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fox news marc meredith picks up our team coverage on the push to get kids back into the classroom. the mask debate. it is now engulfing school districts nationwide today, president biden's education secretary urged governors to follow the cdc's revised guidance even if some parents and educators object. i understand that the fatigue of wearing masks i don't like wearing masks. i know my own children don't want to wear masks. while i understand the argument around not wanting to wear masks because we're fatigued. it's without question, student safety and staff safety come first. last week, new jersey's democratic governor mandated masks be worn in his state schools. governor phil murphy says he knows the decision is not popular with most parents, but he insists the move was necessary. this is not an announcement that gives any of us or me personally, any pleasure. but as the school year approaches, and with the numbers rapidly increasing. it is the one that we need to make right now. florida's republican governor, taking a different approach, he issued an executive order allowing pa

host: meredith in massachusetts, thanks for calling in. glenda in california -- linda in california, independent. caller: i would like to say that you met with regards to the infrastructure bill or any bill that it is -- that any bill that is increasing our debt needs to be looked at. it needs to be taken apart and restructured differently. most states have the capability of providing infrastructure money, much of which is gotten by bond especially in california over the last 10 years. most of the bonds are repaid. for the most part, that is not happening. where the money is going is questionable. i think that is the reason many people are question what is going into the infrastructure built in and of itself. there were things that came up with other bills we were questioning as far as what does it have to do with covid and why do we have to rebuild the john f. kennedy center when we are dealing with covid. this is the reason why these questions keep coming up with these huge bills. how much further are we supposed to go when we cannot see

mark meredith is live at the white house. >> reporter: good afternoon. the white house insists americans will not see the 2020 style lockdowns but president biden himself suggests that it's possible more covid restrictions could be coming in the weeks ahead, this comes as federal health officials continue to track the delta variant as it spreads in communities coast to coast. >> i don't think we're going to see lockdowns. i think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country not enough to crush the outbreak but i believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter. but things are going to get worse. >> reporter: but the president insists that things can get better if more people choose to get the vaccine. the white house is urging businesses and states to provide people more incentive to go get the shot and it appears in recent days that seems to be working. we've seen an jump tick in -- uptick in vaccinations. 164 million people in the country are fully vaccinated, close to half the total population. we have seein

marc meredith fox news. earlier today we spoke to dr bob wachter, he's chair of the department of medicine at u. c. s f and he says, we will likely see a return to masking rules because there is just more virus circulating right now. take san francisco, you know, in on june 1st it ucsf medical center. we had one covid patient now we have about 40 a month ago or six weeks ago in san francisco, the whole city we are having 10 covid cases a day now, 150 180, so there's definitely much more virus around. and of course, none of us wants to go back to where we were, and all of us were thinking it. thinking we were over with this thing, but the virus out of their ideas, so we've got to pay attention to what's actually going on around us. dr walker went on to say the vaccines work extraordinarily well in preventing people from getting sick and dying, and the bay area has a good vaccination rate compared to other parts of the country. defined to extend the federal eviction moratorium enacted to help americans through

marc meredith has more now from washington. mask debate is now engulfing school districts nationwide today, president biden's education secretary, urged governors to follow the cdc is revised guidance even if some parents and educators object. i understand that the fatigue of wearing masks i don't like wearing masks. i know my own children don't want to wear masks. while i understand the argument around not wanting to wear masks because we're fatigued. it's without question, student safety and staff safety come first. last week, new jersey's democratic governor mandated masks be worn in his state schools. governor phil murphy says he knows the decision is not popular with most parents, but he insists the move was necessary. this is not an announcement that gives any of us or me personally, any pleasure. but as the school year approaches, and with the numbers rapidly increasing. it is the one that we need to make right now. florida's republican governor, taking a different approach, he issued an executive order allowing parents

robbie meredith has more...ous wait. i was freaking out all last night and couldn't sleep and then i woke up this morning and thought i'll have something to eat, couldn't eat, couldn't drink. i've just been stressed out but when i got here i seen everybody else was in the same boat as me. but after all that, jonathan did get the a grades he needed to go to university. and other pupils at boys�* model school in belfast were also celebrating. i studied geography, biology and travel and tourism and i got an a�* in travel and tourism, an a in geography and a b in biology. teachers used evidence like classwork, homework and in—class tests to calculate grades for pupils and results have risen sharply. a level results in 2019 when there were end—of—year exams, around 32% of entries here were awarded the top a* and a grades. in 2020, that rose to almost 45% after exams were cancelled. in 2021, almost 51% of entries in northern ireland were a* or a. there were similar rises elsewhere in the uk, which has prompted questio

