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is he okay? got a little soap in it in the shower. >> good to know. >> yes. but anyways, back to the thing. get vaccinated. i heard your conversation with harry about red and blue. and listen. i think, you know, i hope clearer minds prevail, regardless of ideology and political affiliation. but there are, still, groups of people out there who are fighting people to, you know, keep their masks off. # and you saw what happened in los angeles, i'm sure, with people, maskers and anti-maskers. there's only one group who is really fighting against it, actively. other people may be doing it. you know, vaccines, masks, however they feel in their normal lives and the polling works out the way that harry has it. but there's -- there -- there's a group out there, an active group, literally, physically fighting to keep masks off people's faces. >> yes. that's called covidiousy. those are covidiots. i think the mistake is to write off all republicans, as that. i think republican and democrat is done.

i think right and left is done. i think the binary system is a disease. and it has to change, in this country. and i believe the new demographic is the vaccinated. they are republican, democrat, left, right, brown, black, white, anything you want to make as a designation, you have the majority of them are vaccinated. which means that they are putting sense, first. >> yeah. >> focus on them. >> yeah. >> that's who our leaders need to speak to. >> and, everyone, listen. i -- i'm going to get to it at the end of what i am going to say in the -- in the opening of the show. but if there is a message to anyone who needs to be vaccinated, you are going to hear it tonight. it has something to do with what i did last week, when you were gone. so i am going to get to it. i'm not wearing black, just so you know. this is blue and green, not black and white, just so you know. i'm not -- >> i love you, d lemon. but you got something right

here. >> yeah, i know it's from the shower. thank you, sir. >> i love you. >>. you as well. this is "don lemon tonight." we got to get to the business of this. um, this is what the white house is facing tonight. now, nearly-five times -- nearly-five times as many americans in the hospital with covid, as there were just two months ago. and with the delta variant raging, the president announcing a plan for booster shots even though 30% of people who are eligible haven't even gotten their first shots, yet. and as americans and the world watch a disaster unfolding in afghanistan, as they watch scenes of desperation like this in a never-before-seen video at the airport. president joe biden now saying troops may stay past his august-31st deadline, if all americans are not yet evacuated. >> all troops are supposed to be out by august 31st. even if americans and our afghan

allies are still trying to get out, they're going to leave? >> we're going to do everything in our power to get all americans out and our allies out. >> does that mean troops will stay beyond august 31st, if necessary? >> it depends on where we are and whether we can get -- ramp these numbers up to 5 to 7,000, a day, coming out. if that's the case, we'll be -- they'll all be out. >> because we have got like 10 to 15,000 americans in the country right now, right? and are we committed to making sure that the troops stay, until every american who wants to be out is out? >> yes. >> so, u.s. troops could be in afghanistan past august 31st, if there are americans waiting to be evacuated. but the president wasn't as definite about our afghan allies. that, as the pictures coming out of afghanistan are nothing short of chaos. you hear that? crowds of desperate people mobbing the airport in another

exclusive video. hoping, against hope, to get on a plane. gunfire heard, repeatedly. though the taliban didn't appear to be shooting at people. and president biden says this. >> you don't think this could have been handled -- this exit could have been handled better, in any way? no mistakes? >> no. i -- i -- i -- i don't think it could have been handled in a way that there -- we -- we're going to go back in hindsight and look. but the idea that, somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don't know how that happens. i don't know how that happened. >> so for you, that was always priced into the decision? >> yes. >> all right. so the president says chaos always priced into the decision. but just last month, he called the drawdown orderly. >> the drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way. prioritizing the safety of our troops, as they depart. that, the jury is still out but the likelihood there is going to be the taliban overrunning

everything, and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> and now, the airport in kabul is the center of it all. the center of the desperation. the center of the chaos. the u.s. embassy in kabul warning it can't ensure safe passage to the airport, despite the pentagon saying that the taliban is guaranteeing safe passage. more and more people trying to get in, trying to escape. some of them, so desperate that they are passing their babies overhead hoping u.s. troops will save them. >> think about a relative of mine that was at the north gate in the airport in -- in kabul. and you know, exactly what you are seeing. people are so desperate to get away from the taliban. and i can't -- i mean, as a parent, i can't believe that -- that that's what they are having to do. they are just handing their children off to complete

