Service director s opening remarks is when she said that there are points where she might be limited in what she can disclose. That s certainly something that was sure to upset and frustrate lawmakers. You re watching members from both sides of the aisle here ask her very serious questions both in specificity and also in the processes of the agency writ large of how this could have happened in butler, pennsylvania, with former president donald trump. I think some of the specifics that you heard in that room that really elicited the most frustration from lawmakers and they were asking her questions that i think all of us have, and the way that congressman jamie raskin put it was what would you say to americans who pay your salary, who put that $3 billion in the coffers of the secret service to help you guys do the job of protecting key assets in american politics. And she said that she s nine days out from what happened in butler, pennsylvania, and that they are trying to do investigati
National security correspondent jennifer griffin starts us off from the pentagon. We saw in iraq what happened when the u. S. Declared a war over and pulled out troops leaving isis to grow e the u. S. Isn t done with afghanistan. As the taliban continue to brandish american weapons captured from the of a dan army when the government fell 17 days ago, those fighters expressed anger the u. S. Had disabled all of the military planes and helicopters at the airport before leaving. For the first time since the last american soldier left afghanistan, the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs faced the press. They took just three questions. Including whether they might have to partner with the taliban in the future. I can tell you from personal experience that is a ruthless group from the past and whether or not they change remains to be seen. And as far as our dealings with them at that airfield in war you do what you most in order to reduce risk admission and force; not necessar
In moments we ll go live to a florida hospital treating 500 covid patients. And a little later, one nurse shows the intense struggle and burnout facing nurses. But first we start with a team of reporters. Mora barrett is in oregon where fema is helping more people get vaccinated. The president is set to meet with his science advisor. Thank you all for being with me. Let me start with you what are you seeing there in florida? record numbers. An incredible strike. Here at memorial health there is a part of this hospital that is a children s hospital, and there is great concern about the rising numbers of children testing positive for covid. A school in florez gips a week from now. Let s look at the numbers and we will compare what happened from june to july. 23 pediatric patients came to the emergencies room here with coronavirus. The following month into july, 240, of all of the children brought in here, they test them for coronavirus and the positivity rate was 18. 6%. That is a very h
since 1869 there but nine justices on the bench. before that it fluctuated from 852 as many as ten. this term, court packing stems from 1937 when fdr tried to change it to add more justices had favorable rulings for the new deal. but the senate rejected it overwhelmingly. but in 1983 then senator joe biden of the judiciary committee thought it was a bonehead idea. but now president biden has ordered the 36 person six month study of expanding the court. as a group of progressive democrats as you mentioned introducing a bill changing the number from nine to 13 to shake up the current 63 conservative majority. senator markey one of the bills cosponsors make clear why he believes the changes necessary. we are here because the united states supreme court is broken. the court is out of balance. too many americans view it as a partisan political institution not our impartial judicial branch of government. but republicans are outraged introducing their own legislation to maintain the
for the first and second dose is being expanded to include new vaccines and more volunteers. an inquest into the death of jack merrick and saskia jones has heard from another victim who was also stabbed at fishmongers hall in 2019. climate talks between the world s two biggest polluters us envoyjohn kerry hopes to persuade beijing to agree new targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. and the countdown is on it s 100 days until the opening of the summer olympic games in tokyo. hello, good afternoon. mps will vote this afternoon on whether there should be a parliamentary inquiry into the lobbying activities of the former prime minister david cameron. labour says a government investigation into mr cameron s work for the collapsed firm, greensill capital, is insufficient. a debate in the commons is under way and at prime minister s questions boris johnson admitted it wasn t clear the boundaries between whitehall and business had been properly understood. the labour leader