and you congressional class will be sworn in republicans will officially take back control of the health of representatives. let us pause and reflect on that for a moment. less than two years after i violent stormed the capitol in attempt to stop biden from becoming president. we ll be back in control of the lower chamber of commerce. many of the republicans returning to congress or joining it for the first time this week supported the big lie that led to that armed insurrection. granted, republicans only have a slim majority in the house. the roadways that some folks initially warned about never actually happened. but it is remarkable that it barely took one election cycle for the gop to regain power at the seat of our government. in the lead up to this year s election, republicans fixing high gas prices and inflation in the influx of microsoft. they grabbed but all of that for months. and offered real solutions for those, an obvious effort to rile up the base and put de
they re growing silence has one s favorite network is moving on. is he already losing the fox news primary? and later, matt gates s bullying tactics backfired big-time. how is body shaming helping one teen abortion activist raised over 1 million dollars? my interview with her and much more is coming up. a good saturday morning to you. i am katie phang. we ll see, or want to. the good question this morning about whether speaker nancy pelosi will visit china on a trip to asia this weekend. china said it will take, quote, forceful measures if it happens. taiwan s self governed by china claims it is a part of its territory and promises to take it back by force if necessary. for more on all of this we are joined by nbc news correspondent allie raffa on capitol hill. katie, nancy pelosi saving security concerns for why she could not confirm or deny whether she or a group of house lawmakers will visit taiwan during this multi day four of asia. military officials say that they are
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it is an obligation. so what the taliban are doing, they are not doing something that is based on the religion. they are doing something based on their lust for power. and it is something that we are going to continue to see until we see neighboring countries, countries that have influence. the west doesn t really have much of an influence anymore when it comes to money and when it comes to talking to their allies, pakistan, and qatar to have that influence with the pack with the taliban. so on that note, is there anything, apart from talking to some of the taliban s kind of pseudo-allies, that western governments, the american government, the international community, the u.n., can do to help afghan women? even muslim majority countries and muslim scholars who have come on to condemn the taliban s crackdown on women s rights, because as you say it is on islamic, they have been ignored to, haven t they? they have been ignored. but these are messages there. needs to be more of a powe
in fact, we will talk to some afghans inside of afghanistan and they will say that they know members of the taliban that actually do want women to go to school but the. problem is that this influence of this power hungry, massage mystic, group primarily based in the south. they are having infighting within themselves. let s not pretend the taliban is this one cohesive, strong, government that are working to have influence on this country. they are actually butting heads against each other. but it is this one group that has the major influence, but it is also that one group that is talking to major countries such as pakistan such as qatar, they can have conversations with these leaders to have some sort of influence. and again, let s be honest, money also has a huge influence. and the taliban are desperate for money right now. they are desperate for aid. so the fact that these eight organizations have halted their operations in afghanistan such