strangers and bucket brigade style, they are passing them to the front of the line, in the hopes that they might be able to convince the u.s. military to at least take their kids. if you didn't -- i don't think we need any, other argument than that. >> and if you are not watching cnn's cla rrissa ward, you are missing what's happening there. she is on the ground doing a hell of a job in kabul. during one of her live shots, gunshots ringing out. >> reporter: it's definitely chaotic. it's definitely dangerous. i will say this. the taliban appears to be trying to disperse the crowds, and there are crowds there of young men who seem to be just engaging in, like, criminal activity. i don't know if you heard that. they're kind of running towards the taliban, and then -- um -- running away from them, again. almost like it's a game. but, you know, when there's bullets firing like that, briana and john, it's clearly not a game. >> one man in the crowd pleading for help from america.

>> reporter: what's your message to america right now? >> our message to america. we help the america peoples so that's their jobs to help now right now here. >> and remember that photo that shocked the world some 640 afghan men, women, and children jammed into a u.s. air force c17 on their way to safety? well, today, the pentagon released a photo of u.s. marines arriving at international airport aboard a similar military plane to assist with the drawdown. and take a look at this picture. an afghan child sleeping on the floor of another u.s. air force c 17 departing from the airport in kabul. draped in a coat from an air force member. and this child is one of the lucky ones. one of the lucky ones getting out of a country in chaos. that, as here, at home, hospitals in hot spots across the country are full to capacity. people are dying, needlessly. even though we have all the vaccines we could possibly ever

need. even though we could be protecting children, who are too young to be vaccinated, simply by wearing masks. president joe biden, today, announcing a plan to give booster shots to americans, eight months after their second doses. the first booster is expected to roll out beginning next month. pending signoff from the fda and the cdc. while far too many americans still haven't gotten their first shots. that, as the president, today, slammed governors who ban mask mandates in schools for their own ghoulish political good. >> some politicians are trying to turn public-safety measures, that is, children wearing masks in school, into political disputes for their own, political gain. some are even trying to take power away from local educators, by banning masks in school. they're setting a dangerous tone. the intimidation and the threats we are seeing across the country are wrong.

they're unacceptable. i've said before, this isn't about politics. it's about keeping our children safe. >> shouldn't be about politics. the president is right. some governors are putting their own, political gain, ahead of children's lives. really, of their constituents' lives. like, texas governor greg abbott who issued an executive order banning school districts from requiring masks. and tested positive for covid-19 the day after he attended this crowded-indoor republican club meeting. apparently, not wearing a mask. and then, there is ron desantis. you can always count on him to try to turn a deadly disease into an applause line. >> politicians want to force you to cover your face, as a way for them to cover their own asses. that's just the truth. they want to be able to say they're taking this on and they're doing this, even though it doesn't -- it's not -- it's

not proven to be effective. they want to continue to do it. >> god, that is just such bunk or just to say it, it's just bullshit. really. just call it what it is. they want to protect kids, governor. what do you want? the cdc and the ama, both, agree that masks reduce the transmission of the virus. but desantis reacted to the miami-dade school board's vote today in favor of a mask mandate with a statement. pushing the same, old, misguided, bad-faith view of freedom. this has nothing to do with freedom. how is it freedom to force children who are too young to be vaccinated into schools where they could be exposed to a deadly virus, surrounded by people not wearing masks? putting politics ahead of lifesaving science, like those governors are encouraging people to do. it is just depraved. people are dying, all across this country. people with loved ones who are

