toe clothing in public and the country s economy collapsing and half the country faces serious food insecurity. they just don t have enough to eat. i want to bring in nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube. what s happening now? the lives of the people in afghanistan now. women and girls don t have the rights they had a year ago. many of them not going to the schools that this time last year they were able to go into. reporters like us, women, can t go out on television and can t go out uncovered. the economy has collapsed as you mentioned mainly because it was so reliant on foreign aid and now with the taliban in control of that government, many nations simply aren t giving them the money that they need to survive and because of that, government employees, many people are not being paid and there s rampant starvation and problems with food, food insecurity throughout the country. in addition to that, though, there s also the overall
the price to fall. we don t see a deluge of refined products and refinery capacity coming online anywhere in the near future. if you look back to 2008 and the gulf war, the economy collapsing is what brought down oil prices and there s very little comfort in that. robin, thank you as always for bringing levity in tough times. i am sorry. i tried to bring it but it was tough today. i m going to get mem to sing next. that s going to be my goal. let s turn back to the january 6th committee. the panel will hold one more hearing this week. tomorrow it s going to being focusing on donald trump bending his justice department to his will. joining me former federal prosecutor scythia axney.
about these polls right now. it seems to me. and the last point i make here is this, i think the american people are fair. and if they look back to see what this president inherited. let s just take a second to look at it. a country bitterly divided, who is handed a mess, a pandemic raging, an economy collapsing, our capitol attacked. this is joe biden s inheritance, if you will, when he took over the presidency. now, we are moving forward at a rapid pace. and we haven t even rolled out the infrastructure bill yet. putting aside build back better, this infrastructure bill is fantastic. i wrote a lot of them in my past history in the senate. this is better than any i ever put together. yeah. you know, you mentioned what this president is dealing with, and of course, he s also governing and trying to stabilize things and that s sort
december to figure out how to avoid something that has never happened in the history of this country, a default. talks continuing. senator mcconnell is now offering to have his caucus step aside and let democrats all 50 of us come to the floor and vote for a short term debt ceiling raise and i think we will accept that so we can move forward with finishing the work to pass the build back better agenda. listen, avoiding a default is of course a good thing. getting a few more weeks gives democrats time to work on the president s agenda without the threat of our economy collapsing. but make no mistake here, what s happening now is just kicking the can down the road. the white house said it and that s exactly what it is. we could be right back in the same place in december. a default looming while