mark meredith has reaction on capitol hill. >> the second time this week the president cut his vacation short as staff faces serious questions about afghanistan and how the us can guarantee thousands of people can evacuate safely. pressing the national security adviser to lay out his plan. >> the us government commit to ensuring any american in afghanistan get out? >> that's what we're doing right now. we have asked them to come to the airport to get on flights and take them home. that's what we intend to do. >> after the news conference the national security adviser to clarify, what he meant to say was what we are going to do we are accomplishing with airport reopened and operational thanks to the work of our troops and diplomats but evacuations on such a large scale will take time. the pentagon hopes to evacuate 5000 today with a misdemeanor the number of americans in afghanistan is 40,000. we heard from donald trump who attacked biden. >> he should have gotten this billions out first. take the current out and take the soldiers out and i said before you leave blowup all the forts beca

we have live team coverage, mark meredith standing by washington where president biden returned from vacation. >> reporter: good morning, afghanistan's new leadership, the taliban is bowing to present themselves to the world, many taliban leaders haven't been seen in public other than their closest allies since the war began 20 years ago. many in the capital or the country including the taliban's founder who had flown into couple in the last 24 hours as the taliban seeks to shift to this new role of governing the country after two decades of fighting in the shadows. very disturbing reports of heavy-handed treatment being dealt by the new government including reports that people who are trying to make their way to the airport to flee are being beaten back despite the taliban's pledge of free and safe passage to anyone who wants to leave. the taliban and shot and killed a woman for going out in public without a burqa, another action not consistent with their pledge to respect women's rights. growing concern about weapons the united states left behind gave the afghan army, falling into

marc meredith shows us what's being done to achieve that goal.he white house is trying to convince skeptical americans that now is the time to get a covid vaccine. but it also faces another challenge. how to stop people who are already vaccinated from spreading the virus to those who may not have gotten the shot. yet this all comes as health officials are studying the delta variant of this virus, the cdc now recommending millions of people, regardless of their vaccination status. now wear masks indoors. but remember, this is not a federal order, it's still going to be up to the states and individual cities to decide. how best to proceed. the cdc says it's masking recommendation was updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immuno compromised loved ones, the white house chief of staff says they are seeing an increase in vaccinations. he tweeted first time we've had four days in a row over 700,000 shots in a long stretch. about three million people got their first shot th

dana: mark meredith reporting from the white house, thank you joining is now nih director doctor francis, welcome back to "fox news sunday" it is so good to have your. >> great to be with you a good chance to talk about where we are with covid. dana: let's start with that it's been a confusing week for americans to understand what is happening with covid at the state of the pandemic where the delta variant spreading across america can you give our viewers a clear explanation as possible on what we should know and what we should be doing right now. >> i would very much like to do that, let me slip away all the confusing information and hit the high points. they come into grace the bad news and the good news delta is spreading we know it's extremely contagious and certainly in some parts of the country like missouri, arkansas, louisiana it's reaching high levels and were once again seeing case levels per day closing in on 100,000 which we haven't seen since february, this is a different virus and last year and everything from covid have to hit the reset button on how we need to react to it

mark meredith with fiery reaction to the president's speech. >> jackie ibanez has the latest of elements from overnight. jillian: senior taliban leader is said to be in the capital negotiating with afghanistan leadership and former president, karzai. talks are aimed at bringing on taliban leaders into the government which the taliban has indicated there will be, quote, inclusive afghan government. this little known about what the talks consists of right now but the associated press is reporting a government will be announced after negotiations are complete this comes after kabul airport reopened following chaos yesterday. thousands tried to flee the country. at least 7 people died in that video showing mister maddock seen as some ran alongside the aircraft attempting to take off while mother's day gold from the jet bridge. new pictures show crammed us cargo jet filled with hundreds of afghan refugees heading to qatar. they ran on to be a craft before military personnel could close the ramp. when reporting 640 people crammed into that plane. that plane holds 150 soldiers. john kirby insis

