for president biden. you will be addressing world leaders as the nato summit gets up and running. all while his own party is addressing whether or not he should be running. we ve got what democrats were saying as they left a big meeting today. the white house on how the president has been responding and his team to all of this. this is your world, let s get right to the first on what he s hearing from democrats who right now are trying to come to a single view on this. i don t think it s quite that easy but what can you tell us chad? those who are behind president biden do so with full throated support. others expressed their concerns in private. chuck schumer replied to questions about the president with the same answer. but many democrats, they refused to air their divisions in public. two senators said they would not discuss private meetings from democrat peter welch and said we have a ways to go but we are not willing to negotiate in public. here are the concerns from d
sustained military mission in afghanistan is over. we ll be joined this morning by a top voice at the defense department when pentagon spokesman john kirby joins us as chaos grips a country now ruled by the taliban. plus new developments in the fight against covid. the biden administration has decided that most americans should get a booster vaccination eight months after they received their second shot. we ll have the details on that just ahead. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, august 17th. and we re going to begin this morning with the chaotic scenes from kabul s international airport. with thousands of afghans surrounding planes in a desperate attempt to escape taliban control. richard engel has the latest from kabul. reporter: tens of thousands of afghans swarmed into kabul airport. desperate to leave at any price. they burst through security. climbed over walls. and spilled onto the tarmac. searching for any airplane that would take them f
extensive quite long new diversity and inclusion strategic plan. now, the one thing we know about that plan is that it will result in the dramatic lowering of standards within our elite ranks. probably already has. so how will that make america safer? well, the general has never said you couldn t find that on the website. instead they told us that, quote, all of us understand that diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives. they didn t say how they just said they are imperative. so this is the initiative that richard tores he is central da will be running. the question is who is richard torres he is strad can a his yod crude blm and donald trump holding a bible in front of a church. next to trump is a photography of adolf hitler. the point is, they are the same. so this is the guy who now oversees hiring for the navy seals. if you are wondering whether our military leadership has gone woke can you consider that question settled for good. the pentagon is now the yale
diversity and inclusion strategic plan. now, the one thing we know about that plan is that it will result in the dramatic lowering of t standards within our elite ranks. probably already has. so how will that make america safer? well, the general has never said you couldn t find that on the website.e. instead they told us that, quote, all of us understand that diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives.er they didn t say how they just said they are imperative. so this is the initiative that richard tores estrada will be running. the question is who is richard torres estrada his you will find crude blm and donald trumpmp holding a bible in front of a church. next to trump is a photography of adolf hitler. the point is, they are the same. so this is the guy who now oversees hiring for the navy seals. if you are wondering whether our military leadership has gone woke can you consider that question settled for good. h the pentagon is now the yale faculty lounge but with
good evening, shannon. the department has called on the fbi to step in amid increasing unrest school board meetings across the country. dissuade parents from speaking out against elected leaders. it started with a letter sent to president biden from the national school board association asking for federal assistance to deal with what the board calls threatening behavior by parents. quote: the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. following an inquiry from fox news, the department of justice announced that they would oblige the nsba request. the backlash was immediate. if this isn t a deliberate attempt to chill parents from showing up at school board meetings so their elected school board, i don t know what is. in response, deputy attorney general lisa monaco insisted that government agencies would only intervene in cases of violence. the job of the justice department and local law enforcement