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this hearing seems to divide us as americans. the first congressional hearing in more than three decades on violence and discrimination against the asian american community. many say that it s reached a crisis and the question is, what are we prepared to do about it? plus, the fbi releases a whole slew of new videos that officials say are the egregious assaults on police officers during the capitol riot. the question is, will it help them identify more suspects? and the biden administration now says it will send doses of the covid vaccine to mexico and canada. the question is, when will the u.s. approve the vaccine that it has just agreed to share? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that apparently missed the memo that today is world sleep day! thanks for the reminder, associated press. i am kasie hunt on this friday, march 19th. we ll start with the news. president biden and vice president harris will travel ....
the courthouse. three big decisions just came down from the judge, what are they and how do they affect the trial? these are major decisions. the judge in this trial ruled that he was going to deny a motion from chauvin s attorney to delay the trial. the defense complained about the pretrial publicity and asked the judge to for this relief bill. they say it will just not be able to be avoided. and two he says he doesn t believe anywhere in the state of minnesota that the tension of this has not reached. the impact has been too wide spread. this involves an arrest, a prior arrest of george floyd. a year before he died. that involves evidence to be admitted in that. the judge did partially rule with the defense to admit some evidence and some democrat. he says the fact pattern where he is approached in a similar matter, accused of ingesting drugs. he says some of that is. that is the day he died and that is what is leading up to the trooifl they are trying to get to get ....
We re going to keep in place in the region the capacity to see any re-emergence of a terrorist threat and deal with it and on the terms we went into afghanistan in the first place we ve succeeded in achieving our objectives. when the president came to office, he had a decision to make. the previous administration negotiated an agreement with the taliban that said that our forces, only about 2,500, would be out of the country on may first. the idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there is simply wrong. the fact is, had the president decided to keep forces in afghanistan beyond may 1st, attacks would have resumed on our forces. the taliban had not been attacking our forces or nato during the period from which the agreement was reached to may 1st. the offensive you are seeing across the country to take the provincial capitals would have commenced. we would have been back at war with the taliban. i would probably be on this program today explaining why ....
Something the american people simply don t support. that is the reality. that s the context we re dealing with. you cited the may 1st deadline negotiated by the trump administration. you did blow through that deadline. we did have troops there after may 1st. again, the issue here is not just the withdrawal of u.s. forces. it s how they were withdrawn. the rapidity, the hastiness. president obama s former ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker, called the way this was done, quote, a handover to the taliban and, quote, we have hung them out to dry about the afghan people. crocker continued, quote, i m left with some grave questions in my mind about biden s ability to lead our nation as commander-in-chief. to have read this so wrong or ....
He was wrong. jake, what we ve done, what the president has done, is make sure we were able to adjust to anything happening on the ground. and the fact that we said he sent additional forces in, we had them at the ready fully prepared to go in the event this moved in a new direction where we needed forces in place to ensure our personnel was safe and secure, to ensure also we could do everything possible to bring out of afghanistan those afghans most at risk. that is exactly what we re doing. why not have the troops in there and let that happen first before taking them out? again, i come back to what we were talking about, which is that status quo was not sustainable. like it or not, there was an agreement that the forces would come out on may 1st. had we not begun that process which is what the president did and the taliban saw, then we would have been back at war with the taliban. we would have been back at war with tens of thousands of troops having to go in because the 2,50 ....