for that we turn to mark meredith live for us in the nation's capitol. mark?t made the pandemic his top priority since taking office. a few weeks ago, felt like the worst was behind us. now the delta variant complicating the effort to stop the spread. as you mentioned, we're expecting the president to lay out what else can be done. the white house said more americans are getting the vaccine especially in recent days. as of today, close to 165 million people are fully vaccinated in the u.s. officials say the variant is spreading fast putting those unvaccinated are at more risk than at the beginning of the pandemic. >> the delta variant is highly contagious. to put this in perspective, if you get sick with the alpha variant, you could infect two other unvaccinated people. if you get sick with the delta variant, you could infect against five other unvaccinated people. more than twice as many as the original strain. >> the white house is urging people to get vaccinated. wife seen cities offer cash incentives. the concern is about the latest surge. the cdc recommen

good morning, thank you for being here, meredith.t us off on your reporting on the continued misinformation on social media particularly among supporters of donald trump leading up to what they say will be his return to office. >> well, this is something that obviously concerns national security officials, dhs, obviously issuing this warning where they say there is a, quote, moderate concern here, but this is something that the security teams across the country have been concerned about for months. politico reported back in june that there were concerns from dhs about conspiracy theorists and people who believe that the former president could somehow be reinstated. he will not be. this month. and potentially they could be -- there could be lone wolf actors, violent actors who might lash out in the same way that we saw on january 6th. so it's definitely something that people are concerned about. and, you know, the presence of qanon, the presence of these conspiracy theories still continues to swirl around a lot of the former president

biden: meredith of pbs newshour. >> you mentioned just now using every resource available for evacuations. why haven't you ordered the military to expand the security perimeter around the kabul airport? do you have any plans to do so given that will likely require more u.s. troops? and are you considering rescue operations to recover american and afghan allies stuck behind taliban checkpoints? pres. biden: the answer is yes to the last question, we are considering every opportunity and every means by which we can get folks to the airport. that is number one. number two, the reason why we have not gone out and set up a perimeter way outside the airport in kabul is that it is likely to draw an awful lot of unintended consequences in terms of people who, in fact, are not part of the telephone. -- the taliban. we have been in constant contact with telephone -- taliban on the ground in kabul, and we have been coordinating what we are doing. that is how we got all of our embassy personnel out, how we got everyone out of the embassy safely. that is how we help get the french out. out of their em

mike: mark meredith live on the soggy northline, thank you very much. for more on the future of the bipartisan for structure built now in the senate california democratic congressman, welcome. >> thank you for having me. mike: some said their little cautious about the bipartisan infra structure bill noting a lack of trust between modern and progressive in your party and suspicion between democrats and republicans in the rivalry between the house and the senate how confident are you the infrastructure gets to the president's desk for his signature. >> we have to we deferred our investment in our infrastructure and were way behind the rest of the world in terms of percentage that we spend $3 trillion according to engineers that we deferred. we have to get it and i think were making progress of what happened to the senate but it's a long way from what i want. mike: your colleague alexandria ocasio-cortez said there's not a reconciliation bill in the house and if the senate does not pass the three and half trillion dollar reconciliation bill she insist the

may be ringing covid with them, fox team coverage in all of these stories live on the border, mark meredith live at the white house, charles watson with the shooting and bourbon street those could've brian llenas brian live in the new york newsroom drive-by shooting. >> good afternoon police are looking for four men responsible for last night's mass shootings in queens, new york two men wearing hoodies and facemasks opening fire on the city sidewalk, to others picked up the men on mopeds to flee the scene, ten people were shot ages 1972 they also for knife wounds they believe this is a gang-related shooting entry of the wounded with actual targets, both of the candidates to be the next new york city mayor, they are calling for more funding and police in the street and adams speaking from the scene and he says he wants to form a federal and state joint guns and gains task force. >> we have to come to grips with the fact that we live in a city where someone can drive about a moped, shoot people, hop on the moped and get away safely. we have to come with the grips that we are losing the grip f

