country. both are knitted together by a principle of trust but verify. the numbers, the efforts in afghanistan, the ability to take a safe vaccine here and the responsibility to do what is right for yourself, your family and the people in your community. will we get it right? we'll see. thank you for watching. "don lemon tonight" starts now. >> we got a translator came over as a teenager, promised to get his family here. he is working on that now. i have some good news, it's not quite the end of the line for them getting here but i have good news to share. that translator will join us and chris, what you and i have been talking about, what you have been more than any of us on the network saying you need to get this fda approval. you need to get the fda approval, if you get it, it will help people, you know, want to get the vaccine. i, you know, i've been saying i don't think it will make a

difference. maybe we'll see where people are if they really believe this thing they're saying about well, as soon as we get fda approval, we'll get the vaccine. now we have it. what's your excuse now? >> well, they shouldn't have one. now, look, the only carveout is they didn't approve it for kids yet, right? that's because they don't have enough time and data and they have to follow the rules, which should be reminded to people when they say hey, i heard that the fda approval was shortcut. it wasn't. it wasn't short circuited. >> i told you that would happen. we had a conversation today -- >> stupid is always obvious. i'm saying that the fda commissioner under trump was just on and says he doesn't believe that. so there is your boy saying that he doesn't accept that so then don't listen to it if that's u your inclination of kind of political prism. my point is this, this country is divided. it is the vaccinated and unvaccinated. the vaccinated are growing majority. they are republican, democrat, left, right, everything people

don't call themselves in real life. that's who needs to be spoken to by leaders. we don't have to sit around worrying about offending the unvaccinated. that's how we made ourselves sick. not how we'll make ourselves better. >> people injecting drugs for animals and horse -- >> and people telling them to. >> oh my god. >> what person -- you know, you talk about cancel culture and who to shame. ivermectin, a dewormer, really? >> they are shaming themselves. nobody has to shame them. >> they need to be called out and shamed, brother. >> see ya in a bit. i love ya. >> i love ya. this is d. lemon tonight. we have new developments on multiple big stories to tell, a lot for a monday night. we'll catch you up on here. here is the deal. time is running out in afghanistan. and the world really is watching this. the president, president biden's

deadline for removing all u.s. troops from the country eight days away, just eight days away. last week he said he would stay until every american who wants to be out is out. all right? now military advisors say he's got to make up his mind whether to stay or go by tomorrow in order to have enough time to withdrawal the troops and equipment currently on the ground in kabul. that's a lot. some are advising the president against staying longer in afghanistan. here is what they site. they site potential terror threats on the ground but in a sign of progress, there is progress, okay? the pace of evacuations ramping up. white house officials say some 10,900 people have been evacuated over a 12-hour stretch just today. more people over the course of the last week or so. they were able to get out on board 15 u.s. c-17s and 34 collision flights. that is the u.s. military is

setting up alternate routes to the airport because of a threat that isis could target the crowds. listen to this. >> we're working hard and as fast as we can to get people out. that's our mission. that's our goal. and our determination to get every american citizen home and evacuate our afghan allies is unwavering. >> and as the frantic race to evacuate thousands of people continues, afghan allies who have applied for special immigrant visas being told to stay away from the airport today especially, essentially pushed to the end of the line. that's what we're told. after american citizens, they go behind american citizens and legal permanent residents. a source telling cnn the airport is like the wild west with special forces afghan and american trying to help their afghan former colleagues. >> we will continue to get afghans at risk out of the country even after u.s. military

forces have left. >> so we have that. that's enough for an entire day here. two hours especially on this show but there is also big news on covid tonight. the fda giving full approval to the pfizer vaccine for people who are 16 and older. 16 and older. the first vaccine to move beyond emergency use status in this country. dr. anthony fauci spoke to anderson a little bit ago and says if we get people vaccinated, we could be back to some version of normal by next spring. >> we hope we'll be there at the time frame that i mentioned correctly being the spring of 2022, but there is no guarantee because it's up to us. if we keep lingering without getting those people vaccinated that should be vaccinated, this thing could linger on leading to the development of another variant, which could complicate things. it been our power to get this under control.

