nbc news political director chuck todd, thanks. >>> and you can be sure to join chuck for "meet the press." he will have secretary of state antony blinken, disease expert michael osterholm and richard engel who is in kabul. tune in to "meet the press" at 8:00 a.m. after this news cast. >>> as we mentioned california voters will decide whether to recall governor newsom in about a month from now. the governor is making campaign stops in los angeles this weeked. one stop was in boyle heights where he thanked volunteers who have been encouraging voters to vote no on the recall. the weekend of action will stretch into monday with a morning event in san jose. while the official election is in four weeks ballots are already arriving in mailboxes and they can be mailed back or put in dropboxs as soon as monday. >> this is about turning in the votes, which you can do today in these -- these things have stamps on them. you send them right back in. >> the ballot has two questions, should newsom be recalled and if so, who should take his place. there are 46 candidates on the ballot including nine fel

right kathy park in albany let's bring in our political director and moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd. chuck, what does this mean for the democratic party in new york and nationally >> well, it's a big sigh of relief both for democrats in new york and for democrats nationally cuomo a national brand name he had the ability to drag this out. it could have sullied democrats up and down the ballot, could have cost them a couple of house seats, which could cost them control of congress. but now that's not there. and now the democrats have the rest of this calendar year to regroup. so while he's not been an asset to the democratic party for a year, on this move he actually helped the party and put the party before himself >> all right chuck todd, thanks >>> the covid situation worsening tonight, especially in parts of the country with lower vaccination rates. almost 167 million now fully vaccinated that brings us to just over 50% cases up by over 190,000. and 630 new deaths reported according to an nbc news count. morgan chesky is in hard-hit texas this evening. >> reporter: tonight delta d

limited chuck todd. >> his career was either permanently over our almost permanently over and he choser. i expect in my lifetime andrew cuomo to probably run for office again. >> greg: chuck had only got five years to live. but the body is not even cold year. tucker carlson proposed interesting theory about the new york ag. >> she said the ag. he thought it meant attorney general. she said it stands for aspiring governor. there are reasons to question letitia james' motives to put it mildly. >> greg: like my phone number on a truck stop bathroom, the writing was on the wall for the governor. by the way when you do call the number, specify route and location. i'm not going to drive around forever. tucker has echoed what i've heard a lot which is cuomo is a creep but wait until you see what's coming in. you could get el de blasio as governor. he would get letitia james. is it better to have a less crazy creep than the noncreep who is a hard-core leftist? i don't know. >> matt: i'm having trouble with the logic. i'm glad he's gone. i think there's a special place at cnn for every failed n

chuck todd said a comeback could happen. that sound you just heard, that's the great tim russert rolling over in his grave. you're not going to see andrew cuomo running and winning anything ever again. it can't happen given everything we just laid out. he could be charged criminally by the time this is all done. >> sean: janice, it's appropriate we give you the last word. i like what the governor said and joe said, you still lost your in-laws.. what you went through this week sounds awful. my question is, what was your reaction at joe biden saying "hell of a job he did." that came out of nowhere to me. >> i thought it was a tape from last year when he was wanting cuomo to be his ag. i couldn't believe that it was from today. i would like president joe biden or jen psaki to give me a call and i will give them a rundown of all the things this governor did wrong that led to the deaths of thousands of seniors and maybe if they listen to that, they might have a different opinion. >> sean: tens of thousands when we look at the fou

there seems to be hesitance on that front. >> chuck todd, always with great information, we look forward to seeing your show and thanks for joining us. we hope you join chuck for "meet the press." he will have exclusive interviews with representative liz cheney of the department and the department of education secretary miguel cardona as he mentioned. he'll also have an interview with national security adviser jake sullivan. we hope you stick right here and watch the rest of our newscast and tune in to "meet the press" at 8:00 a.m. >>> aid packages are coming to displaced families in haiti after last week's devastating earthquake. the packages contain food, sanitary items that were distributed to those left homeless in the 7.7 magnitude quake. many people in the crowd scrambled to get ahold of the packages. the disaster hit the southwest of haiti the hardest killing nearly 2200 people and injured more than 12,000. more than 10,000 homes are destroyed. >>> more than 50 million people are under extreme weather warnings as tropical storm henri closes in on the northeast. just a few hours ag

