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this morning, in this room, to answer questions about why and why now? we re going to take you live there as we go one on one with the state attorney general who tried to build her own case against nassar. we re live out west and kornacki at the big board on what happens next now that gavin newsom held on to his seat. and new this morning, what we just learned the justice department did to try and block that controversial abortion law in texas. we re taking you live to the pentagon with new fallout from the latest trump book, revealing what joint chiefs chair mark milley said to china, why some republicans are demanding milley step down. we start with the hearing that is happening now behind me at the capitol building on the senate side. good morning to both of you. thank you for being with us. and, ann, let me go to you, here are the four gymnasts we expect to hear from today. simone biles, everybody knows her. mckayla maroney, aly raisman and abbie nichols as well. yo ....
with us. coming today is not easy and i recognize that you each had the option of respectfully declining the invitation to be here. but you didn t. and i hope that you understand that your presence here is not just so important to the members of this committee, to the senate as a body, but also speaks volumes for the countless victims of abuse that are out there listening or watching or will listen. or will watch. i appreciate the conversation about mental health prompted by the questions from senator booker. my wife is a very active mental health advocate and so she has trained me well to be cognizant of those issues and ask important and timely questions as well. and ms. biles, i hope you might have heard about some of our amplification of your courage from the most recent olympics to take care of yourself first. that took a lot. i ll just offer a few comments. i think most of the questions that i would raise have been raised by my colleagues. but i want to make it cl ....
that was ten years ago. think about that. we re going to stay until we have a deal or we have total victory. i learned the hard way there was never a good time to withdrawal u.s. forces. the taliban is continuing its offensive across afghanistan. tal taliban fighters have broken through the front line. the afghan army collapsed and the central government has fallen. panic fills the air in kabul. president biden said this is not going to be a saigon. guess what? there has been an explosion outside kabul airport. 170 afghans killed. 13 american troops killed. i stand scquarely behind my decision, it s time to end america s longest war. is it a mistake? i think it is, yeah. i think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. i must see it s defeat for the united states. i think the president is right. enough is enough. what was all of this for? that has to be the question veterans are asking. two decades, more than $2 trillion, more ....
hello and welcome to our special coverage here on bbc news, as we mark the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on new york and washington, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and that have forever been known by the date on which they happened 9/11. commemorations will be taking place in manhattan and across the united states, to remember all those killed and injured. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has been hearing the stories of three people impacted by the horror of september the 11th, and a warning his report includes footage of the attack on the twin towers. the one thing that time hasn t dulled is just how profoundly shocking the sights and sounds were that tuesday morning two decades ago. this terrorist attack changed the world. nearly 3000 people died and thousands more had their lives upended. this is the story of three of those people who found themselves at the vortex of the storm. my dad was an amazing human being. max was a ten year old schoolboy w ....
hello and welcome to our special coverage here on bbc news, as we mark 20 years on from the terror attacks on new york and washington. attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and that have forever been known by the date on which they happened 9/11. commemorations will be taking place in manhattan and across the united states, to remember all those killed and injured. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has been hearing the stories of three people impacted by the horror of september the 11th, and a warning his report includes footage of the attack on the twin towers. the one thing that time hasn t dulled is just how profoundly shocking the sights and sounds were that tuesday morning two decades ago. this terrorist attack changed the world. nearly 3000 people died and thousands more had their lives upended. this is the story of three of those people who found themselves at the vortex of the storm. my dad was an amazing human being. max was a ten year old schoolboy wh ....