>> so there is no excuse. no excuse. that excuse you hear from some people who said they didn't want to get the vaccine or get vaccinated until the shot got full approval. well? today is the day. the pfizer vaccine is fully approved. now we'll find out how many people were actually waiting for the full fda approval and we may see a lot more employers requiring their workers to get vaccinated. a requirement. we may see more restaurants, more theaters, other venues requiring it. >> if you're a business leader, a non-profit leader, state and local leader who has been waiting for full fda approval to require vaccinations, i call on you now to do that, require it. do what i did last month. require your employ requirements. >> require it. require it. maybe it wouldn't have to be a

requirement if more people had done it in the first place and the virus wouldn't mutate and you wouldn't have a variant. the white house indicating there could be more vaccine mandates coming for federal workers. that as the president urged parents to make sure their kids that are too young to be vaccinated, make sure they wear their masks. >> make sure your child is masked when they leave home. that's how to best keep our kids safe. >> and yes, that means at schools, even in states like florida and texas where governors are putting politics ahead of students' health and safety by trying to ban mask mandates. masks. vaccines. those are the best weapons we have against a virus that is killing more than 1,000 americans every single day. yet, there are people who don't trust the vaccines. but they're willing to try any

wacky, fake cure they read about online or they see in right wing media. at least two people in mississippi have been hospitalized after taking an anti parasite drug meant for livestock. the fda tweeting you're not a horse. you're knot a cow. seriously, y'all, stop it. you're not a horse. you're not a cow. seriously, y'all, stop it. so let me get this straight. think about this, okay? you won't get vaccinated. you won't wear a mask. you said you're worried about the fda approval you don't know what's in the vaccine but you'll take a drug meant for deworming livestock? really? you'll trust your health and life to rumors and misinformation?

just the latest in the hall of shame of covid misinformation. >> supposing you bright the light inside the body, which you can do through the skin or in some other way and i think you said you're going to test that, too. sounds interesting. then i see the disinfectaing where it knocks it out in a minute. is there a way to do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs. >> the former covid misinformation in chief right there. but even he can't control the misinformation anymore because this weekend he told a crowd of supporters in alabama to get vaccinated and guess what? he got booed for it. that shows you just how out of control this whole thing has gotten. the former guy tells people he's been vaccinated, something we only learned months after the fact and people boo?

after feeding the misinformation monster for years, he can't control it now. and there is news tonight on the investigation of one of the darkest days in american history. i'm talking about january 6th. that's when blood thirsty rioters, trump supporting r rioters tried to over throw our free and fair election. hunting lawmakers forced to run for their lives and beating police trying to defend the seat of our democracy. sources telling cnn the house select committee investigating january 6th plans to ask companies to preserve the phone records of multiple people including some members of congress. we don't know which members' records the committee is interested in but the question of who spoke to the president that day sure does seem to be a source bought for some republicans. jim jordan telling cnn hey hasn't been contacted by the committee to preserve his records but he would compile

saying quote, i've got nothing to hide. but i want you to just remember this from last month. the congressman stammering, stuttering on and on and on trying to make not to make eye contact when he is asked what should be a pretty simple question here, did you speak with then president on january 6th? >> did you speak with president trump on january 6th? >> yeah, i mean, i spoke with the president last week. i speak with the president all the time. i spoke with him on january 6th. i talk with president trump all the time. that's -- i don't think that's unusual. i would expect members of congress to talk with the president of the united states when they're trying to get done the things they told the voters in their district to do. i'm actually kind of amazed sometimes people keep asking this question. i talk to the president all the time. i talked to him last week. >> on january 6th, did you speak with him before, during or after the capitol was attacked?

>> i'd have to go -- i spoke with him that day after, i think after. i don't know if i spoke with him in the morning or not. i don't know. i'd have to go back -- i don't know that -- when those conversations happened but what i know is i spoke with him all the time. [ laughter ] >> did you eat the blueberry muffin, son? i don't know. then why are there blueberries all over your face? i don't know. really. so you spoke with him on january 6th. you think that maybe after, right? but you'd have to go back but you don't know when the conversations happened but all you know is that you speak with him all the time. uh-huh. great. do you really expect us to believe you don't remember when

you spoke to the president of the united states on the day the capitol was attacked by rioters chanting hang mike pence? really? okay. y'all believe that? by the way, look, there is the gallas hanging. the lies and misinformation killing us, killing our democracy. the lies and information about covid and the big lie that fueled the attack on the united states capitol. so just how wide ranging will the committee's investigation of the january 6th insurrection be? whose phone records will the select committee want to see? congressman adam schiff on the committee. he also attended a briefing just today on afghanistan. he's going to discuss that. we'll discuss that with him and a lot more to come. scientific c.

