ayman? >> staying on the subject of masks for a moment. there's been an ongoing fight about mask mandates in florida between the governor and school districts across the state. bring us up to speed on how that's playing out. >> reporter: well, ayman, it certainly is a volatile issue. it is up where the governor has the sole authority because through executive order he's given himself that authority to say i will make the decision. 67 counties, 67 different school districts. three counties have decided to defy the governor's order. broward county where i am right now says they are going to require kids to wear masks. that begins school next week. same thing in duval county and kind of an interesting twist in duval county. they will have people who don't want to wear masks opt out and psychological studies show that generally when people opt out it's a much lower percentage who drop out rather than opting in which requires a little bit more, i guess, activity of the person saying okay, i'm goi

ayman. on top of, they're going to ask the attorney general's office for the investigative material. the underlying material that is hund that report that you're looking at on screen, what are we talking about? 74,000 pages of documents. we're talking over 179 interviews, 41 people interviewed under oath which all go to the three key points you see on page there that cuomo sexually harassed 11 people. one a new york state trooper assigned to his detail according to the report. and the staffer retaliated against the former employee for coming forward, specifically trying to push an op-ed about her background and put out potentially derogatory information and then basically fostered a toxic work environment. those were kind of the three centers or the three conclusions of the report today, ayman. and the albany district attorney's office saying they don't want to comment further because of an on going criminal investigation. so it appears at this point that they're going to explore the possibi

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ayman? >> take it away.uomo's legal team? >> it involves three attorneys. she was retaliated against for raising allegations of sexual harassment. my colleague and i have been pouring through the documents. you know, this is 165-page attorney general report which we spoke about. but on top of that, three appendixes. they were added to the report that included exhibits that were referenced in there. and she is featured in four of the exhibits where they're talking about this idea of retaliation and certain statements and information from the personnel file of them that could be conceived or perceived as retaliation against her. it is interesting to see, she is copied on the e-mails. what she has to say about all of this. is pint you made before we have yet to hear from the governor on. this we heard obviously from him many, many times in the last year on coronavirus and a whole host of other issues. but he has yet to take any questions from the press. this is going to be a zoom call. so they'll be able to cho

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.hort time ago we heard from new york lieutenant governor kathy hochul one day after governor andrew cuomo announced his resignation in 13 days before she become new york's first woman governor. she used the first public event from cuomo's announcement to separate herself from her soon-to-be predecessor. >> people will soon learn my style is to listen first and then take decisive action. i will fight like hell for you every single day, like i've always done and always will. >> meantime, the biden administration looking for ways to encourage more americans to get vaccinated, including pushing more companies to require employees to get the shot, this as a surge in cases linked to the delta variant continues to overwhelm hospitals, particularly in southern states. we're going to talk with a nurse on the front lines in arkansas later on in the program. and this hour president biden meeting with state, local and tribal officials from across the country to talk about what the bipartisan infra

ayman? >> kelly cobiella, stay safe. we'll check in through the day as this develops. >>> back at home, several developments in the battle against coronavirus. in about two hours, a cdc panel will vote whether to green light vaccine booster shots for those with weakened immune systems. the fda made a highly anticipated move, authorizing the extra dose of covid vaccines for those vulnerable americans. it only impacts 3% of the adult population, but the cdc says they makeup 40% of hospitalized break through cases. we're getting alarming new numbers this morning. david covid hospitalizations are averaging 10,000 nationwide. up 31% in the course of a week and causing a major strain for many hospitals. >> reporter: massive spike in covid calls, stretching the ems too thin. >> for 26 minutes, we had not one ems unit in the available city. >> reporter: now in memphis, sudden rise threatening the 911 system on pace for the busiest month ever. >> you may call for an ambulance, we may not have one ava

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>> hi, ayman, that's right. the president's last response to that question was the most direct that he's been. he said we will get it done. he knows the challenges ahead. this was the second round of negotiations the president was involved n it started a couple months ago with bill cassidy in a phone call. he said i want $600 billion of new spending on infrastructure. 19 republicans joined all 50 democrats. this is just vet first step. and now it gets even more complicated. because what is also happening in the senate as we speak is the senate is starting this process on this $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill. and speaker pelosi said she does not want this bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill until the senate completes all of its work on this $3.5 trillion process and that is going to take weeks if not months, ayman. so the president might not see this bipartisan bill on his desk until late september, maybe even october at the earliest. we still have a lot of steps to go that involve different factio

