Consistently opposed by some 60 of californians. Likely voters were unenthusiastic about newsom. His baseball mobilized. Democrats proving they can drive Enthusiasm And Turnout in a race framed as a referendum on pandemic restrictions, the Kind President Joe Biden has now long championed and the kinds of things gop leaders continue to forcefully and vocally fight. Governor newsom hailing a win for science and a win for all the priorities that have dominated the national democratic jaernd in recent weeks. We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines, yes to ending this pandemic. We said yes to peoples right to vote without fair of fake Fraud Or Voter suppression. We said yes to womens fundamental constitutional right to decide for herself what she does with her body, faith and future. We said yes to diversity, we said yes to inclusion, yes to pluralism. We said yes to all those things we hold dear as californians, and i would argue, as americans. The essential policies Governor Newso
The president s national Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. But first for our ongoing coverage we are joined by helene cooper, Pentagon Correspondent for The New York Times, an msnbc contributor, former top State Department Official Rick Stengel, now also an msnbc political Analyst And Paul rieckhoff is here, founder of veterans of America And Host of the podcast independent americans. Helene, i start with you. If theres any question as to whether or not this president and this White House cease the criticism of this decision, i think it was answered by the president going right at this very sort of specific line of attack that you hear frankly from the right and the left. He talked about this, quote, we shoulda, coulda maintained a small force and not taken on any casualties. They felt it was important to knock that down. What did you make of the specifics that he had and the attempt to knock back the critics . Hi, nicolle, thanks for having me. It was a clear effort to knock down criti
May have left, some may not actually be u. S. Citizens, and some may want to stay. We believe the number of americans actively seeking assistance to leave afghanistan is lower, likely significantly lower. Reporter president biden has promised to bring home every single american who wants to leave by next week. As Secretary Blinken offers this warning about threats on the ground. Were operating in a hostile environment in a City And Country now controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isisk attack. Reporter in the last 24 hours, the u. S. And its allies have evacuated approximately 19,000 people. While the u. S. Has until the 31st to leave kabul, officials say evacuations will end before that so the military has time to pack up and leave. After the 31st, what happens to the airport is up to the taliban. That wont be an american responsibility. Reporter Tens Of Thousands of afghan allies who worked for the u. S. Are still waiting to be evacuated. Were also committed
This is all in an effort to capture what happened on the ground that day and show the Afacts Attempt to whitewash what happened that day from many of the forces of allegiance to former President Trump. Our potential of experts is here with me standing by to discuss what we expect to haeshgs the politics of it all and more. Lets start on Capitol Hill. What more do we know about the Opening Statements . The Opening Statements are expected to set the tone for an emotional and dramatic day of testimony from the four Police Officers, two Capitol Police officers, two d. C. Police officers who defended the building that day throughout the days testimony will be neverbeforeseen footage, Body Camera Footage of what the officers experienced and this is all part of an effort of what the democrats say and the two remembers who are a part of the committee saying in an effort to tell the truth about what happened that day. Pushed back on the conspiracies about were hearing from a lot of folks on the
Nations top Infectious Diseases expert, dr. Anthony fauci, says the u. S. Is headed in the wrong direction. Reporter the worst Case Scenario among the unvaccinated. Feel like were going back in the bell again and its definitely, its definitely another wave. Reporter the highly contagious Delta Variant fuelling a surge of new cases across the country. Dire warnings from the nations top doctor. Going into the fall with the Delta Variant, we could have a really seriouS Problem with a considerable surge of infections. Reporter the variant sweeping through the south, texas, arkansas and Florida Accounting for 40 of new cases in the country. But in miami, thousandS Packing the stadium for a live concert. Youre drowning in people. Reporter as the cdc said they could recommend masks for the fully vaccinated indoors. But in arkansas, a new Law Banning Mask Mandates goes into effect this week. Its important not to have the current debate about mask wearing but to have the current emphasis on get