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i'm so glad to have my next guest here because he'll give us the information we need. cnn is learning president biden is weighing whether to extend the august 31st deadline from

removing all u.s. troops from afghanistan. they briefed lawmakers on the intelligence committee on the crisis unfolding and the as the house select committee is investigating plans to ask companies to preserve the phone records of multiple people including some members of congress. let's get to it with democratic congressman adam schiff. thank you so much. appreciate you joining us. good evening. a lot to get to on afghanistan. i want to start with the select committee investigating january 6th. you're on that committee. benny thompson, the committee's chair confirming to cnn he wants tell lacombe companies to preserve phone records to members of congress and kevin mccarthy, jim jordan spoke with trump on january 6th. whose records do you want to see? >> well, i'm going to leave it as you might imagine to the chairman to make those disclosures public or in a formal announcement. i can tell you this, we intend

to be thorough. we want to know exactly what took place before january 6th that led to that tragic day and the violence of that day. anyone involved and anyone who had knowledge who would be assembling on that mall or the violence to come, anyone that funded it, what the white house was doing, people in the administration, what they were aware of and when, why we weren't reinforced in the capitol, why it took so many hours to send the national guard. so we want answers to all these questions and we're not afraid to ask them of anyone including members of congress, former members of the administration, current people that are serving within administration, anyone who has relevant information. >> yeah. listen, your answer may be similar but i have to ask it anyways, letters are going out, going to be sent to social media companies. are you able to say which ones and how expansive you see this investigation coming? >> i can't. i can say this follows a very traditional investigative path where you want to get the

documents first before you bring in witnesses so you know the right questions to ask and we are working in a very bipartisan indeed non-partisan way and brought on very capable invest g -- investigative staff. we're getting well situated to get this important work done and one of the most important investigations congress has ever under taken. >> appreciate you talking about that. let's turn to afghanistan, shall we? when you take into account what you heard in the intel briefing with images coming out of kabul, volatile situation on the ground. the american citizens and afghan allies who are there and still need to be evacuated, give me your real assessment of this situation, congressman? >> you pretty dire. there are thousands and thousands that need to be evacuated. americans first and foremost and u.s. residents but people that

have a moral and ethical obligation to. those who fought beside us and intelligence to save american lives and as well as civil society figures that we were working with to try to establish a government that would protect citizens including the rights of women and girls and so that's a big group of people and i'm encouraged that we have really ramped efforts up in the last 24 to 48 hours with 11,000 people evacuated in a single day. that's pretty -- that's pretty extraordinary number but there are so many more yet to evacuate that we've got a lot of hard work ahead of us under dangerous circumstances. >> listen, you're there. you know. you got the intel briefings. you know more than we do and certainly some things you can't reveal. let's put up those images at the kabul airport. you've been concerned about the threat at that airport. we've seen plenty of videos showing crowds of people desperate to get in. do you think the u.s. needs to

do more to beef up security or do you think that right now they're doing what's needed to be done? how do you feel about it? >> well, i guess i would say there can never be enough security at that airport. it's such a chaotic situation and when you mass that number of people. people can get hurt just being in a crowd that size but makes a very attractive target for our enemies, for isis for example like nothing better than to attack, set off a suicide bomb in that crowd or take out one of those aircraft with a man pad. that couwould be obviously catastrophic and they would love to see that ka at tcatastrophe. it's a difficult dangerous situation. we have the best trained military in the world but this is a first class, first order safety logistics nightmare and

