We cant continue to do this forever. With children caught in the middle over Mask Mandates in school. I have two in schools. Neither will wear masks. Were seeing more kids symptomatic and more kids hospitalized due to the Delta Variant. My guest, Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the university of minnesota. A changing country. The new census report. Rural america shrinks as Urban America grows. What that means for political power in the coming decade. Joining me for Inside Analysis is pollster cornell belceh, Anne Gear ran, white House Correspondent for the Washington Post. Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson and Peter Baker, chief white House Correspondent for the New York times. Welcome to sunday, its Meet The Press. Announcer from Nbc News in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is Meet The Press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. The scale of the developing disaster in afghanistan has exceeded the most pessimistic of predictions. Taliban fo
Deteriorating security situation. But after 20 years of war and thousands of lives lost, the question is, what was it all for . Plus, a major Earthquake Hits haiti, leaving more than 1200 people dead. Theres been a scramble overnight to find any survivors trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. The question is what is the scope of this disaster . And as the Delta Variant causes covid cases to surge, a new warning from top u. S. Health officials. The u. S. Could soon hit more than 200,000 new cases per day. The question is, how does Americas Hospital system keep up . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early, the show that has a lot of news to get to. Im Jonathan Lemire on this monday, august 16th. We have plenty going on and we start overseas where 20 years after the united states toppled the Taliban Regime in afghanistan, the group is on the verge of retaking political power. Taliban forces entered the capital of kabul on saturday, continuing a recen
Against the pandemic. Millions of School Children head back into the classroom just as the Virus Rages back. Well talk about the mixed messaging coming from the same people who should be setting an example good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe, it is monday, august 16th. Joe is traveling this morning. Big news this morning. Complete collapse. 20 years after the united states toppled the Taliban Regime in afghanistan. The group is on the verge of retaking political power. Taliban forces entered the capital of kabul On Saturday continuing a blitz that has seen Insurgence Capture more than half of afghanistans 34 provincial capitals. The group overtook Police Posts and gained control of the Bagram Airfield yesterday. Afghans pled the airport looking to escape the violence only to find flights suspended over reported Gun Fire. One person able to escape was the Countrys President who said he left to, quote, prevent a flood of bloodshed. We know the embassy In Kabul has been evacuated. The
Next. Pain and regret. Hospitals are running out of beds. Plus new era. New york will welcome its first female governor after Andrew Cuomo resigns in disgrace. No one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment. What is her plan to clean up New York politics . New Yorks Lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul joins me ahead. Hello. Im Jack Tapper in washington with the state of our union watching a tragic foreign Policy Disaster unfold before our eyes. Weeks before the anniversary of 9 11 and the deadline of President Bidens complete withdrawal of u. S. Troops in afghanistan, the taliban having seized much of that country theyre now At The Gates of the Capital City of kabul. Their representatives are meeting with leadership inside the afghan president ial palace. The rapid crumbling of the country has caught the biden White House flat footed. On saturday after pulling out almost all of the 2500 Service Members there when he took office, President Biden said he would deplo
Last stronghold of the afghan government. Afghan president ghani has now fled the country. Taliban fighters have entered the Capital City of kabul where the American Flag has been taken down from the u. S. Embassy as the u. S. Undertakes an urgent evacuation of American Personnel. The rapid crumbling of the country shocked the u. S. And u. S. Allies and caught the biden White House flatfooted on saturday. After pulling out almost all of the 2,500 troops when he took office, hes deploying troops back to get americans safely out of kabul, warning of a swift u. S. Response if the Taliban Inte interfered. Sources tell cnn the majority of the u. S. Embassy staff are now out of the embassy compound. Thats a Sharp Tsharound when President Biden called it highly unlikely the Taliban Would overrun the country, at the time striking many experts in his own administration as unrealistic and prompting questions as to whether biden was cherrypicking intelligence or indifferent to it. As american dip