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>> my lifetime in american president with lead fellow americans behind enemy terroris lines that happened. laura ingraham takes it from here. my heart struggles. how are you? >>laura: , i'm okay. we're going to take it or you left off. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. the biden administration mix of sheer incompetence in outright arrogance is laid bare, we are going to document all of it tonight. we begin with building back weaker, that is the focus of tonight's angle. up all the heart-wrenching photos i've seen over the past few weeks, this one hit me righ in the gut. troops paying tribute to their
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brothers in sisters who died last thursday. knowing full well that it could have been one of them. in then, the somber scene at dover during the dignified transfer, one that has been carried out thousands of times during the past 20 years of combat in afghanistan and iraq. parents, wives, children, even gathering to greet the casket, for many, the grief was too muc to bear. each life lost over the 13 and all of the others, all of them, every single one matter they were all tethered together in a strong patriotic spirit of sacrifice. many of them came from families with long histories of military service. today i had the great privilege of speaking on the phone with a mom whose son died last week. every one of these young people were exceptional human beings, she said.
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every single one. please let the people know that. now, the sadness for many of these families is mixed with rage and justifiably so. >> in iq of 156 fred he could have done anything he wanted to do in the military, and he chos to be a marine sniper. i never thought in a million years he would die for nothing bright for nothing because a dementia written piece of decided he wanted a photo while on september 11th. you did this two my son, to pro up a disgusting human being. to get there is a lot to be angry about the. the deadly idiotic handling of our afghanistan withdrawal will be a permanent stain on america's foreign policy in our military leadership. when the predictable chaos started to unfold at the airport , the biden team was off on summer break.
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we learned this weekend the secretary of state was in the hamptons with the fancy people, biden was with jill and no cabinet officials at camp david. the press secretary had said vacation auto reply set up on the white house e-mail. apparently none of them thought something important might be happening in afghanistan. its disgraceful. this isn't the junior varsity team, this is the team of peopl that couldn't make jv. in sadder for the troops is the kids cut from the jv squad are in charge of military planning as well. most americans are not familiar with general mckenzie in charge of our central command, he is one of the most powerful military figures in america today. >> after 20 years of war, you have served there, you have now watched the last troops leave, you've lost troops in recent days, how did it feel leaving
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afghanistan to the very group that you took it from 20 years ago? >> i was very conflicted. i was focused on the task at th ends, all have days i had to think about that. i'm sure i will do that in the future. right now i'm consumed with the operational task and i am going to be thinking about that in th days to come. >>laura: it seems like he was smiling at one point, but that' it, that's all he has to say? he has had years to think about this. imagine this guy leaving your son or daughter into battle. in the general on tv are just a useless. >> this has been a difficult 20 years. i was in the basement of the pentagon, the other situation room windows were started from watching our allies and u.s. forces fight this conflict over the last 20 years with the ups and downs, it has brought a whole lot of thought and emotion
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. >> a whole lot of thought and emotion, what does that mean? the hard reality is we lost. the u.s. military was given mission to accomplish, it was given a series of missions actually, and under this military leadership, it failed to carry them out. the taliban won the war, and we are retreating in disgrace frai that's what happened. even though none of our made-for-tv generals want to sa so. of course, we all love our troops and no one blames them, the best and bravest soldiers? they can't be expected to succeed with weak and ineffective military leaders? abraham lincoln had to fire a whole series of generals until he found a team that would lead the army to victory. we have never found a general who could win and afghanistan that's how we lost. for taliban won in we will have to live with those facts. believe me, i do not regret the bull out, others do. it's long been clear that they pentagon is incapable of
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advancing u.s. interest in the middle east. we gave the generals every chance. the american people have spent more than $6.5 trillion in the war on terror in have little to show for it. american soldiers, reservists, special ops, all we're asked to do three, four, some of them five tours of duty. there was an enormous sacrifice and suffering with huge financial cost to the american taxpayers. in the end, the taliban is left in charge controlling more territory, and now, with bragging rights, see the celebratory gunfire, that they drove out and defeated what use to be regarded as the most powerful military in the world. americans deserve a full accounting of the mistakes that were made from bush to biden. trump was really the only president who wanted to end the war in an embarrassing disaster. you never had a secretary of
