flooding the airport. some dying in the process. bill: the pentagon will brief in 60 minutes and well oh he carry that live. it will work to fly out as many as possible over the coming weeks. that is going to be a proper cities. process. the taliban formed a barrier around the airport, not letting anybody inside a certain area of the perimeter. dana: look at this photo here. more than 600 people crammed into an american airplane headed for qatar. they were told the flight crew let them remain on board. bill: the biden administration arguing it was inevitable. republicans calling that argument absurd. it goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. they are trying to play it both ways. they re trying to say we knew they weren t going to be able to protect things and that s why we were getting out. didn t matter if we stayed a month or year. they didn t care and we see the consequences. we didn t blame them we dealt with them and confronted them an
this just in. a bulletin from kabul. taliban fighters have entered the afghan capital. this represents the collapse of the afghan government. the end of american nation-building dreams and the beginning of a frightening new era for many afghan civilians. i m brian stelter. this is reliable sources. it s 7:30 p.m. in kabul. darkness is falling on the afghan capital. there is a rush now taking place and evacuation at the u.s. embassy. a u.s. official just now telling cnn that a majority of the u.s. embassy staff are out of the diplomatic compound in kabul. some of them now at the airport, some are being taken off in airplanes out of the country. others are staying at the airport for the time being. reporters in kabul are reporting new developments basically every minute of every hour. there has been gunfire heard in the capital. there have been traffic jams in some parts of the city. other parts of the city look like a ghost town, according to witnesses who are there. as yo
in mexico. u.s. president joe biden is getting support from g7 allies for a sweeping tax overhaul targeting multinational corporations. great to have you along this hour. thanks for joining me. we begin in the united states where we re hearing from both sides of the debate after a federal judge threw out the nation s first-ever ban on assault weapons. house speaker nancy pelosi says the ruling is deeply flawed and poses a clear and serious threat to public safety. she s calls for gun reform legislation to be passed immediately. the national rifle association is praising the judge s decision calling it well reasoned. but victims and survivors of gun violence across the country feel betrayed by the court. here s paolo an definitely. reporter: california s ban on certain semiautomatic rifles has weathered decades of opposition, until now. san diego u.s. district judge roger benitez ruled to overturn it. passed in 1989 on the heels of a school shoot that left five children
still some hope. it s questionable whether he does control mariupol. there is no evidence yet that mariupol has completely fallen. putin telling his defense chief there is no need to storm a steel factory that is home to the last ukrainian holdouts in mariupol. instead, putin ordered a blockade, quote, so that a fly can t get through. the ceo of the company that owns that steel plant says the situation is close to catastrophe because, he says, the civilians trapped inside are now running out of food. four buses of residents were able to get out of mariupol yesterday, but according to ukraine s deputy prime minister, overall the evacuation is falling short of its goal. in the east, the russian military remains on offense. luhansk top military official says russian forces are destroying residential buildings. one city he says has no food warehouses left. russia is marking its gains with propaganda stunts. that s a world war ii-era soviet victory flag. beginning to appear ac
was 17 years old when he was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant while riding his bike on a street in philadelphia he was badly injured with a fractured pelvis. then just weeks after he was shot cj was accused of shooting for people despite a lack of evidence, he was charged and convicted of attempted murder. sentence 230 to 60 years in prison cj rice is conviction never made sense, especially to his childhood pediatrician, dr. theodore tapper, treated cj in the days after he was shot, a knew he was too injured to have committed this crime dr. tapper couldn t let it go and he told his son, cnn s jake tapper about the story jake, who also grew up in philadelphia, began investigating cj s case and discovered a series of missteps by law enforcement and cj s own defense attorney just this week after more than 12 years in prison all charges against cj were dropped. cj rice is now 30 years old and a free man. thanks in large part to the efforts of jake s father and jake s o