we're going to have to use all the skills we have. >> yeah, as you say the words god forbid let's hope that doesn't happen what you said but yes, a very real possibility. i understand that. so you also say -- you say we should have a military presence in afghanistan as long as it takes to get to u.s. citizens and allies and afghan allies but the taliban say any delay to this august 31st deadline, they say it a red line. are you worried an extension could put even more lives in jeopardy here? >> well, i'm certainly concerned about any effort by the taliban to go after people after the end of the month. but i'm -- look, i'm very mindful of the fact that there are still many tens of thousands of people we need to get out and getting people to that airport is very difficult and the end of the month will be on us before we know it and i think that we need to maintain our military presence long enough to get

everyone out, certainly our own people out but also those we have that moral obligation to help evacuate. so look, i support the withdrawal of our u.s. forces out of afghanistan. i think the president made the right decision. we could be there another five, ten, 15 years and still be in the same situation in terms of the taliban takeover. but we shouldn't leave until we get all of our people out and those that we have an obligation to help get to safety. >> yeah. cnn is reporting that the u.s. is scrambling to fill an intelligence vacuum in the aftermath of afghanistan's collapse. are you worried that all of this instability could embolden extremist groups again to carry out an attack you mentioned at the airport but carry out on attack at home or abroad, congressman? >> well, look, when you draw down your military footprint somewhere, you lose eyes on some of the dangers that exist, but i

think we have to acreknowledge e danger in the country is greater outside of afghanistan in terms of terrorist attack that may be organized against the homeland so there are other parts of the world where al qaeda has a bigger presence and isis has a bigger presence but over time, that could change in afghanistan. we're going to have to try to keep a close watch to make sure al qaeda doesn't reconstitute itself there and take action against isis k and make sure that it doesn't pose a growing threat to us. that's more difficult to do when you don't have those troops still on the ground but of course, when we did have the troops on the ground, they were targets and we were risking american lives in that fashion, too. so not a bright line here but i think the draw down is the right decision, and we're just going to have to really strengthen our intelligence gathering capability from other places. >> look, we appreciate having our leaders on to speak to the

american people especially someone like you and the committees you're on. thank you so much. please come back. appreciate it. >> thanks, will do. >> thank you. with just about a week left until the president's deadline to get out is the white house getting a better handle on the crisis in afghanistan? we'll talk about that. that's next. [music plays.] ♪ ♪

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so we're told that president biden is still deciding whether to extend the august 31st deadline for removing all u.s. troops from afghanistan. officials say they need to know by tomorrow in order to have if you have time to get all troops and equipment out of kabul airport by the 31st, which is next tuesday. so let's bring in charlie dent and former republican congressman, he's a former repub connecticut -- republican congressman. jim, let's start with you. we have huge news here, the full fd fda approval of pfizer and we're at a critical point for af afgha afghanistan. what is on the line for president biden this week? >> right now he's trying to talk about getting everyone vaccinated and making sure we get to the numbers. the pfizer thing is a big deal

and at the same time you have good economic news. this is going to be an august we were going to sore as a message and he was going to spend a lot of time talking about the economy and the vaccination efforts and instead, we're talking about afghanistan 24/7. so, you know, when you work in the white house as you know i was the white house deputy chief of staff, you realize ever day something goes wrong, it only gets to the white house if no one else can fix it. they are attempting to surf over this sea of bad news and stay focused on the broader picture of getting needles in arms and make sure the economy builds back better. >> charlie, listen. we've spoken about this. i know you felt president booiboiden biden's decision in afghanistan was reckless. we're now learning he advisors began talking about security on

the ground. do you expect troops will have to past the deadline to get everyone out? >> absolutely. look, we can get out by august 31st but i suspect we'll be leaving a lot of people behind. i couldn't tell you how many american citizens would be left behind but we'll be certainly leaving a lot of afghan allies behind if we abide by this arbitrary date. i understand the seriousness of the scircumstance on the ground. for the life of me, don, i can't understand why we're been in the middle of the night in july would have been an ideal place i would think to evacuate thousands of our citizens and allies. there are so many decisions. it's so disturbing to watch this. this is a strategic humanitarian and diplomatic disaster unfolding. there will be long term consequences. we can go home but it doesn't mean the war ends. i'm fearful we'll have another base for these jihad terrorists