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defense that respected him. many of the moral in ethical leadership were blatant. they felt invulnerable. a lot of ceos do as well. no one should be surprised, there has been precious accountability for their failures in combat operations. they rely on our love and admiration of the enlisted ben and women in their bravery, to insulate them at the top from answering for years of mismanagement, misrepresentation , in failures. conservative say we shouldn't keep increasing the budgets of departments like education or hud without tangible results an metrics being met. so why should the pentagon be held to the same standard? we have to demand better. our country is in real danger,
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our military isn't the peace corps or a refugee transportation service. we love these photos, cradling babies, handing out water bottles, it's wonderful humanitarian work and we applau it, but in essence it's not the purpose of the u.s. military. weed need generals who can win wars, and we should never tolerate the type of failure we've seen over the past few decades. finally, we can't allow the biden team to use the collapse avenue afghanistan as yet another excuse to circumvent ou immigration laws. the families of the fallen in the american taxpayers deserve to know why the lives of certai afghans we're prioritized over the lives of americans will in the country. the biden a ministration has proven itself completely untrustworthy and incompetent, and now, we have no reason to believe they're going to handle the relocation of afghans any better. americans are very compassionat and generous.
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americans also have the right t insist that our laws be followed . we should be told where the refugees should be, by what legal authority they are here. and how their will be covered. of course, the biden people don't want accountability for your their failures. they say now is not the time to point fingers. their wrong. this is precisely the time when we should be demanding answers. we've already waited too long and lost many lives. senator, what can you do to demand accountability on the behalf of the americans that ar disgusted by the past few weeks? >> laura, i share your sentimen come out my is tapped here. in the last couple weeks we wer focused on trying to get
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american citizens out of afghanistan. joe biden broke that promise, h promised the taliban would be and he promised it americans he would get them out. he kept the promise to the taliban and broke his promise t americans fraid it is now the time to hold accountable all those officials who created the terrible conditions that we've seen in afghanistan over the last several weeks freight some of these things are simple questions, what did the militar recommended joe biden about bagram air base. who decided to close the air base, what were the arbitrary troop numbers that were capped at the end that led to the closing of the airbase. there is a lot of very simple, but critical questions to be asked my in the answers are sitting on a piece of paper somewhere in the pend pentagon in the white house. its time, as you say to ensure that we are conducting rigorous oversight of the resettlement o refugees in this country. we all want to protect in
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welcome those afghans who serve alongside american service members. we've heard from so many people nervous members in veterans who vouch personally for their translator or their interpreter. we evacuated more than 125,000 afghans at last count. many of these had very little i any connection to our service members over the last 20 years. in glad they're out of the taliban grips, but they have to qualify under american law before we admit them into this country. they can't be a threat to this country. like that trump administration leveraged our relationship there , that's what we'll need to do with most of the afghan refugees like aces like guitar, or turkey, or albania. him glad they're out of the taliban group, but it's not a responsibility to welcome every single one to the country if they do not contribute directly to our militaries efforts in th last 20 years. >>laura: we keep feeling that
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at guineas at risk need to be other country. that's not 120,000 people. we're talking 700,000, perhaps millions of people, and again, everyone feels terrible for everyone suffering around the globe, but there are laws in place and congress has a responsibility to make sure the laws are either changed, that i e.g. camps are lifted and prett much anyone can come here and live here if there afghan he an they want to be her commit that while law has to be written, they have to get it into the next campaign and biden has to sign into law. you agree with that? >> part of our oversight will b looking at the failures that created these conditions in afghanistan, but an important part is what you suggest, ensuring that the biden administration is following the law. those afghans who served alongside american troops, thos troops fudging for them, our welcome to our country. but again, 105,000 afghans were
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evacuated. it doesn't mean we have to brin every single one of them to america. >>laura: the washington times times reporting on one afghan convert reported of, and then made it back in one of the evacuation flights. i don't trust these people to vent people properly, there has to be rigorous oversight freigh i want to get one comment from general mckenzie that stuck out today. watch. >> i will tell you the taliban is very pragmatic and very businesslike as we have approached this withdrawal. they were actually very helpful and useful to us as we closed o operations. they established a firm perimeter outside of the airfield to prevent people from coming into the airfield during our departure. >> senator, we have 13 american dead in we have the site, commander praising the taliban.