elizabeth: mark meredith thank you so much, retired u.s.y lieutenant colonel james carafano and doctor mark green on house foreign affairs and armed services. the doctor was appointed iraq and afghanistan. first you your reaction to that president? >> thank you for havingct me oni was blown away by the dishonesty of his comments he made it sound like the afghans aren't fighting they have been the ground force in this war for several years, thousands of them have died, it is dishonest to say that they do not want to fight we abandoned them, that is the sense that they have in the middle of the night we left bagram air base without a be notifying our allies, the afghan military that we were leaving they discovered an empty airfield and empty military they felt abandoned and they lost the will to fight. it is not their fault this is joe biden that knows this. elizabeth: d.c. insiders report shocked that the administration was surprised that the taliban captured the country this quickly in the white house had no plans for that even though biden

fox news marc meredith picks up our team coverage of work underway to try to keep kids safe as they go back to school. the mask debate is now engulfing school districts nationwide today, president biden's education secretary urged governors to follow the cdcs revised guidance even if some parents and educators object. i understand that the fatigue of wearing masks i don't like wearing masks. i know my own children don't want to wear masks. while i understand the argument around not wanting to wear masks because we're fatigued it without question. student safety and staff safety come first. last week, new jersey's democratic governor mandated masks be worn in his state schools. governor phil murphy says he knows the decision is not popular with most parents, but he insists the move was necessary. this is not an announcement that gives any of us or me personally, any pleasure. but as the school year approaches, and with the numbers rapidly increasing. it is the one that we n right now. florida' an executive order allowing parents to decide if their kids should wear masks instead of local

thank you meredith. was very violent and like people just need to kill the publicly and like and also the infrastructure who's having classes educ ation supporters that's like really know and that there's no sign. of men absolutely, correct all of you. thank you. so this country has been locked in a bloody civil war for the past four years that has internally displaced one-third of its population that 7 million out of 21 million people. some four million people have been forced to cross international borders mostly to neighboring countries like jordan and lebanon. they are fleeing enormous devastation. last month the obama administration announced that it would increase the annual refugee quota over the next two years to assist with this humanitarian crisis. the annual quota which has been said at 70,000 to 80,000 for over a decade now will increase to a hundred thousand by the end of fiscal year 2017. presumably to accommodate a greater share of syrian refugees. within our immigration bureaucracy, there

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nice to see you, meredith. >> wait, seth, thank you for showing that picture of patton playing "d&d."h more in love with him that that makes me. that is crazy. >> wow >> seth: now, but you haven't -- are you at all concerned he's never seemed that happy in your presence [ laughter ] >> i mean that is the cutest thing i've ever seen in my life. it makes me substantially more attracted to you >> i did not think that that picture would be catnip for hotties. i had no idea. >> seth: so -- all right so this guy's "did you get my text?" this is a podcast about your relationship you might think this is about a long distance relationship because it is about your texting communication, but that is absolutely not the case. >> no, we are a married couple who lives together and i think like a lot of married couples who have gotten a lot of feedback, we are in the same house but we text each other all day. >> yeah, he's in his room, i'm in my part of the house and it's just easier to text each other but we don't really ever sit down and talk about it >> yeah. >> so the podcast sort of is an opport

one of these cases i talk about the meredith march, in the ways in which the meredith march, which was about registering voters. it was what he calls the march against fear, was to walk -- it was a march from memphis to jackson, mississippi, and they would go into communities, and the purpose was to register voters. and it's there that they began to, you know, they would coalesce around confederate monuments because those statues are in the town squares, the center of town, or they're on courthouse lawns, which is also where people might need to go to register to vote, at the courthouse. it is a confrontation with confederate monuments and it is a reclamation of the space that the confederate monuments sit on and had dominated for so long. so once you see that happening, and then by the 1970s, you will begin to see individuals who are -- who are civil rights veterans who are being elected to their local city council for the first time, and they begin to challenge what, you know -- they are representatives of government now, and they are going to challenge these monuments on the courtho

there is some encouraging news when the numbers as foxes marc meredith reports, the number of peoplegetting vaccinated is going up. health experts say coronavirus cases are on the rise with the so called delta variant blamed for increase infections. the cdc reporting some 70,000 new cases were recorded each day last week. the good news vaccinated americans remain at low risk. still, the variant has health officials concerned with internal cd documents suggesting it's infectious as chickenpox. now the government is encouraging millions of americans to mask up again, even if they're vaccinated and some parts of the country like missouri, arkansas, louisiana, it is reaching very high levels and we are now once again seeing case levels per day, closing in on 100,000, which we haven't seen since february. the cdc's new mass guidelines impact communities where there's quote significant or high spread, south carolina's governor says he's against statewide mask mandates. instead he's letting his residents decide when to mask up. give him the right information. not exaggeration. hyperbole mak

