that. we ll not for the most part, tap into the refugee cap, there are other means and mechanisms by which we re looking to bring people in to ensure with your support they are given assist apse they would get were they coming in as refugees but not cutting into the existing cap or future cap. thank you, thank you for your great work. i hope the 200,000 is the goal, agencies are pointing toward that number and i think it is a number we should strife to meet to ensure these individuals survive and thrive in their new environment. thank you, mr. secretary, for your great work. senator haggerty. thank you. before i start, i d like to acknowledge ryan knauss, a tennessee citizen who lost his life at the airport in kabul trying to rescue and save others. my heart goes out to he and his family and the tragic loss associated with evacuation. for president biden to call this success is beyond when we leave americans, leave allies and those who helped us behind. i ve been over t
and amanda carpenter. good to see you, john. president biden announcing new vaccine mandates that could affect 100 million americans. what are you hearing from the white house? reporter: in terms of why they didn t go further is the biggest proposal i ve heard from people like our colleague jonathan rainer who you have on your show a lot, the doctor has said he should have mandated air travelers be vaccinated. the white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports and impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on plaeps. in terms of how it works is what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through occupational safety and health administration to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses affecting tens of millions of worker
the white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports, impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on planes. in terms of how it s going to work, what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through osha, the occupational safety and health administration, to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses, affecting tens of millions of workers. they re also counting on the fact that business itself wants to have the cover to impose some of these mandates. business roundtable came out tonight saying we support what the administration is doing. we ve got to get aggressive in order to get on top of this. finally they re counting on mobilizing the social political pressure of the three-quarters of american adults who have gotten vaccinated ag
desantis and abbott. and this one from axios, biden declared war on the unvaccinated. and this is the nation s that are not vaccinated and the center of this so-called war is the president s requirement that those unvaccinated and working for the federal government be vaccinated. and it is praise from the union, but the governor s news is apoplectic. tate reeves says this is terrifying. we believe in freedom from tyrants. and south carolina governor henry mcmaster said we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every south carolinian, and that is another quote from seven years ago. and when that is finished, they should know, we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. because hell is where they will reside. that was then vice president biden in 2014. and in that case, he was talking about isis. that same kind of language is being used about him from some fellow americans. the president was asked today
enough to get unvaccinated americans on board. and japan will host another athletic spectacle, we re live in tokyo for the paralympic games. good to have you with us. it remains to be seen if u.s. troops will stay in afghanistan past the august 31 deadline to help evacuate the thousands of people still trying to leave the country. g7 leaders are expected to pressure u.s. president biden to extend the mission during a virtual meeting a few hours from now. the uk defense secretary says it is unlikely but worth a try and u.s. military advisers have told the white house they need to know today if the deadline stands. the taliban want the americans out. we are well aware of the stated desire to by the taliban to have this mission completed by the 31st of august. i would tell you that we too are still planning on completing it by the 31st of august. that is the mission that has been assigned to us and that is what we re trying to execute. the u.s. says more than 16,000 peop