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your response? >> if the taliban was such a security partner that was carefully vetting everyone they got close to her troops at the airport, i don't understand how a suicide bomber got through. these are the kinds of question that congress is going to be probing in the days ahead to figure out exactly how we got into the situation where we had to cooperate with a barbarian group of outlaws in afghanistan simply to get american citizens out of the country. and, now that we are actually acting as if there is something we can be proud of, or that we should even celebrate, that we cooperated with the taliban. we should have never gotten int that position from the beginning . goes back to the terrible execution of the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. >> thank you. the staggering ineptitude has afghan war veteran sounding the alarm. my next guest rose releasably i the new york times when the president spoke on thursday
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night, he nodded at sacrifice, that's fine, but what matters i to truly understand the value o service. if you do, you don't send troop to die on a poorly executed mission. filion to understand the value of service results and incompetence. retired marine elliot ackerman, he served five tours in iraq an afghanistan and has received both the bronze in silver stars. elliot, your reaction to just what we heard today from genera mckenzie understanding what happened last thursday to 13 of our bravest young men in women. your reaction. >> i think individuals who wear the uniform as well as us as citizens have the right to expect a certain amount of competence in the execution of these decisions freight what we've seen the last two weeks has been nothing less then
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incompetence. people have said for a long tim is this going to be saigon, it' not going to be saigon, this is way worse than saigon. just look at a map, and at leas vietnam head hundreds of miles of coastland, afghanistan is a blonde walked country. why would you start shutting down all the airports and leave us with only a single point of egress in kabul. this has been mismanaged from the beginning. and frankly, as the senator mentioned, it's followed to try to get afghans out ed extremely ad hoc manner. in regards to the taliban, if they're so organized in pragmatic, we just saw the taliban flying a black hawk helicopter above kandahar with dead body hanging from it. are those are pragmatic partners ? i think this is the most shameful thing i've seen in my whole life. >> were you at the airport
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yourself as you were helping some of these evacuations that were underway? >> no, i have been doing this basically on the side along wit other folks who have deep connections to afghanistan. we are coordinating on signal, online, if you look at it, i have notes from hundreds of afghans, many people i don't even know, just begging for help . this is like watching thousands of people thrown into a glass pool all at once fred. >> i had a former marine in combat soldier, and botching it a former marine who was over there, elliot, and he was working morning, noon, in night he said it so much worse what i happening on the ground, he was of the airport, he said it so much worse that it's being show on television. he said he didn't have words fo
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a. he said something bad is going to happen in of course two days later, that's what happened to our troops. elliot elliott, final thoughts? what is next. >> i think what's next is america is less safe based off of the execution of this evacuation. i think our credibility with ou allies and partners outside of afghanistan needs to be rebuilt and i think this country needs to do some real recognition on how we got into this position where we are negotiating from a position of weakness with the taliban. these people are thugs and barbarians, and we need to remember who we are. we are the united states of america. >> do you agree, elliot, that there needs to be a recognition and reform that follows? maybe we need more civilian leadership in the top of the taliban. maybe we need approach, because
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20 years of fighting with the greatest troops around and all the technology, and we weren't able to win. >> i think ultimately, we need to ask ourselves what is winning ? the united states has a very specific role in the world. >> if we walk away from afghanistan, although troops ended up back in iraq in 2014. there are people in this world who you want to do us harm and we need to accept that, so ultimately, the nypd doesn't talk about winning the war against crime that. it takes continued vigilance. am sorry, it requires the same thing internationally. >> we need to bring the people along with us, so politically w have to make sure the people of the country are with us in ever single conflict. your piece in the new york time was stunning great congrats on
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all your success in what you're doing with your writing and everything else. by an approved drone strike killed a family of ten includin seven kids, but the administration won't give us an details. why? in jonathan was alarmed by the mission from the capitol police officer that shot ashley babbitt . he is here to tell us what it is .