dana. >> dana: already, mark meredith reporting from the white house. mark, thank you.ning us now, nih director dr. francis collins. dr. collins, welcome back to "fox news sunday," it's so good to have you here. >> dr. collins: great to be with you, dana, good chance to talk about where we are with covid. >> dana: well, let's start with that. it's been a pretty confusing week for americans trying to understand just what is happening with covid at this stage of the pandemic. we have the delta variant, it's spreading across america. could you give our viewers is clear and expert nation as possible on what we should know and what we should be doing right now? >> dr. collins: i will very much like to do that, let me try to strip away all of the confusing information and try to hit the high points. that kind of come into categories. the bad news and the good news. so let mr. with the bad news. delta is spreading. we know it's extremely contagious and certainly in some parts of the country like missouri, arkansas, louisiana, it is reaching very high levels and we are now once

. >> meredith lee of pbs news hour. >> you mentioned just now using every resource available for evacuations. why haven't you ordered the military to expand the security perimeter around the kabul airport? do you have any plans to do so in giving that will require more u.s. troopsment and considering rescue operations to rescue americans stuck behind taliban checkpoints? >> the last answer is yes to the last question. we are considering every opportunity and every means by which we can get folks to the airport. that's number one. number two, the reason why we have not gone out and set up a perimeter way outside the airport in kabul is that it's likely to draw an awful lot of unintended consequences in terms of people who are in fact not part of the taliban. we have been in con constant contact with the taliban leadership on the ground in kabul as well as the taliban leadership. and we have been coordinating what we are doing. that's why we were able, for example, how we got all of our embassy personnel out. how we got everyone out of the embassy safely. that's how we helped get the french ou

thank you sir. meredith lee of p. b. s. news our you mentioned just now using every resource available for evacuations. why haven't you ordered the military to expand the security perimeter around the cobble airport? do you have any plans to do so giving that will likely require more us troops. and are you considering rescue operations to recover americans and african allies stuck behind taliban checkpoint? last the answer is yes. last question. we're considering every, every opportunity and every means by which we could get folks to the airport has number one, number 2. the reason why we have not gone out and started and set up a perimeter way outside the airport in campbell is that is likely to draw an awful lot of an intended consequences in terms of people who in fact are not part of the tale. but we've been in constant contact with tale mon leadership on the ground in, in campbell, as well as with telling me on leadership at di. and we've been coordinating what we're doing. that's why we were able, for example, how

. >> the defense department denies intelligence lord of afghanistan's quick collapse mark meredith continues team coverage as they vowed to grill biden officials on this messy withdrawal. >> president biden telling abc news the chaos unfolding in afghanistan could not be avoided but the afghan government collapsed much faster than he expected. he insists bringing us troops was always the goal, bring them back home. >> we will go back and 9 site and look at the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos in suing i don't that happens. i don't know how that happens. >> was that priced into the decision? >> is. >> reporter: the white house released his photo showing the president giving update in the situation. is expected to give another security briefing later this morning as the pentagon denies reports that it warned the white house about the looming disaster. >> following our departure, nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army as government 11 days. >> lawmakers are demanding more details, two top public and calling for classified briefin

meredith lee, pbs news hour. >> you mentioned using every resource available for evacuations, why haven't you ordered the military to expand security perimeter around the kabul airport? you have plans to do so given that will likely require more u.s. troops? are you considering rescue operations to recover americans and afghan allies set behind gathering checkpoints? >> the last answer is yes, we are considering every opportunity and every means by which we can get folks to the airport, that is number one. number two, the reason why we have not gone out and set up a perimeter way outside the airport in kabul is that likely to draw a lot of unintended consequences in terms of people who are not part of the taliban. we been in constant contact with the taliban leadership on the ground in kabul as well as the taliban leadership and we've been coordinating what we are doing, that's why we were able, how we got all embassy personnel, went out of the embassy safely. that's how we helped get the french out out of their embassy so the question remains, there will be judgments on the ground by the

