momentous showdown in tennessee . a white democratic lawmakers survives the vote to expel her from the statehouse, while republicans ousted two black lawmakers over gun protest what the white house is now saying at the sour, plus free luxury trips and lavish trips for more than two decades. yet supreme court justice clarence thomas failed to disclose any of them new reporting on who s been funding those vacations. and overnight violence is erupting in israel and now lebanon two days after israeli forces stormed one of islam s holiest sites live on the ground in jerusalem and beirut. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for christine romans. as always , we ve got a lot to get to. so let s get to it. we begin with the extraordinary actions of the republican controlled tennessee house today, expelling two democrats for staging a gun violence protests on the house floor last week. as everything. gallery erupting after the gop super
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members and 169 fatalities during the now infamous exit from afghanistan didn t really qualify as a chaotic failure at all. that s despite the fact that hundreds of afghans were clinging to the wing of u.s. air craft as it departed afghanistan. despite gunfire sprang into a crowd; despite u.s. troops pulling an infant over barbed wire into safety. brunt chaos? i m sorry, i just don t buy the whole argument of chaos. for all this talk of chaos, i just didn t see it. it was tough in the first few hours.down would expect it to be. unbelievable. the white house went even further releasing a 12-page report today saying president bide s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from afghanistan were severely constrained by condition created by his predecessor. on capitol hill gop lawmakers are practically incan docent ripping kirby for his call comment. house foreign committee chair called kirby s comment disgraceful and insulting. rain jackson texas called kirby s comments sicke
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operational decisions and will always honor the sacrifice of those 13 americans. former secretary state mike pompeo who, by the way, was in the middle of this planning in the previous administration will join us in moments. first to mark meredith live at the white house. mark? trace, good afternoon to you. this report that you re talking about basically blames the trump administration for what happened in august of 2021 under president biden s command where the u.s. ended the longest war in afghanistan. it basically detail what s the u.s. government has learned since that date. repeatedly blaming the trump administration for the conditions on the ground during that time period. the report says president biden still believes that pulling out of afghanistan was the right thing to do and the president thought staying in afghanistan was not an option. the white house admits it was surprised that the afghan government fell as quickly as it did and evacuations should have happene