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i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. as the taliban continues its offensive across afghanistan, thousands of u.s. troops are on their way to the capital, kabul, to help evacuate american citizens and afghan civilian who's work with u.s. and coalition forces. moments ago, pentagon press secretary john kirby was asked if the deteriorating security situation could change the time line for the final u.s. withdraw from afghanistan. >> we're going to be watching security situation day by day. if we have to adjust, we'll do. that but we're always going to be in a security force on the ground. >> the biden administration scored a victory when a judge denied a motion by a group of lapped landlords to block the cdc's he vision moratorium. a advisory panel advised that people with weakened immune systems ab loud to get a third vaccine dose hours after the fda amended the emergency use authorizations for the pfizer and moderna vaccines to allow that. democrats are putting more pressure on nancy -- on house speaker nancy pelosi to ca

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i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.in and joint chiefs of staff chairman general mark milley will hold a prefg and we'll get that to you live as it gets under way. you can see the shot from pentagon. all of that comes hours after president biden's national security team briefed him on what's happening with the national evacuation and as the efforts looks to increase the pace of evacuations from afghanistan with thousands of americans and afghan scud missileians who helped the u.s. waiting to leave, we'll talk to some stranded in that country. we'r

and i've got to tell you, ayman, it's a very difficult life for afghans here in iran.enial, dangerous jobs. they it don't get paid well. they don't get any sort of medical insurance. their children are unable to go to schools and get educated properly. but it's still a safer, better option for them than afghanistan. and a lot of them have come into iran because they don't feel particularly welcome here. they try to get over to iran's western border with turkey to cross over into turkey and then try to get into europe for a chance of a better life. so yes, this exodus is unfolding, this chaotic exodus is unfolding before our eyes while many, many afghans are pouring into iran, leaving behind everything in afghanistan. i spoke to one afghan who had come here a few weeks ago because he had seen what was going to unfold in afghanistan. he left his home behind, his car behind, his -- whatever he could pack into his suitcase with his wife and kids and came over to iran because of what's unfolding there right now. >> one more reminder that what is happening in afghanistan has

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. any moment now defense secretary lloyd austin and joint chiefs of staff chairman general mark milley will hold a prefg and we'll get that to you live as it gets under way. you can see the shot from pentagon. all of that comes hours after president biden's national security team briefed him on what's happening with the national evacuation and as the efforts looks to increase the pace of evacuations from afghanistan with thousands of americans and afghan scud missileians who helped the u.s. waiting to leave, we'll talk to some stranded in that country. we're also hearing from afghan president ashraf ghani who posted a statement in exile now in the united arab emirates saying that he had to flee to avoid more bloodshed in his homeland. we're also watching the white house where president biden is scheduled to speak about the pandemic response in about 90 minutes from now, and just hours after his administration unveiled a plan to offer a vaccine booster shot starting the third week of sep

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, as ayman just reported, at least setting up for cover. the gentlemen said, this is what we should do i haven't heard a lot of widespread criticism for the fact withdrawal is happening it has really been more about process. >> yes, shep first of all, nice to be back. you know, moving forward what needs to happen here is we need to figure out who our counterparty is going to be in afghanistan, and then we need to have hugh man man humanitarian issues as well as rule of law addresses, those are things vexing the country for decades including the last 20 years we were there any one of those things would be table stakes for entre for into the global community, for meaningful receipt of human aid, to have any kind of non-pariah relationship with the rest of the world. >> of course, negotiating with and counting on the word of the taliban has been a matter fraught with peril over the decades. i mean this is the organization that we went in to defeat and now we've just handed it all back to them you feel like we are one major incident away from c

ayman mohyeldin picks up our coverage coming up next.eryone. i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. a major milestone in the fight against covid-19. the white house now says that half of all americans are fully vaccinated. this as more companies require workers to be vaccinated with pressure growing for even more to join them. and as the defense secretary set to be close to a decision on whether to recommend mandatory vaccinations for all active duty troops. before he left the white house to spend the weekend in delaware, president biden laid the blame at the feet of those who refused to get the shots. >> the pandemic of the unvaccinated. i said that constantly. others have as we

i'm ayman mohyeldin.ical fallout continues for new york governor andrew cuomo. after new york's attorney general alleged that cuomo broke both federal and state laws after reviewing multiple claims of sexual harassment from 11 women. >> what this investigation revealed is a disturbing pattern of conduct by the governor of great state of new york. i believe women and i believe these 11 women. >> he denied a tau

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i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.w, we're waiting for president biden to speak at an event in which he will will call for electric and other zero emission vehicles to make up half of all new cars and trucks sold in the united states by 2030. we'll bring the remarks to you when they begin. and later this afternoon, he will sun a bill to award congressional gold medals to the police officers who defended the capitol on january 6th. all of this comes as the delta variant continues to drive up the number of covid-19 cases and deaths across the united states. the biden administration says more people are getting vaccinated particularly in some of the hard hit areas. reiterating the vaccines are very effective. >> vaccines are working against the delta variant. they're highly effective from