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gynt explosions from the targeted vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amoun of explosive material. we are aware of reports of civilian casualties and we take these reports varies seriously. we are continuing to assess the situation. >> we take efforts, we takes that to avoid civilian casualties in every scenario an probably more than almost any country in the world. i can speak to or confirm the numbers or the billion casualties in this case. >> she can't come up with the new york times is reporting ten civilians including seven kille children were killed by a drone strike in kabul. the pentagon assures us they wh they of course can't tell us
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anything about or identify. what's going on here? glenn, no one in the media seem to concerned about what looks like to be another intelligent failure. why is that? >> it is pretty bizarre. right from the beginning, there was a huge question working at least for me which is a month ago, joe biden and shirt everybody there was very little chance that the taliban would overrun the afghan national security forces and would take over the country. of course that's what happened five weeks after he gave the assurance which seems to sugges they weren't lying, they know very little about what was happening in a country we've occupied for 20 years in suddenly we are told that they were able with pinpoint precision, twice in a row to identify the location of two different isis k planners or plotters or commanders, which seems very inconsistent with th fact that they seem to have no
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idea what's going on in this country. that wouldn't give us the names of who these supposedly important people were, and they just asserted there were no goo civilian casualties casualties great unlike in the trump years when we would say it trump says this with no evidence, trump ha false claims. all their skepticism repeated evaporated overnight in they repeated we got our target ther were no civilian casualties and there was no evidence and no questioning of it at all. >> the pentagon, they're not going to release the names are the identities of these terrorists. it doesn't look like we are going to learn much more about it than we already have, watch. >> right now is not the time. we are still dealing with as we saw from last nights rocket attacks, very real ongoing threat. i think we are doing what we believe to be the prudent thing with the release of information. we're giving as much as we can and as close two real time as w
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can. but were not able to give you everything. >> this is a new trick, they sa now is not the time. now is not the time to demand accountability, now is not the time to ask questions, now is not the time to give us any identities, but the fact is it' never a good time. >> one of the most major national security events obviously in the last decade or two if not in our lifetime is people asking opinions about whether we should have left or shouldn't have, but we all have the right to know what actually is going on, what happened in afghanistan. the media during the trump year made a big point of showing the importance of transparency. the new york post adopted a ton that said dies in darkness. here is the pentagon spokesperson telling you that you have to believe them when they tell you that they killed important people involved in these attacks, but you can't know who these people are. why not? why can't we know that great so
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were just being asked to accept their word on blind faith, in every time this happens where you know you go in you kill an entire family, you wipe them of the face of the planet, it nobody asked if we have to do that to have a rotella tory strike, but every time that happens, it generates so much anti- american sentiment around the world. we need to know at the very least whether it was a legitimate strike or whether it was something that was done for biden to get rid of a bad news cycle and the lack of interest on the part of the media is amazing with that. >> that is a lot of kids are hi i think we should know whether the drone strike actually kille them. it's a basic question. glenn, thank you. we turn now to another tragic shooting of ashley babbitt by capitol police officer whose
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identity has finally been revealed. of course he recently got the all-star treatment on nbc news. during his interview he said something that caught our attention. >> the subject did not have a weapon, but there was no way to know that at that time. and i could not fully see her hands or what was in the backpack, or what the intention were. they had shown violence leading up to that point. >> wait a minute, the media tol us was exonerated by the fbi an capitol police. how can that be? with what he just said. raising red flags. here with me now is george washington university. jonathan, i know you watch this closely. your reaction to this, his statement, and does it blow up the whole he was exonerated narrative?