to operate from. >> i want to tell people your family hosted a young afghan refugee 2011, 2012 to finish her senior year in your community. her name is sammy. what would you say to americans concerned about the u.s. taking in afghan roefugees now and to the fear mongerers playing out on that concern? >> i would tell people, we have an absolute sacred duty and obligation to help so many of these afghans who helped us. they want the same things we do. they hate the taliban more than we do. poor sammy, her father was executed in front of the family by the taliban. and forced to flee their country. they were actually reasonably successful people. changed everything for them. there are so many other thousands of people like that who have experienced such terrifying hardship and when they come to this country, they become americans and good

americans and i would tell anyone who is fearful that you have nothing to fear. these people are going to be just like the vietnamese and the koreans and the cubans and others who came to our country after experiencing war and hardship. nothing to fear. it's -- i would -- look, we did our part. we didn't do anything heroic. i would encourage anybody to think about helping a family or a young woman from afghanistan. help them. that's the best thing you can do. help these folks get settled and same to our allies and friends taking their fair share, too, i hope. >> jim, listen. numbers go up and down. stock market goes up and down. ratings go up and down. biden's approval rating dipped from 53% in april according to an nbc news poll. look, these polls are a snapshot in time. we always say that. the president is dealing with a pandemic and ending a 20-year war, which is come with severe complications. is there anything that he could do to boost domestic numbers,

domestic achievements? >> well, yeah. go get more things done. you know, this weekend i was with speaker pelosi in this big democratic retreat and it's fair to say that there was mild panic among the democratic constituents base about the poll numbers and, you know, i know you're not trying to bait me, don, but you know how i feel about these polls. it drives me batty. here is the truth. the president is at his lowest moving average since his presidency. he's also at an average that is higher than any day of donald trump's presidency. we are sitting 15 months before the next election. everyone ought to put the polls as far as way as they can. get a very nice glass of wine and start drinking it and calm down. what members of congress need to do, what democrats in congress need to do is do what they are trying to do, pass bills, make people's lives better and have something to run on in the next election. and so i don't think any of

these poll numbers mean anything at all and people just need to take a deep breath here and realize it's just about getting things done to make the american people's lives better. sorry for the rant. >> a lot of people are like amen to the glass of wine. i don't know if i've ever heard any advice like that from someone like jim. okay. so listen, charlie. president biden is urging vaccine holdouts to get their covid shots now that the fda granted full approval of this pfizer vaccine. will this get people who have refused to get this vaccine who believe that the misinformation, will you think it will encourage them to get it? >> i think some people will get vaccinated as a result of the fda approval, but i think what really is going to get people vaccinated are consequences, sticks at this point if you will. when employers tell people you know what? if you want to step foot in this office, you better have a vaccination. if you want to go to the football game, you better have a

vaccination. this will get people vaccinated. you have to impose consequences on people for their reckless behavior. some people don't get vaccinated because they're dog matic -- >> let me ask you this. i said that and i've heard others say that and people say oh, come on. this is america. we don't do that here in america. what do you say to that? >> i had to get my kids vaccinva vaccinated to go to school last i checked. it's been awhile. we all got vaccinated. i say to them, in this country we are very privileged. the fact there are people in other countries who many people don't have a lot of education in those countries but put their arm out in a second to get a shot because they have eyes and ears and need it to be safe. we have in excess supply of vaccines and people won't take them. my answer is get the shots. i mean, the same people are complaining about mask mandates

are the same ones that don't want to get vaccinated. not all of them but many and that's the real sorry thing about this. talk about being privileged that we had this access and so many of our fellow citizens won't get the shots when you look at india and africa and all these places in the world where they don't have access. tiny percentages of the populations are vaccinated and here we sit with excess supply. >> charlie, jim, thank you very much. i love having you both on. see you soon. >> a lot more on pfizer's covid vaccine getting the if you will author autho -- full authorization. more next. ♪ ayy, ayy, ayy ♪ ♪ yeah, we fancy like applebee's on a date night ♪ authorization. more next. ♪ get some whipped cream on the top too ♪ ♪ two straws, one check, girl, i got you ♪ ♪ bougie like natty in the styrofoam ♪ ♪ squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home ♪