todd: from cnn to nbc, chuck todd over at the peacock network thanks cuomo for not dragging new york dems through impeachment and hyping the idea that cuomo, andrew, could return to office. take a listen. >> this move, he actually helped the party and put the party before himself. look, i expect in my lifetime andrew cuomo to probably run for office again. todd: what do you want to go with first, joe, the prematureness of the last comment that he will run for office or the hey, good job keeping our electoral hopes alive here in new york state. your choice. >> lots to unpack there. that was minutes after the resignation and chuck todd is already talking about a comeback and he wasn't kidding. what's he going to be the president of, the man's women hater's club? do you think he will be governor again? sexual harassment allegations can be very sticky. he has the nursing home investigation going on, 15 you thousand going on and he has no allies in albany in new york, in the first place, before any of this came out. he's not a very well liked person. to say that andrew cuomo is going to c

chuck todd is up next for "mtp daily."ily" i'm chuck todd. we're expecting jen pskai to hold her daily briefing soon. the pentagon warned of more specific credible threats along with the expectation of another potential attack. the warning comes as an

>> and joining us now is of course, the moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd. well, chuck, i've been covering the cuomos through mario and hud leadership and he's been a toxic presence and abrasive presence throughout his father's career and is an enforcer and throughout his tenure in the clinton administration and he found he had no friends anywhere in the democratic establishment and had no alternative. what's your take? >> he didn't. i had talked to somebody very close to him last week who said they thought eventually he would get to resignation because he would not want to -- part of the punishment if he was convicted in an impeachment trial that he would no longer be able to serve in office in the state of new york. cuomo believes he can go and live another day. there was a lot of assumption that cuomo would stick this out and fight this as long as he could and buy time, delay, delay, delay. there was one other time when andrew cuomo took the politically pragmatic path and it paid off for him and it was the first time he ran for governor he quit mid-campaig

chuck todd played for secretary blinken the president's quote from june.hatever happens in afghanistan if the rays -- if there is a significant deterioration and security that could well happen we discussed this before. i don't think it's going to be something that happens from a friday to a monday. an iraqi veteran, dave. what did you do there? caller: i spent 21 years in the army. i deployed to iraq 2003 to 2004. that was on the ground as civil affairs operator. i got to deal with, directly with people. trying to establish democracy. combating anarchy. many aspects of the war. a big comment i had to make is the will of the people that we work with, whether it's iraq or afghanistan is something that is drastically different than the will of the american soldier marine. once we got in, i feel the same for afghanistan, the operator level is it's really hard to get -- to extricate ourselves from either one of those places. the decision has to be made by guys much higher up the chain down myself, but we sort of have to have trust in our leadership. it's diffi

tomorrow, secretary of state blinken will join chuck todd on "meet the press" to discuss the troop withdrawalnd what happens next. and h.r. mcmaster, is going to weigh in about what went wrong in america's 20-year war, now ending in chaos. you can watch "meet the press" right after today in the bay. >>> and we're watching the massive wild fire, the calder fire burning for two weeks. new video of flames in along highway 50. now more than 152,000 acres. containment is still at 19%. now, to a microclimate weather alert. a quick look in wall put the creek. we've been dealing with it all week and that has everyone on alert to spare the air again. what's going on? >> it's wall put the creek down into san jose. seen the worst of the air quality. get enough to figure a spare the air alert around the bay area. one of the things we'll see is a slightly stronger sea breeze, as we go hour by hour. but take a closer look around the peninsula and the coast as that sea breeze develops. we start to see air quality improve slightly later in the day. but we have another spare the air day tomorrow. another day

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. >>> tomorrow chuck todd will speak with the secretary of the state about the situation in afghanistan. you can watch it right after today in the bay. >>> aftershocks continue tonight after a devastating earthquake hit the town of haiti. at least 300 people have died. that number expected to rise. hundreds others are hurt. usgs says the quake is significantly stronger than the 2010 quake that killed more than 200,000 people. >> haiti needs help right now. imagine that some people are struggling to feed themselves, to feed their family, to pay for rent. and now everything that we have been doing, that we have been working for is crumbling. >>> late today, naomi osaka tweeted that she is play anything a tournament this week and plans to donate her prize money to relief efforts. her father is from violent. a chaotic scene in california over vaccine mandates. look at that. >>> and flooding in lake tahoe? it's a possibility. >>> and we're watching for a combination of fog and smoke for tomorrow morning. and who could see temperatures climbing into the upper 90s? by the end of the weekend, a