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>> it was an astonishing interview. i wrote about it in the hill because he basically went through the list of what you ar not allowed to do as the basis for lethal force. he said i didn't see a weapon, didn't know her intent, i didn' know what was on her back, i shot her. obviously, all of us can sympathize in being in a closed room in the middle of a variety babbitt was engaged in criminal conduct, she was illegally trespassing, she was disobeying orders, there was a great deal of damage and she was going through a window at that time. so all of that is criminal conduct, but you can't just shoot criminal trespassers. you can't shoot people at the imaging government property. it up two show an imminent threat to yourself in others. here you have an officer that says i couldn't really see her hands, i didn't know if she was armed or not great according to that interpretation he could
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have shot the next 20 people through the window pretty could have shot hundreds of people that day on the hill, but only one officer did so. all the other officers, including officers who we're attacked or injured refrained from using lethal force rate i say that with a great deal of respect because we demand of th officers a level of restraint encourage that most of us couldn't muster. it's a really difficult job. but what he described in the interview falls way outside of the use of lethal force. >> here is more from the nbc interview. >> in that case, does it matter that the person was armed or not ? >> according to law, it does not . i know based on my training and my policy, what i did was appropriate. >> jonathan, i'll find accordin to his training. >> yet, i don't know where that
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comes from. effort from officers around the country they couldn't believe the interview because it is tru that you can use an authorized amount of lethal force was someone unarmed if you believe there was unarmed in it was reasonable, we've had cases wer officers thought somebody was armed great maybe they threw weapons away seconds before. that he was describing somethin very different. he was saying he didn't have an idea if she was armed. he had no idea what her intent was. all he knew where she was comin through a window against police orders. under that argument, you could have shot hundreds of people. there we're police stations tha we're taken over a. people went through those doors. under this standard, every one of those protesters in portland and seattle that went into thos government buildings could have been shot. does that track?
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>> eminent bodily harm. someone coming through a window you're essentially shooting blind very jonathan, earpiece was so important, thank you. coming up, if you thought the afghanistan response has been a disaster, wait until you see ho he is handling the hurricane so far. seen in unseen with raymond is next. gy is everywhere... even in a little seedling. which, when turned into fuel, can help power a plane. at chevron's el segundo refinery, we're looking to turn plant-based oil into renewable gasoline, jet and diesel fuels. our planet offers countless sources of energy. but it's only human to find the ones that could power a better future.
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>> it's time for a seen and unseen segment where we expose the big cultural stories of the day. hurricane ida addition. raymond arroyo joins us from florida. the president has been staging pressers i've noticed. he has this whole situation in hand. >> the hard week of the fema team. >> well, it was 20,000 employee
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or it was 20,000 give or take, but this presser ended in classic biden style. >> i don't know if i'm supposed to take any questions, but go ahead. >> [inaudible reporter question] >> am not going answer about afghanistan. >> he can't find the exit. >> where is he going? >> who is telling the president there are questions he's not supposed to answer. i want to see that list. why is the president of the united states being controlled this way, he should come out until as the fax.
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he said he would shoot from the shoulder. we don't know what to believe i these press conferences. >> today he was at it again, making lessons during a press conference with governors and mayors who are all affected by the hurricane. >> i know you've got a lot to manage in your states, but the fact is that and, we know hurricane at night that had the potential to cause massive massive damage, and that's exactly what we saw. i am here with my senior adviso in a boy who knows louisiana very well and new orleans,. >> my boy who knows louisiana. this is a former congressman, our african-american congressma from louisiana, why is the president calling him boy, and why is no one concerned about this.
