ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos conducted a massively news-making interview with President Joe Biden Wednesday on the subject of Afghanistan.

Stephanopoulos pressed hard for details and timelines, and Biden's answers were so clippable and quotable it is still, 24 hours or so after the first preview clip was released, a huge topic in the press and online.

The president set August 31st as the end date of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, so Stephanopoulos pushed on the subject, starting by asking, if "all troops are supposed to be out by August 31st," does that hold "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 allies out,” Biden responded.

“Does that mean troops will stay beyond August 31st if necessary?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“It depends on where we are,” the president said.

In fact, Biden could fairly be described as both defiant and defensive about his decisions. Among many quotes that will be in the air for some time was when Biden said diffidently at one point, "look,no one’s being killed right now, God forgive me if I’m wrong about that, but no one’s being killed right now."

Aside from a badly-worded tweet, ABC and Stephanopoulos pulled off a real news coup in getting the interview so quickly, and getting it out there so soon after the president opted to avoid questions from reporters at his covid briefing. A great job (mostly) all-around.

Fox News’ Sean Hannity told his viewers on Wednesday night that the covid-19 vaccine is “not protecting many people,” almost one month to the day after he got national attention for saying he “believe[s] in the science of vaccination.”

Hannity spoke with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, commended his leadership during the pandemic, and talked about him opening a monoclonal antibody treatment site. The Fox host remarked, “The CDC has said in no uncertain terms even fully vaccinated people — the vaccine will not prevent you from getting covid.”

DeSantis talked about those sites Florida is setting up, and said of the treatment, “It can keep you out of the hospital and it can save your life.”

Hannity ended the interview by bringing up Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who is vaccinated and at last report was experiencing no symptoms. 

"I applaud you and others for doing this and setting this up immediately, now that the science shows the vaccine will not necessarily protect you," said Hannity. It’s not protecting many people."

A Fox News spokesperson told Mediaite that Hannnity was referencing comments made by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky back in August. But that's simply not what came across on air. And coming just a month after he told viewers that “it absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated," the whole thing smacked of reversal.

It marred what could have been a good news day for the host, after killer Tuesday ratings.