i'm chuck todd. we begin this hour with new inquiries.cuomo's conduct and new calls for his resignation. in just the past several hours the district attorney's in manhattan and westchester county announced they are looking into cuomo's actions after requesting from the attorney general's office and algallegations. to the reporting of covid cases in nursing homes and amid the mounting legal scrutiny comes mounting political pressure on the governor to step down and do so quickly. including now pressure from president biden. who held off making that announcement when the allegations first surfaced against cuomo in march. >> will you now call on him to resign given the investigator said the 11 women were credible? >> i stand by that statement. >> are you now calling on him to resign? >> yes. >> the president joins a growing list of democrats calling for cuomo's resignation. in fact, the question is who isn't inside the democratic party because this list of resignation callers includes not just the president, but house speaker nancy pelosi, n

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chuck todd, msnbc, the atlantic has a piece on this, andrew cuomo could rise from the ashes and run againetched to me. >> highly unlikely. here's why. when he resigned there wasn't a political friend in sight. that is a big issue. obviously, the situation is such that it was sexual harassment and there were multiple, multiple cases, so when you think about exactly what has transpired here, it would be very tough for him to come back. i'm not saying he won't try of. the ego of these politicians and the arrogance is so inflated on so many levels. but it's different. i was thinking of mark sanford, the governor of south carolina back in 2009, he had a can scan, he disa appeared for five days, he was in argentina with his mistress. in 2013 he was elected as house of representatives for south carolina. you had nikki haley putting tim scott to the senate position so it became available. he ran and got 54% vote. there are ways to come back. this will be tough. howie: the media would be against him from day one and what a contrast that is to the way he was lionized last year. we are out of time.

i am chuck todd. breaking news here in the city, rattled place as it is, hasn't been that long since january 6th, the u.s. capitol police, federal law enforcement are investigating an active bomb threat, outside library of congress, across from the u.s. capitol complex. here is the captain police chief with details last hour. >> around 9:15 this morning a man in a black pickup truck drove on the sidewalk in front of the library of congress, near 1st and independence southeast. we responded to a disturbance call. driver of the truck told the responding officer on the scene he had a bomb and what appeared the officer said appeared to be a detonator in his hand. >> evacuations were ordered for several buildings, including library of congress, can none house office baghdad, d.c. police are asking some residents who live nearby to evacuate the area on east capitol, another block away. a slew of brown stones. the house and senate are in recess, far fewer people in the capitol complex than usual. capitol pol

joined by chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press" mike memory camp david and anne gearan and msnbc contributor. apologies for any interruption if we see john kirby step to the mic tone to begin the briefing. chuck, we have a list of the top list at the moment, how many americans are still in afghanistan right now? he says he thinks it's somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000. can we get a more specific figure. how many evacuated, what is the stat you was the evacuations? what about afghans, how many are out and the question, chuck, i know you're following that many in washington are, why were we so caught off guard here? chuck, what do afghans need to hear from the administration broadly this morning? >> well, i think from the point of view of afghans, is there going to be, how long is this process of evacuating afghans going to last, how open will we be to bringing out more afghans who want out? where are we going to take them? how is the process worked? are we cutting red tape, all of those things. that is the immediate and near term questions that have to be answered. the big long-te

chuck todd nbc moderatoror meet the press. chuck, you heard richard make mention of that video of a baby being lifted over a fence. before that, the iconic image in this was the people clinging to the airplane. is the administration being overwhelmed by this kind of imagery as they try to get their point across? >> well, it certainly looks like they are a little bit. and really is raising a question. again you have to go back to forget the debate whether to stay or go. long-term. the decision to withditraw was made months ago by this president, right, he basically concurred he was going to follow-through on this agreement back in april. and we don't have -- we don't know what countries we can take these folks. the problem this administration has is this is not an unexpected development. this is sadly a very expected development when you are with drawing. this was an absolutely one of the potential scenarios here. and we don't have more partner countries lined up to help us with this in flux. and we haven't figured this out. you

chuck todd could have asked lollapalooza and obama's birthday party. this is more an example of the media demonizing a conservative event over others like they did with the trump rallies and black lives matter protests and not having anything to do with dr. fauci. >> bill: shall we play the sound bite? >> i'm very concerned, chuck, that we're going to see another surge related to that rally. there comes a time when you are dealing with a public health crisis that could involve you, your family and everyone else that something supersedes that need to doex actly what you want to do. >> bill: okay. you've crunched the numbers. >> dana: i think that especially the sturgis event is outside. not in a tent. the lollapalooza was almost 400,000 people and remember this was where we had the mayor having her mask on outside but off inside. none of that makes any sense. so i think there is also an assumption -- you saw this from "the new york times" reporter, that the obama guests are sophisticated and vaccinated and there is an assumption the sturgis riders are n

