i am chris hayes here with alex wagner for night two of the republican national convention. we expect a number of high- profile speeches including from steve scalise, himself the survivor of an attempted assassination. speaker of the house johnson will also be in this hour. we are also covering the announcement on the first day of the convention, the first time in decades the announcement was made at the convention of j.d. vance, the junior senator from ohio, quite junior, less than two years a senator and former never trump her who will be his running mate. there s a lot going on. including the conviction of democratic senator bob menendez in new jersey. i m here with my good friend, alex wagner. it s good to have you here. it s good to see you, my friend. i do think that the menendez case is interesting because of the theme of the weaponize department of justice and the doj doing the unexpected, playing checkers, getting his son and now also getting a very prominent dem
running this race until the end despite new and growing calls from lawmakers within his party to step aside. but pressure could ratchet up exponentially with congress back in session today. the commander in chief calling in to morning joe today to make his position clear. the bottom line here is that we re not going anywhere. i am not going anywhere. i wouldn t be running if i didn t absolutely believe that i m the best candidate to beat donald trump in 2024. we had a democratic nominating process where the voters spoke clearly. also, we continue to track tropical storm beryl and its impact on southeast texas, including at least two deaths after making landfall in morning. a critical nato summit in washington in week ahead strikes in ukraine including on a children s hospital in kyiv. days after a landslide in britain s election, the left rallies for a surprising result in france s elections, preventing the far right wave predicted in the polls. good day, everyone
hello and welcome to bbc news. taliban fighters have reached the outskirts of the afghan capital, kabul, after a lightning advance across the country. the militant group now controls all the other major cities in afghanistan, and look to be on the verge of toppling the afghan government. the arrival of the taliban has sparked panic in the city with a populuation of more than four million, as well as tens of thousands of internally displaced afghans. people have been rushing to embassies for visas and stockpiling food. these pictures filmed by the bbc in kabul show people attempting to leave the city. the taliban says negotiations are taking place to ensure a peaceful transition of power. us and british troops have been arriving in afghanistan to evacuate diplomatic staff from their embassies. earlier, thousands of afghans in the capital were seen trying to withdraw their savings from atms as fear gripped the capital. beyond the capital, overnight, the insurgents seized the ea
i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. thank you for joining me for cnn s special breaking coverage. the afghan people s safety is dwe tear yating with alarming speed. the militant group moves closer to kabul. in fact, just the two major cities of kabul and jalalabad are under the control of the afghan government. since mid april when the president announced the u.s. withdrawal. tonight president biden is sending in another 1,000 troops there, a total of 5,000 now assigned to help summertime personnel escape. as america scrambles to get its allies in kabul, there are those who say their hearts are breaking that those who helped the u.s. are now strandeds a targets of the taliban. now we got to send soldiers back in in harm s way to help evacuate the obinterterms who fought by us side by side and we left tomorrow p them there. the world is watching us, as if this situation compounds hourly. it changes hourly. cnn white house correspondent a let sainz
sending all of those wedding invitations. pardon everyone from himself to his administration officials to joe exotic if he has to because you see from the radical left a blood lust that will only be quenched if they come after the people who worked so hard to animate the trump administration with the policies and the vigor and the effectiveness that delivered for the american people. yeah. so i think the president ought to wield that pardon power effectively and robustly. yeah. snl just got more material for this weekend s show. that was republican congressman matt gaetz in november of last year, saying then president trump should pardon just about everyone. well, this morning there s new reporting that gaetz wanted one of those pardons for himself. you know, we ll get to that in a second. willie, you know, i m not prone to overstatement when it comes to sports, but we had another great night in sports last night. and again, not i m not saying that i hear thin