Citizens left Behind Enemy Lines in afghanistan as i speak. We have six airplanes that the airport. With American Citizens on them. As i speak. Also with these interpreters. And the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. Julie we have Fox Team Coverage. Trey yingst is in kotter dominic qatar. First, we go to benjamin from london. There are actually conflicting reports. Yes, the taliban say they have full control, and they have released images showing the amount of the governors office, but the national resistance say that they still control all of the main strategic areas. There is a small glimmer of hope that right now for them. Less of a hope, perhaps, and for The Americans on board trying to escape afghanistan. This news broke yesterday when Congressman Michael Mccaul claimed that the taliban is now holding these American Citizens and Allies Hostage by blocking the planes leaving the airport in northern afghanistan. He says that they are there sitting on board been unable to l
While on Capitol Hill, major fireworks over the origins of the pandemic and questions about bringing back those Mask Mandates. State to state. We begin tonight with congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram live on Capitol Hill. Good evening, chad. Good evening, bret. Democrats In Washington heralded the texas democrats saluting them and parading them around town like heros in their quest for Voting Rights. These folks are going to be remembered on the right side of history. The governor and the republican legislators will be remembered on the dark and wrong side of history. They brought their fight to washington but they also brought covid are. At least six texas democrats have now tested positive since they fled austin last week. An aid to House Speaker Nancy pelosi tested positive along with a white House Staffer. That came after a reception with the texas democrats. It raised concerns about covid at the capitol. Heres the math, the break through Infection Rate for those vaccinated i
Texas State Legislature last week as she shepherded them around on Capitol Hill. I am both officials attended the reception with the Texas Democrats, only six of whom who have now tested positive for covid. Sandra the nations top Health Officials testifying before the senate committee today. There were some fireworks. Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul And Anthony fauci at one point going at it. Listen here. It is a crime to lie to congress. Do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded research in wuhan . Senator paul, i have never lied it your microphone. Senator paul, i have never lied before the congress, and i do not retract that statement. This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being of function. Let me finish. You take an animal virus, increase the transmissibility to humans. That is correct. Senator paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And i wa
Reason why we, as a country, are the envy of the world, because you have decided youve had enough of the pandemic, youre itching to get out, youre itching to go to, well horse races, youre itching to go to disneyland, nowreopened albeit at limited capacity and youre itching to spend which is why, in the first quarter of the year , we had overall economic Growth North of 6. 4 . Whats going on here . Were going to detail it as well as then take a look at whether an economy that is doing that well needs any help at all from, well, the government. Lets explore that now with Mark Meredith with the president of wilmington, delaware because theres a lot of spending on tap and now growing questions as to whether this economy really needs it. What do you have . Reporter hey, neil good morning to you. Thats right. President biden is making it clear he wants to spend a lot of taxpayer money, but getting congress on board with this idea is the big obstacle and theres even reports that the some dem
It comes to the Border Wall with mexico. Guest at the end of the Trump Administration, the administration constructed about 460 miles of Border Wall system over the four years. Much of that paid for through Defense Department Money through some emergency orders and other changes siphoning from pentagon accounts to go to Border Wall funding. President biden immediately revoked that declaration and restored or cut off that siphoning of money from the pentagon for portable construction. So it took at a large swath of the funding that President Trump had expected to continue to use to build maybe 300 more miles in the planning pipeline. President biden cut off that money and paused a different set of Money Congress allocated to go to Border Wall construction. In essence it was an Acrosstheboard Halt on construction. Construction crews were allowed to tie down to cover up dangerous holes and whatnot and then walk away from the sites. A fairly clean break with construction. President biden i