to 11,000 per day. today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. that s one big u.s. military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. the wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirms what we had from the a.p. a few days ago. they re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. the pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hard-to-get places, but this further reporting tonight from the wall street journal that in many instances it s actually cia officers who are doing those dangerous missions and not just u.s
of that country. in recent days we have watched as the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climb from a few hundred per day to 2,000 per day to 5,000 per day to 11,000 per day. today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. that s one big u.s. military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. the wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirm as what we had from the a.p. a few days ago. they re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. the pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hard-to-get places,
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. let s 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 day s testimony will be never-before-seen 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 we re hearing from a lot
unvaccinated americans, make no mistake, are fueling outbreaks all over this country. take a look at this map and you ll see very clearly all states but one are reporting increases, and big increases in many places of covid infections. southern states where vaccine rates are the lowest, are being hit with the highest amount of community spread right now. all of this comes as the considered reversed its mask guidelines for fully vaccinated people. dr. anthony fauci saying it s not the science that changed, it s the virus, and the science must evolve with it. let s begin with cnn s john harwood live at the white house on president biden s big announcement. john, what do we expect to hear from the president? reporter: kate, every single thing president joe biden wants to do as a matter of public health, reviving the economy, politically as well, hinges on getting this pandemic under control. what we re seeing is because of the delta variant and because of the wall that the uni
wyoming who s one of two republicans serving on the january 6th select committee. congresswoman, good to see you, thanks so much for joining us. what did you think was the most important part of today s testimony? well, thank you, jake. it s good to be with you. i thought the most important part was the opportunity for the american people to hear directly from these heroes, these men who fought for us for them to hear first-hand accounts, to see footage that we hadn t seen before in some cases of exactly what they faced that day. the fact that these officers, particularly those on the west front were fighting to the death, and they had said that they, frankly, understood that they might die. and to hear, you know, the rioters and those in the mob in one instance say to these police officers, you re going to die tonight. i think those kinds of facts are so important as we are discussing why this can never happen again and what we need to do to ensure the people who did are h