dixon, all signs point to primary wins. that could be a good sign for democrats who believe far right candidates actually help them in the general election. plus we ll be watching trump s strength being tested in michigan and washington where he s trying to sink three of the house republicans who voted to impeach him after the capitol riot. for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, voters will be heard on that issue and we ll get our first real clue as to whether abortion rights will be the rallying cry democrats hope it is. the focus is kansas, where voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would clear the way for the state legislature to ban abortion outright. so far early in-person voting is up more than 200% from four years ago, but polling shows the vote itself. michael steele is with me. he s former chair of the republican national committee. at the big board, national split political correspondent steve kornacki. good to see everyb
so maybe we ll start being serious again. i think that we ve exuded extraordinary weakness and that invites these kind of attacks. let me ask you this. the troops have already begun to leave. the deadline has been set and the president is sticking to the deadline but that deadline is when the last light is turned off in kabul by the u.s. forces that the evacuations have to end before that because, well you have to get all of the troops off the ground. is there any wiggle room, flexibility for the president here to extend that deadline, to get more people out, both americans and people who served with americans? i think the question is what is the mission. is it just following through on the surrender and withdraw or is the mission to get out all americans and get out the afghans at grave risk buzz they ve helped us and tried to help build a better future for thur country. if the mission is the latter, then the military can do that. that is our capability. but can we muster the will
0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds around those gates. the u.s. believing that terror groups had both the capability and the planning to carry out such attacks. there is still no attribution for these attacks or as we said, any confirmation about casualties. we have our reporters covering the story. let s begin with nick paton walsh in doha. we see now a confirmed attack. only the families of the u.s. serve men concerned about who