Northern strong province which fell today. This shows the group s flag being raised in the second largest city of kandahar, which the taliban captured yesterday. Afghan president addressed his country today, and said he s focused on preventing further instability, and promised not to give up achievements of the last 20 years. Afghans are fleeing out of fear, the international airport could be shut down if the taliban takes the capital. Megan fitzgerald is tracking it all from london. Does the fall of kabul now seem inevitable. Reporter: it appears that way. Especially when you take a look at how quickly the taliban has been able to advance. Nbc news confirming that at least three provincial capitals today have been seized by the taliban, the fourth largest city in afghanistan. The commercial hub, and the last northern stronghold, so what that means is now the taliban has control of the entire northern part of the country, as well as more than 2/3 of the entire nation. Then just take a
Their attention to the three. 5 trilliondollar budget reconciliation bill which republicans have largely slammed among growing concerns over surging inflation in this country. Senator haggerty will join us shortly that beginning with white house correspondent lies in delaware where the president is spending the weekend. Reporter: good evening. The president is monitoring the action from his house here in delaware. Another nothing happen quickly because haggerty denied multiple notions from democrats to speed the process up. Despite the majority leader schumer. I repeat democrats are ready and willing to vote on additional amendments to the bill before moving to final passage. Once again, that requires the cooperation of our republican colleagues. I will cooperate so we can move more quickly. Otherwise we will proceed by the book and finish the bill. Reporter: if there is no agreement to speed them up after the expected predawn vote on tuesday now speaker pelosi s plan is to attach it t
Left their jobs and families behind and fled to washington to keep a vote from going into law. Which means all eyes are on those state representatives still camped out in washington. New york times reports, quote, abbott s announcement sent national attention swinging back to a hotel in downtown washington, where several dozen democrats from the texas house of representatives are grappling with a familiar question: stay or go back? but more progressive members are pushing to stay in washington and continue to call attention to voting rights, at least while congress is in session. I think there is a collective will of this caucus to do everything we can to continue to defeat repression of voting in texas. That s what we did in may, we did that in july and we continue to do it going forward. It s not the federal legislation that texas democrats have been pressing for, but it might help. Merrick garland weighed back in on the fight today in a new oped of the washington post marking the 60
Rise in cases he admits in hindsight, i wish that had not become law. When all in starts right now. W. Good evening from new york i m chris hayes. The coup came closer to succeeding than we ever knew. We know that donald trump lauded with his associates to overturn american democracy. He tried everything he could to keep himself in power over the will of the people. Day by day we have been learning more and more about how comprehensive and dangerous that effort was. We did not learn the details of the single most damning piece of evidence yet, until yesterday. Frankly, i have to say, it is so damning and unnerving i spent the last 24 hours scratching my head in disbelief that it is not a bigger story. The document we learned about yesterday showed an infamy in american history as a completely villainous tax. If the acting attorney general at the time had signed that document, it would have likely thrown the united states into the worst constitutional crisis since the civil war. They ar
Making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. That s the attorney general of the state of new york speaking at an event in which she and the special team she hired laid out the findings of a fivemonth investigation that included interviews with 179 witnesses. 74,000 plus pieces of evidence, documents, emails, audio files, pictures, texts, and it included an 11hour grilling of the governor last month inside his manhattan office. The investigators say the governor engaged in a widespread long running pattern of subjecting subordinates to his unwanted sexual advances. Let s begin our reporting with a crime and justice reporting. You were at the press conduct. Damning detail after damning detail. Reporter: the attorney general said it is deeply disturbing, yet, it all paints a clear picture. And what we learned is that there were 11 women who came forward. Two more than we had initially known about. Initially there w