and you congressional class will be sworn in republicans will officially take back control of the health of representatives. let us pause and reflect on that for a moment. less than two years after i violent stormed the capitol in attempt to stop biden from becoming president. we ll be back in control of the lower chamber of commerce. many of the republicans returning to congress or joining it for the first time this week supported the big lie that led to that armed insurrection. granted, republicans only have a slim majority in the house. the roadways that some folks initially warned about never actually happened. but it is remarkable that it barely took one election cycle for the gop to regain power at the seat of our government. in the lead up to this year s election, republicans fixing high gas prices and inflation in the influx of microsoft. they grabbed but all of that for months. and offered real solutions for those, an obvious effort to rile up the base and put de
took control. since returning to power, their crackdown has been brutal. just this past month the taliban banned girls from attending school after sixth grade, and from universities. they barred women from working in ngos, and most jobs outside of the home. they forced women to cover their faces in public and instructed them to only leave their homes in cases of necessity. this cruel effort to deny women and girls any agency over their lives has resulted in protests by some extremely brave women and their few male supporters in afghanistan. i am joined now by the author of the secrets guy and former nbc news correspondent, atia abawi, thank you so much for coming on the show. happy new year to you and your family, a téa, we have seen those extraordinary pictures of women protesting. what risks do women and men face when they publicly protest the taliban? well, thank you for having me on and happy new year to you as well. the risks they face are
correspondent for politico. david walk off as a communists for the daily beast in usa today. and host of the deep state radio podcast. and we also have the author of the secrets guy, she is also an msnbc international affairs analyst. it s great to have all three of you with us. i ll start with you and this humanitarian crisis, aaron, that is resulting in two and a half million ukrainians fleeing their country. it s really hard to contemplate just how quickly this has unfolded. what is your sense of how bad things could get, and what needs to be done to soften the blow, if you will, of the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding? that s right. obviously, we ve seen just incredible numbers of people crossing out of ukraine, into neighboring countries. but in the conversations i ve had over the last couple of days, with u.s. officials, humanitarian officials on the ground, there is increasing concern for ukrainians still stuck inside ukraine. increasingly so, civilians are getting trappe