. >>> tomorrow national security adviser jake sullivan will join chuck todd on "meet the press" to discuss the administration's approach to the troop withdrawal from afghanistan. wyoming congresswoman liz cheney will share her perspective. watch "meet the press" tomorrow morning at 8:00 right after "today in the bay." >>> now to our coverage of the pandemic. first responders in marin county now have a mandate to get fully vaccinated. and they must do so by september 15 or face weekly testing. the rule applies to law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel as well as those who oversee emergency calls as hospitals, jails, and nursing homes. >>> and new at 6:00, apple is pushing back its planned return to offices as covid cases surge again, telling staff that january is the target date to return to the office. october was the original goal. it applies to employees across the globe. apple isn't the only company pushing back office reopenings, facebook and amazon have made similar decisions recently. >>> the reverend jesse jackson and his wife are in the hospital wit

. >>> tomorrow chuck todd will discuss the withdrawal on "meet the press." and also mcmaster will weigh in on what went wrong during the 20-year war. >>> top story, the heat, the smoky skies. this is a look outside walnut creek. and you probably knew that, the smoke is back. how long will it stick around? >> there will be a day three as the spare the air alert is extended to sunday. it is down to santa clara valley towards santa rosa. tomorrow we will see wind start to increase off the ocean. i think the worst of the air quality will be around for the morning hours. if you have afternoon and evening plans around the peninsula, you should see improvement as the sea breeze picks up. it is likely to do this with the aqi reports. plus we have more valley heat on the way. 90s to near 100. and wind will clear the air, but that could endanger fires. >>> tonight flames coming right up to the community of strawberry. the fire has grown to more than 152,000 acres. it is 52% contained. air quality is a major concern. be sure to follow rob on twitter. even when we are n

played chuck todd at the end, todd said in the same segment, the pullout happened under trump it woulden worse, got to work in the trump angle but i go back to a cnn townhall last month and this is what the president said on national television to don lemon, i made a commitment that when i made a mistake i would tell you i made mistakes and when i think i get it right i will say it but take responsibility for what i do and what i say and he said yesterday the buck stops here but that didn't stop, it was blame trump, blame afghan forces, blame the afghan government but not take responsibility, the responsibility he said he would take in these situations and was glaringly obvious to anyone with eyes, ears and a working brain. >> you just said it was impossible to defend president biden. msnbc's nicole wallace saying challenge accepted. >> 95% of the american people will agree with everything he just said. for an american president to finally be completely aligned with an overwhelming majority of what the american people think about afghanistan is probably a tremendous relief to the ameri

watch american media, the mouth pieces it was various spawn marxist movements and then someone like chuck toddliberal, we're not liberal. i watch a president of united states who is barely put one foot in front of the another, and complete his sentences, bringing here the most radical agenda and surrounded by various movements pushing that,agenda. this is why i'm talking to you, not to the establishment. not the american media. i left twitter and facebook, i'm communicating with you the american people. look the fact is that in are only a couple millions of us any time bashing this network and me -- watching this network and me, it is up to you to be paul reveres to inform yourself about the various movements that are taking place under hegemony of the marxist ideology, we should not shy from calling it what it is, because we're afraid wild be we'll be attacked, we need to understand what is going on in the country, where it is coming from, who is doing it, and then do something about it in a lawful, civil matter, we're not them, they are the ones who are violent it is important we understand,

then you have people like chuck todd say i don't know why they think we are liberal, we are not liberales who can barely put one foot in front of the other and complete sentences. he's surrounded by various movements and pushing that agenda as well. this is why i'm talking to you. not the establishment. not the america media. i have left twitter and facebook. i'm communicating with you, the american people. the fact is there are only a couple million at any time watching this network and watching me. it's up to you to be the paul reveres in this country and the movements taking place under the hegemony of the marxist ideology. we are being attacked. we need to understand what's going on in this country. where it comes from, who is doing it. then we need to do something about it in a lawful, civil manner. we are not them. they are the ones who are violent. but it's important we understand what this is. calling this book americans max i'm? really? that's what it is. how do i know? because that's what they call themselves. like patton said to rommel after he defeated him in north africa af

