graphic. anna coren live in kabul this morning. so what s the taliban saying, anna, about what we just saw there? reporter: yeah, john, the taliban is on a pr offensive to try to discredit our reporting, saying that the footage is fake, that this is government propaganda. we contacted them before the report went to air, but after our story was published, they said that this was just false. they issued a statement in various languages saying that they have never executed commandos who had surrendered. now, for the record, cnn spoke to five eyewitnesses on camera
some of the video we re about to show you is disturbing. new this morning, the taliban denies its fighters executed 22 unarmed afghan commandos who were trying to surrender. even though the slaughter was caught on video. the incident is emblematic of issues that could playing afghanistan. anna coren is live for us. how can the taliban deny what the world can clearly see for itself? reporter: yeah, the taliban certainly on a pr offensive to discredit us and our reporting. we contacted the taliban before our story went to air, they said the footage was fake , that it
boeing wants to help airlines regain the public s trust as it works to contain the fallout from two deadly crashes of its 737 max jets. the new york times reports that boeing is providing strategies to airlines to help ease concerns of passengers who now they say they re unwilling to fly on those troubled planes. joining us now, aviation analyst miles anderson and aviation analyst mary sciavo. mary is an attorney representing families of crash victims against boeing. news of a pr offensive on the part of boeing. the pilots are supposed to help communicate the message. my question to you is this. is this a pr problem or is this a 346 people dead problem? this is a fundamental engineering and safety culture problem, john. pr is papering things over to
senate republicans will start their effort to try to confirm more of donald trump s nominees a lot more quickly. the senate rules committee will take up a rules change package that will significantly cut debate time for a lot of these nominees. it s something the president focused on in his state of the union. he complained about the 300 nominees that have been ba backlogged in the senate. and senate republicans could even go nuclear to change these rules on their own without democratic help. it s something that republicans have been frustrated for quite some time. we ll see how that plays out. the saudi foreign minister is on a network sunday show today speaks volumes. the pr offensive has comes as the deep pocketed sway. the president of the united states takes their side despite the evidence in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. there are growing signs of trouble for the kingdom. the top democrat and top
theatrics. to be very blunt, what doesn t always surround a crisis like this, or a shutdown like this is the amount of falsehoods, mistruths, exaggerations and lies that one side is using in order to force their argument. and katy, that has been damaging the president s credibility throughout the crisis. and especially in the last few days. one thing notable from the president s oval office address last night is he never used the word terrorist. he didn t talk about terrorism at the border. that had been one of the key talking points of the administration, that there was somehow this flood of terrorism acrossing the border. it turns out the number was simply bogus. it didn t match one data coming from elsewhere in the administration. sarah sanders was called out by chris wallace on fox over the weekend and suddenly that talking point was absent from the president s speech last night. even as they re trying to gain the upper hand with the pr