meredith lee of pbs newshour. >> why have you not ordered the military to expand the perimeter around kabul airport? are you considering rescue operations to recover americans and afghan allies stuck behind taliban checkpoints? >> yes, to the last question. we are considering every opportunity and every means by which we can get folks to the airport. that's number one. number two, the reason why we have not gone out and set up a perimeter way outside the airport in kabul is that it is like to draw an awful lot of unintended consequences in terms of people who in fact are not part of the taliban. we have been in constant contact with the taliban leadership on the ground in kabul. >> u.s. helicopters have also now ferried out at least 96 afghans to be evacuated, marking the first u.s. military flights outside the perimeter of the kabul airport. are you at the gate? back at kabul airport, we get news that two prominent afghan female photographers we know are coming to the gates. they spent five days in hiding together bore making a break for it to the airport. they come out to say they a

i talk about the meredith march the ways in which the march was about registering voters from what hethe march against fear which was a march from memphis to jackson mississippi and they would go into communities and the purpose wass to register voters and they are that they began, they coalesced around confederate moderates from up here in the town square or on courthouse lawns which is also where people might register to vote, it's a courthouse. it is a confrontation with confederate monuments andnd reclamation that confederate monuments sit on and dominated for so long so once you see that happening by the 1970s, he began to see individuals who are civil rights veterans being elected to local city council for the first t time and begin o challenge the representatives of government and they are going to challenge these monuments on the courthouse lawn. >> a great topic what you talk about charlottesville -- >> charlotte. >> charlottesville would be easy. >> the city where you live. >> right, for people who may not remember, the first black student in the university, he moved to char

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. >> mark meredith is in washington dc with fiery reaction to the president's speech. >> senior taliban leader is set to be in the capital negotiating with afghan leadership and former president karzai, the talks aimed at bringing non-taliban leaders into the government, the taliban indicated there will be a, quote, inclusive afghan government. there is little known what talks consistent but the associated press report the government will be announced after negotiations are complete after double airport reopens following chaos as thousands tried to flee the country, 7 people died. video showing the dramatic scene as some ran alongside an aircraft attempting to take off while others dangle off the jet bridge, a cargo jet filled with afghan refugees, they reportedly ran into the aircraft before military personnel closed the ramps. 640 people crammed into that plane, holding 150 sores, us troops moved into kabul, they expect a 500 on the ground as pentagon press secretary john kirby insists the situation at the airport is not a failure. >> i take issue with your designation of this operati

our mark meredith has a preview and he's live there.see you, good afternoon from deep red alabama where thousands of people are already lined up to hear from the former president. take a look at the crowd getting ready to go through the security barriers, eager to hear from the former president and he'll be talking a lot about politics even though the state's republican primary is not until next may. he's endorsed mo brooks for the senate state seat and the property remaining neutral. and the president gets a lot of support here in the state and won alabama by more than 490,000 votes last year and his popularity not with question here. we had a chance to talk with a few of his supporters and hear is what they had to say. >> i'm here to support donald trump and the other people here that want to make our country better than what it is. you lose your freedom, you lose your-- you lose yourself, and i am just so happy and excited to be here. praying to god that he comes back in '24, if not sooner. >> the president is expected to talk more t

. >> mark meredith joins us from washington as lawmakers now to grill the president had officials today withdrawal. >> reporter: president biden telling abc news the chaos in afghanistan could not be avoided. the afghan government collapse happen faster, he insisted bringing us troops home. >> president biden: the idea there's a way to have gotten out without chaos i don't know how that happens. i don't know how that happens. >> that was priced into the decision? >> president biden: yes. >> this photo shows the president giving update in the situation room. he will give another one later this morning. the pentagon denying reports that it was warning the biden administration about the looming disaster in afghanistan. >> following our departure there was nothing i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. >> reporter: plenty of lawmakers on the hill demanding more detail. top republicans want classified briefings on the evacuation effort. we know the house for an affairs committee is looking like it will hold a hearing next week. republicans

past views of a word most container offensive with regard to veiled -- regard to the lpg d mark meredith'se tracking the latest. good evening. >> covid cases, hospitalizations and sadly, deaths are on the rise. federal health officials say more americans are also getting the vaccine. this is coming at a crucial time with the delta variant causing major challenges for cities and states coast-to-coast. >> just today we hit 70% of adults with at least one shot. >> vaccination rates on the rise, the biden administration is hoping to avoid a repeat of 2020. >> we are not going back to the shutdowns of march of 2020. we are not going back to the economy shutting down. we have made too much progress. >> officials admit with the coronavirus, there's no guarantees. >> things are going to get worse. >> dr. anthony fauci's warnings comes with an asterisk. he says vaccinated americans have strong protection against the surging delta variant. breakthrough infections are happening. south carolina senator lindsey graham has tested positive even though he's vaccinated. he says he's experiencing what it fe

