Nearly 11,000 people in one day in the 24 hours from sunday to monday. Today the pentagon says the latest number in the latest 24hour period is they got more than 21,000 people out. 21,000 people evacuated in one day. That means the u. S. Air lift out of kabul overall has removed more than 70,000 people from kabul since they started ten days ago which is an astonishing number. But with the president planning to get u. S. Troops out entirely by the initial deadline he set which is next week, august 31st, the evacuation effort will necessarily have to start to ramp down. Troops will have to start to leave. It takes time to get them out safely. As of today u. S. Troop numbers are already dropping at the kabul airport. What will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuations and the orderliness of evacuations and the commitment to get every american and every afghan ally of american troops and the american people out of there, we re going to have a live report on that situation coming up in
But with the president planning to get u. S. Troops out entirely by the initial deadline he set which is next week, august 31st, the evacuation effort will necessarily have to start to ramp down. Troops will have to start to leave. It takes time to get them out safely. As of today u. S. Troop numbers are already dropping at the kabul airport. What will that mean in terms of the pace of evacuations and the orderliness of evacuations and the commitment to get every american and every afghan ally of american troops and the american people out of there, we re going to have a live report on that situation coming up including the news today about the reported meeting between the director of the cia, william burns, and a senior taliban official. This is the taliban cofounder who the trump administration got sprung from prison in 2018. They arranged for his release from prison in 2018. This is the guy who trump had his secretary of state mike pompeo meet with in person last year. Today we lear
The request includes records from the trump white house relating in any way to former president trump and former vice president mike pence and in total to 30 other key figures in trump s orbit. In letters demanded from the national archives and several other agencies the committee chairman signaled an expansive investigation touching not only on what happened on january 6th but also materials that could shed light on matters such as the former president s knowledge of the election results and what he communicated to the american people about the election. The requests include information on communications within and among the white house and executive branch agencies during the leadup to january 6th and on that day as well as attempts to place politically loyal personnel in senior positions across government after the election. The committee is hoping to fill in. A campaign that culminated in the deadly attack as congress tried to certify the election results. Here is a little bit of w
going to defend it, i m also not going to defend it, i m also not going to defend what i did. what i did was absolutely totally wrong. sir lindsey hoyle, calls for radical action to overhaul working practices in westminster. it s the first time a president is at this dinner in six years. the white house correspondents dinner returns to washington s political calendar hello and welcome to bbc news. the us speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, has visited the ukrainian capital kyiv on an unannounced trip in which she expressed support for president volodymyr zelensky. elsewhere, a small group of women and children have been allowed to leave the besieged steelworks in mariupol the final part of the city still held by ukrainian troops. both russia and ukraine are said to be respecting a local ceasefire and there are hopes more civilians can be freed. meanwhile, more airstrikes have hit homes in eastern ukraine, as tim muffett reports. this is a powerful signal of support from
of conservative mp neil parish, who admits watching pornography in the house of commons twice. the commons speaker, sir lindsey hoyle, calls for radical action to overhaul working practices in westminster. it s the first time a president is at this dinner in six years. the white house correspondents dinner returns to washington s political calendar. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and other congressional leaders have visited the ukrainian capital, kyiv, on an unannounced trip in which she expressed support for president volodymyr zelensky. she said ukraine was fighting for everyone s freedom and the us would back its resistance against russian aggression. she said the house of representatives was drafting a legislative package. it is with great sorrow that we come here, with great pride, we leave with a firmer understanding and more current understanding of what needs to be done, with a deeper a