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Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the biden administration is under fire over its chaotic withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. A new report from the republicans on the house of foreign Affairs Committee accuses the White House of misleading and even lying to the american public. Vice president Kamala Harris and her democratic colleagues are trying to blame former president Donald Trump for the afghanistan disaster. That is not stopping the issue from playing a role in the president ial campaign. Gillian turner starts us off tonight. Good evening. The Republicans Report is 350 pages long, contains thousands of pages of additional documentation from the chairmans two year long investigation. The biden administration iS Pushing back hard on the substance of this report and the timing of its release. Dueling report ....
overtly political theme, rebuking maga republicans without alienating all republicans, and delivering a dark warning tempered with an uplifting vision. listen. as i stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. so tonight i ve come to this place where it all began, to speak as plainly as i can to the nation about the threats we face, about the power we have in our own hands to meet these threats, and about the incredible future that lies in front of us if only we choose it. maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. they promote authoritarian leaders and fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. and i want to be very clear, very clear up ....
during that search. first though, we do want to begin with former white house counsel pat cipollone. his deputy appearing before a january 6 grand jury today. evan perez is outside u.s. district court in washington. this of course separate from the investigation to the handling of classified documents. this relates to january 6th. how significant is the testimony of cipollone and his deputy? reporter: jim, this is a very important testimony that we re going to get from the that the grand jury is going to get from pat cipollone and patrick philbin. these are two men who are inside the white house counsel. they were in a lot of the meetings that the president was organizing, as he was trying to overturn the election. he was trying to find ways to remain in power. and the importance of this grand jury is that this is the grand jury that is going beyond the 850 rioters who have been brought here and are facing charges for the violence that happened at the u.s. capitol ....
maga republicans are destroying the democracy. we the people will not let anyone or anything tear us ap apart. today. asked me about the maga agenda. it is one of the most extreme agendas we have seen. and you are not aware the majority of americans are comic that is extreme. joe biden has a problem. the only way he changes that is flipping the script and talking about maga, ultra maga and trump and everything but joe biden. this is a political play and very obvious what that says they will try to d cramp us down everybody s throat. todd: live in washington, griff jenkins. no shortage of that, todd, a warning outside independence hall in philadelphia. president biden warned the nation for 24 minutes democracy is under assault by predecessor and the millions of americans who voted for him. donald trump and the maga republicans represent extremism that threatens the republic. maga is determined to take the country backward. the political speech was a far c ....