chuck todd. >>> president biden has been criticized from all sides the way he's handled this eevacuation from afghanistan. ic. we heard that it should have started sooner, we heard from military leaders, but the president today fast saying that we used to at this point. >> any delay he says we're putting a target on our back and what is happening now with this evacuation there is only one way out. there was a target. there still is a target on our back on this front. but look, we're going to relitigate this for a long time. i think there will be after action reports, but i think this is going to be an interesting sort of circular finger pointing and you're starting to see it developing a little bit. you have some at the white house wondering why the pentagon was so hasty in it's withdrawal. why did they take so long to get siv process and allies out there and the intelligence officials, the pentagon officials wonder why the white house was so rosy and assumed every rosy scenario. so i think this circular finger points will probably escalate now that our withdrawal is almost completed. >>

chuck todd, the political director and moderator of "meet the press." a lot of people said this would happen. i don't think they thought it would happen this quickly. but president biden standing by his position saying i'm not going to pass this war on to a fifth president after me. how does that decision look this morning? >> it is -- vice president biden was an advocate for getting out ten years ago. the pentagon and intelligence folks don't necessarily love this decision, but they acknowledge he had a lot of bad choices sitting in front of him. at the end of the day this is a decision that is on him. he was not so subtle on this saying that president trump negotiated this deal, he want today bring the taliban to camp david, something he decided not to do. he created the situation and tied his hands. all of that is that there is a lot of truth in there. at the end of the day biden is the one at the wheel right now. look, anything that happens, a reconstituted al qaeda, an isis like result like what we saw after the withdraw in iraq. i happen to think

kat: it's over i know chuck todd is holding onto but i think it's a political career is under. it's much for joe joining me howard. coming up does wearing a mask to do more harm to a child development and covid? at east increasing number of doctors think separate and not doctor fauci is weighing in. dr. drew pinsky joins me too discuss. plus one a liberal state now dropping reading, writing and math from its requirements to graduate high school. what could the logic for that possibly be? greg got failed here to break greg got failed here to break it ♪ lights out, follow the noise. ♪ ♪ baby, keep on dancing like you ain't got a choice. ♪ ♪ so come one (come on), come on (come on), come on. ♪ no one is just one flavor. ow! (struggling vehicle sounds) think premium can't be capable? think again. ♪ (energetic music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ introducing the first ever at4 lineup. premium and capable. that's professional grade from gmc. welcome to allstate. (phone notification) where we've just lowered our auto rates. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and savings like that will have you jumping for joy. now, get new lower a

last week, msnbc host chuck todd -- now you see biden around the block, it means he has wandered away [applause] great, a president who has been around the block but can't find the door to the white house. and now joe's greatest strength isn't gnawing through a warm scoop of mint chocolate chip. joe has been around the block, all right. 50 years later, he still doesn't know if he is. on wednesday, joe biden referred to the kabul airport incident having four or five days ago. understandably, he was asleep the whole time i would have added flying airplanes into building, but what do i know? mayor de blasio plans to give violent offenders a grand a month. don't think of this as bribing gang bangers, think of it as guaranteed basic income for murderers. the tsa has extended the mass mandate for travelers through next january. the only exceptions for travelers entering the u.s. illegally through the southern border. the las vegas raiders will require vaccinations for home games this season. meanwhile, the new york jets will require their fans to bring barf bags. and since it's vegas, docto

>>> welcome to "meet the press daily" i'm chuck todd. we're expecting jen pskai to hold her daily briefing soon. the pentagon warned of more specific credible threats along with the expectation of another potential attack. the warning comes as an official tells the white house they they have provided a similar assessment on the situation. the pentagon now says they believe it was a single suicide bomber yesterday, not two separate bombs. the attack left 113 afghans dead, as well, by the way and many more injured. isis-k claimed responsibility for m bombing. moments ago while meeting with the israeli prime minister the president weighed in again on the horrific attack. >> the mission there is dangerous. and it is now come with significant loss of american personnel. and it was a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport. they evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. i met with my commander first thing in the morning about the attacks and the m

