afghanistan. earlier i asked our political correspondent, helen catt, what the impact the us decision to stick to its august 31st deadline would have on the british evacuation effort. of course, borisjohnson asked for that extension yesterday, he did not get it and so now he is clear that august the 31st is when foreign troops will need to leave afghanistan. so the question being asked this morning is what that means in terms of timing, for how long those evacuation flights continue? we know the military will need some time to pack up and evacuation flights. and it will need to stop before then. currently, the question is how much. there has been some paper speculation that that could be within the next 24 to 36 hours, that the last flights left. that has been dismissed by the ministry of defence as speculation. the foreign secretary dominic raab earlier said that military planners were working on how quickly they could reduce that time to packing up in terms of getting more people out
the lag in the rollout of vaccination programme and how infection is fast increasing in new south wales. after an announcement of an extension yesterday, experts are saying that this may well go beyond the end of august, the government has announced, because new south wales has recorded 239 new locally acquired cases, the highest number notjust since acquired cases, the highest number not just since the acquired cases, the highest number notjust since the beginning of the outbreak but since the beginning of the pandemic for the state which shows you how challenging and difficult the situation is in new south wales, especially in greater sydney with the delta variant and how transmissible it as. more than 65 of those cases have been in the community in the entire time of their illness and that is why the new south wales government has announced new restrictions to aid areas in sydney that are considered hotspots. people in those areas will have to wear facemasks when they go
had zero documents. i think it is fair to insist we get the documents review the documents air this out so it never ever happens again and make that judgment. that is at least the approach i ve taken. bill: you know they have given tens of thousands to the inspector general at the department of the justice. you re looking for i think 80,000 documents in total which you have six or 7,000 on hand but those documents have gone internally. what would be difference giving to them as opposed to giving them to you? well, i think that goes to the point that they, the department of justice is potentially in contempt and we as the oversight committee, chairman issa is doing a wonderful job being very aggressive with this administration, but also very patient. i think as you can see we need to bend over backwards. the department of justice asked for extension yesterday, marked a five-month point which we gave them an extension to provide these documents but i would hope and think we re starting
speaker john boehner accuses the senate of kicking the can down the road and says he s holding out for a full year extension. the house takes up the senate bill tomorrow. a major snowstorm is brewing in the southwest. travel will become dangerous if not impossible across much of the region tomorrow. texas and oklahoma are expecting up to 15 inches of snow. so we begin our political hour with some key endorsements for republican presidential candidate mitt romney. the latest comes from former gop presidential nominee bob dole. dole announced his choice in an advertisement in today s des moines register. he says he s the best candidate suited to beat president obama in 2012. dole s public backing comes a day after the des moines paper announced its support for romney. the state s largest newspaper says the former massachusetts governor is the most qualified candidate competing in the caucuses. the conservative christian group the family leader is expected to release its e