grieving tonight. these are people who didn't have to die. their loss is a very preventable tragedy. and this is what i was talking about, earlier, with chris. i am thinking of, tonight, about a man i met in my hometown of baton rouge, last week. his name is jim burgess. he was in the hospital where i was born. he and his brother, rafel, both got covid. both were unvaccinated. well, the brother went home last week. jim passed away on sunday. and our deepest sympathies go out to his family. jim shared a message with me, days before he passed telling everyone to get vaccinated and i want you to hear that. >> how you doing? >> doing good. >> yeah? >> doing a lot better. >> you and your brother were here? >> yes, sir. >> what happened? >> we just got -- got covid. and got sick and we went to the

hospital. and they didn't have no place for us. they sent us down here. he come down two days before me. and he left yesterday going home. i was in icu for three days. >> yeah. >> that's a good sign. >> how is your brother? >> he's doing good. actually, i talked to him this morning. he -- he -- he was first night at home, last night. >> what does it feel like? >> feels like you got your lungs caught down. you just can't get the air. >> why didn't you get vaccinated? >> i guess, just didn't do it. >> so, you were not anti-vaccine? >> no, sir. no, sir. >> just kind of ambivalent about it? >> yep. just -- >> do you regret it? >> yes, i do. >> tell me why. >> i don't know if the shot would have helped me. it would've prevent from getting

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and we are going to get into the politics and the situation in afghanistan tonight. but there is something very important that i have to do, first. so i really need you to listen up, and pay attention. last thursday, i traveled to my hometown of baton rouge, louisiana. visiting the hospital where i was born to speak with medical staff and covid patients. and today, i learned -- i was stunned when i got the call -- i learned, sadly, that one of the patients i met, jim burgess, has passed away. he was 53 years old. so joining me now is jim's brother, rafael burgess, and rafael's wife jerry. hello to both of you. how you guys holding up? how you doing? >> it's sad. >> yeah. i only met him for just a little bit. and he -- he was just so kind, and so adamant about how he felt about what was happening. and he wanted people to get vaccinated. and he told me that he was starting to feel better. what happened, rafael?

>> i talked to him about two hours in his room. and i told him i was getting to come home and said he was doing good. and they exercise him and stuff, said he was doing good. >> yeah. >> and then -- and then, they had -- his oxygen started dropping. so they had to put him back in icu. >> yep. >> and then, sat -- saturday night -- >> yeah, saturday night about 12:00, they had to put a ventilator on him. and then, about 30 minutes later, his heart went. >> what do you want -- are you okay, rafael? >> yeah. >> it's just really hard. >> what do you want to say, rafael? >> everybody, get their covid shots. when i get through this, i'm getting my shots. >> you were right there, in there, with him.

you guys went in. i think you went in a little bit before him, am i right? >> i went in about two days before he got there. >> you were both in the hospital in singer? >> in deriter. >> and then, they didn't have room for you or they couldn't take care of you so they sent you to baton rouge general in midtown or mid-city. what was your experience like with covid? >> it was pretty rough there at first. when i went to the hospital, my legs were like rubber. couldn't even stand up. >> uh-huh. >> and i got down there, start putting ivs into me and make me feel better. >> were you worried -- when -- when you left, because you had gotten better, did -- did you feel some encouragement that he would get better? or were you worried? did you hate leaving your brother there?

>> i didn't want to leave him there. i figured he'd be coming home four or five days later but didn't happen. >> um, jerry, i -- i know that you, also, got covid, am i correct? but the difference is, is that you got the vaccine. >> i've had both vaccines. um, i work at a facility, i'm a registered nurse. um -- and there was -- you know, but i've been vaccinated a couple months for both of them. but there was times, you know, before i did get the injection that i didn't really want to get it. but, you know, we all kind of talked about it and everything. and -- um -- my thing with is i've been taking care of patients for a long time. >> you work in a nursing home. >> so -- um -- my thing was i was worried about my residents getting the covid. i didn't really tell junior i got it because, at that time,

they were really against it. but whenever he got down, you know, i didn't have any symptoms. i didn't even lose my taste. now, i know other people even that have a shot has sometimes not -- they do have some symptoms. but, you know, i was lucky. i didn't have symptoms. you know, whenever i -- we woke up that morning that i took him to the hospital -- um -- i checked their oxygen level. and normal is anything over 92. junior's was 84 and jim was 74. and jim said i feel good, whatever. i said you going to the hospital. >> yeah. >> so -- but it's -- you know, it's bad in the nursing homes or the hospitals. and, you know, i don't really understand, anymore. and i am going to be really, like, a big supporter of making people understand they need to get the shot. i can't force anybody.

