is now turned into an embarrassing retreat putting the forces in and that americans are harmed in the process of this withdrawal and with we should be reasonable people can disagree but the decision has been made. so number one i want to guarantee that the tele band are not able to take over as the one - as an event of my withdrawal decision. that would put in place conditions to ensure that was the case. thirty-one aug
to school this fall. the cdc is going to say what you should do everyone over the age of under the age of 12 should probably be wearing a mask in school and that s probably what s going to happen. paul: bring in doctor murray, professor of policy at the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health fox news medical contributor. good to see you again. with cases and infections rising parts of the country and even hospitalizations in some states, how worried should we be? remark for those who are not immune from i think is a big concern right now. we are seeing two entirely different things in the u.s. right now, outbreaks localized in areas of low vaccination rates and entirely separate from that we are seeing breakthrough infections among those who are vaccinated we should not like the to and people who are vaccinated should not be concerned about risk to their own health. right now most cases, almost 50% of new cases are coming from certain regions country with low vac
agenda next deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger, a columnist, chemist rasul and mary anastasia o grady. let me start with you, dan. these inflation numbers are mind-boggling if you don t have to tell people on main street because if you like washington d.c., the irony is on one hand, president biden want to take victory laps for economic achievement and yet keep the pressure on for emergency spending. that s for sure, charles. finally free visiting the wonderful world of inflation. in that world, an economist talk about push inflation and demand, we are not going to talk about that. we are going to recognize that prices are being pushed higher and yet you have the white house and federal reserve in the chairman jerome powell trying to pull back expectations inflation is going to go much higher or persist in the economy. the struggle here is between consumers out there worry about the effects of inflation on their budget and conceivably pulling back their spending. r
claims that these restrictions make it harder for minorities to vote. let s bring in our panel. deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger. bill mcgurn had editorial board number, kyle peterson. bill, i thought this was a big decision and it being maligned as a guiding of the voting rights act, is that how you read what they did? not at all. i think you put your finger on it, paul. all the reporting i further weakening voting rights act. if you read the opinion, it doesn t stand out. a better description would be it came out for its reasonable state laws designed to ensure the integrity of these elections this is part of scare tactics. i think it was a huge decision and also what i did was provide a hedge against what i believe progressives want which is federal court to take over election. this is the judicial parallel to hr one, they want the federal court rather than state legislatures to set rules for elections so i think this was a big victory. one of many big victori