government seemed to anticipate. at the airport s perimeter, sporadic gunfire. earlier u.s. forces exchanged fire with a group of armed men, killing two. in kabul itself, armed taliban fighters, many of them carrying american weapons patrol the streets. now there are growing fears that the revived taliban will again turn afghanistan into a staging ground for terrorism. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the ground in kabul. set the scene right now. are you able to move freely? is the city in lockdown? reporter: no. it s quite calm, actually. and even as foreigners, we were able to drive around the city freely. it s stunning to see taliban fighters in the city i ve only known secured by afghan soldiers and u.s. troops. the taliban walking around holding their guns, sitting on street corners. we moved out toward the airport where things are tragically completely out of control toward the airport you begin to see the traffic thicken, and then a lot of time there s shots fired in the
remember what happened after 2015, after the escalator, nobody was ready for that ride. we don t know what s to come. it s like 30 seconds in a commercial or television, that s a long time, the same thing when you re waiting on an election. it s good to put the different scenarios at play. fun to think about it. amen. before you know it, we ll be there. i got to get to where i m going as well. this is don lemon tonight, we have been talking about threat to demock siracy. i made a commitment to you the viewer, the american people, the people we serve here to talk about the insurrection, to talk act the threat to our democracy and to do it as often as possible and a commitment to voting rights which we will get to as well. we spend a lot here talking about the threat to our democracy. it s really important. this was the week. this was the week that the curtain was pulled back and the fraud was exposed. it s like that moment in the wizard of oz where they go in, doroth
let s see them on the ticket. i note melissa h. you did not put vice president kamala harris in the mix as you have identified the new and young leadership. thank you so much for watching. i ll be back here tomorrow night. don lemon tonight starts now. and here s don. i ve got a name for you. tell me. my home boy as we call it, hometown boy, mitch landrieu, if there s a possibility of someone else running, mitch landrieu is beloved by the party. he s beloved by african americans. he is beloved by democrats. and he s somewhat of a centrist. you know, on some of the election night panels i had the privilege of sitting next to him and enjoying his company and listening to his commentary, and i thought, this is a really bright guy, and when the president selected him as i don t know what title is, infrastructure czar, i thought that s a good call. give him a chance to shine on a national stage. yeah. look, this is all different scenarios that you are positing here.
in the conviction of man she had claimed raped her in 1981. we ll speak to the film producer who produced the evidence that cleared anthony broadwater. hello. the world health organization says at least 23 countries around the world have cases of the new covid variant omicron and that it expects that number to grow as scientists around the world sequence more test samples. the first case has been detected in the united states. the patient had recently returned from south africa, was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms that are improving. in response to the spread, some 50 countries have imposed tighter travel restriction, with some banning foreign nationals altogether. dr michael ryan, the executive director of the who s health emergencies programme, said in his view it was the wrong approach. there are ways that you can de risk travel in terms of having increased testing, more testing before departure, more testing on arrival, quarantine until negative testing. there s a
our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbc s laura jarrett has the details. new details on the stubborn move up the speed of a former president, also the leading republican challenger to president biden. special counsel jack smith alleging mr. trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office, and obstruction efforts to retrieve them in the state of florida. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. smith laying out 37 criminal counts against the former president, including charges under the espionage act accusing him of improperly retaining national defense information. the indictment says among the classified documents kept in box