but i sure can tell 'em my story. >> right on. right on. right on. jerry, you -- um -- but you weren't against getting it, right? >> am i -- no, i'm -- >> you weren't against getting it? >> no. you said, what? >> you weren't against getting the vaccine -- vaccine, the shot? >> i was, at the beginning, i was leery of it. >> uh-huh. >> but -- but i went and got it because i was thinking about others because i work in the facility. i -- i worked the covid before we even knew it was covid, we kept having patients get sick and sick and sick. but i was lucky, back then. i never caught it. >> got it. got it. rafael, so, your brother told me that he just didn't -- he said he didn't have time to get vaccinated. listen. he is laying there, not doing well. i didn't want to press him too much on it. but he said, you know, i wasn't really against it but we lived out in the country. and he told me -- you know this but -- um -- so i played some of

the conversation, earlier, that happened. but i just want to play that part, again. and here it is. and then, i want to get your response. here it is. >> why didn't you get vaccinated? >> just didn't have time. you know? i guess, just didn't do it. >> so you are not anti-vaccine? >> no, sir, no, sir. >> just kind of ambivalent about it? >> yep. just [ inaudible ]. >> now, what about you? were you anti-vaccine in the beginning? >> well, we didn't know what the side effects was. but you'd hear one story. then, you'd hear another story. decided wouldn't take a chance on getting the shot. but i definitely going to get the shots when i get over the rest of this. >> or whenever they say he can have one. >> yeah. >> your entire family, pretty much, got it, right?

>> yeah. >> so, give me -- you said you are going to get the shot. >> yes. >> and i don't want to put words in your mouth. do you feel that you were misinformed in the beginning? >> yes, i think so. >> you do? and your message to folks now, who may be thinking the way that you thought? >> i guess, they can do what they want to but i'm going to get my shots definitely. >> yeah. what should people know about your brother? what message do you want people to hear right now, rafael? >> i know he wish he got his. [ inaudible ]. >> look. from the few minutes i spoke with him, i could tell he was a good guy. he was a very kind soul. was i wrong about that?

>> what's the age difference? >> i'm 57. he's 53. >> so most of your life, you guys have been together. >> then, maybe 100 yards from my house. >> rafael, i'm sorry about the loss of your brother. i'm grateful that you're here, sharing your story with people. and you're here to honor your brother. and i hope more people can listen to folks, like me and you. both grew up in the same -f us and we're completely different. but you're my people. i know you. i grew up with folks like you. i grew up in baton rouge or right outside. a little town called port alan. >> oh. >> i get it. so, you guys, be good. i'm sorry it happened.

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the u.s. troop withdrawal is not a failure of intelligence planning or execution. and claiming there is no way the u.s. could have withdrawn, without afghanistan falling into chaos. i want to bring in matthew dowd, a former-chief strategist for president george w. bush. always like to get his perspective. so let's go. lot to talk about, matthew. thank you. president biden defiant. also, saying u.s. troops will stay in afghanistan, until every american is out past the august-31st deadline. he must realize the facts, on the ground, are really dire and he's got to get this done? >> well, i think he understood that. that's why the decision he made was so hard and which is why no other president had made the decision, from seven years of bush to -- to -- to eight years of president obama. and then, trump, obviously. i have been very critical of trump's

