Well talk to a governor in kentucky as hospitals are being overwhelmed. Antony blinken is about to face what will likely be a major grilling on the house foreign Affairs Committee. Ill speak with a member of that committee about that testimony, coming up. Later, President Biden heads west, hoping to address a Climate Crisis and avoid a potential political crisis. Hell meet with the top Fire Safety officials in idaho, then rally in california on the eve of the Recall Vote for the governor, Gavin Newsom. Welcome to meet the press daily. Im Garrett Haake in for chuck todd. They have flooded the Air Waves over the past 24 hours as the white House Forge ahead with the president s sweeping new requirements, including Vaccine Mandates on all businesses with more than 100 employees. Republican governors have redoubled their opposition to their mandates, vowing to use the full legal authority and the political power to resist them. Henry mcmasters set he will fight the mandates, quote, to the g
Abortion law in texas. How the biden administration says they are going to try to stop it, but do they have a case? welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. We begin in our health lead. In the next hour president biden will lay out his sixpoint plan to try to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. The this is nine weeks after biden declared independence from the virus. That was, of course, a premature declaration with deaths back up to roughly 1,500 a day in the united states and hospitalizations also rising and above 100,000. Sources telling cnn that biden s plan will include an executive order requiring all federal workers to be vaccinated and the department of labor will require all private businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure all their workers are either vaccinated or tested for the virus at least once a week. The big question, of course, is how will the biden administration enforce this, and will these policies have any effect on the tens of millions of americans who
Americans in the coming months. More just ahead on what that means. Speaking tonight on abc world news, he said american troops might have to stay in the country to secure the ongoing vaccination beyond his announced august 31st deadline. According to the president now, if there is american citizens left, we are going to stay until we get them aw out. He did not fully extend that same commitment to afghan nationals, though he said that s the objective. And it s unclear, how many americans actually remain in afghanistan. Yesterday, u. S. Officials gave differing answers. Pentagon spokesman, john kirby, in the morning said it was 5 to 10,000. Yesterday afternoon, white house press secretary, jen psaki, said it was, in fact, 11,000. And congressional aides were told by state department and pentagon officials the number was actually between 10 and 15,000, according to three sources familiar with those briefings. And that is the number the president said tonight. He also answered questions
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 coming out. If that s the case,
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And of course for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the war effort too. For years, for example, the british army had been engaged here in the town of sangin in helmand province. And that area helmand province prominently but that area and sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. By june of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that one single town