at this hour stock sell-off. the u.s. market sharply lower at this hour because of worries about a europe-based bank. what s happening and why republicans hold a hearing with the border patrol chief at the texas border but all 15 democrats on the committee skipped it the latest sign of the immigration divide also in texas new details from inside that courtroom where a trump-appointed judge is hearing arguments over whether to pull an abortion pill off the market nationwide. presidential prescription. president biden in las vegas about to push his administration s new plan to lower the cost of prescription drugs. we ll bring you his remarks as soon as they start our reporters are fanned out all across the country following the latest developments. but we begin in the battleground state of nevada where any minute now president biden will speak about his plan to lower prescription drug prices mike memoli is traveling with the president. i think that state has one of or the
value it may have to russia either strategically or for propaganda thank you. thanks, dan i would in terms of the importance of ukraine, first of all, we ve seen bipartisan support for providing security assistance to ukraine throughout up to this point i expect that we ll continue to see that going forward we ve heard some senior leaders on both sides of the fence say that and so i expect that that will we ll continue to enjoy that support but you know, dan, ukraine matters. it matters not just to ukraine or the united states it matters to the world. s in about the rules-based international order. it s about one country s ability to wake up one day and change the borders of its neighbor and annex its neighbor s sovereign territory.
conflict with russia and i believe that at this point we should investigate this incident and move on from there. but we will continue to exercise our rights in international airspace let s go to dan lamoth, washington post. gentlemen, thank you for your time today secretary austin, likely presidential candidates have declared that ukraine should not be an american priority. given that the biden administration has promised to support ukraine for as long as it takes, are you concerned that election rhetoric could undermine support for ukraine in congress or with the american people and chairman milley, the mq-9 came down in the black sea where the united states has not had any military vessels for more than a year. is it fair to say the u.s. will not recover this mq-9 and do you have any concerns about what
in order for the embassy personnel to continue to function with the consular service and if we keith both baghram and the embassy going that would be a significant number of military forces that would have exceeded what we had. so had to collapse one or the other and the decision was made, the proposal was made from centcom command and command on the ground to go ahead and collapse bag rarnlgs all briefed and approved and we estimated the risk going out of either field was about the same. going out of kia was the better tactical position and in order to get the troops down to a 600, 100 number. we ve got time to two more and i haven t gotten to the phones at all so let s go to dan lamoth with the washington post. just in a follow-up to baghram versus hkia in question.
another foreign policy message coming from the white house. after 20 years of combat no more american troops are going to war in afghanistan. i will not send another generation of americans to war in afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. president biden in week defending his decision to withdraw nearly all u.s. forces from that country, even though the taliban are quickly moving through the countryside, retaking territory with little to no resistance. leading to questions about the future of the afghan government. dan lamoth a reporter with the washington post covering afghanistan joins me now. dan after two decades of war it appears the taliban is regaining much of what it lost. i want you to listen to general austin scott miller describing the situation there. we should be concerned, the