Friday, August 20, 2021: One Million Vaccinated In A Day

One million Americans got vaccines on Thursday. But back to school for some quickly means back to Covid quarantine. Hospitalizations of children with Covid are at an all-time high, with 2,066 children under the age of 17 in the hospital with Covid today, a higher figure than the initial surge.

California voters will go to the polls to decide if they want to recall their Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. The leading Republican candidate hoping to replace Newsom is a conservative Talk Radio host Larry Elder, a Trump supporter known for his inflammatory rhetoric.

As Qatar almost reaches its Afghan evacuee capacity, The U.S. urgently examines alternative locations, including in Europe, for the flights to go. Flights have not taken off from Kabul airport in the last eight hours as the situation in central Kabul worsens, with reports of a Taliban crackdown against protesters carrying the Afghan National flag.

On today’s panel:

The Washington Post’s Olivier Knox, CNN Political Analyst Sabrina Siddiqui, The Wall Street Journal’s Vivian Salama, Former Deputy UN Envoy to Afghanistan Ambassador Peter Galbraith, and Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine Dr. Carlos Del Rio.

Hosted by John King.

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