Deadline. It was designed to save american lives. Reporter failing to deliver on this explicit pledge from just 13 days ago. If there are american citizens left, were going to stay till we get them all out. Reporter Biden Making clear u. S. Diplomatic efforts will be singularly focused on evacuating those americans. And for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. We remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. Reporter but with thousands of afghan allies also still stuck in the country, one clear reality. The u. S. Efforts in the country are far from over, even if its military is now gone. I dont think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1 of this country who put that uniform on. Reporter the fallout from a frenzy, chaotic, and bloody final 16 days is just beginning. Congressional hearings and probes slated for the coming weeks on a withdrawal that has drawn sharp criticism from both parties. The administration has pledged to launch its own int
Hospitalizations and sadly, deaths among the unvaccinated. The new numbers are staggering. More than 90,000 new covid cases just in the last 48 hours. All 50 states and washington, d. C. , seeing an uptick in cases and 11 of those states seeing a spike of more than 100 in cases over a twoweek period. The biggest areas of concern again, the south. Southern states including tennessee, south carolina, Louisiana And Alabama with the majority of residents are still unvaccinated and california with a sharp increase in cases has led Los Angeles County officials to reinstate indoor Mask Mandates as of tomorrow and the Sports World is taking a hit with six new York Yankees in Covid Protocols Postponing the matchup last night with the Red Sox after the allstar Break And Washington Wizards Star Guard Bradley Beale off of the u. S. Olympic team for reasons connected to the virus. Also this hour ill be talking to Michael Wolf Author of the Bombshell Book of President Bidens final days in office. Le
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so, donald trump saying he is an innocent man, disputing the claims and in accompanying written posts, he said: i have been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in miami on tuesday at 3:00pm. us media reports he faces seven charges including unauthorised retention of classified files. it is the second indictment of mr trump, who is campaigning once again to be president. his first was a state indictment this is a federal case. it s the first ever federal indictment of a former president. prosecutors had been looking into the transfer of files to mr trump s mar a lago florida estate since last year. the beachside property was searched last august and 11,000 documents were seized, including around 100 marked as classified. some of these were labelled top secret. (biv anthony zurcher has some of these were labelled top secret. there s been reaction from us republican nominee hopeful ron desantis. he said: a desantis administration would bring accountability to t
ukraine had a statement about fighting corruption and mr. yermak would say burr mace in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a draft statement, and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i d observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem that he s getting a bad set of information, statement like this could potentially correct that. so was mr. giuliani satisfied with this statement? no, he was not. why not? he believed that it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything new. so, in fact, mr. jewel yagiu wanted it to state burisma and
one specifically for president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, let s put that up on the screen. you said hi, andre. good talking. f