Mark milley saying today that getting americans out is the singular focus of the Biden Administration. The situation is still very dangerous, very dynamic and fluid and we can be proud of those executing this mission. Theyre currently in harms way. That needs to be our focus. There will be plenty of time to do aars but right now our mission is to secure that Air Field, defend that Air Field and evacuate those faithful to us. There will be many postmortems on this topic but right now is not that time. Theres troops at risk and we the United States military and fully intend to successfully evacuate all American Citizens who want to get out of afghanistan, all American Citizens who want to get out of afghanistan. They are our Priority Number one. In addition we intend to evacuate those supporting us for years and wont leave them behind. Milleys comments hours after scenes of chaos unfolded on wednesday outside of what is the only way out of afghanistan. The airport In Kabul. The taliban e
[noise] chill bro. [noise] this is our house. [noise] the Justice Department also released new footage from inside the capitol. The rioters can be seen trying to force their way into the senate chamber, and taunting those officers who were trying to keep them out. More than 500 riders have been arrested in connection with what was essentially a failed attempt to keep President Biden from taking office. Late today, the winner of Novembers Election issued a statement it read in part quote, this was not descend. This was this order. It posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive. A sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy. This past weekend, the men who lost Novembers Election continue to push the very lies that fueled the January 6th insurrection. We won so much and then we had a rigged election. Democrats used covid to cheat, they illegally change the rules of the key states and mailed out millions, and millions of absentee ball
15,000 voter signatures. Back then the repeated claims to the contrary by the president and his crew prompted this reaction from georgia election official sterling. The reason i m having to stand here today because there s people in positions of authority and respect who have said the votes didn t count and it is not true. There s a claim that 66,248 people below 18 voted. The actual number is zero. 243 people that voted without being registered. Let s be clear about this. You can t do it. There s no shredding of ballots going on. That s not real. No one is changing parts or pieces from dominion voting machines. This is all easily provably false. Yet the president persists. Here we go again. The audit in georgia is an expected to involve that sketchy company of cyber ninjas in arizona. Georgia s review will be done under the supervision of a special master approved by the court. It can t change the outcome of the election obviously. It s been six months now but to get to the bottom of
Finances than any law enforcement authorities ever had. Previously, the danger posed by james s investigation seemed to be merely financial, the kind of lawsuit trump faced from new york attorneys general before over the trump university and the charity costing him money but didn t threaten liberty. Now however james could also seek criminal penalties and she appears to be cooperating with vance s office, a move that could allow the two wide ranging investigations to share data and the trove of data in the hands the supreme court cleared for the tax records to be turned over and the probes benefited from michael cohen and the knowledge of where the bodies are buried his decade with the trump organization. It was my experience that mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in force and deflatded his assets to reduce the real estate taxes. And that trove of evidence now wrapped up in two criminal probes may e
This time. Now he s playing with house money. As president, he gets to lay out his vision for u. S. Foreign policy, much of it so badly damaged the past few years. Tonight the bidens are in england. Days ahead meet with british prime minister boris johnson and the queen and attend g7 summit. Then nato and eu summits and closing out trip with meeting with vladimir putin. In a speech to u. S. And uk service members this afternoon he said he plans to let putin know what i want him to know. We re going to make it clear that the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and issues that matter most to our future, that we re committed to leading with strength, defending our values and delivering for our people. We re not seeking conflict with russi we want a stable, predictable relationship. But i ve been clear, the united states will respond in a robust and meaningful way, when the russian government engages in harmful activiti