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fauci tell chuck todd that by next month we'll be looking at 200,000 daily cases and their biggest fear, what keeps them up is this virus continues to replicate and mutate into something worse than the delta. maybe something even the vaccine can't hold up against. my dad is turning 70 this year in arizona. i don't want them to get in harms way. is this where i have to tell my parents in arizona to not go out anymore? >> i think what we'll have to tell all of our parents and at risk friends and family is we still do not have control of this horrendous pandemic. they need to do whatever they need to do to stay safe and i would tell them -- i say that to your parents, but generally, this is the problem and by the way, it's like we can't predict -- i don't know how many people will get sick or catch the disease or die from it. i think predictions are very complicated an difficult. what we do know, for a fact, a fastering virus growing out of control in places because people are not vaccinated is a fertile ground for the development of potentially frightening new variants. that's a fact. how

news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd> good sunday morning. we are tracking this very dangerous hurricane ida which is heading towards the louisiana coast. forecasters say the storm has rapidly intensified and turned quickly into a monster-size category 4 hurricane. we'll begin with the suicide bombing attack in kabul that took the lives of some 170 afghans plus 13 american service members. it's the very nightmare scenario the biden administration feared. americans are being warned to stay away from the airport and president biden added yesterday that another attack is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. on friday, the u.s. made its first reprisal strike on isis-k with the military saying it killed two high-profile targets. evacuation flights are continuing just two days short of the august 31st deadline, even under the threat of another terror attack. as the u.s. winds down its presence in afghanistan, in questions remain. how will be the u.s. be able to counter terrorist threats in afghanistan with u.s. forces out

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we heard from jake sullivan on "meet the press" who was asked by chuck todd whether they had a plan fors contingency. this is what he said. >> no plan survived first contact with reality. no plan can account for every contingency that occurs at a tactical level on a day-to-day basis. you adjust. we've adjusted and believe we are making progress. >> reporter: some of the ways are finding new ways to safely get americans from wherever they are in kabul to the airport. they also have just initiated this new program under the civil reserve air fleet. major airlines like delta, american, united, hawaiian and others, will be giving 18 of their aircraft to be able to fly flights of american evacuees as well as afghan nationals. and our sources tell us these airlines will not be flying to that hamid karzai airport. instead they will be carrying people from the transport hubs, once they're out to qatar or ramstein in germany to their final destination. that will be the job now of u.s. commercial airliners under the new program. >> that totally makes sense. keep the u.s. military in charge of get

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. >> i was on "meet the press" with chuck todd.ew and it's clear that we're trying to get back to school to make sure everybody was safe and felt comfortable. fox took one word i used and said i was hedging. this is about trying to create the climate where everybody feels that they are safe and welcome back to school. >> trace: fox didn't take one word dr. siegel. she said eight words. the eight words were as follows. "we're going to try to open up schools." that's a big difference from we're getting kids back in school. that's what everybody fears is because this is become so politicized that the teacher's unions will say no, you definitely have to wear a mask. we're not going back to school. even then, it's iffy. >> really good point. the word "try", i like that. how can you try? last year kids being out of school caused tremendous psychological damage, mental health damage, developmental delays were missed. young kids at home trying to learn remotely. poor children that couldn't afford an ipad. then you found out that they were

i'm chuck todd. a crisis appears to be worsening literally by the hour. the taliban took control of two major cities. it has nine provincial capitals. all signs that the taliban has far better military capabilities than they expected. that means the capital city of kabul could fall in a matter of weeks. some fear, believe it or not, even days. this map shows the territory controlled by the taliban in april. today you can see nearly two thirds of that man is now red. talking about a stunning advance leading the u.s. to have to deploy an additional 3,000 troops back to kabul temporarily not to assist in any military offensive to keep the taliban out of kabul, but simply to help secure the safe withdrawal of the remaining staff from the u.s. embassy. >> our first responsibility has always been protecting the safety and the security of our citizens serving in afghanistan and around the world. as we said all along the increased tempo of the taliban military engagement and the results increase in violence and instability across afghanistan is of grave concern.

