Going through some growing pains. The idea that somehow there is a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i dont know how that happens. I dont know how that happened. So, for you, that was always priced into the decision . Yes. I think they are going through sort of an existential crisis about do they want to be recognized by the international community as being a legitimate government. Will existential crisis how perfectly 2021. Hey, you remember those Bumper Cars we showed you the other night the taliban having a grand old time . Apparently after they were done yelling wee, they burned down the ride. Melted it. Not unlike the democratic party. They get to enjoy the finer things in life like dining at French Laundry or receiving rent checks. But everyone else has to be locked down under masked cherie a we are going to talk more about this a little bit later tonight. We have a really big show. Tucker carlson is going to be joining us shortly. First, i want to keep talking to you
Control, kabul and jalalabad. There s urgency at the u. S. Embassy in kabul where thousands of troops are arriving to help in the evacuation of staff. Earlier today president biden video conferenced with his national security team on developments in afghanistan. Arlette saenz and natasha bertrand join me now. Arlette, what else are we hearing from president biden? i understand he just put out a statement a few moments ago. Reporter: he did, jim. Really this is the most robust statement we ve heard from president biden since he was asked about afghanistan on tuesday. In this statement, a paper statement, he announced that he has ordered an additional 5,000 american troops to afghanistan to help with the drawdown of personnel at the embassy and to also help evacuate those afghans who helped americans over the course of that 20year war. In is in addition to the 3,000 members of the military that he has already deployed to afghanistan. And the president also issued a very strong defense of
Democrats. Fox friends first kicking off your week, starts right now. I m going off of the rails on a crazy train. I m going todd: i m a little disappointed in myself. I double clutched on that. I know that song. Jillian: i m not sure. Todd: i did the double clutch. I looked up. I didn t need to do that. Jillian: it s monday. We re still waking up. You re probably waking up and/or getting ready to go to bed if you re on the west coast so we re in a little fog. Todd: i drove through fog on the way here. It was disgusting. Welcome to the east coast. Jillian: you re watching fox friends first on this monday morning. I m jillian mele. Todd: i m todd piro. The president of the second largest teachers union calling for vaccine mandates as students head back to school. Jillian: parents are pushing back on the growing list of schools with mask mandates. Lauren blanchard joins us with more. Reporter: randy weingarden has changed her mind on mandatory vaccines for educators, first saying they sh
People to hear my voice and hear this message. It is quite incredible. All you can do is tell people the truthful. Yeah. You can t make them believe. The hope is in telling people the stories you ll tell tonight, the people will see themselves and not just the people who are sick but the people who are struggling with losing them around them. That s the part that we often don t emphasize enough. You wear a mask. You take care of yourself. What you may do to others. If you don t, what about the people you re supposed to take care of? yeah. Our time is short. I want to get to it. I ll be watching. I love you, d lemon. More than you know. This is don lemon tonight. We have a lot to get to. I usually start with my take. I ll give that you later because i thought this was so important. I taped it just before the broadcast west moved a lot of things around so we can show you this. You know how bad delta is. New daily cases topping 100,000. Dr. Anthony fauci predicting that the number could d
Getting seriously ill. You have to give people hope. One arm, one shot, one life. And we ve just got to keep pumping and grinding. Millions of folks are just a couple questions or answers away from being vaccinated. And that s the answer to this pandemic. Getting as many people vaccinated as we possibly can. In washington, in for pamela brown tonight. You are live in the cnn newsroom. More pandemic wary americans are getting the point. The vaccines work. The number new shots given is still rising. The cdc reporting that more than 700,000 americans got a dose of vaccine every day for the past five days. Still, just shy of half the country is now fully vaccinated. The tens of millions of people still unvaccinated are vulnerable to the more contagious delta variant and new cases are rising. All those states in dark red have new cases jumping at least 50% compared to the week prior. Hospitalizations and deaths, they are also surging. So health officials are stressing this number. Listen to