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solution, through arrests of those who did it and security adjustments to make sure it never happens, again. now, before we get into what senator mcconnell left out, we should note one republican source tells us he lobbied members to vote against the bill as quote a personal favor unquote to him. which raises the obvious question, why is killing a bipartisan commission to personal to him? that and what kind of elected official changes their vote on such a consequential item as this as a personal favor to the boss? now, back to his actual comments, which you might have noticed, missed a very important piece. he said we should arrest those responsible, and make security adjustments. what s missing from that is any mention, as to why the insurrection took place. which would naturally include the big-election lie and the lawmakers, some of them republican senators, who spread the lie for months before the insurrection. as for his belief that putting more police on the bea ....
live once the witnesses start talking and have a report coming up in just a moment. we re also following some breaking news overseas. president biden now briefed and monitoring that attack on an iraqi military base hosting american soldiers. what we know about who is responsible. that provocation another challenge for the president as he makes a surprise announcement on the one here at home, promising enough vaccine supply for every american months earlier than expected. we will talk about why some states are not waiting to start rolling back their restrictions. our live report from texas coming up. we have a lot to get to in the next few minutes, i m hallie jackson in washington with nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill and new york times reporter zolan is with us as well. garrett, talk about what we can expect to hear today and what we are hearing from some of those witness statements that have been released in the last couple of minutes. reporter: that s right. ....
hello, this is bbc news. we ll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the prime minister pledges every adult in england will be offered a coronavirus booster vaccine by the end of this month, in response to what he calls an emergency in tackling the virus. there is a tidal wave of omicron coming, and i m afraid it is now clear that two doses of vaccine are simply not enough. it comes as the first people in the uk have been hospitalised with omicron. new cases of the variant are up 65% in the last 2a hours. meanwhile, the political pressure mounts on borisjohnson he s facing a possible rebellion from his mps over covid rules, and fresh questions about christmas gatherings at downing street last year. in other news, emergency teams continue the search for survivors in six us states, after tornadoes leave more than 90 people dead max verstappen is confirmed as the 2021 formula one world champion, after stewards dismiss a protest ....
your top military advisors wanted you to keep 2500 troops. it was split. that wasn t true. they didn t say we should keep 2500 troops, a stable situation and we can continue to do that? president biden: no one said that to me that i can recall. dana: enraged critics on both sides. some arguing the president decisions cost 13 am troops their lives. ignored military advice, ignoring congress and ignoring the american people who do not think that this was the big resounding success that he does. with all due respect to the secretary of state, he provided no real responses to my questions because at the moment there aren t responses. there is nobody in charge. his own general on the ground warned him, warned biden the afghan government would fall and yet biden did nothing. i do think it needs to be clear that the advice was given and the advice was rejected. he was lying about it. he wanted political cover. dana: do you remember one of the reasons pres ....
dana: pent up demand. hearing today and another one in the senate and tomorrow in the house. here the players. you have it ready. joint chiefs chairman mark milley, lloyd austin and centcom commander general mckenzie and be pressed whether president biden ignored their advice leading to the chaos in afghanistan. bill: so many images seared into our mem re. six weeks ago yesterday afghans clinging to a parting u.s. cargo jet. some of them falling to their deaths on that tarmac. dana: parents handing over newborn daughters and sons desperate to get them as far as possible from the taliban. bill: days before the august 30th withdrawal deadline an isis suicide bombing targeted the crowd outside the airport. 13 american service members killed, two women. dana: lawmakers will press the generals on a retaliatory drone strike. the pentagon claimed it killed terrorists responsible for that bombing. we later found out it wasn t true. the victims were 10 innocent civilia ....