and, again, we may hear from the president. peter baker, rashida tlaib, nancy pelosi and many others were at the naacp convention in detroit today. one of the four, of course, speak at the naa. let s listen. there s all of us young women. it s beyond just the four of us. the quadrasquad is all of you. if you support equity, justice, you are one of us. but let me tell you, this is the largest incoming class since watergate, ironically. and the most diverse. and, peter, with all this diversity on capitol hill, these women are still somewhat isolated. they re getting support from their colleagues now. they ve had an obvious problem with nancy pelosi and there is a meeting with aoc and nancy pelosi later this week, but this
around the world. and it s a playbook that the president used in the 2016 election. and he s just ramped that up. the question is, what will the republican party look like tomorrow? as we sit here, the president is awaiting the arrival, excuse me, imminently, of imran khan, the new prime minister of pakistan. a cricket player, a famous cricket player and a newcomer to politics, who had a populist appeal and, of course, huge issues with pakistan s continuing support, covert support for the taliban in afghanistan, a threat to u.s. troops, to our allies there, and to the future of afghanistan. there are negotiations under way and a lot will be discussed. they re going into the oval office. several meetings today, one in the oval office. we may hear the president speaking there, and separately, about an hour from now, they have a private, larger meeting.
allies across the globe. and others who aspire to share our values. so he was performing again another public service. he didn t have to do it. he could have simply relaxed and rested, but that s not john mccain. even today he issued a very strong statement saying if reports that the u.s. is withdraw ing support, covert support from syrian rebels, anti-assad rebels are true, that it is disgraceful, sharply criticized the lack of a policy and overall policy on syria, and more broadly on the middle east. so he says it is playing right into the hands of vladimir putin. your reaction to that? i think exactly right. i was with american troops on the ground in syria, about a month ago. and they re doing a remarkable job of coordinating and helping direct syrian democratic forces to try to take raqqah first.
fi five. we have to get on the ground pretty quick. everybody stand by. we have a couple of opposite direction arrivals. it is going to be a little delay on your departures. according to the washington post the federal official who reviewed the incident blamed a basic communication breakdown, blamed sloppy procedures and said it was a big screw up for a big airport. let s get right to athena jones live in washington, d.c. this morning. walk me through exactly what happened. you can hear the chaos in the radio transmission. what was at the root cause of it? good morning, soledad. you saw from that graphic, that s what it looked like. this happened just about after 2 p.m. tuesday. it was during a heavy rain storm, driving rain that cause the the air traffic controllers to want to change how planes were coming in and taking off. planes had been landing and departing on runway 1 going from south to north. they wanted to switch that in the rain. they wanted to switch i
finally, what the dickens was going on in the british government this week? i ll explain. first, here s my take. if you re trying to understand the recent protests against the putin regime in russia, one of the best guides is an outspoken columnist who s been writing trenchant essays in the nation s leading newspapers over the past month. political competition is the heartbeat of democracy. this author writes, noting the absence of such competition in contemporary russia. he describes the frustrations of the russian middle class, demanding political rights. today, the quality of our state does not match civil society s readiness to participate in it. on corruption, perhaps the issue that most riles the public, the author is scathing. the problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government, he says. now, what makes this all deeply strange is that the author of these essays is vladimir putin. the architect, builder and chief enforcer of the system tha