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.taliban continues its offensive across afghanistan, thousands of u.s. troops are on their way to the capital, kabul, to help evacuate american citizens and afghan civilian who's work with u.s. and coalition forces. moments ago, pentagon press secretary john kirby was asked if the deteriorating security situation could change the time line for the final u.s. withdraw from afghanistan. >> we're going to be watching security situation day by day. if we have to adjust, we'll do. that but we're always going to be

i'm in for ayman mohyeldin on another busy tuesday afternoon. keeping an eye on the white house today. we just learned that president biden will will speak to the nation around 4:30 p.m. eastern time. he's expected to announce that the u.s. will stick with the plan to complete the withdrawal from afghanistan by august 31st. this decision comes as thousands are still waiting to be evacuated from the kabul airport. one day after william burns made a secret visit to kabul to meet with taliban leaders. also that hour, new york governor hochul is giving her inaugural address 15 hours after she was sworn in as the first female chief executive. we'll bring you more on what she has to say. we are also keeping a very close eye on what is happening on capitol hill right now. the house about to take a final vote on a budget resolution that provides that blueprint for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. this follows a standoff with the group of ten moderate democrats who wanted to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill first. one of them florida demo

i'm in for ayman mohyeldin.se as president biden is expected to appear at any moment to give a speech marking the end of the war in afghanistan. we'll bring those remarks to you when they begin. the taliban celebrated with fireworks and gunfire as the final u.s. military aircraft took om from the kabul airpo

it killed two crew members off the gulf of ayman last sunday. they said they would work on it.ied any involvement in the attack. the state department also announced yesterday expanded efforts to aid afghan allies who are trying to escape the taliban. it applies to those who do not qualify for the special immigrant visa program such as afghans who worked on u.s.-funded projects and those employed by u.s.-based media companies or non-government organizations. they've begun evacuating some to the ft. lee military base in virginia. it's esty maltd some 50,000 people could be evacuated as the u.s. winds down its mission. >>> president biden offers a possible preview on how democrats will take on republicans. we'll take a look at his remarks at a d.c. fund-raiser last night. >>> before we go to break, we have a question for you. why are you awake? i'm your questions to waytooearly@msnbc.com or tweet me @jonlemire. be sure to leave out the h of #way too early. we'll read our favorite answers later in the show. your favorits later in the show. tide pods child-guard packaging. [sfx: pss

i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.ing from the nation's top infectious disease expert. dr. anthony fauci told mcclatchy that the u.s. could reach 200,000 cases a day in the coming weeks, and the country could be in trouble come this fall unless more vaccinated people decide to get the shot. the warning comes as we learn the fda could get final approval to pfizer's vaccine as soon as next month which could help boost public confidence. we're going to take a closer look at how the pandemic will affect children as they return to school. meantime, new york governor andrew cuomo facing more legal and political fallout after a report detailing a series of allegati

i'm in for ayman mohyeldin. we're keeping a close eye on the white house as president biden is expected to appear at any moment to give a speech marking the end of the war in afghanistan. we'll bring those remarks to you when they begin. the taliban celebrated with fireworks and gunfire as the final u.s. military aircraft took om from the kabul airport carrying the last troops to leave the country, ending america's two decade long war in afghanistan and ushering in a period of uncertainty for the afghan people. civilians were flown safely out of the country. this despite an attack at a gate that killed 13 u.s. service members and 100 afghan civilians. tony blinken says diplomatic efforts are underway to get 200 americans and afghans with special immigrant visas out of the country still. mean time, in a very rare move, vice president kamala harris presided over a brief senate session today as the chamber increased payments to american citizens returning from afghanistan to help with transportation, housing, and o

ayman mohyeldin has done some great reporting and interviewed lots of people. it's not as if the president who the west supported had popular support. so it feels like the failures go far beyond just ripping our military out of there in 2003 and going to iraq. it seems like it was much more systemic. >> yes, i agree. these were not unknown unknowns as donald rumsfeld said, who got us in there. these are known knowns. i remember being in kabul in 2013 and going to the presidential palace. diplomats saying to me that president karzai wasn't president of afghanistan. he was president of kabul. >> yeah. >> you know, we haven't had a successful fight there in a very long time. i think the thing about intelligence is, intelligence is neutral. you know, people in intelligence say tell the policymakers, they tell the military, here's the situation. but then the policymakers have to make decisions, and sometimes they don't make correct decisions. and i think over 20 years, i mean, you know, and i agree with the congresswoman. i think we really need to look at what happe

