from senior national security and military officials, but the president decided to go ahead and withdraw. concluded that it s time to end america s longest war. we went to afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago. that cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021. the president underscored his announcement with a visit to section 60 at arlington national cemetery where iraq and afghanistan war dead are buried. the image there told the story, more than 2,300 u.s. military lives lost over the course of those two decades. tens of thousands of americans wounded, countless afghans wounded. more than $2 trillion in taxpayer money spent, yet parts of afghanistan are still controlled by the same oppressive taliban leaders who were there 20 years ago in 2001. nick paton walsh was based in afghanistan at the height of the conflict. he is live this morning for us in kabul. nick, the cia director says gathering intelligence and acting on potential thre
governor ron desantis not only has a plan for removing illegals from his state, he also has an idea of where he wants to send them. he is here tonight with more. plus, dr. jill steps into safer husband and kamala s inflation era redecoration. raymond arroyo explains that in seen and unseen. but first, the walking dead. that s the focus of tonight s angle. a political party like company or maybe a sports team or school should always have a succession plan. it s about preparing for the foreseen and unforeseen. who can step in as the next ceo or the next head coach, the next school principal. how about the next speaker of the house of the senate majority leader? the democrats have no such plan for their creaky leadership at the top, and i have a very shallow bench. consider their leadership lineup. it looks like a new version of cocoon, this time set in washington. a faltering, debilitated 79-year-old president who would be 83 at the start of his second term. president bid
structure to escape the blaze. and happening right now, remnants of idalia going through north carolina, causing heavy flooding and even spawning tornadoes. in south carolina, just as the storm was barreling through the region, a small twister may have flipped over this car. take a look at that. this after idalia made landfall in florida yesterday as the most powerful hurricane to hit the big bend in over 100 years, packing wind speeds of up to 125 miles an hour. at one point in cedar key, the storm surge surpassing ten feet, entire neighborhoods converted into rivers. right now, just as we approach the hottest point of the day, roughly 300,000 people are without electricity across the south as crews are working around the clock to restore power. joining us now with more is nbc news meteorologist angie lassman and nbc s julia ainsley is in morehead, city, north carolina, and nbc s guad venegas in cedar key, florida. there is an update from the national hurricane center at 1
and demolition man ? our reporters are following the latest developments. let s begin with nbc s katie phang who has more. what happened and where does it all go from here? reporter: yeah, so now that the dust has settled a bit and we ve had a chance to look at the order that judge mcafee ordered this morning, i want to start by saying to viewers this is not a ruling on the disqualification of fulton county district attorney fani willis. what it is is something that happens in common course in any type of case, civil or criminal. in this particular instance, when the district attorney gets an indictment, the defense can seek to dismiss certain counts on legal grounds. what judge mcafee has done in fulton county has said that because the state says in its indictment that certain of the defendants including donald trump relied upon violations of the united states constitution and the georgia constitution, because there s so many different clauses and so many different amendm
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