happened in the last 72 hours. the soldiers gave up proved him right. which is they weren't capable of governing their country. and no matter when we left, this was gonna happen. >> yeah. listen. i had been listening to you and -- and reading what you have been writing. and you think -- you are very, shall i say, bullish on the president's decision. and what the president has done. and quite frankly, you believe that democrats or that everyone should be but especially democrats should be rallying behind the president and his decision now. not that you don't have some issues with the way it was executed, in the end. but you think it's a good thing, overall? >> yeah, and i don't understand why some democrats, many democrats are, you know, scared of this. um, most every single one ran on the idea of getting out of afghanistan. president biden ran and won on the idea of getting out of

afghanistan, as quick as he could. i don't get the idea that they are so easily scared of their own shadow. and democrats have a tendency, and i have watched it over the years. as i said in a tweet, they -- they feel shame way too quickly. while republicans never feel shame, at all. um, and i think democrats sht b. thisk that's -- biden didn't abandon the afghan people. the afghan leaders abandoned the afghan people. that's who abandoned the country. >> let's talk about covid, now. the -- president biden is taking on governors who block mask mandates in school saying that they should get out of the way if they can't help. and that his administration is going to take legal action, if necessary.

is this the fight republicans want to be having? nowhere close to the fight when 70% of americans, including nearly a majority of republicans, are for mandatory mask in schools. i don't think they want to have this fight. there's obviously some element of the republican base that still feels like not wearing a mask is some aspect of some liberty or freedom. the idea that they don't want to protect other people or even themselves. which protecting yourself, not protecting yourself is idiotic. not protecting other people is, to me, is un-american. that's not how we were set up. but i -- i think joe biden is right. i think he's reached the point in time that there is an element, probably 20 or 25% of the country, that's what i think it is. about 20 to 25% of the country, a rational argument will not work. they are emotionally connected to no vaccine and no masks. and the only way -- >> you can't change people who are emotionally connected with a rational argument. it just doesn't -- it doesn't work that way. >> no. and you know that in your own

life. if somebody's emotionally connected to an issue, you can give them a ten-point logical thing and they won't -- they'll never switch. and so, i think it's time to start mandating these things. start forcing these things so we can get on the other side of this. not only the -- the thousand people that died yesterday from covid, don. >> uh-huh. >> but the health of the economy. everything getting us back to a place where we could interact normally with each other. the only way we are going to get there now is if businesses and others start mandating these things. >> yeah, listen. i was just going to say that because as i was traveling to and returning from last week where i interviewed this man who was -- i did not know, quite honestly, he was on his death bed then. i thought he was sick and was going to improve. but on the airplane, everyone had to wear a mask in the e, ris off and they didn't get -- you know, all these things. but listen. i spoke to the family of that

man, just moments ago, before ? >> well, you know, i -- and we may have talked about this before. i think we're in this timeframe, now, where the gop has abandoned the idea of the common good. the idea that we're all in this, together. and we got to figure out a way out of it. they are just totally focused on the me and the i of this. what i can get, what i want, what's good for me as opposed to what's good for the community or what's good for the neighborhood. as i listen to that family, it's heart wrenching and heartbreaking. they have been given a lot of bad information by gop politicians which is the reason they are in this mess and many states are in this mess. but we have to get to the idea that sometimes the common good is -- needs shared sacrifice. and it's a tiny sacrifice, as you know, to wear a mask and get

a vaccine. we've had more sacrifices in the history of our country, people that have lost their lives, done a lot of things. world war ii, people gave up things. all the things we have done, we can't even have a small sacrifice of wearing a mask and getting a vaccine to protect people in this country? it's gotten to that point. but we need to get back there. >> it's so ridiculous, matthew, because wherever i go, if there -- if i see, if i walk into a place and people are wearing masks. and i will say, do i -- they may say there may be someone immunocompromised or whatever. and it's like what -- what skin is it -- even here at work, what skin is it off my back to help someone else so that they don't get sick? that's what i don't understand now why we aren't to that point, especially if you are supposed to be a christian. and you're supposed to be looking out for your fellow man. >> well, and -- and just -- and not only as christians but just as americans, the first words of our constitution start with we, the people, and it talks about

