Thanks, Cooper. I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. First, we have Tony Fauci

to take on the vaccine confusion and mask madness. But first, Afghanistan, you have seen our

reporting and others. You know the reality on the ground, the desperation. It's obvious.

You know the Americans there are not sure if their country will bring them home.

It's not what the reality is. That's not our question. Our question is what will our government

do about that reality? That is our focus here. And the answer is so far, frankly,

or too slow and too little. How can you accept the State Department warning as many as 15,000

Americans stuck in Taliban country that they can't ensure safe passage to get them to the

Kabul airport and fly them out? You must demand that the mightiest force on the planet does not

surrender its own to this kind of fate from a bunch of zealot thugs. That's what you want your

countryman surrender to. The State Department should not be warning the desperate.

The warning is a desperate one to the State Department and this administration.

You had better do what you have to to get Americans out. What does this country stand for?

If not committing completely to protecting its own. Another bad sign, the administration seems

to be allowing the Taliban to dictate terms here. We're going to get everyone that we can possibly

evacuate and I'll do that as long as we possibly can until the clock runs out or we run out of

capability. We will get out as many as possible. The clock runs out when you say it runs out

and as many as possible is all of them. That's what is possible. Bring them all home. Now the worst

sign for the fate of many of your fellow citizens stranded in a hellscape is coming from our

president who is not echoing the urgency you're hearing expressed here. All troops are supposed to

be out by August 31st. Even if Americans and our Afghan allies are still trying to get out,

they're going to leave. We're going to do everything in our power to get all Americans out and our

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