Never even contested an election before this year. It really has been an astonishing year in french politics. Emmanuel macron, the young, fresh phrased, road business, ardent european. About to be inaugurated pro business. He trounced his rivals in the elections, a resounding vote in support of a man who only set up his en marche party about a year ago. We are already hearing, by the way, just you know, just to let you know, that we will expect him to appoint his Prime Minister to morrow. We have heard that in the last few minutes. The Prime Minister will be appointed tomorrow and the government will be formed on tuesday. That is what sources close to Emmanuel Macron are telling us. That is the scene there in Central Paris, as we await the formalities of the inauguration and, of course, the french do these things with wonderful and grandeur and lets go to my colleague who was there watching it all unfold. A rather drizzly morning there in paris, we can tell from your umbrella 7 drizzly
others tried to mobilize and flip joe biden. key battleground state, president biden were largely to win because of republicans flipping side. we are urging voters to do this at the local level. governor whittman. the incentive is standing with donald trump. if you are vice president pence to begin out of the smiths of what happened on january 6th. it s just another day despite the fact he was being pursued by those mobs whether it s steve scalise going on television and not willing to say that joe biden won the election. it appears the republican party by and large cast its lots and they are siding with donald trump. people like anthony gonzalez in
today. it is early evening. this morning, the government began to sound the alarm you are jeptly that there was threat of imminent and lethal explosion at kabul airport. this was not a general expression of concern, this was a very, very serious sounding of the alarm, and within a few hours of a british minister going on television and warning about this, that explosion came through. clearly there s been intelligence shared among different allies nations about this possibility. british and other allies tried and failed to convince president biden to extend the deadline beyond august 31st for keeping u.s. troops in the country. when the americans go, other allies are going to go with them. they cannot stay on the ground without u.s. support. we are beginning to see the other allies bringing an end to
0 karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with mtp daily only on msnbc. well, don t worry, andrea, you re not going very far. we re coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to mtp daily. a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president biden s agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside the airport. hospital officials are treating about 60 people injured and at least six killed. pentagon press secretary john kirby tweeted there were two blasts in what he calls a complex attack. one of those explosions at the abbey gate and the other at a hotel. the briefing he was supposed to have was postponed by events on the ground as was the covid task force briefing. the administration says the president has been briefed on the situation. it is our understanding he is in the oval office
so far, none of the republicans are abandoning him just yet and not even the democrats that voted for him. senator cortez masto says she wants to come what comes out of a review at doj before she decides whether or not she regrets voting for him. and one of the change dynamics is, number one, even the u.s. attorney in new york complimented the great reporting to led to this, the investigative reporting that led to this. number two you have the victims quoted in that report coming forward, including going on television. when you have these women abused by a billionaire making the case a rich guy got off in a sweetheart deal and we were the victims, this is powerful. it brought back the last time i saw him, which was right there at the massage table. it just started making me feel uneasy, nervous. we get to look him in the face today and see him, you know, in handcuffs. just to hear that they are