the people you work with, the people you care about, people you love. you ve been patient. but our patience is wearing thin and refusal has cost all of us. so please do the right thing. maria: look over here, not over there at the massive blunder in afghanistan. 13 military heroes dead, a nation still mourning. 20 years after the worst attack on our country. so who is accountable and will any heads roll? coming up antony blinken on the hot seat tomorrow, testifying and the first republican to question him is here with us this morning. texas congressman michael mccaul, the ranking member on the foreign affairs committee gears up. ramifications of shutting down bagram airbase as china looks to move in. plus the call that no one is talking about. joe biden and xi xinping, on the phone for 90 minutes this week but the origins of covid did not come up. florida congressman michael waltz, the first green beret ever elected to congress, a veteran of the war in afghanistan, assesses t
last stronghold of the afghan government. afghan president ghani has now fled the country. taliban fighters have entered the capital city of kabul where the american flag has been taken down from the u.s. embassy as the u.s. undertakes an urgent evacuation of american personnel. the rapid crumbling of the country shocked the u.s. and u.s. allies and caught the biden white house flat-footed on saturday. after pulling out almost all of the 2,500 troops when he took office, he s deploying troops back to get americans safely out of kabul, warning of a swift u.s. response if the taliban inte interfered. sources tell cnn the majority of the u.s. embassy staff are now out of the embassy compound. that s a sharp tsharound when president biden called it highly unlikely the taliban would overrun the country, at the time striking many experts in his own administration as unrealistic and prompting questions as to whether biden was cherry-picking intelligence or indifferent to it. as amer
election lice whachlt did they learn? the chairman of the committee dick durbin, joins me next. plus millions of americans in danger of losing their homes can now breathe a sigh of relief because one democratic member of congress drove the most powerful person in washington to take action i ll speak to the leader of the protest, congresswoman cori bush, ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is in rewind. for the first time since february, the u.s. is averaging more than 100,000 new covid cases per day. hospitalizations and deaths are also once again on the rise. almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. president biden this week flash nud levels of frustration, rebuking republican governors for standing in the way of vaccine and mask requirements. some governors aren t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic and should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. i say to these govern
even embracing a baseless conspiracy theory china used thermometers to change election results and marjorie taylor greene suggests shooting people who encourage vaccines. let s go outfront . good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. outfront tonight a low blow from the florida governor. ron desantis getting personal in his war of words tonight questioning biden s mental faculties as he defied the covid guidelines. let me play for you first what biden said and desantis response. governor who? desantis. [ laughter ] i guess i m not surprised that biden doesn t remember me. i guess the question is what else has he forgotten? the white house clearly leaning into this fight, as well. today biden s press secretary went right at the florida governor and his campaign for among other things, selling t-shirts saying things like don t fauci my florida. not only is governor desantis not abiding by public health decisions, he s fundraising off of this.
schools and corporations rising crime cartel activity at the border and china is passing us up when they ask what can we do we go to the ballot box in two years is that an answer? no because we ve been led by stupid republicans for decades. whinnied to organize and make i known we are organizing against a deteriorating american community. run for office create a media organization they curriculum. study group and put yourself ou there like an umbrella with all the responsible merits of the community that are sick and tired of being sick and tired and are ready to step up. s tyrant hurt out of your reac start with them the teacher s refusal to teach the children with let parents into the classroom and expose that they are abusing children with different ideologies and we believe. the cameras are going off told him in no uncertain terms that you ve lost your right to privacy with my children. i hear local prosecutors refusing to prosecute. they are next in that they won defen