to prevent looting since their predecessors fleed. smoke rising from the u.s. embassy grounds as officials scramble to burn sensitive documents no they are destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process is stopped. and now you know, president biden said in july, this is not going to be a saigon. it is not like south vietnam. but guess what? when i talked to ambassador crocker, we think it is going to be worse. president biden has increased the deployment of u.s. troops to kabul to 5,000 now to help with evacuations. and debate continues over which administration is responsible for the fall. there is no question that trump, his administration, secretary pompeo, they also bear very significant responsibility for this. president trump told us that the taliban was going to fight terror. secretary pompeo told us the taliban was going to denounce al qaeda. none of it has happened. we go beyond the headlines. we will start with nbc s ali arousi in tehran. from
handloser sandra smith. john: and i m this is the story. major stories breaking at this hour, the supreme court has just allowed texas to enforce their own state immigration law. this is a very monumental decision. and this is in place for now before it goes to the next level of appeals. for the state at this point can start arresting, people suspected of crossing the border illegally while this legal battle over the law continuous. is called sb for preparedness talk about it a lot in recent days so we will take you live to the border, will get reaction from about the supreme court decision and what the impacts will look like in texas coming up momentarily. what first, what happens when two top u.s. generals in charge of our deadly exit from afghanistan testify for the first time before congress as free speaking, private citizens about what really happened as the talent taliban swept the country and president biden announced our unilateral pullout. time in many ways
group leader yevgeny prigozhin striking a deal to avoid criminal charges. but in exchange she was forced to leave russia for neighboring belarus. locals taken to the streets cheering as a rebel commander left for exile. they even snapped a few selfies with supporters on the way out. he was secretary of state entity blinken sees this rebellion as a site of russia is weakening. what we have seen his extraordinary pre-think about it this way 16 months ago rush up for the doorstep of kyiv in ukraine. believing they would take the capitol the matter of days and race the country from the map as independent country. now what we have seen is russia having to defend moscow, its capitol gets mercenaries of its own making. live fox team coverage on this, lucas tomlinson jeff paulson bias in this fox news contributor scanner here at the and what could happen next. first let s go live it to kyiv seen for affairs correspondent greg palko with the very latest there on the ground. hi e
drop in its membership. ireland have just kicked ireland havejust kicked off ireland have just kicked off against england on the final weekend of the rugby union s six nations. the former us president donald trump has claimed he expects to be arrested on tuesday. over a long running alleged hush money case. he made the announcement on his online platform, truth social, calling for protest, and for his supporters to take our nation back . mrtrump is mr trump is accused of paying hush money to an alleged mistress and called on his supporters if he is detained. i called on his supporters if he is detained. ~ , , detained. i think it is very important detained. i think it is very important to detained. i think it is very important to put - detained. i think it is very important to put this - detained. i think it is very important to put this into | detained. i think it is very - important to put this into context. what donald trump seems to be railing against in this tweet o