our common welfare. our entire system of government was set up on the idea that we would come together for the common good. that's what we are supposed to be about. john f. kennedy talked about not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. and the small level of sacrifice that people are being asked to do in order to stop the hundreds of people dying every single day in this country and our hospitals filling up. that doesn't allow care for other people. that don't have covid. it's a tiny sacrifice and the idea the gop, overall, is pushing back against this tiny sacrifice for the sake of communities around the country is ludicrous. >> yeah. matthew dowd, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> you too, don, take care. president biden pledging to evacuate all americans from afghanistan. afghan civilians, also, scrambling to escape but with chaos erupting around the kabul airport, how can our troops accomplish the mission?

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tonight, president biden saying that u.s. -- biden saying that u.s. troops will stay in afghanistan, until all americans who want to leave the country are out. even if that means keeping them there past the august-31 deadline to leave. but he stopped short of making that same commitment to america's partners in afghanistan who are desperately crowding the perimeter outside the kabul airport trying to get in. scenes like that happening over the past-48 hours. many people, holding up papers trying to get past the checkpoints manned by the taliban who periodically fire weapons into the air to intimidate them and push them back. let's discuss, now. with cnn's military analyst major general james spider marks. thank you, general. i appreciate you joining us. you see this video and, you know, we can see the chaos on the ground. and what a tough spot the military's in right now. this could be a riot, waiting to happen. and -- and then what? could -- this situation could get worse, right? >> it really can and it is a

riot. um -- it's not waiting to happen. it's unfolding, directly, in front of us. and these soldiers and marines and the video shows soldiers from the 82nd # airborne division. they are simply manning a perimeter. they are not part of a checkpoint validating whether one of these afghans needs to come into the compound, to the airfield, or whether they shouldn't. that needs to take place from homeland security folks so -- that are going through the sivs, the special-immigration visas, and the paperwork that they may or may not have. >> president biden says that troops may stay in afghanistan. august 31st deadline. what would that entail? because the idea that the united states would be relying on the taliban. it -- it's -- it's -- you know, it's just -- it's kind of ridiculous, right? >> it's sketchy. it really is. what we have is at least the taliban and i'm not -- i'm not saying that the taliban has stated emphatically that we will stay out of the way and the united states will be able to

proceed with its evacuation. and -- um -- they're not going to facilitate but they're not going to get in the middle of it. well, we have seen evidence that they are getting in the middle of it and they are trying to disrupt it. but we are going to one of our enemies and we're saying, can you give us a timeout so we can get out of town? that is a lot of reliance on an -- you know, an -- an untrustworthy partner. this is -- this is not a partner. this has been an enemy of the united states who has, in many cases, when they -- when they are in charge before 9/11, they harbored al qaeda. al qaeda is part of the fabric of afghanistan. they are married into different tribes. so you have got the taliban. you've got al qaeda. and you've got isis. this unholy trinity of -- of terrorist organizations and we are relying on one of those for safe passage. >> yeah. >> it's not -- it's not a good idea to do that. >> so, listen. what's -- what's -- so what do you -- what's the plan, then, general? because we have images we can

put up. we see all this chaos. what is the plan? or what should the plan be? >> well, what we need to be able to -- i think, the plan has established, very clearly, we have got to prioritized list of who should be evacuated. american citizens. those -- those from the embassy and american citizens that are declared in country. you know as well as anybody else, we can have american citizens in afghanistan that we simply don't know about. >> uh-huh. >> and then,s the sivs. and then, other foreign nationals that might have been a part of the alliance and the coalition that has been in country for many, many years. # and then, everybody else falls in the category. >> yeah. >> so, clearly, this is a joint effort on the part of incredible air force, marine, and army folks. folks that are making this happen. there has to be some type of filter taking place outside the airport so the filtering can

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as covid worsens and children are heading back to school, arguments over wearing masks are turning violent. here is rosa flores. >> no more masks! >> reporter: the heat of debate over masks is escalating in various states. in texas, a parent ripping a teacher's face mask on monday,

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