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something to get them out and joining me now is "new york times "michael crowley and chief correspondent ayman within the hour of the final departure day on the tarmac, the ambassador, the flag, the corps of consular officials who have done so much to try to get both. they got out and i know the white house is frustrated and not focusing on the 100,000 that did get out and those this left behind were either on the siv list and denied, even though they're veterans buddies said there's no reason. he did two tours with him. no reason that guy should have been denied. how do we ever get them out? >> right, andrea. so the phase that just completed was this frenzied, massive logistical operation of, you know, aircraft coming in at an unbelievable pace, cramming hundreds of people in planes meant to seat far fewer. what will happen now becomes much more of a sort of careful diplomatic effort where the u.s. government tries to persuade the taliban to allow people to the extent they are able to leave the country under their own volition. that could involve taking commercial flights, crossing the border

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i'm aaron gilchrist in for ayman mohyeldin. as president biden finds himself dealing with two major unfolding crisis. any moment now pentagon press secretary john kirby will hold his second briefing of the day on the situation in afghanistan. we'll bring that you to live when it begins. this comes as the pace of evacuations picks up. the pentagon saying at least 16,000 people were taken out during a 24-hour period. but, there are new concerns about security outside the kabul airport after the german military said one afghan soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a gun fight that did involve u.s. troops. the president did get some good news on the coronavirus pandemic today. the food and drug administration gave fool approval to pfizer's vaccine. now he hopes this will change the minds of people who have been hesitant to get the shots until full approval. >> the moment you've been waiting for is here. it's time for you to go get your vaccination. get it today. vaccination is free. it's easy. it's safe. and it's effe

and general, you are one of the guests who i stole from my -- my good friend, ayman mohyeldin.as fantastic guests on. i watch his show and write down all the names and then ask my booking producers to go get them. i did the same with nicolle wallace, which is how i got matthew dowd. you said a thing which is so brilliant about the concentric circles of afghanistan. where you have got the airport in the middle and then outside the airport in kabul and you just go out and out and out and how difficult it is for someone in those outer rings to find their way into the airport. there was a story today, that u.s. actually sent a military chopper on thursday to pick up 169 americans who were just outside the airport area. but they were afraid to, like, navigate their way there because you got to go through these checkpoints but i have to ask you this. as somebody who has expertise here, as a nonexpert, the way i see this war is that once donald trump cut the deal and said we're out of there. we're going to leave. the only choices that biden really had realistically were negate the dea

i'm aaron gill grist crist in for ayman mohyeldin. we just heard an update from secretary of state tony blinken on the evacuation effort in afghanistan. also this hour, we do expect to get more updates on the situation in that region. any moment now the white house press secretary jen saccy will do her daily briefing. we'll dip in when she takes questions on afghanistan and the p pentagon press secretary john kirby set to hold another briefing as well. we'll bring you that when it begins. here to start this hour, pbs newshour national correspondent and colonel christopher colenda who negotiated with the taliban in peace talks and the author of "sero sum victory, what we're getting wrong with war" and hopefully joining us in a moment here as well nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. amma want to start with you at this point. we're seeing -- we heard a lot of detail from the secretary of state in that briefing. we're also at the same time seeing a lot of frustration in the cia and the pentagon and congress about the

ayman mohyeldin picks up the coverage frmt. >>> hey, good morning. i am ayman mohyeldin. with the delta variant ravaging many parts of the country. hospitals in many cities are overrun, and

the 2010 shooting here, and this one has a very different feel, and i don't know why at this point, ayman. courtney kube, thank you. >>> that wraps up the hour here with me. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi there, everyone. it's 4:00 in the east on what is turning out to be an incredibly busy days of breaking news. let me tell you what we'll do together. in a few minutes, president biden will come out and make remarks on this covid vaccination effort at home and abroad. the president is also expected to take indication on a number of topics, including the refusal investigation from the investigation into governor cuomo. we will carry the president's comments live when they happen, and talk more about the investigation into governor cuomo. but we're going to start with the unfurling human tragedy among the men and women who protected the capitol and the lawmakers who worked inside it on january 6th. it's now colliding with one of the party spiraling into conspiracy lies. yesterday officials confirmed two more police officers who responded to the attack

and by the way, when usama bin laden was killed, and ayman zawahiri became commander of the taliban whonce to the taliban. these people share the same ideology. they are responsible for 9/11. so to all the families of those who died on 9/11, to those who are injured, to those who have grown up without a parent, you need to know that your government on the anniversary of 9/11, the 20th anniversary is putting in power in afghanistan the people responsible? why do i say putting in power? because the united states has been in negotiations with the haqqani network. and haqqani leading the talks that the u.s. government has been pushing on the afghan government. and haqqani has been in doha with the u.s. presidential envoy. and that's haqqani and can a legal haqqani as you mentioned pressuring afghan leaders to swear allegiances to the islamic emirates of the taliban. the talks are a sham. i'm hearing from intelligence sources and former afghan officials, from security officials that the taliban is demanding 100 percent power. it's all they ever wanted and do you know what? according to their