Good afternoon from Msnbc World headquarters in new york. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. We begin this hour with new reporting from nbc news. Senate democrats close to an agreement on updating voting Rights Legislation. Three sources telling compromised legislation that can get the support of all 50 democrats could be released tomorrow of tuesday. Weve been talking to quite a few different republicans who are very interested in doing something that makes sense. But an agreement on reconciliation and infrastructure, not so close. Manchin insisting the democrats need to pump the brakes on spending. Need for this, the emergency to do something in the next week is not there. Weve done 5. 4 trillion, george, over the last year and about a year and a half. 5. 4 trillion. A lot of that money is still going out the door. Theres No One going to be left behind for the rest of this year and most of next year. So the urgency, i cant understand why we cant take time to deliberate on this and work. B
Dana can the u. S. Take the taliban at its word . Peter doocy pressing the White House about this issue. It went like this. Following up on the Charter Flights the taliban is holding up in afghanistan, the Secretary Of State said there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground. You said were not on the ground. Whose fault is that . I dont think this is about fault here. Bill it went like that. Team Fox Coverage begins. Mark meredith with the latest from the White House this morning. Trey yengst back live on these evacuations out of kabul. Trey is in doha, qatar again today. Good morning. Positive news to report today. Around 200 foreigners are expected to Debart Kabul on a flight today. Some american citizens given permission to leave afghanistan. They will depart to doha on a qatar airways plane. Kabul airport could be operational for commercial flights within three days amid intense negotiations behind the scenes between the taliban, qatar and turkey. The major iss
This is outnumbered, here today my notes in then the center seat today, marine veteran in fox nation host. Its been more than a Week Sinc The Last American Servicemember Left afghanistan. Now we are forced to rely on Th Taliban to ensure americans it can safely return home. Even top biden officials say taliban forces havent been totally cooperative At Secretar of state Anthony Blinken saying the taliban is the reason those Charter Flights were so delayed pair. As of now, the taliban are not permitting Charter Flights to depart. Youre doing everything in our power to support the slight sprayed the Bottom Line is this those flights need to be able t depart we will work every Day T make sure that they are able to do that we will continue to press the taliban to allow the charters to leave. Republican lawmakers said th president has lost control of the situation at. It appears we are in the midst of what is an unprecedented Hostage Situation Pair im also hearing multiple reports from priva
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Significant. And this call for schools to implement regular testing. Talk us through what youre hearing from sources. Reporter hallie, obviously, this is shaping up to be a pretty significant speech from the president after a summer in which he had hoped we would be looking at the downslope of the Covid19 Pandemic and focus on other issues, but instead the Delta Variant changed those plans. White house officials are casting this speech as sort of everything theyve been trying to do, but bigger and bolder. One of those specifically already has to do with something the president himself did a couple of months ago. We talked about in july when the president ordered federal agencies to require a Vaccine Requirement on their staff or give them an option short of a vaccine of doing regular attestation of their negative status from covid19. What the president is expected to do today sign an executive order, directing those federal agencies to give up that second option. You have to be vaccina