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this is a sad display, and at a time when people are hurting, this does not engender confidence. >> my favorite is the mask hanging from his ear because that's always a sign of someone that is fully in control. >> he seems completely programmed and unable to even read his own 25 . font script. >> now, cedric, who are we goin to next? is mayor ken drell on? i don't think she's able to get connected. >> the reason she isn't on the line as because they are not going to have electricity restored for at least three weeks. by the way, there are electric
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failures when the pumps didn't work, that is after you, the american taxpayer paid $14 million to upgrade our levees in our pumping system, they still didn't work for the most galling thing about all of this, all day i've been watchin all the networks, they are focused on afghan ease and bringing them to the united states. we can evacuate kabul, but we can't evacuate our own people from the path of a natural disaster. they worry about afghanistan risca, i'm worried about americans in louisiana and set risca tonight and it seems like nobody is worried about them they are hurting in they are dying in new orleans. >> don't worry, because the mayor has it all covered. raymond, thank you, we will pra for the people of new orleans. a bombshell study confirms what the show has been telling you for months, recovering from covid could give you better
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were given to jabs of the pfize vaccine. professor of medicine at stanford university in epidemiology at the yale school of public health. this flies in the face of the political and scientific establishment who are pushing now vaccine passports. why did they continue to ignore natural immunity? >> it does not make any sense. we've known for a long time at least since the middle of last year, that natural immunity was quite effective. we knew that basically because we saw so few documented reinfection. as the public health community continues to deny the efficacy of natural immunity it passed feet vaccine passports make no sense. it might even be safer to be in a room filled with unvaccinated covert recovered patients in to be in a room with vaccinated patients. its incredible. i think this is amazing study,
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but even more amazing is that continued amount of by the public health community. >> former fda commissioner who' on the board of pfizer is quick to dismiss natural immunity. >> ed be careful about includin that natural immunity is more robust than the immunity from the vaccine based on that one study. i think the question of one being better than the other isn't that material. i think the evidence tips the favor of the vaccine. it makes a better target for th immune system when the virus tries to hide it from our bodies . >> doctor, take it away. to get that one study is now no longer the only study. as study came out a couple of days later that showed the same thing in found 800, 900,000 people showing that vaccine immunity wanes over 3-6 months in, you can't substitute actual
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data for, the actual data shows otherwise. >> dr. fauci had spoken out about the booster shot now and apparently this is going to become the norm. watch. >> it is entirely conceivable that when all is said and done, the standard regiment would be three dose shot for the mrna in the two dose shot for j and j. >> does the antibody response not ultimately wear off after three? or does this become permanent? >> we have no data whatsoever o the efficacy, actually, one thing, the vaccines, they will protect you even if the antibodies decline, so if you are elderly in you have not had covid, the vaccine will protect you against severe disease in
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death. that's a good thing. there is no data on the booster. i have no idea what doctor back fauci is talking about. >> on that same topic, israel's version of the vaccine passport we've been talking about for no almost year in a half, it's already hitting an expiration date because starting october 1st, the green pass will expire, six months after the holder receives the second does come at the booster will no longer be eligible for the booster pass 16 months past their second dose. where does this all end? >> it doesn't end. the vaccine passports is a useless idea. in their already seen 15 cases of people who have gotten boosters and have gotten covid after the booster shots. so this doesn't end, it just keeps percolating around and we are trying to make policies ove
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something that is meaningless and just doesn't work. >> are we now at the point wher we have to get used to living with covid? the vulnerable getting vaccinated, the younger people are almost fine with covid in less they have an underlying condition, take vitamin d, zinc all the things that have worked and take better common sense precautions? >> laura, we have no technology to stop the spread, the lockdowns didn't stop the spread , the vaccines, they can protect you against severe disease, but they will not stop the spread of covid. no many how many boosters you do , you do not have it technology to stop covid. we have to learn to live with the virus. we've made so much progress, we're better at reading it, we have vaccines for those that ar vulnerable against severe disease. we should be celebrating the good news as opposed to the
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as we retreat from afghanistan the secretary pleads with the he said thank you for listening. a very odd ending might me abou how he is supposed to go toe to toe with them we are in trouble if that's it. don't forget to set your dvr to always stay connected with us. finally never forget to show that you understand what's at stake. a lot of reaction to the gear
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out in california. i said you had to go to our website to get it. i always want you to remember i'm going to say this every show. america now and forever. >> we have not assessed that an group on the ground whether it' the taliban has had the ability to attack the us. that was an aggressive bug. >> even bugs aren't afraid of this administration. i hope you
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