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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that there have been incidents of people in Kabul “having some tough encounters” with the Taliban.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that vaccine requirements at businesses and colleges are “a very reasonable thing to do.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that “nobody predicted” the Afghan government would “fall in 11 days.”

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got “rolled” Taliban,” which set up the U.S. military withdrawal of Afghanistan to fail.

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that those in the Republican Party or right-wing media calling Afghan refugees as invaders are either “evil” or charlatans.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he did not believe that al Qaeda in Afghanistan, represented a threat to the United States homeland even though the September 11 terror attacks were planned by al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Biden administration still did not know the precise number of Americans waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan.

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Friday on her show “Deadline” that it was a scandal that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is making Fox News appearances and banning mask mandates as “kids are dropping dead in his state” of COVID-19.

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny said on Friday on “Newsroom” that President Joe Biden was “more in command” than he has been on the chaotic withdrawal as the Taliban takeovers Afghanistan during his earlier remarks.

CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward said Friday while reporting from the Kabul airport that despite promises from President Joe Biden of a full evacuation, during a period of eight hours, she did not see any U.S. flights evacuate people.

Representative Ronny Jackson (R-TX), formerly the White House physician, said Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First” that President Joe Biden is no longer “cognitively prepared” to be president, so he should resign.

NBC News national security contributor Frank Figliuzzi said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Floyd Ray Roseberry, the 49-year-old North Carolina man who allegedly threatened to explode a bomb in his truck in Washington D.C., was an example of former President Donald Trump’s supporters who grievances were being exploited.

Former President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the United States had failed “to hold powerful white men accountable, starting with Robert E. Lee,” which led the country to elect “cruel leaders like Donald.”

CNN’s counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd said Thursday on “Newsroom” that State Department spokesperson Ned Price was “pathetic” for being unable to give the exact numbers of Americans and Visa holders who have been flown out of Afghanistan.

Representative John Garamendi (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN International’s “Hala Gorani Tonight” that it would restart a “firestorm of combat” if the U.S. military attempts to enter the city of Kabul to extract those trying to flee the Taliban.

CNN anchor Don Lemon said Wednesday on his show “Don Lemon Tonight” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is pushing anti-mask “bullshit” while “people are dying, needlessly.”

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “Greg Kelly Reports” that he knew he had hired a “loser” in General Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said on his show “The Last Word” that Republican governors “are endangering children” by banning school districts from enacting mask mandates.

CNN political commentator David Axelrod said Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Joe Biden did not get the intelligence right on the military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that hospitals becoming overrun with COVID-19 patients is a tragedy that is entirely preventable with vaccination.

Former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that white Republicans were “scared to death” that their voters are diminishing according to the most recent census data, so they are passing legislation to suppress the votes

Former CIA analyst Matt Zeller said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the Trump Administration shut down the visa program for Afghans so “they’re as complicit” just as the Taliban were in the deaths of those trying to flee.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” the Taliban did not kill American soldiers for the last year and a half because he told them he would hit back very hard.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” that President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was a national humiliation, which he claimed was worse than the Iran hostage crisis under former President Jimmy Carter.

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace accused Fox News Channel hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of engaging in “racist fearmongering” about Afghan refugees during her Tuesday broadcast.

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Tuesday on her show “Deadline” that Republicans who were silent about the threat of domestic violent extremism “shouldn’t be at the table when we talk about homeland security.”

NBC News medical contributor Dr.Nahid Bhadelia said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” that COVID-19 booster shots will likely become annual like the flu shot.

NBC anchor Chuck Todd said Tuesday on “MSNBC Live” that the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan will damage President Joe Biden’s image of competency.

Monday on MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen denied reports that his forces are murdering Afghan military and civilians that worked with Americans over the past 20 years.

Former CIA analyst Matt Zeller told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Monday on her show “Deadline” that President Joe Biden lied to the American people during his address on the chaotic evacuation of Afghans that worked with our military over the last 20 years.

National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that raising concerns over COVID-19 cases among migrates at the U.S.-Mexico border is a “distraction.”

MSNBC’s Tehran bureau chief Ali Arouzi reported Sunday on the “The Mehdi Hasan Show” that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan had been “relatively peaceful” as Americans were evacuating the chaos in helicopters.

House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports ” that President Joe Biden’s retreat from Afghanistan will end up being worse than the chaotic evacuation of Saigon in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War.

Anchor Chris Wallace on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” pressed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the Trump administration’s deal with the Taliban in light of the current chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that it was “heartbreaking” masks had become a political issue.

Chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the vaccine-hesitant should “put aside” their concerns about personal liberty and recognize the “common enemy” is the  COVID-19 pandemic.