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>> some big, big news today in the battle against covid-19. the fda granting full approval

to pfizer's vaccine for all people age 16 and older. children 12 to 15 are able to get it under the emergency use authorization but with schools reopening children under 12 not eligible to get the vaccine, that's expected to change over the next few months. joining me now is dr. peter hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. doctor, thanks so much for being here this evening. more than 80 million eligible americans still haven't vaccinated. one excuse we've been hearing from people was that hey, we want full fda approval. not emergency approval. well, they got it now. do you think this will move the needle for these folks? >> it's going to move the needle but not in ways we're talking about. so the anti vaccine groups, the disinformation campaign coming from the political right and dedicated non-governmental organizations, dedicated anti vaccine groups identified by the center for countering digital hate have a list of a dozen or so talking points all phony

bologna but they are very aggressive and they convince people and this is created a huge problem and now people tie their allegiance to not getting vaccinated today gop. this is a game changer. the anti vaccine movement is adopted by political extremism on the right and expanding. so these are people who are tieing their identity to it. this is a major talking point. they say it's only released through eua. i don't think it will have that big an impact because they will fall back on the other talking points. the good news, though, i think it will have a big impact on employer mandates, federal mandates and the u.s. military and that will move the needle but how far that's going to take us, i don't know. 80 million is a big number, don. we got 80 million people who are defying refusing vaccines and how far the mandates will go is unclear, as well.

and the numbers are daunting because we have to pretty much have all of the adults and adolescents vaccinateed to stop this virus. this will be the challenge closing that 80 million gap. >> good segway to the question i want to ask now is that dr. fauci was on with my colleague anderson earlier tonight. he says that if most people eligible people got vaccinated or get vaccinated, that we could have this under control by 2022. okay? so we have been at this since march of 2020 and really, what is it going to take? >> actually, i agree with tony. i degree with dr. fauci, we could have -- we could be out of this by the end of the year if we got everybody vaccinated but that's the problem, and we -- you know, the mandates will only get us so far, and i think the public service announcements will only get us so far. there is one thing the biden administration has not done that i think is going to be essential if we're really going to get to

that benchmark of stopping transmission and that is we've got to dismantle the disinformation empire. and that's what the biden administration so far has been unwilling to do. you know, they have gone after facebook and social media companies and they're important for the transmission of this and certainly have a role but they've not wanted to take on what i call the three-headed monster, which is the political aggression from the far right, number one. number two, the disinformation dozen identified by the center for countering digital hate. those are non-governmental groups and the third, which surprises some is the russian government launching an aggressive program of weaponized health disinformation. weaponized health communication to divide our country and that we're going to need the department of homeland security, the justice department, the commerce department and state department and got to create this inner agency task force that i've been asking them to create to take this on and it's

unpleasant. it's dirty work in the sense that it's -- that it's really not dirty in terms of illegal but unpleasant and that's the reality? yeah. yeah. yeah. i get it. down and dirty. you got to get into the weeds and get it done. understood exactly what you were saying and glad you clarified. listen, i can't believe i'm even asking this if people are saying get fda approval, we don't know what's in the vaccine. some people are taking a drug called ivermectin. it's a deworming drug mostly for horses. the fda actually tweeted this out, this warning saying you are not a horse. you are not a cow. seriously, y'all, stop it. what are the consequences of taking a drug like this? i'm sure it's hasi it's uses bu what are the consequences of taking this for something like covid. >> the other hat i wear is shaping policies of frame work for the neglected tropical diseases, helping to organize a

package of medicines that's now reached more than a billion people. one of them is ivermectin. in someways i helped treat more people with ivermectin than just about anyone and it's a great drug for river blindness and other conditions, for scabies. it does nothing for covid-19. again, this is version 2.0 of hydroxychloroquine and this is, again, coming out of the disinformation from the far right. it's again, it's a sign of defiance. it's saying be against vaccines but we'll give you something else to champion and that's ivermectin. it's absolute nonsense. it does absolutely nothing for covid-19, as far as we can tell. there is lots of studies. we don't have every i dotted and t crossed but it looking like it's not working nor should it. i doesn't make sense compared to something like a vaccine. >> exactly. you won't take the vaccine but -- okay. whatever. thank you, doctor. always a pleasure. >> thank you. the results of the sham

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