secretary of state antony blinken was on meet the press this morning and said this to chuck todd about the withdrawal. >> we have a massive withdrawal under under way to bring afghans at risk out of the country if that's what they desire. ultimately, it is up to the afghans themselves to decide the way forward. >> richard engle in kabul today showed this photo with us of a visa processing office in chaos as afghanis scramble to fill out forms as a fear to stay in the country sets in. we learned this morning the u.s. will send an additional 1,000 to help with the security situation. that's in addition to the 5,000 president biden promised saturday. >>> meanwhile, the haiti, the death toll from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked the region yesterday is now 724. nearly 3,000 people are reported as injured with the number expected to climb as rescue missions are under way to search for survivors trapped underneath the rubble. thousands of buildings collapsed. major roads remain blocked. the quake was more powerful than the one that hit the nation in 2010 that killed over 220,000. bot

i am chuck todd. i have been saying it for months, how covid goes in the united states, so goes the biden presidency. as pandemic numbers increase, the president's numbers are starting to decrease. more than a month ago, president biden declared independence from the virus, covid cases in the united states flat lined to 10,000 a day. we are now averaging more than 100,000 cases a day, 10 times jump. cases are rising in all 50 states, and in places with low vaccinations rates. the administration announced a plan to encourage children over 12 to be vaccinated by the time school starts in fall. the education secretary will be at the white house press briefing, expected to begin any minute. we'll keep an ear on what he says. we have an idea what they're proposing, all of this as most of the country is experiencing substantial, high transmission of the virus. some hospitals and states like arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, florida are breaking records, running out of beds, having to cancel things like elec

and i think chuck todd also played for secretary blinken, i think criticism very justified from presidentwe handed the country over to the taliban. and i was very surprised how strongly he said it. he questioned president biden, the commander in chief. >> what about the lingering behind? this was earlier today. >> this is a crisis of untold proportions. this is an intelligence failure. we underestimated the taliban and overestimated the resolve of the afghan army. >> and the richard she's referring to is richard engel who will have a report in the next hour who said, yeah, totally saw this coming. no doubt that this is how it would go down. was this an unforced error? was this snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? if we knew this was likely to happen, how did we let it happen? >> joshua, i'm convince that had no matter when the u.s. left afghanistan, this type of scenario would have played out. because after 20 years, after a trillion dollars, countless resources, after sacrifices from our troops, this is what we're left with. i'm convinced this would have precipitated no matter when

. >>> chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press." chuck, good morning, it's good to see you again, my friend. let's talk about president biden and what he's confronting, particularly in some states like florida and texas that are rejecting mandates, mask mandates in school districts, for example. the president and governor ron desantis of florida had a very visible back-and-forth all week with governor desantis perhaps with some political considerations. he may run for president in 2024 against joe biden. but what's going on, how does this play out in those states in particular? >> well, look, right now politically covid is a problem for every chief executive, whether you're a mayor, governor or president right now. i do think that that is coming out in what was a little bit of an overheated back-and-forth. i think the biden administration and the president looks at this and says, hey, look, they know they're going to be judged by their handling of covid. but they also believe there's only so much they can do as long as they're gettin

. >>> chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press." chuck, good morning. it is good to see you. the president has stood firmly by his decision to withdraw troops from afghanistan. the administration, in fact, saying, look this was going to happen whenever we got out, this was inevitable in some ways. but he has been criticized not just by republicans but by democrats and a lot of people in this country where is he in this decision right now? does he suspect we may have to stay longer than that deadline of late august here? >> well, that is the question i'll have this morning for jake sullivan whe he is on this program, which is, you know, you pledged to get every american out. it's pretty clear many americans are stuck, can't even get to kabul let alone to the airport you can't accomplish this by the 31st is it time to surge more troops in are they going to actually have to surge more troops to help with this evacuation ultimately, this keeps coming back to sort of the same, rather than debate that should we stay or go? why didn't we pu

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i am chuck todd. what could be a pivotal day for u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan.e expect to hear from president biden this afternoon with an update on the situation. all of this comes as we confirm the president decided against extending the august 31st deadline, despite pleas from our allies and intel community and a lot of folks on the ground in the capitol as u.s. forces scramble to evacuate american staff and family and now we know that afghans, the taliban plan to stay in the way of afghans getting to the airport. more on this in a moment. the president met with the national security team and g7 leaders. he was supposed to deliver remarks on afghanistan at noon. taliban spokesman said the u.s. must complete evacuation by august 31st, a peek from today, period. signaling afghans will no longer be allowed to leave the country. evacuations through kabul are continuing, at a brisk pace, more than 21,000 people in the last 24 hours. defense officials remain focused on evacuating americans first and others by end of the month. >> there's been no change to the timel