Hottest issues of the 2024 Election Harris and Biden Team up to shake up the Supreme Court. With a plan that includes president s being able to pick new justices when they are 2 years in thanks to Term Limits. We will speak live with the House Judiciary Member Down Goldman but first lets get to Breaking News out of israel as they make clear that hezbollah will pay a heavy price for the bombing that brutally killed 12 children on a Soccer Field in the golan heights. Israel has every right to respond says the u. S. But nobody wants an all out war they say. This as hostilities have clearly escalated. The former secretary of State And Cia director Mike Pompeo is standing buy but first to Correspondent Trey thinks reporting live on this as he has throughout the week and from tel aviv. Hello tray. Good afternoon martha. Overnight the Security Cabinet of israel met to discuss operational plans to target has bella in lebanon following this deadly Rocket Attack over the weekend that killed 12 t
Of adjoining is, im sandra smith. John and john roberts, naydamac with martha starts right now. Martha thank you very much, good afternoon everybody, a Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Today as it continues to build at this Hour Cagle blonde new calls for President Biden to step aside from some of the most influential democrats of the obama era. Former House Speaker Nancy pelosi, who stresses to the current president of that time is Running Out for him to make a decision. We have a lot to get to, you will be joined in a moment by what has National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby as president Joe Biden meets with nato leaders In Washington and tries to prove to the world and to some members of his own party that he can continue to be Commander In Chief for another 4 years. [ ] all right, interesting a moment from this morning to John Kirby in just a moment about a said to bring in commanderinchief question, retired general jack keane, now chairman of the institute for
Commanding british troops on the Front Line of some of the worlds toughest hot spots, including afghanistan, iraq. The balkans, northern island. He was ireland. He was sent to kabul in 2003. Writing about richard, forces at the time said, his Effort Led to most successful, Counterterrorism Operation in kabul. Setting back the enemy campaign. In more recent years, he spent several years in downing street, head of international terrorism team, he was responsible for producing assessment on growing global Terrorism Problem at the time for the cabinet. Colonel kemp spent 3 months on a special Intelligence Assignment in baghdad, fallujah and for bravery, that sets stage for our discussion. Colonel kemp how are you sir. Very well, mark, thank you, real pressure. Mark i wanted american people to have a perspective from Command Or Ground who fought in afghanistan but what you have seen taking place from britain over the last week or so. From my perspective, and perspective of a lot of american
Week. Climate envoy John Kerry will help us understand the prognosis of it. But first heres my take. As we watch the tragedy that is unfolding in afghanistan, lets first dispense with the fantasy that the United States was maintaining the peace there with just a few thousand troops and that the situation couldve been managed with this small commitment. For the last couple of years, it sure looked that way to americans because washington had made a deal with the taliban, and as a result the taliban was deliberately not attacking u. S. And coalition forces. For the afghans, the war had been intensifying. In the summer of 2019 the afghan Army And Police force suffered their worst casualties in the two decades of fighting. It was also the worst spirit for afghan civilian casualties in a decade. In 2018 when the u. S. Had four times as many troops as this year, 282 civilian afghans fled their homes in the countryside. A Government Survey done that year showed that afghan support for u. S. T