Its version of the 3. 5 trillion Reconciliation Bill expanding the social Safety Net and fighting climate change. Were going to talk about where thing goes from here with Chris Van Hollen. A short time ago, President Biden outlined the plan to make big corporations and the wealthy pay more in taxes to boost the economy and strengthen the middle class in this country. Saying that it is the right thing to do. Its not to punish anyone. Im a capitalist. If you can make A Million or A Billion dollars, thats great. God bless you. All im asking is you pay your fair share. As the f. D. A. s Vaccine Advisory Committee prepares to decide whether to recommend Vaccine Booster shots, well look at how leaders are working to overcome Vaccine Hesitancy. And while many fled or sought to flee taliban rule in afghanistan, were going to talk live to one of the leaders who stayed behind to make sure thAt The taliban uphold their promise to respect womens rights. But we begin this hour in washington, d. C.
It struck fear into the hearts of millions and also killed millions of people every year until a vaccine came along and eradicated it. Antivaxers have been around as long as vaccines themselves. Can you imagine if back then there was a major political party backing them up. Fast forward to 2021 and thats exactly where we are now. Kevin mccarthy, the republican Leader And Colt 45 Groupie Tweeting in all cap rant, no vaccine mandate period. The governor is tHreatening the fine cities and counties that require workers to be vaccinated while passing the mike to antivaxers at his Press Conference. No one should tell you what tO Put in your body. For me, thats a problem. Thats a lot. Thats not true. Wait a minute. What was that part about how No One should tell you how what O Put in your body and about your body. Has the Texas Governor received that message . You think we could agree on this one thing, staying alive. Keeping our children alive, our parents. A large Cdc Report says unvaccinat
Beaten by the taliban, a direct contradiction to what the commanderinchief had said just a short time earlier. And that wasn t the only contradiction from the president s remarks this afternoon. White house correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest from the north lawn. Good evening, jackie. Good evening, bret. The biggest news as the president remarked he extended the commitment to evacuate stranded americans to afghan refugees to allies. But it was incredibly unclear by what means he intends to do that and if it will involve american troops. President biden said he is considering rescue operations to recover americans and afghan allies stuck behind taliban checkpoints and seemed to open the door to using american troops. This evacuation mission is dangerous and involves risks to armed forces. I cannot promise what the final outcome will be and what it will bethat it will be without risk of loss. But as commanderinchief, i can assure you that i will mobilize every resource necessary
America and our cameras were rolling at dulles airport as the evacuees arrived escaping the chaos and the taliban takeover. Everything worked out. Everybody got home safely, that is our primary concern. They are not the only ones out of afghanistan. We have new information just coming in to us within the last five minutes on where president ghani, the now former it appears afghan leader is as we speak. Right now as many as 15,000 americans are still in afghanistan. The pentagon hoping toic. Up the pace of evacuations and multiple sources telling nbc news the cia warned something like what we re seeing now could be the worst case scenario. We ll have the new reporting you will only see here and reaction from the white house, where president biden is set to announce new guidance recommending most americans get a covid booster. Top docs standing by how that goes down and what you need to know. I m hallie jackson in washington with you along with our nbc news team. Courtney kube at the pen
President? governor who? desantis. That was president biden s reaction to florida s republican governor, ron desantis. Willie, he is just his childish response to not just the president but other people concerned that ron desantis is passing topdown mandates, forcing people whether it s small businesses in florida to not be able to protect themselves or school boards not be able to protect themselves. He s trying to run covid like an emperor out of tallahassee, florida. One size does not fit all 67 counties. But ron desantis acting like a socialist thinking it does. Of course, there s irony in him complaining about the top down from the white house giving orders where he s going top down at the state house telling school districts what they can and can t do. There are many that are different saying we re going to go ahead with the mask mandate. There s a big problem in florida right now we ll get to covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths as delta variant goes across the country.