Have it. This was me reading this today, this is not a good use of highlighters. I shouldve highlighted what i didnt think was worth reading. It is one of those rulings, for the ages, and it is designed to speak to the general public. The Plaintiffs Counsel Advance this lawsuit for an improper purpose it will be held to account, for their actions. This was about ensuring a preferred political candidate remained in the president ial seat, despite the decision of a nations voters to unseat him. It is, like Chest Pounding when it comes to defending the integrity of the judiciary, and what lawyers are responsible for when they are allowed into the Court And Name of the bar. In terms of what they were trying to do, the overall project that trump was trying to pull off with these lawsuits, it is this is a civic document that is for consumption. Of course, this will be appealed, we will get his assessment, he is an appellate lawyer, we will see what the chances are an appealing thing. Theres
Biden referred to the threat at the airport from this Terror Group known as Isis K and he details his decision to stick with that August 31st deadline to leave afghanistan. That deadline just six days away now as the scramble to get out intensifies, one critical question has been, how many americans remain . This afternoon, the Secretary Of State put the number at about 1500. Officials are in touch with about 500 of. Them but are still reaching out to others. For the remaining roughly 1000 context that we have who maybe americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we are aggressively reaching out to the multiple times today. There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who want to leave, along with many afghans. That effort will continue every day past August 31st. Now the secretary said about 6000 americans we are in afghanistan when the taliban took control about two weeks ago he said over the past ten days over 4500 of those americans were evacuated with 82,00
Getting out. he just said americans. that s a key distinction here. there are many thousands, as we pointed out in our report, and hundreds of thousands of afghans who work with us, who are not covered by that, pledge you are likely almost certainly being left behind at the august 31st a few days after, you already saw the military beginning to pull, out the troops they ve sent into effectuate the evacuation, you ll see more that in the days to come, which will limit the number of people who will be getting on planes and getting out of there before next week. senator mccaskill, to the point john just made, does the biden administration have enough friends in washington, enough friends in their party? to help them make their basic three points, that trump agreed to this deal, that the presidents of afghanistan skipped town, and that any early up of this evacuation, would have caused absolute
Bin laden organized 9/11 attacks. can you guarantee that this country will never again be a base for terrorism? [interpreter] osama bin laden became an issue for americans, he wasn t afghanistan, although there was no proof that he was. involved now we have given promises that afghan soil will not be used against anyone. you still don t believe that afghanistan that osama bin laden was involved? we have no proof that he was involved. so it seems now that even after all of this, you are accepting no responsibility. [interpreter] there was no justification for this war it was excuse for. wore with [end of translation] how are you feeling right now after 20 years and the americans are leaving? [interpreter] the withdrawal is almost finished, it was our happiest moment. we [end of translation] they all said they want the taliban to open a new chapter of relations with the united states, including exchanging
Peter i m told your back and it s glad to have you back indeed. have you any indication in your reporting, that our embrace of the 31 august deadline, has any wiggle room, at all. as we speculated last, night can we treat the 31st as the day when all of our passengers are out, in the military can hope then for some slop time to get vehicles, aircraft, personnel in all those c-17s off the ramp? they seem to be pretty firm and saying that s not going to happen. at least if they have any say in. it doesn t mean it s not going to happen, but that s what they re seeing right, now that s the message they re sending to the taliban because they don t want the taliban to be taking shots at americans, or even our afghan allies. as we re trying to get them out. the president did say the other day that he d asked the pentagon for continuous plans in case we had not completed but we need to by august 31st. that take you short of secretary blinken, said there is no deadline for americans