and couldn t this have been done in a more orderly manner? i respectfully disagree. imagine if we had begun evacuations in june or july bringing in thousands of american troops and evacuating more than 120,000 people in the middle of a civil war. there still would have been a rush to the airport. there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges, threats we faced. none. compelling and yet there were months to prepare. and reportedly there was intelligence to suggest there could be a quick collapse. and reportedly, we did not prepare for that or to get our machinery and weapons out so they wouldn t end up in the enemy s hands and we weren t prepared to retake control of bagram airport to speak up the evacuation effort. a big reason is because we were playing to a deadline that the administration decided had to be honored. this is a point that biden insists on. leaving august 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline.
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of afghanistan. the politics of our presence have always been deceptive and messy. the exit is too. here s the reality. trump made a rash deal with the taliban to leave by may 1st of this year. biden agreed and had it go bad on his watch. here is how the current president explains the state of play. it would have taken a significant american troop presence, multiple times greater than what president biden was handed, to stop a taliban onslaught. but the afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave made a passionate case that we should not conduct a massive evacuation unless we trigger a loss of confidence in the government. what you can do is plan for all contingencies. we did that. when a civil war comes to an end with an opposing force marching on the capital, there are going to be scenes of chaos. do you agree with that assessment? it doesn t really matter. that s politics, okay? what matters is how we do what we need to do ri
disaster zone. tonight matt rivers is in one of those towns in southwest haiti 80 miles from the quake epicenter. needs are great and devastation is everywhere. reporter: as soon as we arrived to the hospital, so did this man on a stretcher. first responders brought him to the main hospital in the city of jeremy, a city that has no room for him. inside, doctors and nurses are doing what they can to manage an influx of earthquake victims. so many have come in every single bed is full. so some are simply laid on the floor. there are broken arms and legs, crush wounds and falling debris. in the case of this 22-month-old, a shattered femur. my daughter is suffering, her dad says. i don t want her to lose her leg. dad said he pulled her out of the rubble himself. i love my daughter very much and i almost lost her. i m very grateful to these doctors working with their bare hands. it s horrific for everyone. not far from the hospital, there is destruction on every block. here, ord
pfizer, 91% effective after the same timeframe. j&j, one-dose vaccine, right? provides at least eight months of immunity. but again, these findings predate the delta variant. and we are, now, told the vaccines don t stop delta from spreading, completely. and at this rate, because we re not getting vaccinated quickly enough, we may need to extend our fight against the pandemic, which means extending our protection. which means we may need to do something to enhance our vaccines. now, yes, you are hearing me say may, may, could, what, when, potential. that s the way they speak. okay? they re analyzing data. they don t know things, for sure. they re learning, in real-time. that does create hesitancy and confusion. and their messaging is not the greatest. and the biggest reason why, and i hope they re hearing me, you don t go out enough. you need to have these conversations, every day, or every other day. and you need consistency in who is giving us the messaging. you want it to