we want to bring mark meredith back in because were talking olympics and i love this new survey thatals 40 percent of americans think they compete in the olympics, what i love is what men thought about their abilities versus women, what di you find? >> i don't think i'd qualify fo a participation trophy in the olympics but athletes train for years, just for that chance to compete come as you mentioned a recent survey found two in five americans think there ready to go for the gold with people believing they could compete in everything from basketball, football, soccer, and we have the closing ceremonies coming u this weekend but for a lot of people this is the opening they need to start getting ready for the paris games in 2024, if you could participate, what would i be? >> at think about this because sit on the couch is it too late what could ideal, and it's definitely too late for ice skating or basketball or for me but i think could you take up something like archery now? my husband is an excellent archery hunter, i feel like if we let him do that all day ever day that he would lo

mark meredith reporting it was live streaming this for a couple of hours before police actually got on scene, so chris clearly whoever is in this man is trying to send out a message that he wants publicity and is trying to say something. they asked the authorities if this guy might be a veteran of iraq or afghanistan. not really clear if there was an answer on that but what do you make of the suspect? because when they are trying to do there is trying to identify who the suspect is they can do that and they may be able to do that by the license plates on the vehicle. if they can't identify him then they can do a profile on him and determine his past and that is going to be very significant in part to try to bring this to some closure to find out who this man is and what it is that he is actually seeking and can they talk him into if he has a detonator to keep his hands off the detonator and surrender them? so there is a lot that's going on here at this immediate time. >> sandra: and as we know, lawmakers are still on recess but there's certainly a lot of tourists nearby. what do you th

businesses, restaurants, so on and so forth so they are working to keep that area, mark meredith is on the ground and is more news pops, will bring you that. i want to get back to the situation in afghanistan and i will do it with you, kayleigh. it's pretty unbelievable. if you don't know how many people you are trying to extract from an enemy territory, it makes it very difficult. even in vietnam we had lists of people. brian kilmeade last hour kind of joke, maybe he ripped up those lists when they were leaving the embassy. come on. we know whose they are. here is the information fox news is getting. from sources on the ground. even though the president promised on abc that america will take off on the 31st and then he said maybe we'll get them all out. we may have to stay longer. i couldn't figure out where we are were going with that with him. which one is it? now we learn with the pentagon we don't know how when people are on the ground, so which is it? do we know what we are doing or we don't? >> kayleigh: we don't. the president saying the intel didn't want him when in fact repor

represent them around the issue of confederate iconography and in one of these cases a talk about the meredithh in the way the margins march was about registering voters that was what he called the march against fear and a march from memphis to jackson mississippi and they would go into communities and the purpose register voters and they began to coalesce around confederate monuments and those statutes are in the town square where they were on the courthouse lawn which is also where people might need to register to vote at the courthouse. so it is a confrontation we confederate monument and it's a reclamation off the space look confederate monuments and on and dominated for so long once you see that happening and by the 1970s you willyo begin to see individuals who are civil rights veterans who are being elected to the local city council for the firstin time and they begino challenge what the representatives of government and they will challenge the monuments on theen courthouse lawn. >> this takes us to abj great topic one of the people that you talk about is harvey from charlottesville. >>

meredith. [inaudiblele]. >> and being killed publicly and also the infrastructure. [inaudible]. >> absolutely correct all of you thank you and so this country has a blood he civil war for the past four years and that is internal displaced one third of its population and that is 7 million out of 21 million people. and some 4 million people have been forced to cross international borders mostly to neighboring countries like jordan and lebanon. they are playing in norma's devastation read last month, the obama administration announced that it would increase the annual refugee quota over the next two years to assist with his humanitarian crisis rated manual quota which has been set at 70000 - 80000 for over a decade now will increase to 100,000 by the end of fiscal year of 2017. presumably to accommodate a greater share of syrian refugees. within our immigration bureaucracy, there are severalal tracts for admission and over the course of the semester we discussedd some of those tracks condition and today we're going to discuss two additional tracks, the refugee and asyl