will join us later this hour. let s gun with afghanistan. here to start us off with the latest, nbc news white house reporter and nbc national security and intelligence correspondent and nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube and lieutenant jern and deputy security adviser for iraq and afghanistan. thank you all for being here. we ll start with you, mike, outside the white house. talk about this decision to stick with that august 31st deadline. what led to that decision? well, aaron, i want to start by noting that president s scheduled remarks that we were expecting initially at noon and then 2:00 p.m. have just been postponed yet again. we now expect to hear from the president sometime after 4:30 this afternoon. if the president is watching as i hope he sometimes does, i say this not as a criticism but as the data point to really speak to what white house officials have been a dynamic situation. we do expect as white house officials and other administration official
history. good to have you with us. well, another city has fallen to the taliban. as the militants warn the u.s. against more intervention in afghanistan. a local journalist tells cnn it s under taliban control meaning they have taken at least five provintual capitals in just a few days. taliban video which cannot be verified purports to show a government compound in kunduz after the militants took over. it has forced nearly 300,000 afghans to flee their homes since january. in total more than 3.5 million have been displaced. and cnn s nick paten walsh has reported from inside afghanistan for years now. he is tracking these latest moves by the taliban, and he joins us now live from london. good to see you, nick. so what is the latest on the taliban advances and how do we verify their claims? there s quite a lot of evidence they have since friday now taken five provincial capitals. as of friday we saw the first one fall near the iranian border and the most significant of th
i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. and we start today with our health lead. and while there are encouraging signs that more americans are getting vaccinated against coronavirus, there is also worrying new data out today showing how great the threat still is. the highly contagious delta variant now makes up more than 93% of all new cases in the united states. that s according to the cdc. the number of americans dying from covid every day is up 42% from just last week. and hospitalizations are three times higher than one month ago. and we know vaccines are the best way to stop the spread. but combating misinformation about the vaccines is still one of the greatest challenges for health officials. and the new poll out today shows that among unvaccinated americans, 53% think getting the shot is a bigger risk to their health than catching covid, 53%. adding to the confusion, the contradictory messages coming from the biden administration. as cnn s kristen holmes reports from vac
after she pulled out of all the other individual events from the olympics, suffering from what is known as the twisties, losing herself in the air during these performances. now, the greatest female gymnast in history turning in this solid performance in tokyo to wrap up a gut wrenching games on a high note. coy wire is standing by live in tokyo with the details. i watched it, coy, no sign of the twisties there. no, you know, here she was, she s even said that she felt like, brianna, she had the weight of the world on her shoulders at times. i was there in the venue behind me, and you could see there was a camera in her face everywhere she went, magnifying the moment. the crowd, and i will say crowd because there were more media at this event than any other that i had been to here in tokyo, including other gymnastics events. there were cheers from media from all around the world, wanting to support simone biles in this. her other team usa athletes were there as well, hold
throughout every aspect of this situation. for those that are using this moment to score political points or seek publicity or personal gain, i say they actually discredit the legitimate sexual harassment victims. state democrats are holding an emergency meeting on what to do next as bipartisan calls for impeachment and resignation grow. state assembly man ron kim is fresh off that meeting and joins me exclusively in moments. mike huckabee, jonathan turley and victor davis hanson are standing by. we begin with bryan llenas. good afternoon. new york s attorney s general s office releasing a disturbing report finding that governor cuomo harassed sexually former employees violating the law. the investigators corroborated and substantiated these facts through interviews and evidence and including contemporaneous notes and communications. these interviews and pieces of evidence reveal a deeply disturbing yet clear picture. investigators found that governor cuomo groped an