line to pester him with annoying questions as i ve been doing every day so far. he has said absolutely nothing. it appears to me he is under very strict instructions from his attorneys not to respond to the media in any way whatsoever, bill. bill: we re watching the camera move around and watching baldwin approach and see whether or not there is a comment. fully respecting your reporting there. he chooses not to say anything going inside and that s the pattern again today. opening statements will begin in sante fe, new mexico, good stuff. jonathan, thank you very much on that trial with alec baldwin. moving to a new hour here in new york. dana: another big test for president biden juggling two big meetings today, one with top union leaders happening right now, and the other with nato as he struggles to make the case he is actually up to the task of running the country for another four years. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: how are w
2500 troops on the ground. now we got a 7,000. his remarks today will be his first in public since the taliban stormed afghanistan s presidential palace and sat seized control of that country in just ten days. video has been coming into fox news of citizens trying to leave the country, get away from the taliban. they have been flooding the tarmac where our planes are there to take people home. they are climbing up on top of the planes. on any flight to get away from taliban rule. some desperately clinging as the planes took off into the air, falling to their deaths. the u.s. has now suspended all remaining evacuation flights until they say they can secure that airport. we have details of some u.s. forces having to take people out of favor shooting in crowds of afghan he citizens. the enemy shooting at them there, trapped. our guys took some out. this is outnumbered. i m harris faulkner. my cohost, back together again, emily compagno, welcome back. kayleigh mcenany, new y
look, i respect the importance of masks, but if we want to make a comparison, a mask is a pea shooter and the vaccine is a cannon. let s be clear. the thing that will make a difference is the vaccine. as we speak, the first lady is on her way to tokyo for the olympics as another team usa athlete tests positive and cases spike in japan. we start with the new mandate from new york city. the mayor says disinformation about covid and vaccines has, quote, poisoned this country. now hoe e wants his city to up ante to protect the most vulnerable among us. elizabeth cohen joins us. a lot of cities and municipalities around the country are all grappling with what to do about masks and this delta variant. right. the reason why there s such grappling about what do we do, require masks, require vaccination, is that for the vaccine for several months you could say, let s give people time to get vaccinated, let s give them time to get the right information. as mayor de blasio of new
not only is he battling a crime wave but he is also facing an incompetent city council that just slashed nearly $20 million from the police budget. seems like an odd move for a city that has seen homicides and carjackings nearly double since last year. luckily these numbers aren t real. according to city council member carol fite. it s just propaganda. so all the hysteria that s been going on through the media and through certain other channels is just that it s hysteria and propaganda. jesse: even if there was a crime surge wouldn t help they need to be nurtured. investing in policing will only continue to lock folks up but not give them the nurturing that they have never had. we re attempting to do that. and this budget does not even begin to crack the surface of what is needed to do that. jesse: just last night two armed robbers held up a tv news crew right in front of city hall as they interviewed oakland s director of violence prevention. you can t make it up. un
been waiting for for months. do kids need to wear masks at summer camp? plus it s the first normal holiday weekend in more than a year, which means lots of planes, trains, and automobiles. but prepare for some stress as gas prices soar and masks remain a must on planes. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. even though it was almost guaranteed to fail, it was still stunning to watch almost every senate republican this afternoon block a bill which would have created a bipartisan commission to investigate what went wrong and what caused the capitol riot. only six republicans sided with democrats on today s vote. bill cassidy, susan collins, lisa murkowski, ben sasse, rob portman, and mitt romney, despite so many votes calling for an investigation in the aftermath of january 6, of course before donald trump made it clear he opposed any closer look on what may have caused the attack at the capitol. 11 senators, we should point out, could not