program from places like o hare, the airport and the city is housing illegal migrants inside abandoned schools and stores. ashley: marianne has details from los angeles. marianne: good morning, ashley and todd. mayor lori lightfoot getting hit from all sides just a week before chicago picks a mayor. lightfoot is accused of denying benefits to officers. joaquin mendoza. not in my wildest dreams, did i imagine his case would be denied. you can imagine my shock, disbelief and frankly disgust when my brother s claim for duty disability benefits was denied. marianne: lightfoot clapping back calling the accusations lies. what little i know about her, she cares deeply about her family, but making up accusations and suggesting somehow i acted inappropriately, she is not entitled to her own facts. it is not lost on me this is a press conference from city hall a week before the election, draw your own conclusion as to why that is happening. marianne: lightfoot is taking
accountability itself. downplaying of what happen is an insult to servicemembers sitting here and throughout the united states of america. the biden administration inherited a chaotic withdrawal already in progress. on the day the biden administration began 5000 taliban prisoners had been released, american forces had been reduced to 2500. come the commander-in-chief makes a decision, is that their decision or the previous administration s decision? when the commander-in-chief makes a decision, it is his decision, can t base it on anybodiel, accountability is thea the top. todd: lucas tomlinson has more. lucas. lucas: many are calling for president biden to take responsibility for the withdrawal from afghanistan. the president said it would not look like this. in a memo crafted by the white house, it laid blame on former president donald trump. the outgoing administration provided no plans for how to conduct theifiable withdrawal or how to some who served are sp
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booster vaccine schedule for all americans regardless of their coronavirus vaccination history. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. vladimir putin s forces are responding to the decision by the united states and its allies to supply president zelenskyy s forces with dozens of abrams and leopard 2 tanks by launching a new group missiles. defense forces shot down 20 missiles. one civilian did die from falling shrapnel. joining me now, raf martinez. there were 55 missile attacks. they were self-exploding drones. what are you hearing from military leaders and city officials? reporter: andrea, the only good news, if you can call it that, on this very bloody day across ukraine is the ukrainian air force is saying, they shot down most of those 55 missiles. the russians followed what at this point is a grimly familiar pattern. they sent a wave of those iranian-made self-destructing drones in what appears to have been an attempt to overwhelm ukraine s air defens
u.s. troops have come under attack 78 times by iranian backed groups. good morning. alexandria: good morning, according to defense department u.s. contractor was killed after a group crashed unmanned ariel vehicle into a building in northeast syria 1:30 local time. once determined it was iranian origin, the war posing group says eight iranian fighters were killed in that action. lloyd austin said the airstrikes were conducted in response to attacks by the group irgc. we will defend our people. no group will strike our troops with impunity. republican congressman matt gates offered this, it is deeply sad to see americans killed and troops killed in syria. this is price of guarding oilfields in other countries. iran continue to stain desert sand with the blood of america s best. since 2021, air kurilla says u.s. troops have come under attacks by iranian backed groups and we will defend our people and respond at time and place of our choosing. we are postured in the face of an